AT&T Throttles Loyal Customers for Using Mobile Data During Home Internet Outages
AT&T penalizes customers for using mobile data as a backup when their home internet fails, throttling service for the following month. A 9-year customer was punished for a legitimate backup use case caused by their own router outage. This creates a perverse incentive where customers are financially penalized for relying on a service they pay for.
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