Aplicativo Android é responsável por queda da rede da T-Mobile nos EUA

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[quote]A dificuldade da T-Mobile com esse app android lança uma nova luz nas diretrizes que a Apple mantém para a App Store–e sua intenção em continuar exercendo. Afinal, tudo que precisa pra derrubar uma rede celular inteira é um simples app.
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The Android IM app that brought T-Mobile's network to its knees

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Perhaps most interestingly, T-Mobile wrote that its network has come under significant strain from Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) is the exclusive provider of the iPhone, although users can “jailbreak” their devices and run them on the networks of other carriers. USA Today in 2009 reported–citing unnamed sources–that T-Mobile had 300,000 unlocked iPhones running on its network. In April of this year, T-Mobile disclosed in an FCC filing that “when subscribers began connecting unlocked iPhones to T-Mobile’s network, the devices repeatedly issued PDP Context Activation requests to establish a session and obtain an IP address. These repeated requests began to cause signal overload akin to a denial of service attack, requiring immediate action and network management to mitigate the massive signaling load on T-Mobile’s Packet Core network.”