AT&T Billing for Provisioning-Failed Lines With Zero Usage for Years
AT&T continued charging customers for wearable device lines that never successfully connected due to a carrier provisioning failure, with billing logs confirming zero usage for 32 months. The carrier's internal systems did not flag or refund the charges automatically. Customers must manually identify and dispute years of phantom billing.
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