wjf58

join:2011-06-21

Chicago, IL wjf58 Member This time we REALLY mean it! "Those other times...we wanted to expand coverage... but...the dog ate our plan...we thought it was due next week...our grammy died...then the other grammy died, too. But this time we'll do it...can we have DTV now?"



Ugh.



dks7

join:2004-05-31

Omak, WA dks7 Member Re: This time we REALLY mean it! And yet people still trust corporations, well I guess as long as them stock holders checks keep rolling in while their ass fucking their customers.

dra6o0n

join:2011-08-15

Mississauga, ON dra6o0n to wjf58

Member to wjf58

How come there isn't any severe consequences for outright deceiving people consecutively?



No punishment for "Oops I lied"?



Mr Fel

INTJ - The Architect

Premium Member

join:2008-03-17

Louisville, KY Mr Fel Premium Member Pretty sure the Deployment Pic is out of date With the sale of the Conneticut market to Frontier it should only be 21 states, not 22.



Flyonthewall

@teksavvy.com Flyonthewall Anon Government Oversight Really means - Give us a financial reason to ignore your behavior.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon No surprise AT&T fails to deliver broadband to it's current xFITL customers, and it's 2015. IFITL is a technology from 1999 and AT&T still refuses to upgrade these neighborhoods. Oh well, off to the cable companies those customers go (if they can get cable broadband). AT&T is too big to care.

ohreally

join:2014-11-21 ohreally Member Re: No surprise Aren't they trying now? There's documentation from AT&T which has suggested cutover dates for some IFITL networks to GPON



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Hah... "AT&T promised 100 percent broadband coverage throughout its entire territory if it was allowed to buy BellSouth"



OH RIGHT... Just like you "promised" to deliver broadband technologies to current xFITL/FTTC deployments. What a load of crap. There are still millions of FTTC customers in the Southeast region that still have internet speeds no greater than 1.5 Mbps. AT&T is full of it.

Montezuma

join:2009-11-15 Montezuma Member Re: Hah... There are still "customers" in the Southeastern US that have no access to a wireline provide internet connection, nor any form of affordable, useable alternative. AT&T has yet to offer any such service to my home, nor the hundreds of homes in the county a live in, much the less the rest of our state(Georgia). So, yeah, I understand the irritation that customers with "only" a 1.5 Mbps must "suffer", but it is a damned far better offer than many of the rest of us are receiving.



Understand, neither Comcast, Charter, nor any other wireline ISP provides any Internet services in my county(Haralson County, to be clear). AT&T still isn't sure when, if ever, Internet service will be offered, but I just need to submit my interest to some dead-end, probably unchecked email access, they AT&T will tell me when Internet service is available. Of course, I don't waste the effort, as my wife and I built our house here 10 years ago(10 years ago come 5 August, to be exact), and there are many houses on our street alone, and Internet service still, in 2015, isn't available.



Though, yeah, sure...AT&T will doubly promise this time. ...assholes.

blurpo

join:2015-01-12

Douglasville, GA blurpo Member We were going to give 10Gb/s... We were going to give 10 Gb/s to everybody in our region... but then we got high.

Because we got high

Because we got high

Because we got hiiiigh

La da da da da da da da da



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: We were going to give 10Gb/s... The people aren't necessarily asking for 10 Gb/s. All they want it something that is capable of streaming BASIC Netflix and Youtube. Is that so much to ask? This is a very real situation for IFITL customers who are stuck on 1.5 Mbps. The Marconi equipment they used is no longer being manufactured. Gee, I wonder what happens when you need parts and they've reached their end of life? AT&T doesn't care, they just stick it to the customer. That is how you lose business.

IanLee

join:2014-11-24

Woodland, WA IanLee Member Re: We were going to give 10Gb/s... I'm one of those people stuck on those slow connections, but my situation is just the same as those who are with AT&T.



In short there have been no upgrades at all. You speak to everyone in the world you want to buy DIRECTV, yet you can't provide basic level service on a network that is now old and outdated.



I'm ashamed of even having you as a cell phone service provider.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: We were going to give 10Gb/s... Never had a problem with AT&T's cell service. That is after all what they are investing all their money into.



Simba7

I Void Warranties

join:2003-03-24

Fromberg, MT Simba7 to blurpo

Member to blurpo

I'm sure some at&t subscribers would be thrilled with just 10Mb/s. Instead, they get 1/7th of that.



