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 Brooklyn-based CNN blogger even noticed an increase in bandwidth during the hour. FSJ himself also reported no impact earlier today.
Basically, it seems like there weren’t enough people involved in the revolt in key areas for it to make much of an impact. That’s despite the fact that the Operation Chokehold Facebook fan page has 4,473 fans at the time of this post, and a website started by some self-appointed organizers was shared around quite a bit.
But even though the protest itself didn’t make a dent, it certainly helped spread the word to the mainstream media that many iPhone users were dissatisfied with AT&T’s service.
FSJ wrote in a follow up post early Friday morning:
We’ve already won.We’ve directed loads of attention towards AT&T and its lousy service. We’ve been heard. Who knew that there were so many people who were so angry at AT&T? If nothing else, O.C. has revealed the breadth and depth of the anger. There is no need to sit around trying to download video for an hour. So if you have anything better to do, go do it.
While AT&T can be proud that they survived the attack, the potential fallout from all this bad publicity will last for some time.

Sat, Dec 19, 2009 | by Devindra Hardawar
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