AT&T U-verse, Direct TV. RUN AWAY! It's hard to believe that this company was once one of the most respected and admired companies in the world. If AT&T is not at the very BOTTOM in every category of BAD in customer service, product quality, and innovation, they are certainly right there with the worst of the worst. I have only been plagued by this ridiculous, inept, apathetic company for TWO months, and it already feels like forever. I was lured into their snare at a local home show, and promised great service, better programming, high speed internet, blah, blah, blah. Since we were not pleased with our Time Warner Cable service, we thought "it can only get better, right?". Wrong. Time Warner has it's problems, but NOTHING compared to the complete IDIOCY of AT&T. From the very beginning, when they failed to include requested phone service, which I NEED to run my business from my home (and AT&T finally managed to get worked out THREE WEEKS LATER), to the sloppy, third grader quality installation (one of the splitters RIGHT BY my front door dangling by a crooked screw installed about a quarter of an inch, and a lovely unsecured black coaxial cable draping down across our bedroom wall from a closet door), to the TV reception that doesn't work AT ALL if it's raining, snowing, wind is blowing, etc., to the slowest internet connection you'll probably ever witness, unless of course you travel back in time 25 or 30 years. Then there's the customer service drones, who will ask you the same question over and over until you're ready to crawl through the phone line to find them and violently shake them by their necks, only to be told you'll need to call ANOTHER number. And don't bother asking to speak to a Supervisor. That causes them to go into an endless recorded loop of "My Supervisor won't be able to help you with this. You'll need to call ..." Finally, if you DO decide to sign onto the "AT&T Torture Tour", like most people, you'll probably put your account on 'AutoPay'. I did. It didn't matter. My internet turned off unexpectedly one morning (everything ELSE still worked, strangely enough). After an hour and a half of dealing with these STUPID, STUPID PEOPLE at AT&T, I finally found this little tidbit that NO ONE at AT&T tells you about: "If you have enrolled in Automatic Bill Pay within the past 60 ( yes, SIXTY) days, it could be that enrollment has not completely processed." So, in this age of instantaneous banking, where you can take a picture of a check, and it processes to your account in a nano-second, AT&T takes TWO MONTHS to process an online payment option. If you really want to test yourself, to see JUST HOW MUCH aggravation you're able to handle, if you've decided that you want to "go off the grid" ,forsaking all electronic communications and conveniences, or if you just can't believe how BAD bad can be, go ahead, roll the dice and sign your soul over to arguably the WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA, AT&T. But, don't say that no one warned you. read more