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For the last 8 months or so, I was a customer with BT Broadband, and was very happy with their service and recommended it to other people, including my tenant in my London flat.
When it came for me to move back into my London flat, on 23 March, I told BT I was going to move into my London flat on 19 April.
Since then, BT seem totally unable to provide a service that was available to my tenant the day before I moved in. I have had three weeks of endless going back and forth between tech support staff who claim that everything on the exchange is fine, so it must be a local problem (although how they can tell that since they're based in India, I don't know!). There has been someone from customer service "following" my query, but that person seems utterly unable to do anything except make countless apologies.
On 2 May, I was promised that an engineer would come out to my flat and examine the set-up. I took the afternoon off to await the engineer - he NEVER arrived. I called the Faults service, only to be told that he was never meant to come to my flat, and was instead checking it out at the exchange. Where everything is, apparently, fine. So I called the "specialist" customer service manager who's meant to be supervising my case - I was on hold for two hours before I gave up.
On 7 May, an engineer FINALLY came out to my place. Except he was a line faults engineer, not a broadband engineer. He couldn't find a fault, so he called in his broadband engineer colleague. He made a few tests, muttered under his breath something about a code 716 again, and agreed that the fault was with the exchange. He promised that the fault would be rectified tonight. Needless to say, it hasn't.
To add insult to injury, I have apparently been charged £39.51 for stopping my BT Broadband service before the minimum contract was up - when the only reason it was stopped was because I was moving, and was fully intending to use BT Broadband's services in my new place.
So I wrote to various customer complaint areas within BT, including the email address for their CEO (allegedly- I very much doubt it is, but they do keep up the pretence to the point of having an auto-responder, and someone calling me back saying he was from the CEO's office) and "high-level customer complaints".
The next day, I was told by one of the customer complaints teams that the engineers had reported the fault was with my equipment - which was totally not what the engineers told me. Then they said that a "transaction engineer" was coming to the exchange, and it should all work tonight. Which, patently, it hasn't. :(
and now BT are saying that the problem *must* be something to do with my home equipment, and want to send out another engineer. Despite the fact I've plugged in two seperate routers, and of course two engineers came out the day before to fix it.
British Telecom must be the only company where you can have three people from an elevated customer services team "looking" over my problem, and still be unable to come up with any resolution!
When it came for me to move back into my London flat, on 23 March, I told BT I was going to move into my London flat on 19 April.
Since then, BT seem totally unable to provide a service that was available to my tenant the day before I moved in. I have had three weeks of endless going back and forth between tech support staff who claim that everything on the exchange is fine, so it must be a local problem (although how they can tell that since they're based in India, I don't know!). There has been someone from customer service "following" my query, but that person seems utterly unable to do anything except make countless apologies.
On 2 May, I was promised that an engineer would come out to my flat and examine the set-up. I took the afternoon off to await the engineer - he NEVER arrived. I called the Faults service, only to be told that he was never meant to come to my flat, and was instead checking it out at the exchange. Where everything is, apparently, fine. So I called the "specialist" customer service manager who's meant to be supervising my case - I was on hold for two hours before I gave up.
On 7 May, an engineer FINALLY came out to my place. Except he was a line faults engineer, not a broadband engineer. He couldn't find a fault, so he called in his broadband engineer colleague. He made a few tests, muttered under his breath something about a code 716 again, and agreed that the fault was with the exchange. He promised that the fault would be rectified tonight. Needless to say, it hasn't.
To add insult to injury, I have apparently been charged £39.51 for stopping my BT Broadband service before the minimum contract was up - when the only reason it was stopped was because I was moving, and was fully intending to use BT Broadband's services in my new place.
So I wrote to various customer complaint areas within BT, including the email address for their CEO (allegedly- I very much doubt it is, but they do keep up the pretence to the point of having an auto-responder, and someone calling me back saying he was from the CEO's office) and "high-level customer complaints".
The next day, I was told by one of the customer complaints teams that the engineers had reported the fault was with my equipment - which was totally not what the engineers told me. Then they said that a "transaction engineer" was coming to the exchange, and it should all work tonight. Which, patently, it hasn't. :(
and now BT are saying that the problem *must* be something to do with my home equipment, and want to send out another engineer. Despite the fact I've plugged in two seperate routers, and of course two engineers came out the day before to fix it.
British Telecom must be the only company where you can have three people from an elevated customer services team "looking" over my problem, and still be unable to come up with any resolution!
