Operation Cuckoo to oppose Operation Chokehold

"Maybe their network sucks, but you're the one that signed up to use it." 

"Want to really burn AT&T's biscuits? CANCEL YOUR CONTRACT."

"If you want to punish AT&T, then cancel your darn subscription. AT&T is not holding you hostage."

Yeah, THAT will make my life a whole lot easier.  Why don't I just throw my iPhone in the trash!  That'll teach AT&T.

Man, the logic you people come up with is beyond me.  Your argument is ridiculous if the company is a monopoly.  AT&T IS holding us hostage.  They did that when they signed the exclusivity agreement with Apple.  You can only "vote with your wallet" if you have a competitor to give your money to.

AT&T has a monopoly on the iPhone.  We are forced to use their service if we want an iPhone.  Monopolies are anti-capitalistic and anti-American.  We have every right to expect good services from monopolistic corporations because if they weren't a monopoly they would be forced to give us good service or everyone would switch to the competition.  We'll see how AT&T improves their service once Verizon gets the iPhone.

If monopolies are illegal, so should exclusivity agreements.

Can we start operation no more Sony and radio shack hijack ads on this APPLE blog?

It amazes me how stupid, from a technical standpoint, many of Apples customers are. It is like they have no understanding of the word bandwidth. For any given technology there is just so much through put you can get. Besides that I'm not sure how people can say that AT&T is the cause of all their network problems. There are many servers that become extremely slow in the face of heavy load no matter what type of connection I use to access them. There is more to a network than AT&Ts cell towers you know.

The other reality is that AT&T has responded in numerous ways to improve their network after iPhones release. Especially once it became obvious that the data usage vastly and continously exceeded network design expectations. Frankly businesses deal with problem like this (demand vastly exceeding projections) all the time. Data access is the Cabbage Patch doll of 2009. The only difference is that that demand isn't likely to slow. In fact it would only take a couple of products from Apple to completely saturate all available networks in 2010. That means if Apple gets started early enough with new products in 2010 Verizon and the others will suffer from the same problems AT&T has right now.

So until either more spectrum is allocated or new technologies arrive everyone will be seeing degraded services. There is only so much throughput one can get out of a technology/bandwidth allocation. Oh and by the way those that think the alternative service providers are better need to wake up because I've seen AT&T and my iPhone do better where my old Verizon phone could not even get a signal. What is even worst in some locals the bad cell performance isn't a function of AT&T, Verizon or Sprint but rather the fault of meddling local communities whom believe they know more about cell technology than the engineers putting up the towers. Sometimes directing anger at the cell companies is simply wrong as they really have nothing to do with your bad service.


Dave

Yea. Seriously? I can't believe people are really stupid enough to create artificial spikes on an infrastructure because they want to punish someone. I agree with an above poster. If you want to punish AT&T, then cancel your darn subscription. AT&T is not holding you hostage.

If the network goes down Friday, it will be idiots fault, not AT&T's. No service provider is required to deal with artificially huge spikes. All it will do is hurt everyone else. AT&T still got your $30 for this month, regardless if you take down their network or not. :)

I think AT&T asking us to limit our usage is still weird and rather annoying. But not enough to act like a child and punch the lunch lady because she asked you to not take a larger portion than everyone else until they can make more.

17 fans for Operation Cuckoo as of this writing. Taking Facebook by storm.

Why did you guys write about this? I could get 17 people to join a "pie is bad" group on Facebook.

as a physician, I can tell you that dropped calls are a dangerous nuisance. I don't think it would be a good thing to break a mission critical network by a DOS attack.

I protested by switching to Verizon, a meaner, more Stalinesque network. With a network extender, I have yet to drop a call. My only problem is the need to fix my HTC TouchPro2 by using Windows Mobile's remove battery feature every few days.

Oh gnos! Donut Slashdot AT&T through your mighty iPhonez!@#

Seriously folks, childish prank or not, for AT&T to have responded to it in anyway only serves to show how clueless the company really is. There is simply zero positive benefit in a corporate response.

1. AT&T signs exclusive deal with Apple for the iPhone.
2. AT&T profits massively.
3. Customers bitch about AT&T service.
4. AT&T profits massively.
5. AT&T responds to service complaints by blaming the iPhone.
6. AT*T profits massively.
7. AT&T further responds to service complaints by blaming customers.
8. AT&T profits massively.

Wait, I'm seeing a trend here.

"furious with rage"? I guess that's more effective than being furious with joy.

And "polar opposite". Not to be confused with equatorial opposite.

@Dave

"Customers became literally furious with rage"-as opposed to furious with happiness? You mean like angry with anger?

Do you mean furious:
(furious |ˈfyoŏrēəs|
adjective
extremely angry : she was furious at this attempt to manipulate her.
• full of anger)

or enraged:

enrage
(|enˈrāj|
verb [ trans. ] (usu. be enraged)
make very angry : the students were enraged at these new rules)
full of anger

That phrase "..and encouraged by Fake Steve Jobs" just made me laugh so much, it's just the farcical nature of the whole drama.