Operation Chokehold Aims To Bring Down AT&T
Posted 12/15/2009 at 7:53am
| by J.R. Bookwalter

If you can’t make a call or access data on your iPhone this Friday starting at 12 p.m. PST, blame it on the geniuses behind “Operation Chokehold.”
That’s the “code name” for a rogue group of iPhone users fed up with recent comments from the likes of AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega, who have been quoted as trying to “incentivize” mobile data hogs,
according to Mashable.
We iPhone users are a finicky bunch. We demand cheap data plans, fast 3G data access and clear, drop-free connections. And if we don’t get them, we’ll bring down the whole network. Wait… what?
Operation Chokehold is a plan to do just that. It’s designed to encourage fed-up iPhone owners to get on their devices and gobble up tons of 3G data for a full hour starting at 12 p.m. PST this Friday, December 18th. Their nefarious goal is to bring down the whole network and “send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments.”
The brains behind Operation Chokehold
have even enlisted Fake Steve Jobs (aka Dan Lyons): “The engineers have asked me to service as a kind of communications director for their efforts -- soliciting ideas on what apps to use and how to refine the attack on the network.”
Fake Steve Jobs is a popular blog with a lot of avid readers, but
even the folks at Mashable question if his readers will take such a revolt seriously, or if there are even enough angry AT&T users to make a dent in the service. We’ll be watching the results (if any) of this questionable “digital flash mob.”