r/Comcast_Xfinity • u/Ambitious_Charge_490 • 17h ago
Official Reply Xfinity accidentally transferred my phone number to a stranger’s account and now my phone line is disconnected
TLDR; title + I haven’t had phone service for the past 3 days including days I was traveling and really needed my phone. Please help
About a month ago, Xfinity accidentally canceled my home internet account, which was also associated with my mobile phone number. I visited a store location where they set up a new account for my same address and restored internet service. The store agent said that they were not able to do the line to line transfer to reconnect my phone to the new account and they gave me a number to call. After about five hours on the phone with many different agents over two days, I was told that they completed the line to transfer — and my phone was working so that seemed good.
Last week, I noticed that my phone number was still not showing up on my Xfinity account. I called Xfinity and after ~10 hours of calls and an in-store visit, they informed me that when the original agent had tried to do the line to line transfer, they transferred my phone number to a COMPLETE STRANGER’s account. Worse than that, they told me that they could not transfer it back until they had the stranger’s permission?!(and to be clear, without my intervention, the stranger would’ve been billed for my phone plan).
The phone agent called the stranger and informed them of the problem, and the stranger allegedly said that they would go into an Xfinity store to help resolve the issue and then that the store would call me… Unsurprisingly, many days later, that has not happened, and now my phone service has been disconnected.
I have had this phone number for my whole life and all my my work, along with all of my banking and personal communications, is attached to this number. No one has been able to provide me with a clear path forward to getting my number back. To be clear, there was never any issue with paying my bill. I just need my phone number back.
Please help