699 Customer Reviews over 18 pages
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- Location
- Cambridge UK
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-30
- Comments
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I was offered one price, then left without broadband for almost 2 weeks, then told my offer had expired and I would have to pay a different price (10% more). I asked for the the automatic offcom compensation for the delay (as it sais on their website) and they knew nothing about it. They automatically forwarded me to "the relevant custom service department", which turned out to be at SKY, so they obviously couldn't help me because it's not even the right company. How can they be so useless?!
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- Location
- CHESTERFIELD
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-28
- Comments
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Been without broadband and telephone for over a week. This is an exchange issue, and not Now broadbands. It's an Openreach issue.
The reason for scoring NOW low is they are nigh on impossible to contact. The chatbot is useless.
They have failed to keep me updated/informed, as promised.
When chasing it up, the quickest time I've managed to get through to someone is 50 minutes. Just what you need after a 12 hour shift.
Each time you have to go through the full explanation and try and convince them the problem isn't at my end.
I'm "lucky" as I'm out of contract. Just keeping it going until my full fibre connection date. Once the exchange is fixed I guess.
Why not give a case/job number to people that have issues. And a direct number to query progress, rather than having to suffer the banal dross music? Then again is that the reason for the music?
In all honesty, in over 2 years, the speed/connection/connectivity have been better than expected, so that side is ok.
Let down by poor customer service. Lack of.
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- Location
- Ammanford
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-27
- Comments
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Had the broadband box sent tried all the connections . No joy.
Put on technical test . No joy.
Phone the number for customer service 1 for 40 plus minutes
2 for 45 minutes
3 for 22 minutes until it was closing time 8pm
lol
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- Location
- Buxton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-27
- Comments
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Bad! Terrible! Not fit for purpose!
Not only is their broadband laggy and drops connection several times a day, almost all the time in a gaming session. The reach of the router is terrible! And as if all that wasn't bad enough, they take money from your account without hesitation, sometimes up to 3 times within a 30 day period! And if they take a payment complete off their payment schedule , and you don't have funds to cover it, they soon threaten to cut you off!
Definitely the worst isp I have ever had the misfortune of signing up to!
I'm currently trying to leave Now, I have been for the past 6 weeks, all the while they won't relinquish my landline to the next isp! Never have I ever had any issues swapping before, even the customer service rep at the next isp have said this is a regular occurrence with Now, my guess is trying to bleed customers for as much as they can! My advice would be to absolutely avoid this company, they're cheap for a reason! Worst company ever! Worse that Three!!!!
Trading Stanards & Financial ombudsman here I come!
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- Location
- Sale
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-26
- Comments
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Absolute shocking service how can they call themselves a broadband company speed always slow keeps buffering constantly if could get away from them then we would
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- Location
- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-26
- Comments
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NOW Broadband is cheap for a reason so I’d advise you to save you precious time and sanity and go elsewhere.
Twice I have tried to sign up with NOW Broadband, but it would seem they don’t want any new business.
The first time a few months back, I signed up with NOW for the first time. I received all the relevant letters and the router to my home address, first step went wonderfully. It then got seemingly complicated when receiving emails advising they had another address for us in the same street and could I confirm the correct address. I dutifully replied 3-4 times, telling them the correct address and outlined, they must have it as I had received the router to the correct address (having never vining any other address). Despite this and further emails from NOW asking for clarification, in spite of my replies, they cancelled the new set up without warning, leaving me with no broadband.
A glutton for punishment and ever the optimist, I decided that lightning couldn’t strike twice in the same place and was drawn in to their price tag but wish I’d saved myself the bother. Everything seemed to go without a hitch initially, having been successfully transferred over to NOW for more than 2 weeks. However, alas! it was too good to be true, after our broadband was abruptly cut off and later that evening, waited nearly an hour to speak to someone to establish what had happened.
