AT&T survives Operation Chokehold
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Ma Bell's wireless network is still standing after Friday's grassroots iPhone attack
The appointed hour — Friday, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. PST — came and went and AT&T's (T) wireless had not been brought to its knees, despite the best efforts of thousands of Apple (AAPL) iPhone users.
"As far as I can tell, there’s been no impact at all," wrote Dan Lyons in The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs at 12:19 p.m. "My iPhone is working just the same as ever. "
It was Lyons, writing as Fake Steve Jobs, who on Monday had encouraged iPhone owners to overwhelm AT&T's network by turning on a data-intensive app and running it for an hour. Operation Chokehold, as he dubbed it, was intended as a protest against AT&T's thre
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🤣 🤣 Nice pun!
In any event, it definitely wasn't the COWs rolling out. Deploying GSM COWs requires hundreds of man-hours in prep time to re-tune all the adjacent sites so that frequency overlaps don't occur.
This is why you see Verizon and Sprint COWs on-site at disaster zones within hours and you see AT&T COWs show up 3 or 4 days after a SXSW or major tech conference suddenly taxes the network beyond it's capabilities.
CDMA COWs operate on mixed-frequency just like the cell sites do. To add coverage to densely populated areas, fixed site adjustments have to be made to one, maybe two of the adjacent towers, but in suburban or rural areas like wildfire sites, CDMA carriers can just roll them out and turn them on.
In any event, it definitely wasn't the COWs rolling out. Deploying GSM COWs requires hundreds of man-hours in prep time to re-tune all the adjacent sites so that frequency overlaps don't occur.
This is why you see Verizon and Sprint COWs on-site at disaster zones within hours and you see AT&T COWs show up 3 or 4 days after a SXSW or major tech conference suddenly taxes the network beyond it's capabilities.
CDMA COWs operate on mixed-frequency just like the cell sites do. To add coverage to densely populated areas, fixed site adjustments have to be made to one, maybe two of the adjacent towers, but in suburban or rural areas like wildfire sites, CDMA carriers can just roll them out and turn them on.
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No impact at all my foot...I ran a speed test from my desk at noon and one at 3:01 p.m. EST. The noon test provided 1940 and 342 with 429 ms ping.
At 3:01, it was 269 down and 151 up with 7002 ms ping.
This is the image of the test in progress...
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4153/photouo.jpg »
At 3:01, it was 269 down and 151 up with 7002 ms ping.
This is the image of the test in progress...
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4153/photouo.jpg »
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All those poor T-Mobile customers that usually roam on our network probably had nothing because of all the extra people using the network at once.
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What percentage of iPhone users do you think actually participated in this?
What is different from normal with this experiment? iPhone users use data intensive apps all the time anyway?
What is different from normal with this experiment? iPhone users use data intensive apps all the time anyway?
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