Telecom Billing Errors Go Unresolved for Months Despite Repeated Escalations
T-Mobile incorrectly billed a customer for 5 months after a trade-in processing error. Each monthly call produces an acknowledgment and credit but no permanent fix, because frontline agents lack the authority to correct the root billing configuration. Leadership escalations produce no follow-up. Structural gap: telecom billing systems have no customer-accessible error correction or escalation accountability.
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