ISP Technicians Make Installation Errors and Charge Customers to Fix Them
An Xfinity technician improperly routed a ground wire through a panel lid and left an unburied cable across the lawn, then support quoted $100 to fix their own mistake. Multiple call attempts could not get a tech dispatched under warranty. This is a situational complaint about installation quality control with very limited software addressability.
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