[antonovka2]

> As an analogy, you can take the routers that were stupidly configured to use stratum 1 NTP servers. These misbehaving devices placed too much strain on the NTP "network" because they used it inappropriately. But it was only the NTP servers that a lot of these routers were configured for that were having problems. Yet no one would claim that it's the NTP network's fault for the issues.

A poor analogy:

- AT&T sells the iPhone.

- AT&T sells the service.

ergo,

- AT&T is responsible for providing quality service to the iPhone.

[kmod]

Right, I'm not saying that AT&T isn't responsible or that people don't have good cause to be dissatisfied with them. All I'm trying to say is that it's possible that the root technical cause of the bad service issues isn't in AT&T's network, but in bad behavior from iPhones that manifests itself when you have a large concentration of them in one area.