Why Your Credit Score May Drop When You Shop for a New Phone Plan
by Lisa Gerstner, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
May 15, 2019
2 minutes
[Question]My FICO credit score hovers between 825 and 830, but when I recently switched cellular companies, my new provider reported that my score was 703. Is this inaccurate, or will the phone company's report negatively affect my score going forward?
[Answer]A likely scenario is that the cellular
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