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Posted: Oct 02 2007 01:09 am

AT&T has revised their Terms of Service in a manner that should horrify the consumer public. Usually such updates screw the customer subtly, but AT&T's new adjustment ironically pulls freedom of speech directly from those using AT&T's service to speak. In short, if you slam AT&T, they can pull your service:

wrote:

AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes...(c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries.

Of course, AT&T has overlooked one important fact about their TOS: they can't cancel a customer's service who will no longer do business with them anyway. Changes in TOS are often a loophole out of your contract. And if I were an AT&T customer, my choice would be pretty clear.

This has been confirmed with AT&T— a new TOS merged in from the Yahoo! DSL TOS. Naughty, but AT&T also confirms that this is the way its always been.

Posted: Oct 02 2007 08:34 am

AT&T is filled with buttsex-having pedophiles.

There. Now cancel my phone service so I can sue.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Used to have their DSL line, now I use Comcast in my latest apartment, and don't even bother having a home phone number. Although, Comcast is getting too monopolistic.

Posted: Oct 02 2007 04:31 pm

By law, if a company changes the terms of the contract you have with them, then you have to sign a new contract, as the old one become void, unless the company will honor the original contract without the new terms added to it.

My co-worker is going through the same thing. The apartments he lives at, have decided to make thier property non-smoking. That includes all apartments, patios, sidewalks, and the parking lots. In order to do this, they have to amend the lease contract. Since he smokes, he is leaving the apartments. He can now do this four months earlier than his lease states, and he doesn't have to pay the fee to break the lease, as the property management has already broken it, and he will simply refuse to sign the new one. There is nothing legally the property owners can do about it.