Multi-Day Carrier-Switch Process Marred by Repeated Number-Porting Errors
A customer switching a family plan from Verizon to T-Mobile spent over six hours across three days dealing with repeated agent handoffs and phone-number porting mistakes, including two numbers ported to the same device. The account illustrates how fragile and error-prone carrier onboarding and number-porting workflows can be for customers switching providers.
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