Xfinity representative disconnects wrong customer's service during unrelated cancellation
A longtime, current-on-payments Xfinity customer had their service disconnected because a representative mistakenly processed a different customer's cancellation request against the wrong account during a move. Restoring service required hours of unresolved effort.
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