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Kevin R

1 reviews | Active since Apr 2013

30 Jun 2022, 00:32

Supersonic Hijacking Customers Fibre/Overcharging customers

I have been with Supersonic/MTN via Vodacom Fibre 100/100mbs package costing about R945 per month for over a year with endless outages sometimes for several day, For past several weeks now every single day my internet just stops working from 11pm to around 9am following day approx. 10 hours, so I had my wife call them this evening, and I was told that 2 other people have my same fibre codes and when they login into my fibre and my fibre cuts off. I was promised this would be immediately resolved, 2 hours later internet if off again, called in and still nothing, agent failed to call me back.

I could not understand how this could happen, because it meant 2 other people would have same problem because I had fibre during the day and they would off called in as their fibre would be cut off. Then it struck me this is a inside job by Supersonic staff, they close at 10pm and from 11pm my fibre is being hijacked and released following morning. (Its like leasing a car, and someone comes at night with a spare key and takes your car for a joy rides all night and returns it following morning and its the same people who leased car to you doing it)

I recall whenever my fibre was out they blamed Vodacom, but if you ask them for a Vodacom reference, their was none, no notes on system, sometime we would call them and be online for several hours, several time in same day and fibre was out for several days.

These people are hijacking customers fibre, probably doing it to multitude of customers, their has not been a month that we did not have fibre issues and last week they sent a technician out and he said it as Vodacom issue and they will come out to solve problem, magically no Vodacom call, fibre returned by its self.

I actually feel violated by Supersonic, this is theft, I pay for service which is hijacked and because my wife and I work from home we had to buy mobile data spending hundred of Rands per month because our Fibre was being ****** and like fools believing Supersonic was helping us.

Another thing few months ago Supersonic tariff rates were lowered to R945, but we as customers were still being billed old rate of R1195 , when I checked on their website and called them I could not believe what they said, it is up to customer to call in and ask them to drop tariff to new lower rates and they refused to tell me when the tariff was lowered and told us they would not be refunding us for overcharging us for several months. So if you are a customer please call them and change to lower tariff rates as they would continue to overcharge you.

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Replies (20)
Supersonic
Supersonic 's reply30 Jun 2022, 07:49
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Good day Kevin, thank you for reaching out to Supersonic. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused to this regard. I would believe that someone is looking into the matter at hand. In order for us to assist in following up on this query and having it resolved, we would need you to forward a direct message with your query and personal details so we can access your account and do the necessary follow ups to this regard. We hope to have the current issue resolved as soon as possible. Regards, The Supersonic Team
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Kevin R's update30 Jun 2022, 09:18
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I do not see how you could not identity customer when account number was provided as reference.

My internet was cut off last night as well and only returned this morning.

Do not Need automated responses I need proper customer service which I pay for.

I need to know exactly what action is being taken and how you are going to compensate me for this.


KR
Kevin R's update30 Jun 2022, 22:35
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On Wed 30 June 2022 at 9:30 pm Fibre stopped working Fibre box PON light starts blinking and tonight Thursday 30 June 9:30pm like clock work as well Fibre stopped working, called supersonic call cebtre ref:CAS-***-W1X5D0, surprise surprise it's now vodacom issue as per supersonic agent, managers and technical staff all fast asleep for the night, no one is available to assist.

I was assured by you such theft of my Fibre line will be stopped and it was being monitored, all empty assurances, once again no Fibre for next 12 hours, expect Fibre will come back around 9 am Friday morning after ***** goes back to work.

I will now be taking matter up on social. Media and news agencies and contacting communications authorities to expose this issue.
KR
Kevin R's update01 Jul 2022, 23:41
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Fri 1st Jul 11:30pm my internet is off again like clock work, PON light flashing. supersonic contact my wife today and informed us issue resolved, like clock work our Fibre line is hijacked by ******* at supersonic and they do not have a clue what's going on.

I am paying you almost a R1000 a month for half a day of Fibre while your staff hijack my Fibre line every evening.

Disgusting company, no ethics, no professionalism, no scruples.


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Kevin R's update02 Jul 2022, 23:20
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Sat 2nd Jul 2022 at 10:30pm Fibre stopped working like clock work, I did receive a call today from senior technician at supersonic and he did inform me he has seen this problem before with vodacom Fibre which is solvable but problem is vodacom rather let its customers go insane with constant Fibre outages than resolve matter with rival ISP supersonic and play the blame game.

So according to supersonic their hands are tired by a tiranical and petty vodacom.

All of thjs unfortunately does not solve the problem off no Fibre for 12 or more hours each day, given that you do not have capability to monitor or correct Fibre outages with vodacom, it is clear to me as a customer you service is weak and we as customers do not benefit from having you as our ISP, please arrange for cancelation of our month to month service and we will move over to vodacom directly, hopefully they will now resolve issue, failing which we will move over to rival Fibre now available in our area.
Please provide my wife who is the account holder with a cancelation call back or email her to confirm cancelation of service.

