Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Steven Puetzer) The Federal Trade Commission today said it “has moved to stop Internet service provider Frontier Communications from lying to consumers and charging them for high-speed Internet speeds it fails to deliver.” Frontier was sued by the FTC in May 2021, and on Thursday, it agreed to a settlement […]
Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Robert Alexander ) CenturyLink is selling large portions of its copper network in 20 states to a private-equity firm, letting the telco pull out of rural areas where it doesn’t plan to install fiber-to-the-home technology. […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Hans-Guenther Oed | STOCK4B-RF) The Federal Trade Commission and officials from six states yesterday sued Frontier Communications, alleging that the telecom provider misrepresented Internet speeds and charged many customers for higher speeds than it actually provided or was capable of providing. The complaint was filed in US District Court for […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | CalypsoArt) AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California state government found. Customers in low-income areas and areas without substantial competition have fared the worst, the report found. AT&T […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Synergee) 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 took out a Wall Street Journal ad […]
Expand (credit: Getty Images | Synergee) Countless of all Americans reside in broadband seas with no access to anything resembling contemporary online services. But few individuals have it as bad as people who have to rely upon AT&T’s early DSL network. Kathie McNamee of Raymond, Mississippi is among the unfortunate AT&T DSL clients. McNamee stated […]
Synergee) AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Web to less than 30% of the families in its own 21-state land, as shown by a fresh report that states AT&T has concentrated rich, non-rural regions in its own fiber updates. The analysis, co-written with an AT&T employees marriage and an advocacy group, is also timely, being issued only […]
Expand / / A classic tv set. (credit: Getty Images Even a 400-resident village in Wales endured 18 months of DSL Web outages every day before the offender was identified as electric disturbance from an older TV set. The inhabitants of Aberhosan strangely undergone the outages daily at 7am. Openreacha BT subsidiary that offers Internet […]