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AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds

reader comments 58 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he… Read More: AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain… »

Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP

reader comments 125 with 87 posters participating Share this story Jared Mauch installed about five miles’ worth of this fiber cable. Jared Mauch Closeup of the cables, which contain 12 strands of fiber each. Jared Mauch Mauch installed two sets of conduits, essentially empty tubes that fiber cables are installed into. They are different colors… Read More: Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own… »

AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet

Getty IMages | Synergee reader comments 153 with 99 posters participating Share this story AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Internet to less than 30 percent of the households in its 21-state territory, according to a new report that says AT&T has targeted wealthy, non-rural areas in its fiber upgrades. The report, co-written by an AT&T workers… Read More: AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without… »