I am writing this review to get my story about AT&T out. I have been a customer of AT&T Wireless for 15 years. I have also from time to time been a customer of other AT&T products. About three years or so ago, AT&T came out with their Uverse HDTV service in my area. As a self proclaimed techie, I am always looking for the best and fastest internet/TV service out there. With all the hype about the soon to be available Uverse service, I became one of the first in my area to sign up and have the product installed. As with all my previous experience with AT&T, everything was great. The system was installed quickly and professionally. I liked what I was seeing as far as speeds and TV quality. Everything worked ok for a month or so and then I started having issues with the service dropping out. Lost everything, TV, Internet, and phone. A long story short, I spent the next year calling service out at least two to three times a month, but they just could not get the system to stay up. After 12 months of headaches and the last month not working but about 5% of the time, I gave up. I think I did more and stuck with them longer than most would have. My kids hated me, my wife was always upset and I took the blame for it. I had them come out and disconnect the service so I could have the local cable provider come in and take over. Not what I wanted, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. AT&T sent me a bill for the last month and I called them to inform them I did not feel and would not be paying for the last month as the service was just not working. Why should I have to pay for something I did not get. Anyways here we are three years latter and AT&T has gotten to the point of blackmail. They will not let me do anything with my cell phone services. I can not even give them my money for new phones, can't get a SIM card replaced, nothing. Its either pay the $251 outstanding bill for the service that was not provided or they will not do anything for me. So, here I am at that point again. I have a phone that needs a SIM replaced, because they shut the phone off accidentally during the 2G sunshine. So their fault my phone was cancelled even though it is a 4G device and now it can not be fixed with a new SIM without paying the $251. I am cancelling my account and moving to one of their competitors. This is not what I want, but once again I have to do what I have to do. It is sad when I pay almost $300 dollars a month for all my phones, and spent many thousands of dollars with them over the last 15 years. Not to mention all the recommendations I have given to my friends and customers as I am a computer repairman on the side. So, my recommendation is stay away from AT&T. They have gotten to the point where they don't care about the customer at all. They expect payment on all contracts even when they do not fill their end of that contract by providing the service. This is just piss pour management. Now they not only are our the $250 they are blackmailing me for, they are loosing a reliable paying customer of over 15 years. read more