Unexpected $642 International Roaming Charge With No Dispute Resolution
An AT&T customer made a small number of short international calls and was retroactively billed $642 without warning; the carrier refused to apply a lower-cost plan retroactively or resolve the dispute, threatening service cancellation if unpaid. This illustrates a structural lack of upfront cost transparency in telecom international billing.
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