AT&T Payment Portal Outages Trigger Unwaived Convenience Fees and Support Runaround
When AT&T's online payment portal goes down, customers are forced to pay in person or incur convenience fees; promised fee waivers are not reliably honored, and customers report being repeatedly transferred or disconnected while trying to resolve the resulting overcharge, risking service loss in the process.
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