They assured me they’d call us back the next day as they closed at 8pm. We did get a call back to say there was issues with ‘activating our broadband’, despite us using it over the past 2 weeks. However, the following day, whilst just arriving on holiday, I received an email to advise that my NOW broadband was cancelled as of immediate effect, with no desire to resolve this issue and retain my business, for a second time.
I won’t be stupid enough to give them a 3rd try and have happily paid a further £4/month to secure broadband with Plusnet.
If it seems to good to be true, if often is. So, if you’re considering jumping to NOW broadband, do yourself a favour and go elsewhere. They have THE WORST customer service ever, particularly when we were new customers. There is no desire to resolve any issues, with a preference to instead cut new customers off as they seemingly can’t be bothered establishing what’s went wrong. Absolute shambles of a ‘service’
Also worth noting that it is near on impossible to obtain a telephone number to speak to someone, the web chat bot is dreadful and sends you in a constant loop without either helping or allowing you to call a number and speak to someone.
Clearly under resourced and designed to offer minimal support when you need it. Avoid at all costs.
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- Location
- Wales
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-25
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- Location
- Brighton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-24
- Comments
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Very poor experience, they were supposed to connect me but unable due to no BT line, still activated account and have been charging me for a service I physically cannot use and are refusing to reimburse money taken for same. Will be contacting CISAS seeking satisfaction if they don't sort it out.
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- Location
- Cornwall
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-23
- Comments
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although i have been reasonably happy with Now broadband for just over two years,, I am not happy with the latest episode.
Without notice my monthly bill doubled from £24 to £45.50
Tried contacting them, over and over,, but the "chat bot" system doesnt let you get to where you want to get. Just keeps asking for my details. Even though i had put the details on the so called chat.
Eventually found a way to have a live chat, and it wasnt easy to find.
Person asked all the relevant questions,, answers i had already given, again and again. Eventually told me,, "no account in that name or email address" Even though i told hin, "i have the bill in my hand,,"
Eventually, accepted,, yes there is an account..
Kept saying he would check the account, etc,, several times, with more intersperced " can you give me your name, address, email, etc,,, again several times.
Eventually stated,, !i will have to pass this over to the broadband team.. I explained i had clicked and begun the chat,, with the "broadband enquiry link"
I asked to have explanation why my bill had doubled, even though i have not used my pc or phone more than usual. He didnt have an answer.
I asked to be refunded,, he "i cant do that, will get the broadband team to email you" This comment,, three times, when i simply stated "not good enough"
He couldnt pass me to the "team" for several reasons.
me,, "not good enough"
Over and over, round and round we went.
He siad i should phone the Nowbroadband,, but the cost would have to be paid by me, so i declined. I asked him to "get someone to phone me" but again he couldnt even do that.
So,, all together, two hours on this useless chat,, and one hour trying to contact them in other ways..
My final comment to this assistant, "i have broadband deals up on my pc as we speak," and " if this is not sorted out in one hour,, i am leaving Nowbroadband." Repeated each time he again said he cant do anything,, My final communication to the chat was, "bye bye Now."
So,,, i am looking at other broadband deals,
I gave feedback,, but i dont think anyone takes any notice depite the words" feedback is important to us, it helps us to improve our service"
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- Location
- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-20
- Comments
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i wouldn't even give then 1 star disgusting service wish i never went with them and i have only been with them for 2 months knew it was going to be bad when they said i would have to change my phone number broadband went live on the day but no phone line got in contact with them said my line was no good been with sky for 2 years never had a problem, so out reach came out after a week said it was my phone nothing wrong with my phone it was the cable they sent that didn't work my phone was working after that another month on broadband went down for 3 days on the phone said i had a fault on line again they sorted it or so i thought now yet again my phone is dead now when someone phones me its engaged how can that be phoned up yet again and an engineer is coming to my house as its my home line that not working which is a load of rubbish so i dont have a phone at the moment so have to wait till Monday 5 days without a phone so fed up with all this, then last night i have a email saying my broadband speed is to slow and if they cant sort it out i can come out of my contact after 30 days with nothing to pay for leaving early so i don't no what to do they dont know what they are doing and after all this they gave me 5 pounds for all the problems that they have caused do not have anything to do with this lot im so angry unbelievable
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- Location
- Newport
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-19
- Comments
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This is the worst company I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. I am having endless problems with my broadband, so I tried their Contact system on their site (try it before you sign up!) which just directs you away from contacting them. No way to contact them at all through their "I'm having problems" prompt. The only way to get a number is to say you want to sign up, or cancel. But if you call it, their robot won't recognise your key presses when you go to the Technical Help department, and it hangs up on you. So if you go to the "Upgrade your package" telephone prompt, you are put in a long queue, and then they hang up on you before you get through to a human. This is disgraceful. For your own sanity, please stay away.
