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Feb 19

ATT Loses to Xfinity/Comcast

  • 2019-02-19
  • robiny
  • Consumer Rights

After my 12-month internet service contract with ATT expired, my monthly rate was raised to $50, an additional $120/year, for 25 Mbps download speed and 5 Mbps upload speed.

After Xfinity/Comcast installed fiber in my neighborhood, it offered a 12-month contract for $30/month with 60 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up.

I called ATT twice to ask if they could increase my speed (nope – technologically impossible) or lower my rate (nope). So I switched to Xfinity.

When I called ATT to cancel, a rep said the system was down so he couldn’t process my cancellation and to call back in an hour. Pretty sure he said he couldn’t call me. When I called back, a different rep said the system was down. A few minutes after the second call, the 1st ATT customer service rep called me, confirmed that I had made the switch, and canceled my service. I can’t prove it but I think I was being played.

ATT should allow customers to cancel online and its website should provide the information on how/where to return any equipment. ATT says I can’t return the router/modem at a store; I have to take it to a UPS store. What a hassle.

Xfinity allows customers to return equipment to their stores. This should be the norm.

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Robin Yeager has worked as a journalist in Texas and a lawyer in New York. In California, she's been a lawyer, a mediator, a freelance photographer and a scuba diving instructor. Now she focuses on research and writing about this, that and other things.

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