I Offically HATE BT

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RANT TIME grrrrr.

When I can get through to them they all give me conflicting information that is then denied the next time I speak to them. They have so far

When I moved into this business premises, transferred an existing line over to me from the landlord with his permission of course.

So here the fun starts I order BT business broadband, went through the whole training period, constantly being told that despite 448 up and 8mb down now this would improve, and it did not, tried 2 different BT business hubs and a bt homehub1.0 and still not change, tried a homehub 2.0 and bingo! 22MB down, still 443 up though, several phonecalls later after being told that the line definitely supports 1mb and likely more up from several people they send out a BT engineer, he tries both a new BT homehub 3 and a bt business hub neither of which can achieve over 8mb down, he cannot explain this as he has never seen this before, but he assures me that I should be getting 1mb + up and if they tell me anything different on the phone they are lying.

Several arguements with useless tech support later and still I am stuck with 443 up with the BT now telling me that I should never have been told what I had been told all previous dealings I had been is-informed and BT do not guarentee upload speed

I am 300m from my exchange btw


Now onto online billing
I can only see my broadband account online and cannot find an option anywhere to register my phoneline online, so a phonecall to BT they tell me I need to have a onebill account to view both these online, it doesnt cost anything to change over.
So change I did, still unable to view both accounts online and now BT are asking for me to pay them £100+ which i have already paid them, a phonecall to the number on the bill eventually lands me at an automated voice telling me to ring an alternate number, after 20 - 30 miutes on hold I get told to ring the other number back and try a set of options that they gave me, same thing again message telling me to call the 2nd number GRRRRRRR

So ring them back explain that I will NOT be ringing the other number and why etc, they finally agree to sort these monies out that I don't actually owe and transfer it from my other account, also inform me that the onebill stuff should be viewable in maybe a week's time.


couple of weeks later I still cannot view onebill and I now get a bill for £120, so I ring the annoying tech support again. I thikn they finally sorted it out this time.


Onto this onebill itself, its is the most illiterate scramble of numbers thrown onto a piece of paper that I have ever seen, NOTHING makes sense, nothing is in a readable format and nothing is explained what you are paying for, it may as well be written in japanese.


I also refused to setup a direct debit until these billing issues were sorted out as they would just take money as and when they please otherwise, now I want to pay and I can't as my all singing all dancing onebill isn't viewable online.





I am really tearing my hair out with these idiots!
Can anybody point me in the right direction to sorting these bunch of muppets out and getting my account simplified and working as it should be and even possibly how to get my broadband speed as it should be ?
 
Is your exchange LLU enabled? If so after all that I would tell them where to shove it and find a new ISP.

Stoner81.
 
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yes it is LLU, unfortunately I signed up to a 2 year deal thinking, it's BT they will be the simplest to deal with and I don't mind paying an extra £5 or £10 a month for simplicity. :(
 
Since they are not providing you with what you are paying for (in terms of connection speed) then you might be able to get out of the contract though I have no idea if you can or not. Might be worth ringing Ofcom and seeing what they have to say about it they really know their stuff! I had to ring them when I had an issue with O2.

Stoner81.
 
To make sure this is even - i have had excellent business support from BT - just make sure you ring the business number and not a domestic/residential number.

Residential support has been awful for me. We are a very small BT customer (gone from 4 analog lines to 2 recently) yet we can have a engineer visit NBD or sooner.

As for online bill management, all i did was register via the BT business homepage and then added the line accounts to the online account (you will need your full account number as shown on your bill). Within a few hours the data was populated.

We've had 2 voice faults recently, related to exchange side wiring, both were resolved within 24 hours, on hold time for reporting the problems was less than a minute or two at most.

With your online bill, download the CSV data and do your own analysis of what you are paying for, there is also the option to download it in PDF which is a replica of how a print bill will look (if that is what you are used to).
 
To make sure this is even - i have had excellent business support from BT - just make sure you ring the business number and not a domestic/residential number.

Residential support has been awful for me. We are a very small BT customer (gone from 4 analog lines to 2 recently) yet we can have a engineer visit NBD or sooner.

As for online bill management, all i did was register via the BT business homepage and then added the line accounts to the online account (you will need your full account number as shown on your bill). Within a few hours the data was populated.

We've had 2 voice faults recently, related to exchange side wiring, both were resolved within 24 hours, on hold time for reporting the problems was less than a minute or two at most.

With your online bill, download the CSV data and do your own analysis of what you are paying for, there is also the option to download it in PDF which is a replica of how a print bill will look (if that is what you are used to).

I too must also agree with this above post, I have been a BT Business customer now for 9 years and have never had any problems, when I moved premisses about 3 years ago I transferred my line to another location and had to have second line installed for my POS machine done for free!!!

I had a small fault with my line last summer when the new cabs were being fitted for FTTC. Moved my line to a poor quality pair so my ADSL2+ speed dropped off.

I called the Business centre on a Wednesday afternoon and 8am Thursday I had an engineer call me from our local exchange he told me what had happened and that he had found a good quality pair that he was going to move my line to and after a check he had it sorted by 10am Thursday!!

As above post has said make sure that you call the BUSINESS Centre NOT residential support.

The business lines carry a 24 hour fault service agreement so I think that you are contacting the wrong support desk which I think is in Scotland for Business lines, and India for residential.

And to finish off just upgraded to BT Infinity Business and very easy and very friendly service. Our cab went live the week before xmas (15th dec) and I called that Thursday morning and the following Thursday 22nd I was hooked up and running by 10am!!
;););)
 
The best service I get from BT (as a residential customer, no idea if they support business) is surprisingly through Twitter - even with 140 characters.
@BTCare
They can assign your account and twitter name to make things easier in the future. Often they'll link you to a web chat where you can clearly explain things in text and get a response - also you can save the conversation.

When I moved house, they repeatedly failed to move my broadband claimed that I needed an engineer visit (£150 fee), couldn't find my address, signed my broadband up under my neighbours address...lengthy phone calls didn't help, BT reps couldn't understand my address (it's long and unusual) etc.
Ranted on Twitter at them...soon got everything sorted with about 5 DMs.

Tried the same with Vodafone, but their twitter savyness is nowhere near as good.
 
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