ISP continues billing after equipment return and cancellation agreement
A customer returned a T-Mobile 5G home gateway after it failed to work for a month and received carrier acknowledgment that no bill would be issued — yet billing continued. This is a carrier-side billing enforcement failure with no software-product remedy available to affected consumers.
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