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- Location
- Redhill
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-16
- Comments
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Generally not bad, but when my creditcard expired, instead of reaching out in a nice way - they sent aggressive OVERDUE letter, I couldn't update my CC information and then they cut off my broadband, calling them took nearly an hour on the phone most of it on hold.
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- Location
- Dunstable
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-14
- Comments
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Broadband went down at 5.36 Saturday morning. Now website says we're working on it.
12 hours later I call for an update.
They will be a MINIMUM of 72 hours before it's looked at. They don't work weekends.
I will be leaving on Monday for someone competent.
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- Location
- Aberdeen
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-13
- Comments
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1. Download speed fluctuates a lot.
2. Mostly reliable through 2023.
3. Price rose from £22 -> £25.50 and now £38.50 with 12m contract (automatic).
4. Customer service is mostly through a forum where you can read FAQs or ask other users questions. Most customer service links are circular and go nowhere. There is a number to cancel the subscription, where wait time is ~5mins.
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- Location
- Nelson lancashire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-06
- Comments
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Broadband constantly stops and starts and resetting router every hour wifi poor transmission around house.very poor signal .
Speed v slow even when working
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- Location
- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-06
- Comments
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Below average speed as advertised, just after I told them I was leaving when my contract was up I started to get intermittent drop outs in the evening, my account got cancelled so I had no access to bills or anything else then they hit me with a huge bill for over twice my monthly rate?? Why is that, never never never again will I ever go Sky or Now, absolute frauds
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- Location
- Yorkshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-05
- Comments
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Nowtv broadband should in theory be fine, but they use cheap routers that crash anytime you use them too much. They're bog standard, cheap as can be, limited features and poor range.
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- Location
- Lutterworth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-02
- Comments
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What a load of **** this is. Had internet for 2 days then stopped working. Rang ow tv up after half over half an hour to get though. Had to ring up again following week as still not working for then get told someone was coming out between 1 and 6 waiting in for them no one came this has happened to me 3 times now. Had no internet for over a month yet my bill goes out on time. No one seems to care or help and none of the people you talk to are English either. I will never use this again after I have cancelled it for good. I have even emailed a complaint and no one has got back to me.
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- Location
- Southport
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-02
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- Location
- west yorkshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-30
- Comments
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Absolutely Dire service, forever buffering, freezing, poor picture quality. Compared to BT Sport Now TV is rubbish..not worth paying for.
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- Location
- Devon
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-30
- Comments
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I have had Now Broadband in several properties. The switch on date never goes smoothly. Customer service is usually poor. Wouldn't recommend.
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- Location
- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-29
- Comments
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Slowest wifi I've ever had, the router has a range of about 3 centimeters and they've just doubled my bill from £23 to £38 without any explanation or warning
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- Location
- Paisley
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-29
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Been with them a while its good value for money when it's working but once you have a problem it's game over. Over 2 weeks now with no service, had engineer out a week ago for 3 hours couldn't find any faults etc said its probably a problem on now tvs end... now tv said it was my router, told not would be here on the Monday, they never sent it and then bare faced lied to me said it got lost in the post,sent me one eventually and guess what.... Still doesn't work.. There now wanting to send another engineer when we all know the problem lies with them... Will not accept any responsibility whatsoever for the situation just keep asking to be patient.. a would defo avoid unless you want to waste about 50hours a week on the phone trying to get them to fix their problems. Joke of a company
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- Location
- Gateshead
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-29
- Comments
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Terrible service, will leave you waiting over 30 minutes to speak to someone on the phone. They increased my bill from £26 to £38 with no reason.
