• Threats of this nature are seri­ous and we cau­tion the pub­lic to use com­mon sense and good judg­ment when access­ing the Inter­net from their com­mer­cial mobile devices. To pur­posely try to dis­rupt or neg­a­tively impact a net­work with ill-intent is irre­spon­si­ble and presents a sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic safety concern.
• FCC Pub­lic Safety and Home­land Secu­rity Bureau chief Jamie Bar­nett • Giv­ing Fake Steve Jobs’ super-amusing mass-iPhone-overuse threat some steam by actu­ally com­ment­ing on it. Fake Steve (a.k.a. Daniel Lyons) is amused. So are we. Sur­pris­ingly, the whole deba­cle has gen­er­ated mas­sive amounts of press for the site and AT&T in gen­eral, because, well, it’s funny. source

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