NTL Customer Services: Your personal experience
 

OK, let's have a definitive answer to this thorny issue. What is your own personal experience of NTL customer services?

Tell us your story, and don't forget to vote. I'm going to try to set this up as a public poll so we can all see who voted what, as I am interested to explore the allegation that those who claim not to have trouble with CS are in the main NTL staff in disguise.

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Right ....

Been a Customer of NTl for 10 years or so, from analogue, through to Digital, have BB and Phone, and did have dialup.

Have had the need to call CS on occasion, and yes they can be a pain at times, cutting off calls and so on. But in ALL cases the problems and queries I have had have been resolved. They were really bad at one point but in my opinion have got better over the last 6 months or so.

.... and I do NOT work for NTL ... how do I prove that... I don't know.

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I can recall several incidence of poor customer services from NTL.

At the moment I'm current going through a bad situation caused by NTL of course. The imbecilles at retentions have managed to disconnect my phoneline without my consent. Being the liars they are, they accused me of giving them my consent but the CS from telephone billings says otherwise.

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Been an NTL customer for a long long time (10 yrs + i think, well it was CWC and beofre that cablevision), analogue, digital, phone and BB.

Bad Points

Took them over a month to get peterborough BB stable in Jan 2003. But was after 18months without a sign hic up

I lose my channels and BB often but dont bother calling as its usually working again by the time i would have got through. (yes i know how to reboot my STB without them asking me to do it!!)

No caller id in my area

Was promised free call NTL world which ended up being delayed 18 months +

When converting to digital salesman told me id get SSX (however they refunded the difference between digital and analogue for a whole years payments)

Good Points

Had engineers round within the hour on 3 occasions.

Got my new house connected up and working when i moved before i actually got in the house

We dont lose BBC 1 like Sky do in my area


Overall i'd rate them as "Better the devil you know"

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I had to vote "never had any trouble" - because I've never had to call them. I have 2 phones, never had any trouble with either, 2 analogue tv boxes - only 2 short outages in over 4 years and 600k broadband on a SACM.

Ok I can't pretend the broadband has been perfect, but I have usually managed to sort problems by re-booting the modem or setting a proxy. I havn't seen the point in contacting CS about the ongoing problems with email & newsgroups, as I know I will get the "no sla" answer.

- I don't work for NTL:)

Mnachester CS leading Light in Service
 

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I've been this this company since NYNEX, my experiences can't really reflect the current state now so on average I'll say they normally cock it up.

Re: NTL Customer Services: Your personal experience
 

A very good poll this. I agree with th'engineer depends on who you get to speak to on the other end of the telephone, if your problem is resolved swiftly, great, if there is a delay or no helpful response at all, not so great. :erm:

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well i must admit i have never had any trouble , ok sometimes it is difficult to express your problem to c.s. but eventually i find the problem is worked out , oh and btw towny i dont work for ntl either ;)

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Apart from about a month of unreliable broadband, which turned out to be a knackered STB, I have had generally good service.

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The only trouble weâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d ever have is the odd occasion we have rung up customer services & had to wait ages for an operator (it once took just over an hour)

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I have had to contact them three times as I can recall and have never had a problem with them.

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Two STB's, two phones, 600kBB. Have had very little trouble, may have been lucky,but the CS/tech people in Wales and Manchester that I have spoken to have always been very polite and helpful.
Email is an absolute pain, but even that seems to be flying today,


Oh nearly forgot, I do not work for NTL.:Peaceman:

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As you can all view, I voted 50/50. I've had to ring them twice - once they fixed the problem, once they didn't. Oh, and yes, I am an employee :)

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Forgive me for being stupid, how do you view how someone has voted:dunce:

OOPS, Cancel that, you click on the totals. DOH.