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AT&T Customer Service Routes Customers in Circles With No Resolution

AT&T customers report being bounced between in-store staff and phone support departments that each blame the other, never resolving issues. This is a structural vendor CS dysfunction, not a software gap. The pain is real but unbuildable from the outside.

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