AT&T International Data Service Sold but Non-Functional Abroad
A long-term AT&T customer paid $240 for two months of international data coverage only to find data unusable in China, with support directing them to local WiFi blocked by the Great Firewall. Critical business emails were inaccessible for over a month. AT&T offered only $40 credit versus $240 paid.
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