topic Fibre engineer not turned up in Plusnet Feedback

Fibre engineer not turned up

tony1963 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:12:51 GMT

On two occasions, December 2013 and January 22nd 2014, the engineers failed to turn up. These appointments were to change to fibrenet fast broadband after many years with them. No apology from Plusnet apart from blaming Open Reach. Plusnet arranged the appointments so they should be notifying me of any progress if any. The telephone service is appalling which means waiting on the line for over 30mins before giving up. Plusnet are taking extra money out of my bank account for a service I haven't got. I sent a letter to their HO for explanations or I'd report them to OFCOM. No reply. It appears that Plusnet don't give a damn and appear to be happy to have an investigation by OFCOM. If it didn't cost a fortune to get out of my contract, I would be joining a company who are professioal and efficient who take situations like this very seriously.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up. no comms from Plusnet so copied my ticket here!

jelv — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:06:23 GMT

tony1963
There are no Plusnet staff on these forums outside normal working hours so your post may not be seen until Monday.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

Strat — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:16:31 GMT

[Moderator's note by Dick (Strat) Posts split off and title edited to raise profile.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

AlaricAdair — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:13:09 GMT

Quote from: tony1963
... The telephone service is appalling which means waiting on the line for over 30mins before giving up. ...

So the long phone waits continue?

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

picbits — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:57:41 GMT

Average call wait times this morning appeared to be 15 minutes but that was quite early on.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

KK — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:11:11 GMT

Maybe, like me, more and more people have given up trying. Eventually, Plusnet will have so few customers trying to ring them that they will again be able to claim market-leading call centre wait times.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

jelv — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:28:43 GMT

Guys,
I'm not sure how you think your posts are going to help tony1963 - there are other topics more suited to discussing the state of Plusnet support.
@tony1963
If you haven't seen other posts about this OpenReach pay Plusnet £45 for missed appointments: http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/generalbriefings/generalbriefingsarticles/gen02413.do
Check http://www.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=212 for the current call waiting times before trying to call Plusnet.

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

tijara33 — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 06:15:11 GMT

My neighbour is a BT customer & he's had 5 missed appointments in the last 2 weeks since he moved in! The first 2 appointments were impossible to fulfill as they cabinet had NO spare capacity for fibre. This was sorted out last Monday & BT promised him an engineer on Tuesday, then Thursday & finally Friday. On no occasion did BT make any attempt to tell him that the engineer wasn't coming.
He's now expecting one on Monday but isn't holding his breath.
(Thanks for the link re comp. payments jelv, I've printed it for him. I thought of emailing him the link......duh!)

Re: Fibre engineer not turned up

Pettitto — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:34:18 GMT

Hi tony1963,
I'm really sorry that an engineer hasn't visited to complete the FTTC installation as scheduled. I've just checked our suppliers systems which shows that an engineer was unable to complete the work as there were no spare on the DSLAM unfortunately. This means that our suppliers are unable to deliver FTTC at this moment in time.
I appreciate that we should have let you know sooner, however, unfortunately our suppliers were only made aware of this on the day that the installation was due to take place. Ideally the engineer should have called to advise you of this, but it is apparent that this didn't happen on this occasion, for which I am sorry.
If you could let us know of any further dates we could re-schedule this for, we can check further to see if any DSLAM ports are available to get your service up and running for you. With regards to your letter, this has been received and will be read and replied to by our Complaints Team.