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• Operation Chokehold Is Partially Successful

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Meena KarDec. 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) ‘Operation Chokehold’ that was published by Fake Steve Jobs blog to satirize AT&T’s services and asked iphone users to revolt against the company, has gained huge momentum in a short while. To curb the popularity of the blog, AT&T professionals have criticized the ...
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• FCC Opposes Fake Steve Jobs’ AT&T DDoS – Urged Public to Use “Common Sense”

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 136
  Fake Steve Jobs (journalist Dan Lyons) recently proposed that iPhone users earlier today at 3PM EST begin gobbling up as much bandwidth as possible – in protest of AT&T’s shoddy 3G network performance. AT&T has since called the joke “ irresponsible and pointless ,” and now even the FCC has chimed in ...
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• AT&T Keeps on Ticking After Operation Chokehold

  
  iPhonefreak — Authority: 532
  We’ve covered Fake Steve Jobs’ proposal for Operation Chokehold, along with AT&T’s response, and now we can reflect on the outcome of the digital revolt. Basically, there’s not much to report. There were no reported AT&T slowdowns or outages during noon to 1pm PST on Friday the 18th, and one ...
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• AT&T Keeps on Ticking After Operation Chokehold

  
  AT&T (formerly Cingular) iPhone Reviews, iPhone Apps and Accessories — Authority: 146
  We’ve covered Fake Steve Jobs’ proposal for Operation Chokehold, along with AT&T’s response, and now we can reflect on the outcome of the digital revolt. Basically, there’s not much to report. There were no reported AT&T slowdowns or outages during noon to 1pm PST on Friday the 18th, and one ...
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• Operation Chokehold: We Won!

  
  Limited Edition iPhone — Authority: 121
  Well well, for you skeptics that thought that this was a “waste of time” or “pointless”, we succeeded! The image above is AT&T’s Press Releases from today. So what do we have here? It seems that AT&T was scared. They “improved” their network in 15 cities. This is a victory. Imagine if they had ...
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• AT&T says, Operation Chokehold had ‘no impact’

  
  IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE — Authority: 520
  The fateful day has come and what of Fake Steve Jobs’ call to iPhone to rise up and bring Ma Bell’s data network? Apparently not much other than a generous amount of media and blog attention, but that’s nothing to sneeze at.Once again, we turn to ABC News for the latest on Operation Chokehold, what [...] ...
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• Verizon Preparing Network for the iPhone

  
  AT&T (formerly Cingular) iPhone Reviews, iPhone Apps and Accessories — Authority: 146
  Staying on cue with their attacks on AT&T’s network, Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer Anthony Melone recently spoke to BusinessWeek about upgrades that the company is making in preparation for the iPhone moving over. While we don’t know if the work they’re doing is more extensive than what AT&T ...
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• Operation Chokehold Fails To Destroy AT&T

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Some users tried, although it was supposed to be a joke. Operation Chokehold was a joke by Fake Steve Jobs, designed to take down the AT&T network. Some saw issues, but not all over the country, and its unclear if it was a result of AT&T famous "normal" network problems or the Operation itself.
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• ‘Operation Chokehold’ shows the social media mob has influence

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews “ Operation Chokehold ” has come and gone, with no sign it even put AT&T in a headlock. But with so many people complaining of service already so spotty, could anyone really tell the difference short of network failure? For AT&T, there is little victory in surviving the ...
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• Operation Chokehold: All Hype, No Bite

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 695
  What, you expected AT&T’s network to come to its knees? In what could probably be called the most foregone conclusion in the world of technology in quite some time, AT&T’s network withstood the assault of what probably was not more than a handful of users taking a piece of satire way too far. I checked my ...
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• iPhone users unite AGAINST Operation Chokehold – don’t mess with AT&T – ChicagoNow (blog)

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  ABC News iPhone users unite AGAINST Operation Chokehold - dont mess with AT&T ChicagoNow (blog) It all started when Newsweeks Dan Lyons - who is also known as Fake Steve Jobs in the blogosphere - proposed what he termed " Operation Chokehold ," where he ... As Operation Chokehold ...
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• Operation Chokehold — when satire works too well.

  
  News You Can't Use ! — Authority: 432
  Dan Lyons — writer of the Fake Steve Jobs blog — has pulled off a stunt on AT&T marvelously. It all started with AT&T CEO made a comment that they might think about a system wherein heavy data users were charged more. The dig was at iPhone users, since 3% of their customers utilize over 40% of their data ...
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• The Tech Media’s Complete Loss of Rationality

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 695
  I have been sitting here watching in disbelief over the past few days, feeling somewhat embarrassed about my profession at large.  Much of the tech media that has been tripping over themselves to treat Dan Lyons’ satirical movement to bring AT&T’s network to its knees as something akin to the Boston Tea Party ...
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• Some thoughts on Fake Steve Jobs’ Operation Chokehold & AT&T FUD

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 701
  Just to make it clear from the start that as a Canadian (with our own ‘ give consumers the shaft ‘ problems) I have absolutely no skin in the game that is being affectionate called Operation Chokehold. Now I am not so much concern with the call by Dan Lyons through his Fake Steve Jobs persona but rather the shit ...
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• Operation Chokehold Seeks To Punish AT&T

  
  Connected World Media — Authority: 103
  A World of Hurt AT&T has been in hot water with their customers lately. Spotty network coverage in critical areas like San Francisco and New York have customers angry. Add to that comments made by AT&T CEO of mobility last week that blamed customers and their heavy data usage for the problem and things are ...
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• Operation Chokehold: right questions, wrong answers

  
  Bhatnaturally — Authority: 476
  You guys been following Operation Chokehold? Let me fill you in quickly. Fake Steve Jobs (Dan lyons) wrote this amazing post last week , in which he ripped AT&T apart? The provocation? iPhone users on the AT&T network were so totally hooked on to the device that they were consuming lot of bandwidth (3% of ...
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• FSJs Anti-AT&T Manifesto Makes Me Raise My Fist in Solidarity [At&t]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 884
  Fake Steve Jobs new "chat" with AT&T;s Randall Stephenson from a few days ago has him hitting brilliant new heights. He really nails why AT&T;s network failures are so infuriating. This is essential...
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• Is AT&T able to take a choke?

  
  Tynan on Tech — Authority: 116
  My post last week about how AT&T treats its customers like losers got quite a rise out of readers. It even provoked a response from AT&T itself. Per company spokeshuman Seth Bloom, that “You’re a loser” text underneath the image on their online sweepstakes was a “regrettable mistake” and has been ...
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• ATandT Responds to Fake Steve Jobs’ Operation Chokehold - They Have No Sense of Humor Either

  
  The Internet Patrol — Authority: 126
  ATandT has responded to the Fake Steve Jobs Operation Chokehold which exhorts AT and T users to protest ATandTs lousy data network service by clogging the service with solid data usage for an hour this Friday (tomorrow) from noon to 1:00 p.m. PST. ATandTs response reveals that decent 3G network coverage isnt the ...
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• Fake Steve Jobs Wants AT&T to Choke

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 440
  When does a joke stop being a joke and evolve into activism (or, depending upon your perspective, sabotage)? If you’re Dan Lyons or AT&T, I’d say we’ll find out tomorrow at noon Pacific time. That marks the time when Dan Lyons, better known as Fake Steve Jobs, will see if his Operation Chokehold initiative ...
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