Telecom providers offer better pricing to new customers than loyal existing ones
AT&T and other telecoms routinely offer promotional discounts to new subscribers that are unavailable to existing loyal customers on identical plans. Long-term customers are effectively penalized for their loyalty and must threaten to cancel to access better pricing. This structural pricing discrimination is a persistent industry-wide practice that erodes customer trust.
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