A 90-year-old man in the US has spent $12,946 on advertisements demanding his internet company fix the service speeds in his neighbourhood. Aaron Epstein, who lives in North Hollywood in California, claims to have been a customer of telecommunications company AT&T since 1960 – decades before the World Wide Web was even available to the public. However, in two advertisements published in the Wall Street Journal, he called the company a “major disappointment” in recent years due to its internet speeds. “Although AT&T is advertising speeds up to 100 MBS (megabytes per second) for other neighborhoods, the fastest now available to us from ATT is only 3 MBS,” he wrote. “Your competitors now have speeds of over 200 MBS.” He said the company had contacted him and had told him they would seek to improve services to the area.

“So I am waiting patiently to see what they can do,” Mr Epstein said.