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Bruce G

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2019

01 Feb 2019, 20:10

Cell C Fibre unable to move service from one address to another (500m away).

Moved residential addresses (about 500m from the old one) same area and still covered by Vumatel. Sent CellC fibre an email as instructed, to ********** and ********** to have my service moved from the old address to the new address on 11 Jan 2019. No response received from CellC fibre. Then called about 2 weeks later to find out what was happening. Also informed them no correspondence received since the email was sent, and did they receive it. Response is yes. A couple of days later get response that it is in hand. Moved in to new place on 24th and still nothing happened. I phoned again, again wait for 5 - 10 minutes wasting my time and money, only to be told someone will get back to me. Called again the next day, and requested to speak to a manager after still no movement was made on the case. Spoke to a manager, Donovan Naicker from Durban who assured me he would follow up and report back to me before 10:30 that day. At around 12:00 i got a call from one of the call center agents informing me that Donovan was following up with the back office and someone would call me back that same day. This was the last time I heard from Donovan, and, no one called me back. ALL correspondence with Cfibre has been me calling them back! I have been back and forth with my last attempt requesting to speak to another manager, but was told they are on the phone (strange this was the second time this happened) and they would leave a message for the manager to call me. It is now past 20:00 on a Friday evening and still no one has called me back (just like the last time).

Thankfully the previous owner gave me access to his Vumatel installation and his ISP until the 31st Jan. After 31st I now have no internet, but Cell C have deducted their monthly fee! Vumatel also advised that the CPE object had to be released by the previous ISP before Cell C Fibre could activate me. This has been done as the previous ISP deactivated the internet last night (31st).

I have to ask the question, do Cell C fibre actually know what they are doing? other than frustrating their customers that is. Do they actually care? do they want the business? Their so called managers are even more unhelpful. At least the call center have some decent operators, Sanipile, being one outstanding agent and very helpful as far as she can. It seems Cell C fibre dont care once they have your money!

Watch out people! Find another ISP if you wish to maintain your sanity. Cell C fibre are useless and lie when they say someone will get back to you! How can it possibly take soooo long to change a CPE object number?

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Cell C
Cell C's reply02 Feb 2019, 07:08
Official
Good morning Bruce 

We are in receipt of your complaint and do apologize for the poor service you have experienced. 

One of our team members will liaise with C Fibre and assist. 

Regards 
Cell C | PN
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Bruce G's update04 Feb 2019, 15:30
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Really sad Cell C!!!! After a lady from your social media department contacted me on Sat, assuring me someone from fibre department will sort this out today, and she would get back to me today, still nothing happening?!!! Yet more lies from Cell C!!!! How are you still in business? Disappointed! Frustrated!
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Bruce G's update05 Feb 2019, 10:54
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Finally got some joy out of Cell C Fibre. Posted the above msg and then called the call center again. Was told i had to wait another 7 working days before anything would happen (7 working days after the previous service provider had disconnected their service from the Vumatel CPE box and thus releasing the CPE object number.) At this point I decided to simply cancel the service with Cell C as they were simply displaying NO interest in resolving any issues or getting me up and running, despite having taken money from my account. 10 minutes later I received a call from the Fibre technician who called Vumatel to confirm the object number had been released and then switched me over to the CPE in the new house. He assisted me with resetting the Cell C router and I was up and running in about an hour. Thank you Cell C for finally resolving this, however, I have to ask why did it have to get to this point? I honestly hope you improve your customer service. It needs an overhaul! I would also like to thank the call center ladies who tried to assist me! They are exceptional, and have to take a lot of flack from disgruntled customers due to "other" department failures. Specific thanks to Sanipile and Zama. I felt I got the most useful information from these 2 ladies. Thank you!