AT&T
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My Uvers connection keeps dropping every 3 minutes. I call support and reached the well knkown "Bob" from Atlanta. Bob had a rich indian accent. In any event Bob was rather nice and helpful with me and my complaint. He scheduled service for between noon and 4pm. The problem I had was that I couldn't be there until 2:30. Bob made the notation and we joked about the technical team reading the notes and showing up at noon anyway. I should have wagered a full paycheck!
So at 4:35, 35 minutes past the 4 hour window they demand someone be at the dwelling, there is still no technician. I called uverse support and was rather mean and upset. This time I got another representitive with a rich indian accent and they assured me that the tech would be at my house in less then 30 minutes. My only request to them was to CALL me if they were going to be later then 30 minutes. You know, use a phone to call my phone. Communicate with the valued customer who is having trouble with the products and services that I pay a lot of money for.
Of course the commitment was made to call me if they are running late and we discontinued the call.
5:45pm and no technician was yet to be seen. No phone call, no communication of any type and still crappy service with the TV and internet dropping for 2-3 minute periods every 5 minutes. So I call support again and go through the prompts. Enter in my phone number (which does absolutely friggen nothing at all because they still ask me for it when they get around to answering!) Another representitive with a rich indian accent took my call and (of course) asked me for my account number. Said that the would reach out to the technician and find out why they were not there and didn't call. She returned to tell me that the number on file was coming back as some other number that was not listed on my account. Of course the number I am calling from was on her caller ID and it was my office number. This has NEVER been given to anyone verbally EVER yet they have it in front of them. So this makes me pissy because I am forced to repeat my account number every time I call in even when I am at home. Complete disrespect of a paying customer.
In any event the technician calls my house while I am on the phone with *Bob* and starts telling me that they showed up at noon sharp. WHAT? You have to be f'ng kidding me! Aparently reading notes or communicating with the customer is not what they train the AT&T technicians. While I was speaking with this technician (and on hold on the other phone with hold music going off) they phone goes dead and I get a dial tone. *BOB* hung up! What a excellent way to handle a pissed off customer who simply expects some type of accountability.
I left the cell service a year ago, internet/tv and phone is now going to COX. Sure, they suck too but billing and support is at least something I can deal with. Why do we allow the monopoly of these services? There may be two methods to get your tv/phone and internet but there should be at least 2 methods PER technology.

Since getting the AT&T U-verse bundle on January, 7 2011, we have had nothing but poor service. The whole system freezes intermittently leaving us without phone/tv/internect connectivity. We are now on our 5th service call with no sign of relief. Today, they are supposed to come check the outside line and will "escalate it to a high-level manager". Today is their last chance before I go back to DirecTV and just have our regular "non-digital" phone service through AT&T. Their customer service by phone is terrible as well. The FCC needs to step in a do somthing about this ASAP! Signed, Frustrated with Screwed-Verse!

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Tired of hang ups, long wait times or being transferred to the pathetic at&t outsourced customer service department in india? Here is a direct contact for all your billing, service, contractual or device issues. At&t is by far the industry leader in horrendous service & this allows thousands of customers a direct contact to assist in these matters.

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A very professional and efficient technician installed ATT Uverse TV, Internet and Phone service with the U300 package. I used to have Dish network and comcast cable services at the same time (prior to Uverse). It was exactly 1 week now and everytime I turn my TV on, the Uverse HD channels look likeDish Network's standard definition channels. Uverse does not even come close to the picture quality of Dish satellite. I made the mistake of cancelling both my Dish Network and Comcast cable (for the Asian channels). Very poor picture qualities. I am wondering whether the set top box (Total DVR, ATT calls it) is REALLY AN HD RECEIVER or just an enhanced definition one. Also, I noticed that their connectivity to the 3 TVs (1HD and 2 SDs) is via ethernet cables. My family and I are not happy at all and I feel I was misled to believe ATT provides better viewing experience. I dread the time when I am going to call ATT to cancel the TV service and be slapped with a hefty early termination fee . So think twice before getting this service. The music channels are mediocre too.

