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Suspicious AT&T van consistently parking in neighborhood, danger to the children

One of your service van is parked illegally in our neighborhood.  Been here for the past two week, Van #[edited for privacy – please do not post personal information]   Get this van out of here if it's not doing AT&T service work.  It's a danger to the neightborhood and a safety issue for the child

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How do I block purchases so that my children cant rent/buy movies?

How do I put a pass code or lock on movie and channel purchases so that my children can not rent/buy movies?

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How do I prevent my children from ordering PPV?

How do I prevent toddlers from buying ppv

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Oklahoma Public TV Broadcast Channel 13 has educational content for children

OETA has educational content on HD broadcast channel 13 in the Oklahoma City market while the kids are blocked from school. Content is layered and scheduled by grade and age group. How do I get it on my Direct TV service? Is a technical solution available to link it and place it on the Direct TV

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The Big Switch

I made the switch from standard TV to HD. Went through the step w/ DirecTV techincal support on the phone to get the HD channels. However, I failed to realize until I hung up that I not longer had sound on the TV. I'm not sure where I went wrong! Can you please try to steer me correctly so my childr

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Revoke recording privileges

Is there a way to prevent my children from recording shows on the DVR?  I

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Blocking purchases from remote

I need to stop my children from purchasing shoes without permission

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The problem is that your only choices are (a) channel and (b) content rating.  You cannot block, for example, all episodes of "Sponge Bob,"  without blocking all shows with the same content rating or on the same channel.  I do not know of any provide

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Channel Block should be program block

I have a 4 year old grand daughter that was told not to watch Sponge Bob I cannot block Sponge Bob and  cannot block that channel becuse everything else she watches is on that same channel. Come on Uverse give us a way to block a program not a channel.

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I would consider children to be “our most treasured population”.

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PLEASE IMPLEMENT SPECIAL RATES FOR SUPER SENIOR CITIZENS THAT ARE 75YRS AND OLDER

Please implement special rates for super Seniors (75yrs and up). I talked my mother into ATT because we have it and now her rates have     hiked to over $235 monthly for home phone, internet and tv.  We called to request it be lowered back to what she was paying $178 and were told th

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watch movies at the theater

How do I go about going to the movies theater to watch a movie for free

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Disabling on demand pay programs

I dont want my children watching on demand pay per view movies, so how can I disable this feature?

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How to block purchases

I don't want my children to be able to buy or rent movies. How do I block purchases?

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Parental Control and Screen Guide Setup are Pathetic

I have young children in the house and am sick-n-tired of the adult channel BS and inability to hide it with any assurance that it wont show.The controls to hide this is terrible and having a chance that my children might come across the title and/or description of these channels is making me uncomf

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children's show keeps pausing

To start off I'm a directv service technician and everything in the system is up to spec. (signal strength, db loss, etc..)  and I have zero problems with any other recording or time slot. My son loves a show called Calliliou. His show pauses every few minutes and continues after 5 or 10 seconds. It

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Tell AT&T U-Verse to remove Pornography from their search listings!

We have 4 and 8 year old children who frequently do searches for thier favorite shows in the Guide/Search area of our AT&T U-Verse DVR. If our boys are looking for their show 'Teen Titans GO' they also find, with Pornography listed first, 'Teen XXXX',   We called AT&T to notify them of this issue,

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how absurd! I dont have children in school, but must pay taxes.  this isn't a concierge service!

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Dropping Fox News

Hi, I would like a credit on my bill for Fox News. It's total garbage and I refuse to pay a cent toward spreading disinformation and poisoning the minds of the susceptible. Please credit my bill immediately for the cost of carrying Fox News. THanks.

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Multiple Directv credentials

Is it possible to set up additional user credentials so that my children can use Directv credentials with their apps without giving them full access to all of my AT&T and Directv accounts?

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Terrific. I just got all of them upgraded. My shows keep getting deleted by children and I wanted to lock it. Any other options?

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delete from this room only

I set up the whole home with yes share playlist. Delete from this room only, but I can still delete from the other rooms. What else can I try?

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Extended access to educational channels

Arkansas AETN has wonderful programs for children and adults that have been blocked by AT&T. I don't know why, but in a state struggling to improve its literacy ratings, AT&T is holding us back. Please make the alternate AETN channels available.

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Unused TV boxes how do I return just those

We do not need all the boxes now as children have moved out. How do I send those extra boxes back. Tired of paying for them and they are not being used.

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