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Graham J

1 reviews | Active since Oct 2016

27 May 2019, 16:17

Complaint on Long Periods of Outages

I have recently signed up for residential fibre in our residential Estate and Aeonova was the only fibre provider for the estate. I have enjoyed fibre for just over a month and my internet was disrupted on 2 weekend from the Friday evening to the Monday. I tried calling the call centre as per number provided and could not get through at any time from Friday evening to Monday morning. On the Monday when I finally got through, I was told that the service desk only operates during working hours. I was also informed that whenever Eskom has a power outage, the fibre link is affected and although Eskom restores power, their systems need attention by their technicians and since the Helpdesk is not available over weekends, should the power get disrupted on a Friday evening and gets restored after an hour, Aeonova will be off for the weekend until Monday when the Helpdesk gets notified of the problem and the problem can only be attended to when the outage is reported to the Helpdesk. This is the 2nd entire weekend that we had no internet and when I signed up for the fibre, I was promised reliability and I cancelled all my satellite subscriptions to stream TV shows and when the internet is down, no TV or any entertainment can be enjoyed in my household. Most sporting events and TV time occurs over weekends and the entire weekend disruptions is making the fibre decision I took appear to be the incorrect decision as I cannot accept that whenever the power from Eskom gets disrupted and restored, the internet will remain offline. We all know that there are regular power outages from Eskom, but they do restore power and we suffer almost every week with short power outages from Eskom (usually over weekends) and should the internet be disrupted over most weekends until the Monday, this makes me believe that my decision to sign up with Aenova was not the right one, as the satellite subscriptions were extremely reliable. My suggestion would be that Aeonova establish a better hep desk with longer working hours and over weekends to attend to outages and complaints, instead of waiting for the Monday to be notified of outages. Also the communication from Aenova Helpdesk is non existent as I have asked for feedback and nobody ever returns my messages. I am very frustrated with the interruptions over weekends and most other service providers attend to outages immediately and restores their services in a short space of time and not 2 or 3 days later. I rely on fibre internet at home and these long interruptions suck the joy out of being at home.

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Replies (3)
Aeonova360 Management Services
Aeonova360 Management Services's reply28 May 2019, 22:07
Official
Hi Graham, we sincerely apologise for the extremely unstable connectivity and service. We assure you this is definitely not he service and experience we wish to give our customers. The outage you experienced at your estate was not due to a power outage as we have more than sufficient power backup for your area. It was due to a fibre break 19km from your estate on the way to the Data center. This is a very seldom occurance and unfortunately due to the fact that there are circumstances out of our control, very hard to foresee and mitigate. We hope that your service and experience going forward is much better. Should you have any issues, please do not hesitate to contact us on *** or ***. We strive ourselves in better customer service than other providers in the market and in  order to do so we offer support 8am to 8pm Monday to friday and Saturday 9am to 12pm.
Aeonova360 Management Services
Aeonova360 Management Services's reply09 Sept 2019, 12:29
Official
Hi Graham. we hope you are well. Please advise if your service levels and uptime have improved since your last message and if we can do anything further to improve your experience?
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Graham J's update24 Oct 2019, 16:20
Reviewer Update
Hi. I have only logged into my account today and wish to firstly mention that that the levels of uptime have improved and was very reliable until this morning when my internet went down. I tried calling the numbers given to me as the Helpdesk and the numbers say that they don't exist. I was very frustrated and eventually managed to get a cellphone number of a gentlemen called Stephen. He promised to get a call centre agent to call me back as he could not assist. After an hour, no call back. Called him again and he said that he will follow up and get back to me. A Donovan called back and tried to assist, but said that he cannot see what the problem was and would escalate the matter. After 3 hours, no feedback received from anyone and all the while the internet was down. I called Donovan back to be told that he is off duty and gave me a number of a lady called Jade. I called Jade and she told me that she is unaware of the problem and will investigate and call me back in 5 minutes. 1 hour later, no call and when I tried to call Jade back, the number is not available. Still no internet, no feedback and not even sure if the problem is with the area fibre or my personal installation. Also not sure if I will be off for a few ore hours or a few more weeks. It's not knowing that is so frustrating and I am not even sure if anyone is actually working to resolve my issue. I would really appreciate a callback or at the very least, internet.