Spoke with Connectech about some problems I was having with my internet connection. I was informed that if they could help me, I would be charge $99 but if they couldn't, I wouldn't be charged. The technician that I spoke with was unable to help me so I 'assumed' that I wouldn't be billed. I received my bill today and I was charged. Called and spoke with supervisor 'Joseph' and he said that because I spent time on the phone with a tech that I would be charged. My question was/is 'how would tech know whether or not he could help me if he doesn't spend time with me on the phone'. Bottom line is, you will be charged no matter if they can help you or not. What a scam! They need to tell everyone that calls that they will be charged regardless if they will be able to help you.

I just wanted to share the horrible experience I had with YellowPages with all the small business owners that looking for ways to grow their business and are thinking about using AT&T Yellowpages Advertising Solutions.
I signed with YellowPages Pay Per Click Program for $850 per month, thinking that was reputable company and that I can focus in running my business. I was wrong! Not only do I feel that I was scammed, but also humiliated and insulted by a group of people that are hiding behind a large corporation. Among other misleading information, the sales person told me that I will get at least a 20% conversion rate for my clicks. Almost 4 months into the contract and 900+ clicks, I have received 2 request. I tried several times to work with the sales person, who will not get back to me in a timely manner, and when he did will tell me that he’s working on my account(now I know this was just an strategy to keep me busy for a while)I was very honest with him and I explained him that as a startup I was putting all my marketing budget into this program, he promised that his program will work and even if it didn’t YellowPages will stand behind their promise to deliver or work something out with me.
After months of the same story, I tried escalating the issue to his supervisors, thinking that because is beyond insulting that his sales people employe blatant lies as a technique to close business, as a manager will turn around and do the right thing. I was wrong again!. The manager told me that YellowPages cannot guaranteed conversion rates under the marketing program that I bought, and I was probably confused (he probably thinks because I have an accent I cannot understand English), He said that he will be willing to swich me to a program that has a conversion rate but that is more money! Even after I provided proofs that clearly shows the used deceptive methods of sale, they will totally ignored me and refused to released me from this contract and refund my money. Instead I received a collection letter from YellowPages, not even under my or company’s name, how it shows in the contract that I signed, but my husband’s name that has nothing to do with my company or signed a contract with YellowPages. I find disgusting that a large corporation is so willing to ignore its customers and to treat them like they do not exist. Please think twice before signing a contract with YellowPages.

August of 2009 purchased iphone 16 gb model# a1303 fcc id bcga1303a ic id 579c-a1303a @ apple store, northridge ca. The phone cost $290.00 plus tax.I dropped the phone in water and damaged the phone.A technician at glendale apple store glanced at the phone and said it was unrepairable.There were no tests performed on the phone and no attempt to look at the internal parts of the phone to see if they were damaged, but i was offered to purchase a new phone for $200.00 and lose my unlimited internet service that i have on my old phone.I chose not to go for that unreasonable choice.

My on line search i found a refurbished one for $19.00 and $47.00 in taxes.I sent two emails to at&t the service providers customer service for explanation of how they come up with this kind of tax percentage i still have not received a response.

We have different problems with AT&T just about every month. For over two weeks we had NO telephone service. When we called them for repairs, they offered only an automated system and set an appointment about 3 weeks away. Our AT&T Uverse has problems about every month or two. For many months in a row our Uverse boxes were unable to download system updates and we would lose the picture completely. We had to unplug the modem/hub and each cable box to reset them. The process took about 20-30 minutes each time, including the reboot. Now we cannot download movies from our NetFlix instant queue. It worked great for a few years, but now it cannot download any movies. Similarly, my kids PS3 cannot download updates. I can't help but think AT&T slows speeds for competing products. Tonight when I wanted to chat with their CS, they indicated they had "limited" ability to run checks. It took at 5 minute chat to discover limited means NONE. Why can't they just say they can't help rather than make you ask for several items and discover limited means no help? They really s***.

