End AT&T's sponsoring of animal rights abuses

My company has several accounts with AT&T. I will ensure all of them will switch to a different provider.

The nation’s second largest telecommunications provider AT&T and Cingular are complicit and endorse appalling and inhumane treatment of animals through corporate sponsorship of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).

These rodeos are billed as family events whose lifeline is continued and abetted through corporate sponsors. AT&T is leading the charge claiming to be the “exclusive wireless provider for the PRCA.” Numerous animal rights organizations and activists have documented the cruel treatment of animals and we encourage you to take a look at the evidence for yourself at this website provided by SHARK:

Warning: Some footage is obscene and abborhent -
www.rodeocruelty.com
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000392

SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) staged an all out publicity campaign with an ultimatum issued to AT&T Cingular for January 1st, 2007. Along with SHARK, PETA, IDA, and ARAN have all joined the campaign to no avail. The ultimatum date has gone and passed without changes in corporate behavior leaving few viable alternatives left to implicate a multi-billion dollar company.

Fortunately, if 500,000 AT&T customers concerned with animal rights band together and promise to terminate contracts it will send a clear public message and financial dent from consumers that infringements on animal rights is repugnant and should be stopped immediatly. The average AT&T subscriber typically spends $1000 a year on service. Subsequently, if 500,000 people simulatenously terminated their contracts – AT&T would stand to lose $500,000,000 in revenue in one fiscal quarter alone, nearly a quarter of the companies annual revenue which currently stands at $2.3 billion. Such a number would necessitate a response from AT&T brass. The wireless service sector is one of the most competitive in the nation and losing a half million customers coupled with a loss of a half billion dollars in revenue to other companies such as Verizon and Sprint would cement their stronghold in the market and relegate AT&T to a second class carrier causing investor and consumer confidence to bottom out.

A key aspect of success will also be terminating our contracts without being obligated to pay the eraly termination fee. Below is a link that goes through a step by step process to cancel service without having to pay the fee:
www.dontpayatt.com

Lastly, the following websites outline and substantiate the abuses that go on in rodeo conditions.

http://www.sharkonline.org/
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/sport/rodeo/alert.html
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/cingular_rodeo
http://www.aran.ie/