{"id":2580,"date":"2009-12-18T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/furious-fanboys-plan-%e2%80%9coperation-stranglehold%e2%80%9d-to-take-down-att-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:31:53","slug":"furious-fanboys-plan-%e2%80%9coperation-stranglehold%e2%80%9d-to-take-down-att-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/furious-fanboys-plan-%e2%80%9coperation-stranglehold%e2%80%9d-to-take-down-att-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Furious Fanboys Plan \u201cOperation Stranglehold\u201d to Take Down AT&T | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iphone-web\"A Newsweek <\/em>writer better known as Fake Steve Jobs<\/a> is so fed up with AT&T’s service for his iPhone that he’s calling on his fellow AT&T customers to clog up the 3G wireless network today in protest of AT&T’s plan to impose service fees on “bandwidth hogs.”<\/p>

According to the Inquirer<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>

Dan Lyons, blogging as Fake Steve Jobs, has called on AT&T users to show their service dissatisfaction by trying to overwhelm the network with data-intensive tasks. “Operation Chokehold”, as he called his incitement to flash-mob mischief, hopes to shut down the US AT&T 3G network at 3pm today and appears to have gained some support from the iPhone rabble.<\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/span>Thousands have pledged their support for Operation Chokehold<\/a> (on Facebook, so take that as you will). However most tech blogs are calling Lyons and his protesters jerks for attempting to disrupt service. The FCC and AT&T are calling the stunt irresponsible<\/a> because it would be an intentional disruption to AT&T’s 80 million customers. However, a disruption, if one even happens, wouldn’t affect voice service, so the claim that 911 calls would be blocked isn’t true.<\/p>

Some blogs don’t think anyone will participate<\/a> outside of New York and San Francisco, but if the thousands do materialize, and the network is bumped off-line, the Inquirer<\/em> speculates that Lyons could face legal trouble for inciting the stunt.<\/p>

Just to play it safe, if you need to use any of your amazing iPhone<\/a> apps to access the internet, you might want to do it before 3 p.m. today.<\/p>

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