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   from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept   
   Wed, Feb 17th 2021 6:35am - Karl Bode   
      
   Last week I wrote over at Motherboard about 90 years old North   
   Hollywood resident Aaron Epstein, whose family has been an AT&T   
   subscriber since the 1930s. Epstein himself has been a loyal AT&T   
   subscriber since around 1960, and has had the company's DSL service   
   since it was first introduced in the late 90s. Unfortunately for   
   Epstein, much like countless millions of other Americans, his DSL line   
   only delivered speeds of 1.5 to 3 Mbps, and he's been waiting for   
   decades for faster speeds to no avail.   
      
   To try and nudge AT&T to action, Epstein recently took out a $10,000   
   ad in the Wall Street Journal just to yell at AT&T CEO John Stankey ...   
      
   https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210215/07142846247/90-year-o   
   d-shouldnt-have-to-buy-10000-ad-just-to-get-att-to-upgrade-his-s   
   itty-dsl-line.shtml   
      
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