If they were sorry they should figure out the downtime and pay prorated rates back to every affected customer.
“We’re not that sorry lol” -AT&T
When my internet goes down, my provider unlimits my phone so I can hotspot the house through 5G still. If I go out, the modem switches to a backup 4G they unlimit too. If it takes a few days, they start throwing the refunds or free month at me. I've actually told them I'm not too upset and away for the weekend, so they don't have to go above and beyond.
Communications regulators. Only for us evil "socialist" countries.
Estonia?
I think Telstra in Australia has done a similar things in the past too.
Funnily enough, I tried this once when my Internet (shitfinity) went out for two days. I asked the online chat rep if I could be reimbursed for the outage. They replied with, "due to the outage, we will be crediting (128.99/30*2)=$8.60 to your account." With the math included and everything. They probably have a lot of people trying to get a free month out of a few hours without service and just started doing that, haha. I couldn't be mad.
It's hard not to respect companies with extremely accurate accounting.
Most ISPs will do the same, prorating. The vast majority of customers never ask for a credit.
We're very sorry, but not in a way that affects our bottom line, so, ya know... deal with it?
Was looking for this. Didn’t get disappointed.
My sister sent this to me because she's on AT&T and I was like holy shit this is even worse than not saying anything at all. All this says is " We fucked up and we're not going to do anything about it"
It’s super weird. Me and my coworkers all have AT&T, and none of their phones worked and mine worked perfectly the whole day.
Since we can make conspiracy out of anything let me ask.
Do they have tic tok and do you have tic tok? Did you shower the morning of said outage?
I’ve never had TikTok, and i showered.
But I’m not saying it from a conspiracy angle, I’m viewing it from a huh, technology is weird sometimes angle. Or more like, I want to understand why from a technical standpoint.
There you go. It's the tiktok. Conspiracy solved.
Btw I'm just fuckin with you. I'm joking since everything tends to end up as a conspiracy with people.
Oh, so it was the shower, then?
Well, I don’t have TikTok and I didn’t shower, still worked just fine.
But you are not their coworker. Man, this conspiracy is getting more complex by the minute!
The plot thickens. Please make it stop!
No no, I dont have TikTok and I showered and mine was fine, too. You're on to something. Did you try showing this to a politician without a platform?
Not yet.
Is you phone on 5G? I only ask because mine isn't 5G capable (it is, but I haven't flashed the US modems yet cause lazy), and I didn't have a lick of downtime that day.
I literally just got this message like 5 minutes ago. They are so sorry apparently, and apparently it has prompted me to start shopping other carriers. Funny how that works
good luck trying to get rid of at&t. took my gf literally hours and multiple days to get out of their stupid ass contract
How much of a price increase comes with this apology?
mewhile here i lost internet for a day oragne give me 200gbs of data for free on my phone.
That seal is going in the stew. 👩 👊🦭
Apologize to me with money.
Yuk.
Meaningless boilerplate corporate-speak apology.
It's only designed to satiate the clients enough that they don't switch providers (if such an option even exists), and don't demand credits for the outage. Some people just want their feelings acknowledged, so a nontrivial number of people will hear this and take no further action.
It's a meaningless gesture otherwise. The corporate equivalent of "I'm sorry you feel that way".
It really should be the guy rubbing his nipples from "Informative Murder Porn"
AT&T bought time warner a few years ago.
That was Charter/ Spectrum. Verizon TRIED to buy them (Charter), but they turned them down. I'll edit and link in a second:
"On May 18, 2016, Charter finalized acquisition of Time Warner Cable and its sister company Bright House Networks, making it the third-largest pay television service in the United States."
I worked there, and we had people from Time Warner. It's on Wikipedia, too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Communications
AT&T is the king of LA, they're actually kind of dying. Cox has a strangle hold on San Diego. Spectrum/ Charter is everything in-between. They've PAIRED with Verizon to use their towers to extend their internet networks to rural areas. They also paired with Comcast to fight Roku, with a device called "Zumo". It's all moving towards wireless internet for everything, except if you're a gamer or work from home.
...club that seal, it's a collaborator.
Stop clubbing baby seals, they're not good at dancing anyways.
Wasn’t there also a report today (I think) about an unusual level of sunspot activity? Without digging into it, I think I sort of just assumed they were related.
I have AT&T fiber and a Verizon iPhone and I didn’t notice disruptions on either. My partner has an AT&T iPhone and didn’t notice any issues.
They are absolutely unrelated. If sunspot activity was significant enough, it would've affected more than just the one company.
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