Maybe if MTN actually installed Fibre after digging up our area and laying infrastructure we would be with mtn Fibre instead of vodacom.

Also we do not intend paying for 50% Fibre service. per month, please adjust your billing to reflect that.
KR
Kevin R's update04 Jul 2022, 09:43
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Sunday 03 Jul.2022 Fibre off again and returned Monday 4 Jul around 9am
As a customer i continue to have no servi e, no response from vodacom or supersonic, zero monitoring or resolution of Fibre daily outage
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Kevin R's update04 Jul 2022, 14:06
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It's now 2pm on Mon 4th Jul 2022, Supersonic Fibre has stopped working,

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Kevin R's update04 Jul 2022, 16:45
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Your escalated technician failed to contact us or email us and on calling your call centre neither of them can be reached, we confirmed that we are now canceling our Fibre month to month and my wife was told to email request which we have done,

We do however request that you at least ensure that you respond and process cancelation timoulsly and not give us the run around like a lots of your customers have experienced as per hellopeter.




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Kevin R's update05 Jul 2022, 12:56
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Tuesday 5th July 2002, received a call from Vodacom regarding my Hellopeter complaint, they wanted to confirm they do not take any responsibility for their Fibre line and its ISP provider fault and they can do absolutely nothing, even though they own the fibre, get paid for the fibre via ISP provider and customer be ****ed.

Shocking part, Supersonic says its a Vodacom fault, but they can do absolutely nothing and Vodacom, not knowing what the problem is, even if it is their fault, can do nothing and shifts fault on Supersonic.

Both are absolutely *******ed organizations and should if all possible be avoided.
KR
Kevin R's update05 Jul 2022, 12:57
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Vodacom's reply:
05 Jul 2022, 12:45Dear Customer, As per discussion, for assistance you would need to chat directly with your ISP, Supersonic/MTN. Regards Consumer Website TeamPrivate ReplyKRKevin R:
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Kevin R's update07 Jul 2022, 07:38
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Thursday 7th July 2022, at 7am Fibre stopped working once again
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Kevin R's update13 Jul 2022, 10:39
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Wednesday 13 July 202210am and Fibre is once again not working .

My wife is on call with supersonic, and like clock work they keep no records on our Fibre box or modem serial number which they supp**** and keep asking for same informs every time you call.


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Kevin R's update13 Jul 2022, 12:12
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Wednesday 13 July 2022, 12 mid-day and Fibre still not working,

Called call center requested a call back from 10am no call back yet
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Kevin R's update13 Jul 2022, 15:29
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Wednesday 13 July 2022, 12,3:30pm and Fibre still not working did not receive call back from Mtn Supersonic,
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Kevin R's update13 Jul 2022, 18:16
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Wednesday 13 July 2022, 6pm and Fibre still not working did not receive call back from Mtn Supersonic, had to contact their call center again and they now will call me back, waiting for their top technician to respond, same person who promised to have matter resolved a week ago.

I think I might just form a youtube channel just for supersonic customers like myself.
KR
Kevin R's update14 Jul 2022, 00:29
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Wednesday 13 July 11pm Fibre returns, with speed running at 50% and signal dropping every few minutes.

At midnight signal lost completely and PON light on Fibre box blinking.

Back to same old problem, Fibre stops working like clockwork

Wbat a pathetic ISP, customer service non existent, take our money and provide inferior service.
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Kevin R's update14 Jul 2022, 09:22
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We had no Fibre from 10am on Wed 13 2022 to Thur 14 July 9:30am, and now we have speed of 49mbs down and 5 mbs upload, yet we pay for 100 by 100 mbs

Supersonic Fibre is unstable and unreliable, and they have a no care attitude to resolve issues, if you work from home do not both with fibre from Supersonic MTN we pay for pathetic service,
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Kevin R's update18 Jul 2022, 17:35
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Friday 15 midnight, Saturday 16, Sunday 17, Monday 18 July 2022, we had no Fibe connection, Supersonic asleep, Vodacom asleep, no service no help, no response,
5:30m fibre still off

Supersonic fails to cancel our month to month contract, manager at cancelation asleep promised to call from 9am nothing
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Kevin R's update19 Jul 2022, 14:04
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Tuesday 19 July 2022, Fibre is still not working, we have received no feedback, no one came out to fix issue, no telephonic call from supersonic mtn manager at cancelation, complete failure to provide service for which we pay R945 per month
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Kevin R's update20 Jul 2022, 13:35
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Wednesday 20 July 2022, Fibre is still not working, we got hold of supersonic yesterday and they told us issue with vodacom Fibre resolved, yet our Fibre is not working, we sent them pictures of alarm light on Fibre box, they never contacted us again