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T-Mobile promotional pricing erodes silently with no employee able to explain charges

A T-Mobile customer of three years saw promotional rates disappear incrementally with no documentation trail and no frontline or management employee able to account for the charges. The core problem is that wireless carriers structure promotions with intentional complexity and no contractual obligation to maintain rates, leaving customers with no recourse beyond leaving. Single source but the pattern is broadly documented across US carriers.

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