Fake Steve Encourages Users To Join Operation Chokehold

Hot on the heels of AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega's announcement that the carrier would be pursuing tiered pricing for data plans, Fake Steve Jobs took AT&T to task. Ah, but he didn't stop there. Fake Steve has a plan to bring AT&T to its knees on Friday: Operation Chokehold.

Already amazed at the fact that AT&T is complaining about how users love the iPhone so much that 3 percent of its users use 40 percent of the bandwidth, Fake Steve has an idea to have 100 percent of iPhone users snag 100 percent of AT&T's bandwidth. Operation Chokehold is the idea of Fake Apple engineers, who proposed the following scenario via email:

Subject: Operation ChokeholdOn Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. THe idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

The idea has become viral. There is now a Facebook page dedicated to Operation Chokehold, and Fake Steve didn't even have to create it himself.