Our 93 year old elderly parents were signed on by doortodoor sales rep. of AT&T Uverse for a complete communication package whick requires computers, business phones, security systems etc. "Katherine" the sales rep. took advantage of elderly, hearing impared and frail elderly couple. Parents only have a TV in livingroom and a basic telephone service. Family cancelled services for them/pulled out and returned ALL Uverse equipment as required. After five (5) months of calls, letters and promises for refund to elderly parents NOTHING has been done. Finally put into the hands of TN. Attorney General, TN. Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Dept. Against Exploitation/Abuse of The Elderly, BBB of the all States involved and personal Attorney for collection of refund. Get plenty of lip service from very nice Executive Supervisors but no action. This has been very time consuming and extremely sad. AT&T is scamming the U.S. with heartless and cruel tactics to make a few bucks.

The AT & T U-Verse marketing personnel stated that the transition from DirecTV and AT & T home phone service and internet would be "seamless". While the television and home phone service transition has been nearly "seamless", the internet transition, specifically e mail has been a nightmare. We immediately experienced e mail problems, such as duplicate downloading of messages and persistent error messages when attempting to reply to e mail messages. When we called AT & T U-Verse customer service we were told that they do not provide technical support for user using the Microsoft Outlook e mail program. Of course, the marketing personnel never mentioned that the only way the customer can receive e mail technical assistance from AT & T U-Verse is to use the limited functionality AT & T internet web e mail portal. The AT & T internet web e mail portal is lousy, with little of the editing, copy and paste, graphics and other capabilities common to users of the widely accepted Microsoft Outlook e mail program. AT & T U-Verse technical support is more than happy to transfer the customer to a fee-based Advanced Technical Support Unit that will--for a fee--help the user sort out the Outlook compatabiliy issues. So, these creeps sell the customer a product that interferes with a perfectly functioning Outlook e mail program, and then want the customer to pay a fee to receive the help necessary to eliminate whatever compatibility issue they created. AT & T U-Verse should be prosecuted for fraud and deceptive business practices, for failing to make crystal clear to the potential customer that AT & T U-Verse will NOT support Microsoft Outlook or any other 3rd party e mail software. Had they done so in my case, I would never have purchased the service.

I upgraded my phone 1 1/2 years ago when my older phone had died. I was upgrade eligible and looked at all the options. There were nicer phones that required 2 years contract extension. I did not select any of those phones. I selected a refurbished and cheaper phone. Now as I was trying to get out of contract, I am told that I automatically got signed into contract because I upgraded. It was not shown to me at any stage unless I had to click in some hidden corner of screen. Their product lineup and prices were completely misleading. Now my phone is completely unusable and they are telling me that I can get an early no-contract upgrade if I pay 200$ extra. I do not trust them. For everyone who is as naive as me in thinking that you can upgrade phone by selecting phones that do not require contract, it is a sham and lie that AT&T has put on their website just to fool you. If you want to sign a 2yrs contract, then fair game. So, do not let the * 2yr contract required under any phone stop you, since regardless of what you select, they are going to slap a 2 yrs contract on you anyway.

I called to switch my internet out of my husband's name and into my name, because they said I had to in order to combine our internet and wireless service into one bill. They made me start my contract over and charged me for the first month and half (which is standard of a new contract in most places). We had been paying $30 per month prior to this and they claimed that they had a promo price where I would get my first year for $20. This sounded great to me. After receiving my first couple bills of $40 I called to complain. They claimed that this was only for the first few months and that my $20 payments should start now. Two more $40 payments came due. I called back to complain again. The lady was very nice and claimed I was entered under the wrong promo code and that she would fix it, and I would get credits on my bill. She offered me a new deal of double the internet speed for the same $20 rate. I told her that was offered last time, but after I gave all the required info, the lady told me it wasn't offered in my area. She said I was too far from the tower. This new lady said that she was not sure if that was the case or not, but she could see that it is now available if I would like to receive it. I said sure. She asked if I had any other problems to address. I said I was promised a $75 prepaid card the last time I called to complain. I received a form in the mail 2 days after it had expired. I called anyways and never received it. She claimed that she would fix that problem and that it, too, would be credited to my bill. She said she hoped that I would end up with free service for the remainder of the year for all of these credits. I said that would be nice and asked what I do about the current charge of $40 (instead of $20). She said, unfortunately I would need to pay the $40 but insured me that I would be credited $20 of it, along with all these other promised credits. I felt like I was being fed a load of crap, but needed my internet for online schooling. I paid by debit card. That was last month. This month I called to check about my current bill due. Guess what is due? You guessed it...$40. Guess how my internet speed is? That's right...still not double. I know this for a fact, because I had just checked the internet speed of my pc prior to talking to them on the phone. It is still the same speed now as it was then.

