Never have I been so torn in a love-hate relationship over an electronic device as I am with the iPhone. Apple’s iPhone, as we all know, is a revolutionary device. I love every little thing about it, everything little thing, that is, except the requisite AT&T service.

Many people have had some big, big problems with AT&T’s service. There’s reports of people losing entire weeks worth of voicemails, and of course there’s the monumental and very high profile complete failures of AT&T’s service at large events such as SXSW and, more recently, Comic-Con. And, let us not forget AT&T’s shining role as the only major cell provider to still not support MMS or tethering on the iPhone: particularly egregious since iPhone subscribers are AT&T’s principal and most lucrative subscriber base and it’s not that MMS or tethering don’t work but, rather, AT&T has specifically blocked those features for iPhone users.

It has become increasingly obviously that Apple has tied itself to a losing horse here. I might be willing to grant AT&T that any cell provider would have had problems managing the beast that the iPhone has become; that is, I might have been willing were it not now two years after the iPhone’s initial introduction. AT&T has been making money hand-over-fist because of the iPhone, and yet have done very little to improve their network to handle the increased load.

This is all old news of course, with a thousands stories already floating across the internet detailing the evils of AT&T. What is news is that negative sentiment is converging into a storm, and people across the interwebs are demanding that Apple listen to its users and not re-up AT&T’s exclusive deal with the iPhone. The latest entry in this arena is a new iPhone/AT&T parody commercial produced by Pat Lee (below).

I, for my part, want to join in the chorus. Hear us Apple: dump AT&T at the next available opportunity. Let the iPhone be free, and bask in the increased revenue, while AT&T cries in their pea soup.