AT&T Continues Charging Full Bill While Customer Has No Usable Service
AT&T customers experience phones stuck on SOS mode with no data or call connectivity for over a month while being billed normally. Repeated contacts fail to restore service, and the carrier offers no credit during the outage period. Service delivery failure without billing adjustment is a high-severity consumer protection gap.
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