A 90-year-old North Hollywood man is ashamed of AT&T for updating his Internet by removing newspaper ads

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

And it worked.

Aaron Epstein paid $ 10,000 for ads published in the Wall Street Journal, accusing AT&T of residents who needed a quick change of the Internet.

A day later, the military appeared at Epstein’s door.

“At noon eating lunch, the main bell rings,” Epstein recalled. “There are two men in AT&T uniforms wearing boots that go up on poles. They say we’re here to install the fiber optic line behind the house.”

“I thought about it, bingo.”

To his delight, less than a week later, Epstein’s house now features AT&T fiber service with very fast internet speeds.

AT&T said in a statement, “Earlier this week we completed our planned expansion of AT&T Fiber in this customer’s neighborhood and were pleased to provide him with the upgrade he desired.”