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Think how much time they could save if they proactively told customers when they would be doing maintenance, or at least told the call centre staff so they knew not to book unnecessary engineer visits.
Retentions don’t routinely look at your usage, they are incentivised you retain you regardless of usage.
I haven’t been contacted yet, but I feel I’m in this as I’ve noticed a big upturn in phishing emails lately, along the lines of competition wins, but need to pay for shipping, banks needing password resets, PayPal needs updated user info, that sort of thing.
I haven’t been contacted yet, but I feel I’m in this as I’ve noticed a big upturn in phishing emails lately, along the lines of competition wins, but need to pay for shipping, banks needing password resets, PayPal needs updated user info, that sort of thing.
I had an email yesterday.Anyone been contacted about the Virgin data breach?
https://www.virginmedia.com/help/data-incident/important-information
Well they havent in my case! It's just under a week until I am disconnected and no one has contacted me to offer me a deal to stay. I knew it! They've called my bluff lol!
So I may have to ring up today to ask if there's anything they will do, or last resort, accept the slightly better deal they originally offered when I called to cancel.
Well after nearly 7 years of stellar service from VM, I am now considering moving, for the last three weeks we have had a really poor connection and I'm talking 0.25Mb/s (we pay for and have had 200Mb/s or better Maxed at 268Mb/s not that long ago) upload has been unaffected stayed at 20-24Mb/s but download has been laughable. Unless I run a speed test via Speedtest.net the first one will be low on the download really low, the second time I run it BOOM 200+Mb/s. Its like night and day, its like rate switching is not instant (so low usage during the day the pipe can be shared between other users). Anyone ever experienced anything similar?
I've tried talking to VM as I have always done in the past (I set up the account when we moved in, in my wife's name as I had credit issues in the past), but now then require only to speak with my wife! Even though I am the named contact on the account and have given the correct password, the refuse to do anything or even to talk with me!!
So frustrated right now, MY wife works all day as do I and 9/10 we are never around when VM's phone lines are open!
I have done both, the Mobile app is a complete waste of time, took 3 attempts to get a reply and even that was a day later. Bring back the NTL and Blueyonder days (yes I've been a customer that long) at least then you got an answer from a UK call centre even if it did take an hour of being on hold! I am just frustrated I will have to spend a portion of my day on Sunday (as my wife and I have some free time together for a change) dealing with this that could have been sorted weeks ago.Bit over dramatic, reach out to them on the community page where they will link you to a very helpful live chat who will arrange a visit.
Well after nearly 7 years of stellar service from VM, I am now considering moving, for the last three weeks we have had a really poor connection and I'm talking 0.25Mb/s (we pay for and have had 200Mb/s or better Maxed at 268Mb/s not that long ago) upload has been unaffected stayed at 20-24Mb/s but download has been laughable. Unless I run a speed test via Speedtest.net the first one will be low on the download really low, the second time I run it BOOM 200+Mb/s. Its like night and day, its like rate switching is not instant (so low usage during the day the pipe can be shared between other users). Anyone ever experienced anything similar?
I've tried talking to VM as I have always done in the past (I set up the account when we moved in, in my wife's name as I had credit issues in the past), but now then require only to speak with my wife! Even though I am the named contact on the account and have given the correct password, the refuse to do anything or even to talk with me!!
So frustrated right now, MY wife works all day as do I and 9/10 we are never around when VM's phone lines are open!
That really doesn’t add up. They can deal with a fault report from anyone, they don’t need to have the password, be named as being able to deal with the account or pass DPA, but it makes it a lot easier for everyone involved if they can/do, oh and faults are 24/7.
Yep I agree, nothing about this makes any sense, they refuse to speak to me until the wife is able to confirm she is available to speak to them, started quoting GDPR regulations at me that had nothing to do with the account or account security, like the completely didn't have a clue what they were doing!
I completely agree, and I did explain this to the last agent I spoke with but she was adamant that she had to speak with my wife!The only point they would need to speak to the account holder is if they are making a significant change to the account, eg changing the directory listing type (Listed, ex directory or NQR), adding a service or disconnecting a service. The broadband team will have restrictions on things like resetting passwords etc. but nothing that should prevent them speaking to you to investigate a potential fault. Having spent more hours than I care to remember dealing with OFCOM auditors - DPA is not intended to be used as justification/barrier to prevent legitimate access.
Your doing this wrong
phone up as your wife when they question it ask them if they just assumed your gender threaten legal action and contacting daily mail. Suddenly your fault it dealt with instantly
To be fair this was my next thought if I was unable to get the wife on the phone!