Comments on: Comcast Rivals AT&T with Small Business Telecom Service http://www.teleclick.ca/2008/03/comcast-rivals-att-with-small-business-telecom-service/ Daily news bulletin of notable events in the telecommunications industry. Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: cHRIS iRWIN http://www.teleclick.ca/2008/03/comcast-rivals-att-with-small-business-telecom-service/#comment-65366 cHRIS iRWIN Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:54:49 +0000 http://www.teleclick.ca/2008/03/comcast-rivals-att-with-small-business-telecom-service/#comment-65366 ATT small business sucks! I got completely suckered and misled by the woman who sold it to me–it was much much more than she portrayed it. I am a lawyer so I read the fine print–and I still got screwed. Here is one example. My partnership dissolved and in the confusion the bill did not get paid. ATT not only disconnected the phone–but insisted I pay them an additional $235 as a “security deposit” AND another $64 dollars for the difficulty of pushing a button to turn it back on! That’s fricken close to $300 dollars I have to come up with IN ADDITION to the amount that was past due. A THREE YEAR CONTRACT IN HELL! I have told ALL the new lawyers I know–and old ones–how badly I feel screwed by Ma Bell. They trapped me–but it has cost them (is costing them) 10 times what they are getting out of me in lost business from how pissed off and dissatisfied I am. Let the buyer beware! Oh god its just got worse than above. My small business partnership ended and the phone went off. I called and spoke with 2 people from ATT who assured me if I paid the 250 I owed everything would be fine and my next bill would be less than 100 bux, so I did. My next bill was over 750$$ o my god! ATT claims the right to charge me a $600 penalty because my phone went off! At every single stage of my dealings with ATT the people on the phone have told me one thing--while their boilerplate apparently has assorted nasties hidden in it. ATT small business would destroy many businesses if this is how they act. The first woman I spoke to who talked me into the contract told me it would only cost 20 a month for the remaining time in the contract if I wanted to kill service. Lies, lies and more lies. I am so mad at ATT small business. Use Cable and get vontage--giant carrier pigeons--do what ever you can but do not use them. ATT small business sucks! I got completely suckered and misled by the woman who sold it to me–it was much much more than she portrayed it. I am a lawyer so I read the fine print–and I still got screwed. Here is one example.

My partnership dissolved and in the confusion the bill did not get paid. ATT not only disconnected the phone–but insisted I pay them an additional $235 as a “security deposit” AND another $64 dollars for the difficulty of pushing a button to turn it back on!

That’s fricken close to $300 dollars I have to come up with IN ADDITION to the amount that was past due.

A THREE YEAR CONTRACT IN HELL!

I have told ALL the new lawyers I know–and old ones–how badly I feel screwed by Ma Bell. They trapped me–but it has cost them (is costing them) 10 times what they are getting out of me in lost business from how pissed off and dissatisfied I am.

Let the buyer beware!

Oh god its just got worse than above. My small business partnership ended and the phone went off. I called and spoke with 2 people from ATT who assured me if I paid the 250 I owed everything would be fine and my next bill would be less than 100 bux, so I did. My next bill was over 750$$ o my god!

ATT claims the right to charge me a $600 penalty because my phone went off! At every single stage of my dealings with ATT the people on the phone have told me one thing–while their boilerplate apparently has assorted nasties hidden in it.

ATT small business would destroy many businesses if this is how they act. The first woman I spoke to who talked me into the contract told me it would only cost 20 a month for the remaining time in the contract if I wanted to kill service.

Lies, lies and more lies. I am so mad at ATT small business. Use Cable and get vontage–giant carrier pigeons–do what ever you can but do not use them.

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