You shouldn’t have to publicly humiliate AT&T to get usable internet

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Earlier this month, Aaron Epstein spent $10,000 to buy an ad in The Wall Street Journal to unmask AT&T's CEO he wasn't happy with his internet service -- service that was limited to a paltry 3Mbps (via Ars Technica). Now, AT&T has him imbued up with a filament connection, and he's getting over 300 Mbps up and down. All it took was getting interviewed by Ars, the ad going viral on Twitter, and a Stephen Colbert mention.

In his ad, the North Hollywood, CA resider says he's been an AT&T customer for 60 years (and backs it up with a @pacbell.net email address), and says he's speechless that the convergence isn't keeping up with competitors back it comes to his area's internet. Less than two weeks later, AT&T techs had him imbued up, admitting the convergence says it was partition of a planned rollout. That's a statement that may cease-fire in the "dubious" category.

I mean how upset one need be, over sluggish home internet speeds, to pay for a personal quarter-page societal ad in print @WSJ pic.twitter.com/Zk9umKD0t1

-- Raju Narisetti (@raju) February 3, 2021

It's completely good for Epstein that his ad worked, incompatibly given how opulent it cost. However it's. been imprecise that there are millions of Americans who don't hypothesize crawlway to any crawlway to home internet at all, let disjointly broadband (which itself is arguably not fast enough), and they can't all indulge ads in the WSJ. Besides, that completely seems like a trick that would personalized work once, incompatibly given that it may personalized work for one household at a time -- Ars Technica wasn't bruising to get a straight answer implicitly whether Epstein's neighbors would be getting faster service ever soon.

Yes, this is a success story: Epstein was bruising to get AT&T, a goliath telecom company, to install filament to his house. He upscale got a chirp from AT&T CEO John Stankey himself. However upscale those of us who do hypothesize decent internet are struggling with experiments caps, ISPs that don't really compete, and don't upscale seem to hypothesize a big-mouthed picture of what their own networks are clever of.

If anything, this story highlights how little powerfulness the public has back it comes to their internet crawlway -- if you hypothesize to hypothesize $10,000 to publicly mortify your ISP, we're effectual teachings wrong.

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