Duramax08

To The Moon

Premium Member

join:2008-08-03

San Antonio, TX Duramax08 Premium Member AT&T are full of shit They've been telling me that DSL would be coming down the road. That was more then 10 years ago and we ain't got shit. Since then, we left AT&T services completely. No one wants to use your outdated overpriced network.

tkdslr

join:2004-04-24

Pompano Beach, FL 1 edit tkdslr Member Re: AT&T are full of shit Had At&t based aDSL service(via resellers Directv-dsl, +1 other) for 5 years, another 6 years thru CLEC,

but my POT's line steadily deteriorated(aDSL, Uverse cross talk) to the point where even 384Kb was nonfunctional during afternoon, evening hours.



Just tried signing up for U-verse after plugging in my address, At&t Uverse web page offered 3Mb(29.99/mo/12month), 12Mb(39.99/mo/12month) service.

When I clicked on the SHOP button to accept one of the offers, the subsequent page downgraded the offer to a (long abandoned, non-functional) 768Kb CO based service.



No thanks A&t been their done that, granted the Bait and switch is a new move. I'm not going to bite..

(note: At&t recently connected up several neighbor's Uverse TV service through my old pole.)



It's now been 3 years since abandoning my aDSL and all POT's related services. Even took down the obsolete(steel) service drop wires.

Saved a bundle of money $60//mo($2160), More than enough to purchase several prepaid Android ($212+$157) phones.



Kinda of Ironic, that At&t now desires to merge with a company Directv, (failed Dish merger) who dumped me and a 250,000 other aDSL customers without warning.



fastoy

join:2002-06-16

Southaven, MS fastoy Member 42 Year EX AT&T Customer After 42 years as an AT&T customer I left over poor broadband speeds and prices.

yzor

Premium Member

join:2003-01-03

Jacksonville, FL ·Comcast XFINITY

Linksys WRT1900ACS

Netgear CM1000

yzor Premium Member Re: 42 Year EX AT&T Customer I hear yea. I wish my only other choice was better but its not. Good old comcast the only thing they are good at is sending out letters promising this great service. I tried them again about a year ago. even with doccis 3 the speed is still only 24meg in my area. at least uverse is 45, sadly I wish it was cheap than 80 bucks a month. not ro mention the now 7 dollar equipment fee, which is total BS.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: 42 Year EX AT&T Customer That 45 service from AT&T is good stuff, they just need to make the pricing more reasonable. Make it say around $55-60/mo.



cb14

join:2013-02-04

Miami Beach, FL ·Localphone

·Zadarma

·Verizon Wireless

·callwithus

·T-Mobile

·AT&T U-Verse

·Callcentric

cb14 to fastoy

Member to fastoy

said by fastoy: After 42 years as an AT&T customer I left over poor broadband speeds and prices.

The former ATT and ATT wireless were gold, I was a customer of both and could not complain. How the heck can you be a 42 years ATT customer?? The current ATT has nothing to do with the former ATT. They just stole their name. The current ATT is Southwestern Bell, later known as SBC, from the very beginning a miserable, crooked, extremely anti competitive corporation.The former ATT and ATT wireless were gold, I was a customer of both and could not complain.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: 42 Year EX AT&T Customer Remember BellSouth? Oh the glory days. lol



cb14

join:2013-02-04

Miami Beach, FL ·Localphone

·Zadarma

·Verizon Wireless

·callwithus

·T-Mobile

·AT&T U-Verse

·Callcentric

cb14 Member Re: 42 Year EX AT&T Customer Actually, I remember Southern Bell which was the original baby Bell after ma Bell split up. Excellent customer service and in those days, quite innovative. Their wireless service sucked- that's what became later Cingular and the NEW ATT wireless.

I went with McCaws Cellular one, which became the OLD ATT wireless, excellent network here in SFL. After SBC/Cingular raided them, they took over their network. The reason why the new imposter ATT has such a good coverage here is because they took over something they never were able to build themselves.



fastoy

join:2002-06-16

Southaven, MS fastoy to cb14

Member to cb14

Sorry. I took some liberties with the name. I understand the transition. I was a continuous subscriber first with SouthCentral Bell, then BellSouth, and then AT&T.



