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i hope nobody needs to call 911 or such then.

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I'm pretty sure that'll work, actually. AT&T certainly has enough warning, and e911 is in place as far as I know.

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and disrupting the network won't affect that? uh huh.

let's hope they get their service revoked!

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mattdm.livejournal.com

It seems so counterproductive. AT&T will just turn around and say "See! The customer's awful behavior is the problem. If they'd just place nice and not waste so much bandwidth, we'd all be better off."

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Actually, e911 does have protocols in place to deal with a disrupted network, basically there's room.

My full, smart-assed opinion on the matter can be found here: http://www.cracked.com/funny-3556-operation-chokehold/

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They're already doing that anyway. They were whining about how 3% of their users use 40% of their bandwidth a week ago.

And these people just had a run-in with 4Chan!

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anyee.livejournal.com

How can you tell the difference between someone who is deliberately trying to fuck up AT&T's network in protest and someone who is using a bandwidth-intensive application because they need to or want to use the bandwidth-intensive application? Not everyone twitters evil intent.

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mattdm.livejournal.com

I know! And now they'll act as if this proves their point.

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if someone who ordinarily doesn't do this, and decides to join the protesters... suddenly hogging the network at 3pm might be a clue. unlike a happy little anonymous DOSing, they are definitely findable.

if they're regularly doing it ANYWAY, they might just get a letter.

it seems that while AT&T has gone for breadth, they still haven't fixed depth. supposedly they are suffering from too much good fortune. maybe eventually they'll fix it.

unfortunately for AT*T they did say "unlimited". if they find people who are tethering, i'd imagine they'd cut them off too. can't imagine that people would be pulling down ISO levels of data, but there are probably a few bad eggs.

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nvidia99999.livejournal.com

Like using DOS scripts to protest the slow internet.

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annalauwa.livejournal.com

what about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html?sq=at&st=cse&adxnnl=1&t%20iphone=&scp=1&adxnnlx=1261091005-iMAHU/wePQpxd/llaz5e5w

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spatch

...or clogging the streets with bicycles to show that everyone can share the road.

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Bought and paid for by AT&T. Useful summary of what's wrong with that piece here:
http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/stross_lying_eyes

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omg-anna.livejournal.com

What if someone who ordinarily doesn't do this happens to use a bandwidth-intensive app at 3pm, but not in protest?

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AT&T might not be amused. who can say?

then again, AT&T will probably do absolutely nothing and ignore it.

wanna get their attention? call them up, tell them they are losing your business, and goto verizon or sprint or ... heck, bring the iphone along for the ride if you can jailbreak it, or go Droid...

money talks

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omg-anna.livejournal.com

I agree with you here.
I am the proud owner of a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone (used on T-Mobile, although not 3G, as I have the first generation phone). ATT doesn't have my business yet because they fail to impress me, and I'm not willing to give up a cheaper plan for sub-par 3G service and a two year contract.

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i ditched Sprint due to a number of factors, but mostly because their sales team kept calling me EVERY single day to upgrade, special offers, whee... they just wouldn't stop, despite attempts to convince them. this was after them texting me practically hourly, and i didn't have a text plan "don't worry sir, these are FREE texts". then the emails to my phone started. at $3 each. had to have techs disable that pathway ;)

so i called them, escalated to what amounted to God, and said "one more call, one more offer, that's it, we're done, and i'll write the bloody president of the company and tell him why i went to AT&T..."

well, they called. got the person's name. i told the person right then and there i was going to AT&T and they were at fault. i got their manager, got his name, told him to read my case file - he said "holy shit!" when he read about the literal weeks of harrassment ;> nobody seemed to be willing to let me off the phone ;) i eventually got to God again, who said "well, i understand, but i wish you'd change your mind." let them know that they PROMISED me to stop calling, guaranteed it, and yet, here we are. i even gave up many months of free service. wrote their president.

got an iPhone. couldn't be happier.

2 weeks later, it rings, it's Sprint. they'd like to know if i want to come back, special offers, free phone, all that. "well, my bill is paid? i don't owe you a penny? good, give me the highest level supervisor you have there today, i want to speak to God". got not quite God. told him my opinion on this matter "well, it's our job to try and retain you". sheeeeet man. sent more mail to their President. a week later another call saying "well, we're sorry you're not happy with us, let us know if we can ever help".

amazing really.

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nvidia99999.livejournal.com

What do you expect from a congested network? If you don't like it, the solution is simple: MOVE (to Verizon). Otherwise, stop whining about network traffic.

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Actually, I'm not on AT&T. Nor would I recommend going to Verizon because of their shitty civil rights record (they let the FBI put a tap at the switch, so they get everything you do, and Verizon doesn't even know what they're looking at). The least evil/incompetent of the lot seems to be T-Mobile.

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I think "You have to share the road with us" better describes the message of events like Critical Mass. True that iPhone users and Boston-area cyclists are both prone to be heedless of etiquette, though!

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Would the complainers have to pay an early termination fee to change carriers? If they could reasonably expect good service for their money, and they are not getting good service yet must continue to pay, then I think they have good grounds to complain.

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Esto. I am a longtime T-Mobile customer. I have had many opportunities to switch carriers, both between contracts and as a result of adverse material changes to active contracts. I could never find a compelling reason to change. Excellent customer service, great reliability, decent coverage, no scandals: Yeah.

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That, and they want to continue to use their spendy trendy iPhones. They're exclusive to AT&T until 3Q 2010. Even then, they may not be able to take their current iPhones to new carriers.

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Well, they are kind of idiots about the color magenta (i.e. they think they own it), but my other options are a company that makes the walkie-talkie cell phones, which I loathe, a company that thinks my civil rights are for sale to the highest bidder, and a former monopoly that still has "We don't care, we don't have to" as their motto.

So, lesser of four evils...

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If I ever see a Critical Mass coming my way, and I have the walk signal, I'm marching across the road. Fuck them, they can brake.

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nvidia99999.livejournal.com

I'm an evil Verizon subscriber. T-Mobile or Sprint totally suck in many of the buildings where I work...

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