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George M

1 reviews | Active since May 2020

03 May 2021, 10:11

Poor customer support and feedback

BEWARE: Cool ideas as an ISP provider works well but if you have a problem well that another story. Their support is limited during weekdays till 8pm and no support on weekends and probably public holidays too. Our Fiber provider Vumatel does not give us the option to contact them directly and an issues needs to be logged to go through the ISP. Turn around time according to Cool Ideas to log with Vumatel is 48-72 hours. I had logged my issue with cool ideas on Wednesday night so 72 hours would fall on Saturday at 7pm. On Friday the tech from cool ideas said she had escalated the issue, since today I have to heard from cool ideas or from anyone it has been escalated to. Surely if it has been escalated the person who is responsible should be able to give me a call. The best part of this is was caused by an upgrade on the fiber in the area and there was no notice that I have received from Cool Ideas or Vuma. So far 5 days with no internet lets see how long this goes for as now we have resorted to running on 3G and have already used upwards of 3GB of data for business purposes. I have brought up other issues previously where I was contacted by cool ideas customer care a few weeks ago and was promised feedback on a few items which I raised and still no feedback.

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George M's update03 May 2021, 15:23
Reviewer Update
I got into contact with VUMA via social media and they helped me. Cool ideas contacted me to say its back online and I was like I already knew that because vumatel helped me thanks for nothing waste of time. Now that my line is up they probably going to send the monthly invoice lol

Cool Ideas Service Provider
Cool Ideas Service Provider's reply04 May 2021, 11:13
Official
Good day Goerge

We are sorry to hear of this frustration 

Our teams are trained to log the relevant issues with Vumatel through their portal, we are then held by a process of following up after a certain amount of time and can only raise it with our account manager once this time lapses. we actively collect the data of any issues that fall outside of their provided SLA and present these at our monthly meetings. we are working with Vumatel to ensure these situations are avoided. 

We have added your case to our agenda for our monthly meeting and will have a manager get in touch with you once we provide feedback as to why the support process did not work from the Vumatel side 

The Cool Team 
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George M's update04 May 2021, 13:51
Reviewer Update
Please advise what the

Response times
Expected ETA of Resolution
Cool Ideas support Hours
Vumatel Onsite Support Hours
Vumatel Remote Support Hours

Also as an ISP where my complex is plagued with issues what is Cool Ideas doing to try improve the situation ?
Cool Ideas Service Provider
Cool Ideas Service Provider's reply04 May 2021, 14:31
Official
Kindly email complaints @ cool ideas .co .za for further information 
GM
George M's update04 May 2021, 14:36
Reviewer Update
Please can you reply here as I am not the only customer with this issue. Part of the frustrations is that we dont know your SLA times to get these issues resolved.
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George M's update04 May 2021, 16:01
Reviewer Update
Hi Cool Ideas I have requested the same info on my ticket.

#COOL-***

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