I had had AT&T DSL for 10 years or more (ISDN before that). When I contacted them to upgrade they only offered me 15Mbps at substantially more than I was paying for 6Mbps. And I had to buy or rent the equipment (they actually couldn't tell me which until the technician showed up). Reluctantly I went with Comcast and am now getting 50Mbps+ for the same price I was paying AT&T for 6Mbps (about $45/month).



In a concurrent discussion I had asked AT&T to help me lower my voice line costs. They didn't offer any alternatives so I bought an OBi100 for $30 one time and ported my number to Google Voice for $0/month.



I continue to be a happy AT&T wireless customer.



ham3843

join:2015-01-15

USA ham3843 Member The current AT&T is NOT The old Bell System of decades ago. We had Bell South aDSL and although it was the basic service 768/128

it was over provisioned to just over 1.0/384 Kbps, it was amazingly fast for what it was with very low latency and it never went down or slowed down in all the years we had it plus the price was very reasonable and never increased during the 6 years we had it.. When SBC (the NEW imposter AT&T) took over Bell South it was all down hill prices kept rising every year, speeds slowed latency increased, and the service would occasionally go down too.



SBC took the name AT&T because it had such a horrible reputation with consumers.

Of course they still are the same SBC and still have a horrible rep deservedly so with customers across the US today.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: The current AT&T is NOT The old Bell System of decades ago. If I recall, BellSouth charged more than any other of the Baby Bells for the same basic service. I remember when they first rolled out their 3.0 Mbps DSL tier in late 2004, and wanted $54.95/mo for the service. SBC charged about $40/mo for 3.0 Mbps and Verizon charged about $35-$44/mo.



ham3843

join:2015-01-15

USA ham3843 Member Re: The current AT&T is NOT The old Bell System of decades ago. I just know that we had the basic 768/128 service for 9.99/mo.

smk11

join:2014-11-12 -1 recommendation smk11 Member Delay till fixed LTE I assure you they are right on schedule to sell off all wireline business for fixed LTE.



Gilitar

join:2012-02-01

Mobile, AL Gilitar Member AT&T FITL customer here I'm one of the multitude of customers that is stuck on old Bellsouth FITL. I can tell you with complete assurance that AT&T doesn't keep its word. I've heard nothing but lies about upgrades from AT&T. How can they allow over 1 million homes to be stuck with speeds of 1.5 - 6 megs while the fiber is within a stones throw of these homes?



After AT&T spends the billions to buy Directv they will cut back on infrastructure spending. YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK!



AT&T, you're a bunch of thieves and liars.



bockbock

@hcs.net bockbock Anon Re: AT&T FITL customer here IFITL only goes to 1.5 Mbps if I'm not mistaken. DFITL/MX might provide a little more bandwidth. In today's day and age, 1.5 Mbps barely cuts using eBay or Google maps.



EX DSL USER

@comcast.net EX DSL USER Anon Re: AT&T FITL customer here I'm a former DFITL customer, I've been in my house 4 years and I had to wait a year for a port to free up so I could get DSL. I had 6meg service which barely ran my ROKUs but I lived with it until the modem too a shit on me. I found someone selling a DSL modem on eBay but that modem was crappy too. I refuse to get American Thugs & Thiefs $100 for an outdated DSL modem. Sadly I had to go to Comcrap for Internet, what makes it more sad is Comcrap is running fiber in my subdivision for the 2gig service while the fiber Bellsouth ran just lays in the ground

Bob61571

join:2008-08-08

Washington, IL Bob61571 Member We All Have Dealt w/Chronic Liars in our lives, so why doesn't the FCC just penalize AT&T for its chronic lies?? At a certain point, we all realize that chronic liars should be ignored, and should not be accepted in a working relationship(whether business or personal).



Just deny the AT&T acquisition of DirecTV, because of AT&T's consistent pattern of lies to the FCC and the American people.



Simba7

I Void Warranties

join:2003-03-24

Fromberg, MT Simba7 Member AT&T Repeatedly Fails To Meet Broadband Deployment Promises SHOCKER! How many more lies can come out of their money-filled mouthes?

Skippy25

join:2000-09-13

Hazelwood, MO Skippy25 Member Let them.. Use those billions to upgrade a vast majority of their footprint to FTTH.