AT&T are liars, thieves, and incompetent ###s. They apparently hire pretty much anyone off of the street, regardless of their intelligence level. Either that, or they do not adequately train the poor fools or fall victim to their company, and just want to have a job like the rest of us. I wonder if fool their employees with empty promises too. Anyways, I am switching. If I am going to pay $40 instead of $30 for average internet speed, then I might as well pay an extra $10 for fast speed. I also should have never switched to their wireless coverage just to get a small employee discount from work. I had US Cellular. Biggest mistake I ever made. Their service sucks! Dropped calls, crappy phones, and poor customer service to boot. (I never did try again to combine our internet and wireless because I was so disgusted by being screwed over). I am switching to Virgin Mobile. At least I won't be under any damn contracts and forced to deal with poor service.

If you are considering ATT, don't. Run while you still can. I truly believe they only have the customers they do because they lie and because they took over Cingular (who sucked also). If you are gonna pay out the butt, at least pay out the butt for good service and good customer service.

AT&T offered me a promotional price of $14.99 for internet service, but the keep billing me $45 every month. I have called and talked to them about it, they said that the problem would be corrected, and my account would be credited. No such luck they continue to over charge me. They did the same with my landline service. It was basic service, and supposed to be about $10 a month. I never got a bill even close to that. After cancelling my service they finally refunded me about $80. They should treat their customers right before they lose most of them.

I have AT&T DSL Elite. Almost every evening the download speed drops to rediculously low levels. Elite is supposed to provide up to 6MBps but it regularly drops to around 1.5MBps and frequently to below 1MBps. I have had AT&T out twice and they claimed they corrected the problem somewhere in their system; but it just keeps coming back. Before I had AT&T DSL Elite I had AT&T DSL Pro and when I changed over and paid the extra money I learned several months later that they never changed the connection, even though they showed it on my phone bill. Never offered me a refund either when they finally changed it over. Maybe before AT&T adds any new "fastest in the USA wireless service" they can pay some attention to their existing DSL customers and fix their system so that it does not drop to such unacceptable levels.

Their only competition in this area is the cable TV company. Too bad nobody else provides DSL here in the Central California Coastal area.

I am at the point where I am about to monitor the speed continuously and start paying my bill proportional to the speeds AT&T provide.

Watch out! AT&T will steal your toll free and local phone number if your not careful. And they will advertise your competition in the process on your dime.
This really happen to me and still is happening.
Times being tough, I was not able to pay my monthly at&t bill on time. The company issued a temp disconnect on the line. So, callers received "The number you've reached is temporally disconnected." for about two weeks. Then when I called in to forward my toll free number to a new number, the next day AT&T disconnected the line and ran an advertisement you'd hear when you called my toll free number that directed callers to my competition by announcing: "At no additional charge AT&T can help you find a similar business in the same area since the number you called is not in service. Please stay on the line for alternative businesses. I have three similar businesses. Your call will be automatically completed after your selection. Press or say "one" for " insert name here" located at 1234 anystreet, in St. Louis MO press or say two for "insert name here" company and press or say three for " insert name here" company. press or say nine to repeat this list. I no longer have control of my 800 or local phone that I've had for twenty some odd years. Needless to say, I've filed my complaint with the FCC by filling out the 2000B form. As far as I know AT&T is the only company doing this, but then, what dd you expect?

