Comment Re:I like the idea with reservations-AT&T PROP (Score 1) 295
I'm not going to do anything to reduce the already marginal reliability of the cell network.
Congratulations, you just won the prize for buying into AT&T's Propaganda Campaign against jailbreaking your phone.
You missed the point. If his wife goes into labor and he NEEDS to receive the phone call he can't be worried about missing it because some jailbroken application prevents the signal from getting to his phone from the nearest tower. If his boss needs to contact him to put out a fire with a downed server, he can't be in the middle of a half-broken "reset phone settings" procedure because he was updating his phone firmware to the latest and greatest and the instructions on the internet didn't work.
I'm not saying that these things won't happen anyway... but using the device as intended by the manufacturer will decrease the chances of that and INCREASE the overall reliability of the device. Otherwise... he'd have to get a second phone to use as a phone to backup his iPhone which is used as a mobile internet enabled application device.