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- Location
- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-23
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When it works it is fine but when it goes wrong their service is rubbish!
Tomorrow will be the third day without any wi-fi,
No home telephone, no doorbell, NO WI-Fi.
Unfortunately, I am stuck with them until June next year. Do not deal with this company.
Is it because Rupert Murdoch has retired?!
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- Location
- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-20
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Avoid at all costs! They’ve cancelled our order twice without consulting us! We’ve been without internet for nearly a month and they’re ignoring both emails and phone calls.
Listen to all the other reviews. Avoid like the plague, go with any other provider.
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- Location
- Durham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-20
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Haven't dealt with customer services which seems to be the main issue on here. Had Now broadband for 2 years, no real problems, few dropouts here and there but no where near as many as sky, I know they're the same but for some reason, maybe the router, sky was just worse. Granted the router isn't great & I do have a WiFi extender to supply WiFi to the other side of the house, I live in a standard semi detached house so you get the picture about the router, but other than that no real issues, connection has been steady for 99% of the time for me, maybe the area & distance to the exchange has a bearing on people's speeds, I get around 65mbps on average at all times so can't complain, I would recommend Now broadband but I am looking to move as they have put their prices up, but that's the only reason, not the actual service received.
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- Location
- Edin
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-18
- Comments
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Trying to cancel this is an absolute nightmare. Keep taking payments after cancellation.
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- Location
- Dingwall (Scotland)
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-17
- Comments
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Waste of time and money, signed up for the “super fast fiber” for £22 a month the speed is ridiculous wait ages for something to load don’t get signal in every room, asked about making calls from a landline got told it was included then got charged £52 for making calls didn’t get made aware of the pay as you go package for the landline when signed up. Total charge £74.
Definitely won’t be continuing with NOW and won’t be recommending them.
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- Location
- Southend-on-Sea
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-12
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Absolutely diabolical company. Signed up with them on 22 August and activation on 06 September. Was clearly told that no engineer was required and I did not have to do anything on that date, just plug it. The day came, Openreach called to say they were on their way to the property to set it up. I'm in West London so not able to let them in. NOW didn't bother to tell me they couldn't set it up, I had to call them. Gave them 3 dates that I could do for set up, that I would be in for. Which has to be 10 days later. 6 days later, still haven't heard anything from them so phoned up. They clearly had not passed my dates on to Openreach as they requested them again and the earliest date available was now much later than originally offered. Gave up in the end and went with EE.
Trying to get hold of this company is actually ridiculous. In 2 days, I spent it total, 2 hours and 25 minutes on hold.
Would never recommend. Lowest price, but worst experience.
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-11
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AVIOD - I called NOW on the 7th August 2023, to switch to their super fibre since I wanted our new contract to start on the 6th September, the same day that our current provider contract would expire. I didn't get any email updates, and on the 4th September, I called NOW for an update because our router hadn't arrived yet. I was informed that the person I spoke to on 7th had not actually processed our transaction!
NOW verified that the earliest day on which they could connect us was the 11th of September, which was not ideal, nevertheless we accepted and went over all the setup requirements once more.
I kept track of our installation update online and kept checking my emails for any updates, but I didn't get any. On the 11th of September our ‘Go Live Date’, I contacted NOW again and was told that our order had been rejected because there were no "ports" available from Openreach. I currently have no access to broadband, and other providers have given me a 2 week installation estimate.
I’ve had to pay for extra data because I work from home. For such a massive corporation, the lack of communication is inexcusable, and it is absurd that a broadband provider can't get ports to connect people.
