AT&T promotion enrollment failure sends customers to collections for balances carrier promised to cover
Customers who switch to AT&T under a carrier payoff promotion discover months later that their numbers were never entered into the promotion system, despite multiple assurances. The unresolved balance is sent to collections before the error is discovered. Repeated follow-up calls provide false assurance with no actual status verification.
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