Telecom multi-agent runaround leaves discount issues unresolved for days
Customers with billing or discount issues at major carriers encounter compounding failures: AI blocks human access, agents transfer rather than resolve, and verification links arrive broken or with contradictory instructions. A single account issue consumes an entire day across seven touchpoints with no resolution. This is a structural support fragmentation problem, not an isolated service failure.
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