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Broadband activation extreme delay

lazycat6
2: Seeker
2: Seeker

I had a contract for broadband full fibre 100 to be live from last week of September. I installed the router, did not work. Then i called them to find out the reason. They said en engineer from openreach will come on 14th October to sort out the fibre work outside my home. No turn up the open reach engineer.  I called them and they gave me another deadline of 20th October ( today), no sign of the engineer. I just called the customer service for the update. Same answer another deadline of 2nd November.  How vodafone is trapping the new customers if they do not have infrastructure ready to provide service or they have incompetent people to sort out technical issue. I am tired of getting dates for the so called engineer visit, no idea when there will be Internet at home. I am in zone 4 London.

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Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@GiorgioTata wrote:

Hi @Gemma and thank you for your reply. I don't have a Facebook nor a Twitter account. I got in touch through your team via LiveChat before, but they are the ones that placed the new orders that have been cancelled.


The social media team, and the Live chat team are actually different people. (AFAIK)


Do you have any other suggestion? Because I think I would be better off by choosing another provider…


I think that would definitely be the best choice.

@ja, they told me that openreach does not give them a date. Should I think it's an openreach problem or should I switch to another provider? Becuase if the problem is openreach, it would change a lot, would it?

Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@GiorgioTata 

Possibly not, but Vodafone do have a habit of blaming someone else for their own shortcomings.

And some ISP's seem to have a better relationship with Openreach than others. I've no proof, but those owned by the same company as Openreach (i.e. BT, PlusNet, EE) seem to get better service.

 

Thank you for this, @Jayach.

 

I am considering to switch provider, but I am afraid of resetting my waiting time. What would you suggest?

 

Also, do you think this may have something to do with them closing my old service before starting the new one?

 

I really don't know what to do…

Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@GiorgioTata 

It's really difficult to recommend what you should do, as I have no idea why it is taking so long.

But if you still don't have an installation date, I can't see you being any worse off by going with someone else.

It truly seems impossible for it to have taken so long without an explanation. (But that is Vodafone)

If you want to continue with Vodafone, I suggest raising a complaint. Hopefully that team may be able to get some answers.

Complaints Code of Practice | Vodafone UK

I completed the form. Now fingers crossed.

 

Thank you very much for this, @Jayach 

I’m sorry you are going through a similar experience to myself. I would definitely escalate it as soon as possible .

I have stuck with it as I want full fibre, it seems that Vodafone take ownership but Openreah or city fibre have to do the ground work and so a blame game occurs.

my issue was (I believe) that when I first signed up and got an installation date I didn’t get an email with a direct debit nor a contract. Hence when openreach arrived to do the work it all got cancelled and I went to the back of the of the pile.

it has been 2 months for me now and all I have had is some blue rope pulled through my existing ducting! I think Vodafone’s internal process are woefully inadequate.

I would give up but I want fibre broadband and openreach are the only people who can do it so if I cancel Vodafone I have to wait longer.

I really hope it works for you, I am appalled at how bad Vodafone have been..the social team have been understanding but no one has admitted to failures or given timelines for resolution .

raise a formal complaint , get a number and after 8 weeks!! Y you can raise to the conciliation service.?

I am now with the ‘directors office’ having been with easy switch and the social media team but it makes no difference.

vodafone have promised me something they can’t deliver due to their own ineptitude but have blamed it on open reach :.

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Jayach
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

@Neoweo wrote:

I’m sorry you are going through a similar experience to myself. I would definitely escalate it as soon as possible .

I have stuck with it as I want full fibre, it seems that Vodafone take ownership but Openreah or city fibre have to do the ground work and so a blame game occurs.

If you are in an Openreach Full Fibre area, just about any ISP, except Now, can provide it.

It shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks to supply. 

Thanks for getting back to us @GiorgioTata - my team are separate to the Live Chat team, and for us to be able to look into things further for you we would need you to reach out to us as Gemma has mentioned. 

Hi @Amanda. The link you gave me stil got me in touch with the Live Chat Team…