AT&T Repeatedly Fails to Zero Out Erroneous Bill After Multiple Confirmed Promises
A customer who canceled AT&T service within days due to poor signal quality was promised a zero balance multiple times over several weeks, yet kept receiving new bills, including a $141 charge for internet service they never activated and returned unopened. Consistent with a recurring pattern of billing reconciliation failures at AT&T where confirmed resolutions do not propagate to the actual account.
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