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Sunday, August 6th, 2023 9:49 PM

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Prepaid Internet acct not recognized as separate service by mobile app, Auto call systems, etc

I have 2 distinct accounts with Xfinity that supposedly can be linked and added under 1 Xfinity id. One account is my home internet and voice in Indiana and the 2nd is a prepaid internet account at a Florida home. I have only 1 cellphone number which is on each account and one primary email address which is also on both accounts. Even tho I can access the mobile app to do Internet status checks and modem restarts and I am required to select the account I want to troubleshoot the checks don't ever seen to match up with the correct account that I selected. Some coding needs done to use more attributes than email and cell # when deciding the account to check.  Automated calling to verify need for technical appointment also uses only those attributes. I finally spoke with a prepaid internet rep late Friday because tho I had paid my charge to reactivate service my modem wasn't going online. The rep could not get a signal thru to the modem so scheduled technical service for Monday morning. I had 2 automated calls just now wanting to verify that I still need the service call. I indicated on each call that I did. I then got a separate text with a link to access about the service call. When I access the link I was informed that I did not have a scheduled service call.  Each of the 3 contacts must have been initiated by the periodic Internet service call that was created but only checking my home service account which did not have one. Infuriating to have to again jump through hoops to reach someone on the prepaid side to confirm that indeed I do have a service call existing.  Please treat these accounts as separate entities or allow me that capability so there is no way to entangle them because that capability does not exist today.  I was also told that I could access my prepaid account with a new Xfinity id that was just created but that isn't working either as I can log in but it does not find my service address and account so I can't now use it to reactivate service, restart my modem or any of the other options available in the app.  Giant hole in these operations that needs fixed.  Even here Prepaid Internet is not an option under category.  Hopefully someone can explain to me how to get a separate Xfinity id for the prepaid internet account as I've already unlinked it from the Xfinity app.

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2 years ago

Concern moved here to the Customer Service help section for greater exposure to Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance.

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2 years ago

@lisas1031 Thank you for reaching out on the Xfinity Community Forums. In order to work on Prepaid account access or account related items you would need to reach out to the Prepaid team at https://www.xfinityprepaid.com/support. There will also be an option at the top of the Prepaid site to chat with an agent from our wonderful Prepaid team. 

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@XfinityJanelle​ I regularly and only access the prepaid support links but it appears that link and the phone number roll into non prepaid account processes and reps because when I actually get to a rep their first access of my account ends up being my regular service Internet and phone acct and only after I question the account they're looking at do they even look for the prepaid account.  If you're a customer with both prepaid and regular service accounts with only 1 cell number for contact the Xfinity system fails at every connection.  

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Tech svc appointment created by a rep who said she was from Prepaid Internet and had the correct service address was just cancelled after 3 calls between last night and this morning (calls initiated by Xfinity) where I confirmed I was still without Internet and needed the call. After getting off the phone with a rep where I called to confirm the appointment was still open because I received a text at 8:18 that they were pulling up and at 9:20 still hadn't seen anyone, the rep indicated the svc call was still open and would be fulfilled yet today. Immediately after getting off that call I received a text that the appointment was cancelled.  Svc order apparently created using my cell number rather than the account number which would have id'd the type of service I have.  Believe me every time I talk to a rep I try to make sure they are looking at the correct service address/account number and it still gets screwed up somewhere.  Waiting on a call now to find out how to get service restored and appointment rescheduled. 

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Thank you so much for details! From the sound of things, it appears the local area might have been caught in a local area interruption. If a tech appointment is scheduled during an issue our system would traditionally cancel due to the issue being tied to that area problem. Did anyone mention something of that nature? Appreciate all of your time. 

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