AT&T Removes Hotspot After Upgrade to More Expensive Plan
A customer upgraded to a higher-cost AT&T plan only to discover that hotspot service, which worked on their previous plan, was excluded. This reflects a common telecom practice of obscuring feature downgrades within plan upgrades, leaving customers paying more for less without clear disclosure.
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