Gigaclear Broadband Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for Gigaclear.

Recent Customer Ratings for Gigaclear

  • Satisfaction
    2.1 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.1 stars
  • Speed
    2.7 stars
  • Reliability
    2.3 stars

Based on 136 customer ratings since 2023-05-03 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

192 Customer Reviews over 20 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    South Petherton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    Experiencing speeds slower than my old FTTC connection. No customer support. Rude employees end chat sessions with you and lie. AVOID Gigaclear.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Launton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    The worst internet provider EVER. Internet breaks once a week on a regular basis for various reasons. I am spending £40 monthly on BT wifi because I work from home and Gigaclear is failianing regularly.

    AVOID GIGACLEAR !!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Buckinghamshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    A simply awful provider. Took some nine months from initial installation date to get service up and running. Their support team are clueless. We have had two total service outages this week. Their engineers don't work on Sundays so we will have been without broadband for 36hrs before they even book someone to take a look. Appalling. I wish we had stuck with dsl.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    South West
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Disgraceful service, non existent customer service and they use a very dodgy 3rd party installation company called MACK UTILITIES LTD from Bristol who are almost criminal in their practice and rude beyond belief.

    Do not be duped by the deceptive cheap advertised prices as they will not deliver if there is anything non standard/straightforward regarding the order, and they WILL leave you hanging on a litany of broken promises for MONTHS!.

    Avoid with your life, especially if you reside in the south west of England.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Blandford Forum
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Very poor customer service and experience.
    Very very dissapointing and such a let down by Gigaclear.
    Complaints go unanswered for weeks (stated 5 day response time!).
    Installation of our fibre has remained incomplete for over 3 months now - we've delicate fibre cable coiled all over our front garden above ground awaiting the return of gigaclear to finish the installation.
    Cannot cut grass or bushes or continue building works until the installation is completed and cable protected however, according to Gigaclear customer services my systems working so no problem!

    Ive emailed and spoken to customer services on countless occasions - even instructed the revoking of direct debit mandate thats not been actioned (Gigaclear are currently debiting my account WITHOUT approval).
    Equipment supplied Nodes are faulty and will not connect to the network amd insainley difficult to set up.
    Complete dissapointment, with the competitiveness of fibreoptic suppliers choose carefully, im trying to exit my contract due to all the above after four months service to go with a reputable provider.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Somerset
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    Comments
    I signed up with gigerclear over a month ago they said they had technical problems with the engineer so they promised me they were coming out on the 12th of July to fix the problem and they will phone me on the day to make sure I all is okay still no phone call still no engineer phoned up the next day. Couldn’t tell me when engineer was coming. Promise me that they’re phone me back after they talk to the engineer. Still nothing nearly 2 months now and they can’t be bothered to phone you back or help you in anyway cancelling my prescription going somewhere else absolutely crap service and full of liars strongly advise stay away from them
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Northamptonshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    We have been Gigaclear customers for a number of years. When it works, yes, it’s fast, but cross your fingers you don’t ever encounter a fault because if you do, you’ll soon wish you’d gone for a slower speed with an ISP who understands the need for rapid fault-finding and restoration of service in this day and age. To say Gigaclear are appalling at this would be an understatement - a quick search here and on other review sites will reveal plenty of horror stories.

    We are currently on our 8th day without broadband service and live in an area with poor mobile coverage. It took a few days after reporting the fault for an engineer to visit our property. He established the problem was at the cabinet which supplies our service and went off to investigate, returning 30 minutes later to tell us the cabinet didn’t exist and Gigaclear’s infrastructure plan is wrong… so he left.

    Since then we have been lied to numerous times by agents promising to call back with updates. At one point we were told the issue was with their build team and progressing, only to learn two days later that the build team knew nothing of it until that morning.

    Gigaclear do not class weekends as working days. On Tuesday 4th July it wasn’t even possible to speak on the phone with a customer service agent - lines were closed all day for training.

    Ignore the usual trash they post online about reaching out and ensuring customers are kept updated with the most accurate information at all times. As I write this (7/7/23) another deadline agreed with customer service for a progress report has been and gone.

    Short outages happen and are unfortunate, this is different. We’ve been lied to repeatedly and are nowhere nearer to finding out when our service will be restored. Our jobs are home-based and we have been unable to work for over a week. Enough is enough and we are in the process of taking our complaint beyond Gigaclear.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    South Kilworth, Leicestershire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Signed up for Gigaclear in May (as soon as the network was ready) and booked install for July after a pre-booked holiday. Few days after ordering chaps from the cabling contractors dropped the fibre from the pole and attached it to the side of my house...

    ..4 days before installation - phone call from Gigaclear - cancelled no resource.

    Re-booked for the following Saturday (which would see me with no broadband for 2 days as had already cancelled my old service - more fool me)

    2 days before the new installation date, phone call from Gigaclear - cancelled, we're not doing overtime that day so cant do it.

    Lost my temper and told them to sort or order cancelled. Too late to reinstate old service and am running on 4G with poor coverage.

    Based on this experience I have no confidence of getting a service at all and can see me cancelling.

    Looks like this is very standard for this company - how have they got ANY customers!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    West Herefordshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Hi All. I live in West Herefordshire. Gigaclear installed a Broadband network last year around our area and started signing up customers. I waited for a few months and then thought I would give it a try. On the appointed installation day (after an initial scoping visit), I waited and waited. NO one turned up and Gigaclear were never able to explain why. Frustrated with this I cancelled my service without ever receiving a service, hence no rating for that. After a month I saw Squirrel broadband advertised, they use the Gigaclear network. Unfortunately, this means that Gigaclear, or their contractors carry out the installation. Squirrel appear to be good and responsive but today I have waited all day for my installation and guess what, NOTHING has happened. Gigaclear are apparently unable to tell Squirrel why this is. Yes I know it is a 'First World' problem in the great scheme of things. How Gigaclear has any customers I find difficult to understand given their approach to customer service. I am unsure what to do next. Living in a rural area can be lovely but some basic services, and that includes 4G are not great.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Berkeley
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    when it works it's great but when it doesn't don't expect a speedy resolution as it won't happen. You'll be left chasing to be told your case has been escalated and you're now in a black hole. BEWARE!

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