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Izak O

1 reviews | Active since Aug 2010

17 Dec 2022, 15:47

MetroFibre Network being down

MetroFibre has engineers attending to outages Right...

Yet there is no communication between them and the call center. The poor people on the call center are getting a "whip lash" from the pubic because they cannot provide answers to the people on what's happening. \

What I can tell you, is that a huge outage happened yesterday morning and it's a cable fault where cable needs to be replaced. (I was told that) After many hours they finally received the cable around 5pm on the 16th and they are still busy fixing the cable. (Still no communication)

How is this possible? After giving the ISP a toung lash they said they did not receive any communication of the outage and only then they saw the outage.

Numerous calls have been made to the MFN, being transferred from one department to another only to find the relevant department is not picking up the phone. One phone call takes 10 min holding on, to speak to someone, so that you end up putting the phone down and try again.

When you finally do get to talk to someone, they are very polite, friendly and understanding. But that still does not fix the problem.

Someone higher up than the call center like a Regional Manager or something needs to pick the phone and speak to the "man in van" and get the work done, and if not, provide proper feedback to the call center, for customers phoning in. I am now speaking on behalf of 78 houses alone here only in one area.

Your teammates are seriously letting us down as this also halter the reporting of security cameras providing protection to armed response units.

You guys can really do better that this! The reference for this outage is #Ticket 239665

Hopefully Top management will be informed of this issue.

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Replies (11)
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply17 Dec 2022, 16:00
Official
Good day Izak,

We trust you are well.

Thank you for bringing the matter to our attention.

Kindly allow us to investigate the issue and we will contact you shortly.

Kind regards
Metrofibre
Sonné
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Izak O's update17 Dec 2022, 19:11
Reviewer Update
Hi Sonne,

I am well thanking you.

Unfortunately, you still have not gotten back to me... Kindly please explain "shortly"...

I have called your support number again and insisted on an update and was told that the cable was damaged by a third party, and they are still busy....

I am confused, as to, how long it would take an engineering team to repair / replace a piece of fibre cable, that they already started to work on yesterday.

This is completely UNACCEPTIBLE

Kindly please get back to me!

Thank you
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply17 Dec 2022, 19:15
Official
Good day, Izak

I am calling you know to explain everything. 

Kind Regards
MetroFibre
Sonné
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Izak O's update18 Dec 2022, 17:52
Reviewer Update
Good day Sonne,

Please can I have some feedback?

Thank you
Regards,
Izak
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply18 Dec 2022, 17:59
Official
Good day Izak.

Trust you are well.

Kindly note we have technicians onsite that are currently busy with splicing.

We sincerely do apologies for the downtime you have experienced.

Kind Regards.
Keatlegile
IO
Izak O's update18 Dec 2022, 18:05
Reviewer Update
Hi Keatlegile,

Thank you. I know started with the splicing this morning at 8am.

How far are they?

Regards,
Izak
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply18 Dec 2022, 18:08
Official
Good day Izak.

Kindly note no turnaround time was provided, we will keep you updated.

Kind Regards
Keatlegile
IO
Izak O's update18 Dec 2022, 18:12
Reviewer Update
Please can you kindly make contact with your team or management and provide feedback?
Thank you
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply18 Dec 2022, 18:18
Official
Good day Izak.

Kindly note we will be in contact as soon feedback is provided.

We sincerely do apologies for the inconvenience.

Kind Regards
Keatlegile 
IO
Izak O's update19 Dec 2022, 08:21
Reviewer Update
Good morning. The services have been restored. Thank you
MetroFibre Networx
MetroFibre Networx's reply19 Dec 2022, 09:51
Official
Dear Izak

Thank you for taking the time to answer my call.

We send our sincere apologies for the information not being communicated correctly from various departments.

We will inform our manager.

Kind Regards

MetroFibre
Shannen