AT&T customers overcharged for years due to unapplied discount rates
A senior customer reports being overcharged by AT&T for two years because a promised discounted rate was never correctly applied to mobile and internet billing. The issue was only caught through manual customer effort, highlighting a lack of automated billing verification.
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