AT&T cellular representative offered a bundled package which would include cell phone bundled Uverse (HDTV, land telephone and internet)
for $60/month less than we were currently paying for the services. We could have a 30 day trial with no contract and a money back guarantee.
We signed up and had Uverse installed, Then we found out the cell phone was not part of the deal. The Uverse HDTV picture was not as good as Cox cable which we had prior to trying Uverse. The day after Uverse installed, wireless didn't work, e-mail didn't work and our fax machine would not send or receive faxes. Countless hours on the telephone with ATT and lot of empty promises of when things would be fixed or would not be fixed. Finally after a week of haggling ATT got some things working. E-mail I finally figured out how to fix.
After that we decided to go back to Cox Cable and back to ATT land line and DSL (Internet). We needed to get back to exactly where we were before joining the class action suit against ATT/Uverse.
Then we experience two more weeks of hell trying to get back to where we were. Again countless hours on the telephone, listining to recorded messages, repeating names, pin numbers, address, problem. Again empty promises of when services would be re-instated, when technitions would be schedule. Finally got back ATT land telephone and DSL.
Cox cable for no charge came out and straightened out the re-arranged co-axial cable mess ATT had left behine and got me back on Cox cable.
Be carefull when you decide to change from services you are basically satisfied with in order to save a buck. Get the price of every nut and bolt and all fees and taxes if possible. Also, consider companies that have local customer support office. ATT's installers may be local, but all customer help is long distance with 800 numbers and lots of hassle, lots of sweet "I'm so sorry talk" and very slow action.

was feed all the right lines by the salesmen from ATT, twice on the phone and twice metting face to face, the service i'm paying for to drive people to my website & gnerate phone calls has been a disater for the price i'm paying.when i call or e mail i get the same run around time after time, we have to try this and then we'll try that.bottom line its the worst money iv'e ever ever spent in my life.have 5 more months with these crooks.must br nice to have a licence to STEAL !

In the month of May 2008, I entered into a service agreement with AT&T wireless to receive internet service by means of an air card. This agreement was for unlimited access. No overage charges would apply for use that exceeded 5 gigs per month. For the past 10 months, I have not had an occasion to use the air card at all. In the month of January 2011, my work has placed me in an area where it has been necessary to use the air card extensively. On January 15, 2011, I attempted to utilize the air card and was prompted by a pop-up information box to call my provider. The information box stated "to avoid excessive data usage fees, the service has been suspended. Contact AT&T at #611". The number 611 is the AT&T wireless customer service number. I spoke with several persons including someone who identified himself as the mobile PC manager. I think he stated that his name is David. He advised me that AT&T no longer offers the service plan that I entered into in May of '08. He stated that I have exceeded the 5 gig per month limit. He stated that under my current plan, there are no overage charges applicable. He added that the suspension of my service will remain in effect indefinitely unless I exercised one of two options. First, I can discontinue my service with AT&T. Secondly, I can switch to the new data plan wherein I agree to pay overages in excess of 5 gigs per month. I asked the representative if my service would be restored at the end of the current month billing cycle if I did not switch to the new Data plan. He stated that it would not. He reinforced the fact that the service would continue to be blocked indefinitely unless I switched to the new plan. Due to my present work demands and the need for internet service to be restored immediately, I agreed to the new data plan. This feels like extortion to me. I think that AT&T is not honoring the original service agreement and is forcing customers who have older and better valued plans to switch by suspending service.

I have an AT&T cell phone which is currently with a family member who is traveling in Mexico.Once they left the country, their caller ID stopped working though the Viva Mexico plan claims to offer caller ID.When they call out their number always shows as "unknown caller" and anyone who calls in, no matter where they are calling from, shows up as the number of my family member's own phone!They have also had a hard time accessing voicemail, and when I emailed AT&T for the gazillionth time, they had the nerve to disable voicemail...I have no idea how they did this---and told me that I'd never set it up in the first place, which is an outright lie!

I just spent an hour online with ATT "customer service" and wanted to warn ATT customers that they could be subject to fraudulent data charges through their texting plans. It's pretty scary stuff; sorry for the windy posting, but here's the cautionary tale of what happened:

I was looking at my phone bill and noticed higher than usual charges. I called ATT. They said that some text messager named "MBLOVE2" sent a text to my wife's phone line. Now, bear in mind that we don't use text messaging for anything, in general. The message that they had sent to my wife said "respond to this message with 'STOP' to discontinue receiving messages like this." This my wife did. However, we were charged $9.99 twice on our bill for this "subscription" service that neither of us had ever heard of before.

