Google Fi accounts being suspended in wake of extremely bizarre problem

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a day ago

An extremely bizarre problem is taking place over at Google, and it's leading to innocent users' plans being suspended with no way of solving the issue. Multiple Google Fi customers have now reported this behavior, and it's looking like no one's listening or trying to help, except for the AI agents who might have caused this problem in the first place.Posts by Google Fi customers on social media as well as Google's own forums have reported that their payments for their plans are getting denied. Once this happens, the users usually have to deal with AI customer service agents over email who fail to understand what is going on.Despite jumping though all the hoops, their applications to re-verify their identity get rejected. All of the users have received the same automated rejection email that states that they need to provide either a 'certificate of incorporation for PNC' or 'articles of incorporation for PNC' to Google.The problem is, these users don't have or haven't had a bank account with PNC for years. As such, they are unable to provide the requested documents. Furthermore, if they are able to get a hold of a human customer service representative, their issue keeps getting escalated but never resolved.This, ultimately, leads to their Google Fi plans being suspended due to a failure to pay their bills on time.
Google Fi mainly uses the T-Mobile network. | Image credit — T-Mobile As some users have theorized, I feel like this problem has come about because of a failure of AI services on the backend. It looks like someone at Google was laid off or replaced with an AI system that is sending out erroneous reports and doesn't understand how to proceed. If this isn't due to an AI system's malfunction, then someone has messed up badly and still not realized it.
This is, of course, absolutely unacceptable. Access to the internet or cellular services aren't things that can just be snatched away in today's world, and Google of all companies should know that. This, in my opinion, makes Google Fi's competitors' controversies in recent months seem trivial by comparison. Price hikes at T-Mobile or dissatisfaction with the T-Life app is preferable to the headache that Google Fi is giving these customers. Fortunately, as there have now been multiple reports on this issue, Google will hopefully take notice and address the problem immediately. The affected customers should also be awarded something to make up for the hours that they've wasted trying to get this fixed.
Judging by the posts linked above, these customers are understandably very frustrated, and one person has already switched carriers. And with T-Mobile's new price lock guarantees and internet plans, I wouldn't fault the others for looking elsewhere after this fiasco.