Telecom Promises Old Phone Number Recovery Then Cannot Deliver After Payment
T-Mobile promised a customer their old phone number would be recovered upon paying an overdue balance, confirmed three times before payment, then could not retrieve the number and told the customer to wait 60 days with no guarantee. The sale of the payment was based on a promise the carrier could not keep.
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