California Man Spends $10K In Ads To Tell AT&T CEO About His Slow Internet

A 90-year-old man from California placed two ads in the Wall Street Journal to get the attention of AT&T's CEO. The two ads cost him a whopping $10,000.

Aaron M. Epstein has been an AT&T since the 1960s, reports KTVU. Epstein says that AT&T has evolved throughout the decades, but the company is still behind when it comes to internet service speed.

For the past 20 years, he didn't have any complaints about his internet. But when streaming became more common, Epstein says the speed and quality of his service worsened.

"For the last five years, as soon as they started introducing streaming like Roku and movies on TV, my internet service, although I was paying for 3.5 Mbps., sometimes was only up to 1.5 Mbps. So, watching a movie through Roku was slideshows," Epstein told KTVU.

Epstein lives in North Hollywood and had been waiting for the company to get fiber optics in his area. He then decided it was time to take matters into his own hands for the sake of everyone's internet speed in his community.

The paid ad read as an open letter to John T. Stankey, AT&T CEO. One of his ads ran in Dallas, Texas which is where the AT&T headquarters is located, and the other ran in Manhattan. He hoped the New York ad would prompt investors on Wall Street to put pressure on the company.

"So, I put the ad in the paper, and believe me, it's money well spent," said Epstein.

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