If you’re looking to join the newly minted class action against Cingular, you might want to turn that shredder off. A customer was seeking to replace the billing records he had shredded, in order to prepare to join the suit, and called up the cellphone company.
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HOWTO: Join The Cingular Lawsuit
By 7.10.06
If you were an AT&T customer as of October 26, 2004 and, following the switchover to Cingular
Cingular Lowers Bar On AT&T Customer’s Necks
By 7.10.06
Cingular duped and overcharged AT&T customers ported over following their merger, contends a lawsuit filed last Thursday.
The News Wins a Kosher Kitchen
By 7.7.06
• Ebay prez pledges to get rid of those 95 cent items with $50 shipping costs. [Ebay]
Pith & Vinegar; Puddles of Cuddles
By 6.28.06
• Maybe they just ate too much turkey and got tired. [USAToday] “FDA issues fewer safety, quality citations”
AT&T Owns Your Booty
By 6.23.06
In a followup to “AT&T: All Your Phone Are Belong to Us“, the SF Gate interviewed some privacy wonks who say:
AT&T: All Your Phone Are Belong to Us
By 6.22.06
If you’re an AT&T customer, you have until this Friday to switch.
The News; Clunkers & Claptrap
By 6.22.06 — Updated: 9.8.16
• Now your Vonage bill will come with a boonies subsidy fee, just like grownup telcos. [NYT] “Net Phone Service Providers Are Told to Pay Subsidy Fee”
AT&T No Longer Exists
By 6.21.06
Some people just are gluttons for punishment. Ed Horrell gets his fill by calling up customer support lines and recording the results.
The News: Now, 100% Dolphin Safe!
By 6.6.06
• Consumer Reports says that due to high levels of mercury, pregnant women should not eat tuna. Plus, those dolphin bits can get stuck in the baby’s umbilical cord. [CT]
The News: Legitimate Businessmen
By 6.5.06
• Need a telco spokesperson to fight net neutrality and give it a happy face? Let’s get that guy who was Bill Clinton’s mouthpiece during the cigar scandal. [LAT]
Source Documents Implicating AT&T and NSA Internet Spying
By 5.22.06
At 2:00 AM EST this morning, Wired News published primary documents incriminating the NSA and AT&T in a clandestine surveillance operation by the government to monitor the internet.
Qwest CEO Nacchio to NSA: “Go Screw.”
By 5.15.06
Although doubtlessly guilty of insider trading, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio has one moral feather tucked beneath the diamond-encrusted ribbon of his Mr. Moneybags-style top hat: when the NSA approached Nacchio and demanded Qwest phone records to stave off the terrorist threat, Nacchio told them to go fuck themselves. This is while executives at companies like Verizon, AT&T and Bell South gleefully capitulated to what amounts to an illegal and unconstitutional request.
DoJ Files To Dismiss AT&T Lawsuit… It’s Top Secret!
By 5.15.06
Bad news for those of us who don’t want the long-distance sex calls we made to our Canadian girlfriends shouted mockingly at us when we’re tied to a chair with a burlap sack over our face in between a knee-thwacking with a length of hose. The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit by the EFF against AT&T for illegally complying with NSA wire-tapping of citizens’ lines.
Google To Give AT&T Pipes The Double Deuce?
By 4.19.06
We love this quote from AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, referring to Google, eBay and Amazon.com: “Why should they be able to use my pipes for free?” Pointing out that people are actually paying for the bandwidth going through his pipes hasn’t swayed good old Ed. If the man ran FedEx, both the sender and receiver would pay for a package.
