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Cease and desist order

T has been touting their new commercial attacking t-mobile even on insider. But what they aren't saying is that they received a cease and desist order to stop playing it from the source they quoted saying they didn't have authorization to use the materials. And apparently ATT is ignoring it like the honorable corporation they claim to be.

AT&T’s violation of its agreement under the Procedures and its misuse of NAD’s decisions for promotional purposes undermines NAD’s mission to promote truth and accuracy of advertising claims and foster consumer trust in the marketplace.

Also omitted their history of deceptive advertising.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/att-ad-congratulating-itself-for-its-ethics-violated-an-ad-industry-rule/


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“If you hang around a bunch of negative people who only whine about everything, your hate will grow, and you will probably never create.” – Dan Norris

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Post ID: @ea+1k8pamhg3

TMO could easily scrape this website and come up with some really great counter content. “Your customers hate you, and even your employees do too” “John Stinkey and Ratty burned 150 B $”
The list goes on.

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Post ID: @e8+1k8pamhg3

I switched to t-mobile, such a better service.

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Post ID: @dp+1k8pamhg3

I love how the company tr--s out the COBC about everything for employees. Yet, when it comes to higher levels of management, well, not so much. There were the AVP's and VP's in investor relations a few years ago that used insider information for investors to help keep investments. Got charged by the SEC and the company pled No Contest, paid the $6M fine, and then kept the employees. This ad thing is yet another example. Our marketing executive breaks the rules and is proud of herself. The whole executive team is proud of themselves. You or I do that, we're fired.

What a$$hats!

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Post ID: @b9+1k8pamhg3

@aw - been that way for years. Gotta compete too. Go after ‘em!!

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Post ID: @b1+1k8pamhg3

@am - yeah, like that’s unique to AT&T. They ALL do it.

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Post ID: @an+1k8pamhg3

@ag well, T is proud of its lack of ethics clearly. We knew it. By now the world knows it too. Bout time.

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Post ID: @am+1k8pamhg3

You all are such a tired bunch.

Give it up already.

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Post ID: @ak+1k8pamhg3

Honestly when they alluded to this new tactic in the Q3 broadcast it made me sick to my stomach. Who ok'd this? Insane. They all giggled with glee about this new direction.

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Post ID: @ag+1k8pamhg3

“ Fire everyone on our ad teams ”

Bingo!

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Post ID: @aa+1k8pamhg3

Our marketing campaigns are nothing short of tragic.
"We are now offering our best deals to wireless customers."
Every customer who sees this thinks the following:
"Why would any company not always offer their best deals to customers?"
"What is the deal they are offering?"
"Why would they not tell us what the deal is?"
"What are they hiding?"
We would literally sell more mobile plans if we ran zero commercials. Fire everyone on our ad teams and just get kids to shill our plans on tiktok.

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