UPDATE: AT&T "unimpressed" with "irresponsible" Operation Chokehold

Umm...I work for at&t and am amazed at how this company expects to keep treating both, their employees and their customers, like crap and think that both will keep their mouths shut and take the abuse. If you guys look up where all the big wigs are located for this company you will see that they are mostly in the northeastern states, exactly where the old AT&T Long Distance big wigs were located. They are trying to turn this company into the old AT&T, and we all know what the heck happened to that joke of a company. We all know that the only way that these big corporations listen is when people stand up and protest and their ugly mugs get plastered all over the media.

As far as emergency services getting disrupted and the different communications "experts" and "engineers" that are all over the blogs and the media stating that this is a possibility, I got news for ya....bullshit! I actually work with these services and even IF this protest were to affect the voice network (which it will NOT, only data), emergency calls are designed to complete and never fail. Even when the regular network is isolated, it is very rare that emergency calls fail.

So to all my "chokeholders", I say RIGHT ON! Kick at&t in the media nards!

This constant juvenile ridicule of AT&T is getting old. AT&T's service is just not that bad compared to other carriers. And that depends on where you live and work. On three occasions My wife and I have had problems with excessive dropped calls. A trip to the Genius got us brand new replacement iPhones, a smile and a "thank you" for doing business with Apple. None of the problems were with AT&T.

The next time you have a problem with constant call interruptions do yourself a favor, let Apple pull the logs on your phone and they will tell you where the problem is.

So this whole thing started because AT&T mentioned it might start charging people for what they actually use...that only seems fair. It seems to have blown out of proportion.

WE GOTTA NUKE EM! WE GOTTA NUKE EM NOW! KILL KILL KILL

Two words:

douche

bags

I'm an engineer by trade, and manage a global ip network that's not AT&T...
Intentionally taking down or attempting to take down a network is irresponsible and downright criminal. My iphone will be powered off that day.

Unconvincing and irresponsible.

As was stated in the other post, if they change from "unlimited" to "limited" you can get out of your contract penalty free because they changed the terms of the contract.

How do you ever leave the house with paranoid fear and worry like that?

Fakesteve's suggestion is to engauge in protest for the PURPOSE of gaining attention to highlight an issue. It's really no different that am airline strike, blue flu, chaining oneself to a tree or blocking the entrance to a university... Sure it COULD and in many cases is gaurunteed to negatively effect people... That's the point, but people are expected to take that into account and adjust acordingly. We live in an amazingly resilent world where even when your cell phone doesn't work there are a dozen other ways to get help... You know on e upon a time there weren't just no cell phones, but no phones either... Amazingly people spontaneously combisting was just about as frequent then as it is now.

Honestly, the real problem is that internet providers keep insisting that you have "unlimited data". How can they possibly promise infinite usage when bandwidth is finite! It's ridiculous. It's just marketing bull. You cannot promise no limits and then get mad when people are using too much.

Comcast, AT&T, etc should simply be honest about limits because they really do exist. If everybody could get gas for a monthly fee, nobody would be driving hybrids. That's for damn sure. I don't understand why Americans believe that we should be able to get infinite resources just because we pay a monthly fee.