496 Customer Reviews over 50 pages
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- Location
- Essex
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-07-10
- Comments
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Steer clear of this company. Short hours. No out of hours service. Don't answer emails. Leave you without service for weeks. (This is on broadband and gas/electric). Ultra Fibre broadband is slower than other provider regular broadband. You can send ten emails and do not get one reply
- Location
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- Location
- stockport
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-07-03
- Comments
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I moved from sky broadband and phone to sse. The broadband was connected on the start date yet the phone line was dead. I rang sse and spoke to a very helpful lady who got an engineer round the next day. They told me my line had been wrongly connected at the exchange and they sorted it just over an hour. This was not the fault of sse as all providers
of phone lines and broadband go through outreach so I can say I got 100% service from sse themself.
- Location
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- Location
- Hawick
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-07-02
- Comments
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4got to add from the last review, my mobile despite being 2ft from router disconnected as per the scheduled disconnection I saw on the router and wouldn't reconnect, no signal found. The router even dropped off my available networks for 15 mins.... BB might be ok but the router is the cheapest POS you could have and isn't worth suing. If they gave you instructions to swap over your existing router this might be better but as it stands ITS NOT. SO you got 1 or 2 devices this might be for you if you have a family with multiple wireless devices stay away
- Location
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- Location
- Hawick
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-07-02
- Comments
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No no and no. The routers a nightmare. I've dealt with the internet since dialup DEMON and this has to be the worst switch ever. All was promised, min 40 dowlaod as is for the rest with a max of 74 which is what I was getting so all good so far. Did the switch Ive been sitting for a fortnight at 49???? Unless its a monthly thing it should change dependant on the line etc. but the router says max speed is 57 and hasnt changed. Considering Ive been getting around 74 for the past 3 years 57 is a major whack. ADD to the THE BIGGEST pain ITA. The router actually has a time limit. Every wireless connection has a disconnect time which DOES NOT reconnect automatically. So my autistic son who has no IT savvy whatsoever doesn't know his int eh house should be on wireless connection tablet is using his precious when we travel mobile limit, which is set at a generous 16GB. All gone within the 1st 2 weeks as he got disconnected after 12 hours. OK says I I'll reset every wireless connection to priority to find the router doesn't remember the password and I have to factory reset so it recognise the key on the back of the box. I will do it when everyone's asleep but all confidence for the SSE BB is gone. Promised speed not there, wireless connections disconnect unless on priority(I'm guessing they stay on but can't test that see before). I KNOW speed can be higher as my uploads a re get this 1/3rd of my download speed instead of 1/5th. All round bad experience I think going back to vodafone is the way to go and I'll take the 5% hit back on utilities. Here's a discount and btw we're going to hamstring your internet to offset the balance! Nah this lot need the internet more than the money cheers I've got kids ffs
- Location
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- Location
- Holbury, Southampton
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-06-18
- Comments
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Honestly, garbage I only went with sse as they were the only provider that had fibre coverage in my street, with lan connection my Internet is "ok" at best but sitting 7ft from my router my WiFi is beyond garbage, I would not be surprised if basic copper cable connection is faster with a better provider I cannot recommend SSE any less than is physically possible theyvare beyond absolute garbage to the point that I use my unlimited 4g phone plan to stream anything including online gaming it's that bad, if you haven't got the gist yet go with bt or talk talk or sky I wouldn't touch sse with a 500ft barge pole ever again in my life crap service. End of.
- Location
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-05-24
- Comments
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Switch date 4/11/19 – Didn’t happen
Phoned SSE 5 Nov. 09:06 Stated there was a problem with the connection and that I would be updated on Wed 6 Nov.
Phoned SSE 6 Nov. 13:40 Disconnected
Phoned SSE 6 Nov. Told I would receive a call with an update. Didn’t happen.
Phoned SSE 9 Nov. 09:39 Line tested and external fault showing. Decided to send Open Reach out on Thur am14 Nov.
Open Reach engineers arrived on 14 Nov am and tested the telephone and broadband lines. No fault found. Requested to contact SSE and explain that everything is 100% OK and that the router is trying to talk to SSE server but SSE server is not talking to the router. As a result browser page won’t load.
14th Nov. Phoned SSE as requested and spoke to Holly whom eventually ran a line test which showed there was an external problem and that the issue would be raised for an engineer to come again.
15th Nov. Received a text message from SSE Phone & Broadband stating the engineer has resolved the fault.
Phoned SSE 16:07 to explain that the fault has not been resolved and that I still can’t connect to their server.
Advised to try again Sat: 15th and if no joy then phone SSE again.
18th Nov. Phoned SSE 08:20 and spent the next three hours trying to resolve being unable to connect to the internet. In all credit the assistant did everything she could yet to no avail. Concluded that an Open Reach engineer will have to look into the mater, No date given for Open Reach engineer to visit.
18th Nov. Internet came online at 21:30pm.
19th Nov. SSE phoned to say that an Open Reach engineer would look round tomorrow but I told her to cancel it as the internet came online last night and seems to be settled.
14 days compensation at £5 = £70.
20th Dec received email bill from SSE requesting I pay £23.99.
21st Dec 08:20 Phoned SSE questioning the £23.99. Told that I had received £15.00 compensation and that was all I was getting.
Told SSE that according to Ofcom rules I was entitled to £5.00 compensation per day for not being connected.
The assistant put me on hold to have a word with supervisor. Came back to say that I was not getting anything more.
21st Dec 08:53 Phoned SSE requesting a Deadlock Letter. Assistant had another word with his supervisor and it was suggested SSE would offer another month free meaning my total compensation would come to just over £41.00 which I accepted.
From then on to the end of my 18 month contract Broadband has been intermittent and a further compensation paid to me for down time.
Further complications arose at end of contract while switching to Plusnet. SSE puts me on new contract at twice the price and stated that Plusnet had not informed them that I was leaving them, which I find hard to believe.
It now looks like SSE has sent me a bill for £56.00 which I'll now have to phone them and dispute.
All in all - STAY WELL CLEAR unless you enjoy being stressed to the hilt.
- Location
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- Location
- Kingston
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-05-20
- Comments
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Horrible broadband service. Only stayed with SSE for not even 2 months and never managed to have good quality broadband. Once exiting the contract using the 60 days happiness guaranty, they still charged me the penalty for leaving them early, saying they would only guarantee good ethernet and not wifi. (in 2021!!! who uses ethernet anymore?) DO not recommend. Horrible experience and even worse customer service.
- Location
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- Location
- Withernsea
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-05-18
- Comments
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Brilliant broadband had bt didn't get a signal so went to sse and get service in every room would recommend to anyone
- Location
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- Location
- Bolton
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-05-10
- Comments
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This is a review for SSE broadband. I experienced a total loss of service after upgrading to fibre broadband. After nine days of multiple calls to SSE and many failed promises (including from the manager Alexander who promised the earth and delivered nothing!) by SSE to return my calls and keep me updated. I gave up and cancelled the service altogether. SSE have a lot to learn about decent levels of customer service and keeping promises it makes to its customers!
- Location
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- Location
- Derbyshire
- Reviewing
- SSE
- Date
- 2021-04-29
- Comments
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I had previously left a positive comment but would absolutely withdraw that and not recommend anyone this company. I have been left without Internet for over a week and I work from home. Misinformation from the staff at SSE and have been basically left to keep chasing. I have no confidence in them being proactive about sorting my issues out as they cannot even raise a ticket for an engineer to visit despite promising to do so. Appalling service, I would advise to avoid.
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