AT&T ON-SITE TECHNICIAN CHANGED PLAN FROM 6MBPS to 1MBPS WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION!!!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (AT&T CORP. REP.):

My parents have been loyal customers to AT&T for over 6 years. Paying for the 6mbps Pro package internet and house phone plan all these years. Until about mid-late 2013 I ran a speedtest app off my smartphone to test the speed of their internet due to my parent complaints that internet service was slow and as luck would have it the results were shocking! AT&T had been supplying only a maximum of 3-4mbps for what appeared to be all the years of paid service.

Thereafter, we get on the phone with a AT&T customer representative and were advised that they would need to send a technician out to test the lines and if it is determined there is a fault within the home lines that there will be a service fee. However, if it is determined that there is a fault out-of-home with their lines that there will be no charge at all. We requested the technician come out and see.

This being said, my parents had ironically gone on vacation to California while my wife and I were house sitting. Well as things would have it, while I am at work the technician stops by to check the lines and speaks to my wife, who is not techsavy nor up-to-par with the undergoing scenario and no where near authorized to make any change to the contractual service agreement between AT&T and my parents.

Upon my arrival, it is advised that the technician was unable to locate any line issues inside or out and much more was dumbfounded that we had internet service in the first place. Stating to my wife that my parents lived to far from the DSL tower and that they should not have ever even qualified as recipients for DSL internet to begin with. Well buddy that’s six years to little and too late if you ask me.

As a result, my wife stated that the technician picked up his phone and spoke with some corporate representative to change the plan from a Pro (6mbps) to a Express (1mbps). All this done while my parents who maintain and manage the contractual service agreement with AT&T were in California. Shocked that not only were we not going to be receiving what my parents had been paying for all these years but they would also spit in our face by slowing the internet service to a trickle of what was originally being received.

I swear after what felt like weeks that led to months of arguing and empty promises by customer service rep after customer service rep after supervisor after supervisor NOTHING WAS DONE! Ohh yet happily stating to us each opportunity they had that we can cancel the service and not worry about any cancellation fees and that if ever in the future we were to request to reinstate internet service that DUE TO OUR LOCATION WE WOULD NOT QUALIFY.

Seems to me that since they could not just out right cancel the service, they slowed it down enough to where we would have no alternative but to cancel and seek service elsewhere, which makes no business sense whatsoever.

If anything they should be trying there darn hardest to keep and maintain our contractual service agreement out of this current breach and worried about what kind of legal deceptive trade ramifications there actions may have in the future if this is not immediately resolved.

I have tried to express my communication of such dissatisfaction and victimization through many routes, however have yet to date to receive any form of substantiative response.