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- Location
- East london E9
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-09-06
- Comments
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I have been with 3mbps for nearly a week now. It was a 3 days struggle to get hold of technical help and they could not solve issue. I have now switched to BT who will install fibre
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- Location
- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-29
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Don’t even think about it!! You may see it has the best deal in the market but also get ready to have the worst experience in your life. Full of lies as mentioned with most customers and also provide you the lowest speed with premium price. Forget to watch movies or TV in Full HD, their connection is so rubbish!! I was promised for 64MB and received only 7MB( we are in 2023 and I had better connect 15 years ago)
Customer service- an absolute nightmare. The rudest people on this planet. I was also told the engineers don’t know their job as the phone operators know more. Wowww!!
Thank god I managed to change my broadband provider.
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-28
- Comments
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Avoid at all cost, service is ok just like all the others, but cost increase is a joke, joined at £22, in the six months since it's gone up to £28, that's more than 25%, how is that allowed, what a con
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- Location
- Manchester
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-28
- Comments
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Terrible quality broadband with frequent outages
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- Location
- Leeds
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-26
- Comments
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Please train your call canter staff to stop lying and misleading customers. I have called 4 times over the last 2 weeks and have been reassured that I can both renew my contract and move house seamlessly. Today, after waiting for 1.5 hours on the phone, I got told that I will remain within broadband in my new address for a full week as I need to wait for an engineer - I had called 2 weeks ago to request this and got told that "IT doesn't allow to process the change of address" and to call in 10 days.
Given Now wanted to leave me without broadband for a week, I called them and requested to cancel. I waited 40 minutes again bringing the total phone time to over 2 hours. The advisor initially said that "we cannot cancel the contract because there has been a home move initiated" - this is ridiculous and a lie. After 30 min on the phone with him, just about when he was going to finallise all the cancellations the line conveniently cut off. I called again, and apparently nothing had been processed - again, very bad practice to play tricks like this. When I called the second time, the advisor told me that I will incur cancellation charges if I cancel my contract in an attempt to stop me from doing so - again, this is a lie as I was within my "cooling period" of 14 days.
The above signals either severe incompetence across your customer support staff, or a company culture of deceit. It has and will continue to result in loss of customer goodwill. I would suggest you address this immediately.
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- Location
- Sussex
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-26
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Awful customer service, there was a problem with the order and they didn't think to tell us. Avoid.
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- Location
- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-23
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Just left Now Broadband thankfully. Absolutely diabolical - don’t go anywhere near them. I’ve been with several providers, but I’ve never had broadband so slow which keeps disconnecting . Customer service absolutely terrible as well..
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- Location
- Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-22
- Comments
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I signed up for now broadband band around 1/8/23 and it went thru fine , I got a message on 7/8/23 saying my order has been delayed and they will update me on 11/8/23 which I received the same delayed message and they would update me on 15/8/23 on 15/8/23 I received the same delayed message and they will update me on 21/8/23 well the 21st came and went and no update ! Absolute bloody joke! I’ve even paid the activation fee by now I’m peed off and gonna go with someone else
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- Location
- Perth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-08-21
- Comments
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Having a nightmare with this company over something which seems simple. I cannot access some websites I need to as they are blocked by NOW. I cannot update my preferences as my account does not appear to be linked to my broadband they tell me. Using the link they provided tried to link this but, although I am entering the correct information, it says I am not and can get no further with it. Have phoned their customer service who had no clue. Someone did phone me back and went through the same steps of trying via the same link with no success. She then told me someone from their IT would be in touch - three weeks ago and heard nothing. On their community forum it appears this problem has been ongoing for the past 3 and a half years. Now any emails or complaints forms I fill in are being ignored. That's their customer service for you - abysmal. I am out of contract in November, sent them an email to say as they cannot solve my problem I would like confirmation that if I move to another provider I will not have to pay any charges for early cancellation. Ignored.
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