Operation Chokehold- What Happened?
By Joel Feder | December 24, 2009
Last Friday Operation Chokehold was in effect for a full hour. As some of you know Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) called for Operation Chokehold at 12pm PST. The premise was for everyone with an iPhone (and any other data driven device) on AT&T’s network to use as much data as possible for an hour. Most people streamed YouTube or Pandora. The point of this was to show AT&T that people are sick of the network problems.
The back story here is simple, people are sick of the horrid network experience that they are having with AT&T. Many people would rather be on another network but can not because of the exclusivity agreement Apple has with AT&T for the iPhone. AT&T actually commented about Operation Chokehold. They stated it was irresponsible of people to purposely degrade network quality and service. They have admitted that service in both San Francisco and New York is sub-par. As far as I am concerned, while admitting it is the first step, it is by no means good enough. Fix it!
So what exactly happened during Operation Chokehold you ask? Well many participated and streamed live media. I personally streamed Pandora and had a search set up on Twitter to watch what people were saying. I would have liked to post a screen shot of what people said but most were inappropriate. I personally did not see performance issues although some people did. The network did not burn to the ground and AT&T did not crumble over all. The point is many people got behind this cause and wanted to show their support. People from across the nation banded together through social media and tried to teach a giant company that they will not be pushed around.
Below is the message originally put out by Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs)
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