Xfinity blames customer equipment for outages then charges shipping for modem replacement
Xfinity attributes service outages to customer-owned modems regardless of actual cause, then adds shipping charges when sending replacement equipment — a pattern that costs customers money for infrastructure failures the provider is responsible for.
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