Back to ATT help desk. They said we must have subscribed to the service somehow. We didn't. They said that there's nothing they can do to prevent people from sending texts that charge us unless we use something called "Purchase Blocker." What is purchase blocker? I'd never heard of it. Turns out that it's an ATT service that prevents unauthorized purchases from occurring, such as the one I'd been charged for by MBLOVE2. Why didn't ATT make this the "default" when one starts service, and enable people to decide what should or should not be charged to their accounts? The help desk person (and her two supervisors) had no explanation about why ATT didn't make this the default for service, but I digress.

I then asked the help desk person to look into my account over the past year, and it turns out that there were $60 in additional charges from a company called "Motricity" (www.motricity.com) that I was unaware of to my wife's account over the past several months. I insisted that they all be rescinded/credited, which they will be. A number of thoughts:

1) ATT is taking no responsibility for this. They say there's nothing they can do about it, and that it's basically up the customer to determine if fraudulent charges have been made to the account. The first manager I spoke with even acknowledged that he'd heard of MBLOVE2 before and that it was a problem for others! I asked why they haven't done anything about it; he had no answer other than it was up to me to deal with it, basically, even though ATT is the one billing us. They're the ones charging us on behalf of a 3rd party that we never heard of, but are putting the onus of preventing fraudulent charges on the customers. They say that these charges can "happen" only if one approves them via text. That's not true. They "happen" if you simply get the text. One of the companies that fraudulently billed us is known as "motricity" (www.motricity.com). They sent text messages to my wife with "no subject" --completely blank. She thought it was strange, but ignored it and did nothing. Still, we were billed $19.99 for them. I called them; no answer, but sent an email through their website explaining what happened, and that I'm going to report their practices to the authorities. We'll see what happens (apparently they're a publicly traded company: MOTR)

2) What frightens me the most? The fact that I (as a fairly tech savvy sort) got bilked on my bill, but if it's happening to me, it's happening to tens or hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting folks, like my parents, grandparents, and others who aren't so tech savvy. Telecom bills are notoriously complicated and confusing. This leads to point #3.

3) What these bad guys are counting on is that the phone/data/service bills are sooooo incredibly dense and convoluted. I just did a word count on my last month's bill. Total number of words: 34, 189! People get "glaze over" when they read their bills, and don't understand all the components. It's hard to understand what's in them. For example, I just did a word search for "motricity" in the bill, and nothing. It's not in there. Why? Because it's buried in the data charges and will only show up on my credit card statement. --And that's what the criminals are hoping for (with somewhat witting compliance by AT&T).

4) In that regard, ATT puts the onus of "security of their customer's credit card accounts" into the hands of companies like Motricity. Instead of preventing fraud by empowering their customers (with knowledge of these things or blocking them altogether, or informing customers about "Purchase Blocker" at the beginning of data service), they put the onus of finding fraud and "addressing" it with the customers.

5) This is essentially "text spam, " but ATT is ignoring it as a customer nuisance. They don't see it as a serious case of fraud perpetrated on their customers. As to why they don't explain/warn customers about this up front? I'm guessing it's because they're concerned that customers would choose "purchase blocker" up front, and not buy a lot of the legitimate purchases of ringtones, songs, and other things that people buy (to ATT's profit) through their phones. But their clearly ignoring spam as fraud by enabling companies to access your data text account, regardless of your approval, then "dealing with it" after customers discover the problem and call to complain.

Bottom line: ATT has probably done the math: the money they make through purchases (fraudulent and legitimate) must far outweigh the risks/problems of dealing with customers who call to complain about companies and individuals who steal from their customers just because they have access to a) our phone numbers and b) a text application that automatically submits an invoice to ATT's billings systems for said phone number.

If you're an ATT data customer, I'd check your bill immediately and/or call their help desk and ask them to see if any "subscription" services have been added. They can easily go back a year to review your bills. At the end of my conversation with a top customer service manager at ATT, he finally acknowledged that yes, this is a problem, and that they should probably warn people about this, at a minimum.

Finally, please let others know about this (members of congress, family, friends, etc.). If this happened to me, it's happening a LOT more people out there. Personally, I'm contacting all of the above.

Sorry for the lengthy message, but I wanted to warn others. This shouldn't be legal...

PS. I tried to look up MBLOVE2, but they don't seem to "exist" as any real company.