Promotional Internet Rate Never Applied Despite Repeated Promises
A customer describes being promised a lower promotional rate by a Comcast/Xfinity supervisor, only to see the bill climb every month afterward through a string of unexplained charges. Each multi-hour support call ends in another promise that is never kept, forcing the customer into a recurring dispute cycle.
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