AT&T Infrastructure Crew Damages Customer Line and Refuses to Expedite Repair for 5 Days
AT&T's fiber installation crew snagged and damaged a copper line serving an entire block, taking down internet service. AT&T refused to declare an outage or dispatch an emergency crew, scheduling the earliest repair five days later despite the customer working from home. Telecom companies have no consumer-accessible emergency repair escalation for company-caused infrastructure damage.
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