The North Hollywood man, 90, shames AT&T and leads it to update its Internet with newspaper ads

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) – A 90-year-old man from North Hollywood was so irritated by the slowness of the Internet in his home that he took out two newspaper ads to embarrass the AT&T CEO to fix it.

And it worked.

Aaron Epstein paid $ 10,000 for ads to run in the Wall Street Journal, accusing AT&T of unstable residents who need fast Internet service.

A day later, soldiers appeared at Epstein’s door.

“At noon, I’m having lunch, the doorbell rings,” recalled Epstein. “There are two men in AT&T uniforms wearing boots to climb poles. Saying that we are here to install the fiber optic line behind their home.”

“I thought well, bingo.”

To your delight, less than a week later, Epstein’s home now has AT&T fiber service with extremely fast internet speeds.

AT&T said in a statement, “Earlier this week, we completed our planned expansion of AT&T Fiber in the vicinity of this customer and were pleased to provide him with the update he wanted.”