699 Customer Reviews over 18 pages
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- Location
- Port Glasgow
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-04-05
- Comments
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Tried to set up now broadband as the cheapest, website makes you put in bank details and doesn't leave you able to request a set up date, but to set a date for engineer to visit, which now realise is the date, but you can't change the date, request set up date everything leads to calling customer service which is abroad hard to understand, where they keep you waiting while they ask colleagues, update your account, then can't do this simple request think this is a scam to keep people on phone for long time and then results in telling you to call back in a day or two, ended up just requesting cancellation and asked for email to confirm cancelled, didnt get anything, only a customer survey which I completed. I am a rational person and wanted cheaper broadband but now reading other reviews realise that any problem would result in calling the helpline and really shoddy rude 'service' and I hadn't even got to starting with them, however doing this enabled me to get a better deal from my current provider as they had gone to the step of requesting having the same number from my provider.....DONT DO IT!
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- Bath
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-04-03
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At last with Plusnet. Funny that Now said the upload speed was excellent, it must be me… there is nothing they can do… I was instructed to raise the router/ take it away from the radiator/ get nearer to it.. etc etc . For 4 months I have paid for a service that did not work although Now couldn’t do anything. They closed the line so it’s taken a while to change to Plusnet but it is lightening quick. Amazing instant change!!!
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- Location
- Pickering
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-04-03
- Comments
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I had a contract for phone and broadband that was billed at £23.50 per month.
I received an email reminder on the 2nd February 2024 that my contract was about to end saying it will continue at 23.50 per month if i do nothing:
"Do nothing and continue with your existing membership for £23.50 a month".
Further down the email it says:
Keep what you have:
From 03/03/2024 you will pay:
£23.50 a month
(No contract, keeps rolling unless cancelled, cancel anytime)
Super Fibre
63 Mbps Average Speed, Unlimited Downloads, includes Line Rental
Anytime calls
To choose this option you don't have to do a thing.
However my bill for March was £46.50, an extra £23!
I have called Now and was told that I should have scrolled to the end of the email for further details.. I was also told that the offer was no longer available and the new contract would be £33 per month.
Misleading and deceitful communication. AVOID!
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- Durham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-04-01
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Signed up for broadband in 2022 as it was a good offer online. This offer wasnt available in the end as id had to call them to confirm it and the agent put the offer through. I therefore asked them to cancel it within the cancellation which they failed to do. They sent the equipment out anyway but this wasnt received due to my household having COVID. They were aware of this and still didnt cancel. They have been told on more than one occasion they arent providing a service and to stop taking payment but again they didnt. The customer service is non existent, they are useless. I expected they had cancelled after my last correspondance but they didnt and I only realised when they sent me an email informing of price increases (feb 2024). Once again i have asked them to cancel and this time they have acted appropriately or at least say they have, but they are refusing to refund the money for the sercive they havent provided. They have offered a "gesture of good will" which is no where near the amount they have stolen from my account. The email received from the 'manager' was simply incoherent babbling with no meaning, substance or resolution. I will be taking this issue further and luckily the account they had is linked to my credit card and so i will raise a charge back and see if i can get the money back that way. If you are looking for broadband, Tv, or any service, do NOT touch Now!!
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- Location
- Stockport
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-29
- Comments
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Con men I took out a £17.99 a month plan and on checking now taking £36-50 a month without my authorisation and have been doing so since last september
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- Location
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-29
- Comments
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Absolute joke. Avoid Now Broadband like the plague!!! Incompetent company based abroad somewhere. Customer service is absolutely diabolical. No actions taken to resolve complaints and communication is terrible and hard to understand the agents! If I could give 0 stars I would. I'm really frustrated and annoyed
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- Location
- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-26
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If I could give ZERO I would.
I had my internet from NOW installed beginning of January. From the day after the engineer arrived internet didn't work. I reported the fault 9th March on moving into the property. NOW confirmed they will send an engineer round . I received a text message the beginning of the week confirming the engineer will come round and replied yes to being at home that day. The morning of the visit came, I receive another text message confirming the engineer will be round between 1-6pm and that if no one is in you may be charged £25. I stayed at home the afternoon waiting for the engineer to come, only for 5.30pm to roll around with no engineer in sight. I call customer service to find out no one was ever going to come because it is an external issue. I asked to be cancel my membership and be reimbursed for the loss of service I incurred. This still hasn't happened. Multiple phone calls to CS only to find out I will only be refunded £12!?! After I've paid £80 for a service that never worked and that also wasted my day and meant I had a loss of income on the day that I waited for the engineer to come. Useless, time wasters, rude, disrespectful. Don't go with this company.
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- Location
- Devon
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-24
- Comments
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0840 on a Sunday morning and trying to talk to someone at Now. Taken through various menus which you have to listen to in full before you are allowed to select an option. Then advised the department is closed. Opening hours are 0830 to 2000 7 days a week. Standard fare from another parasite company that exists to provide minimal service while trying to bleed as much money as possible from their customer base.
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- Location
- Walthamstow
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-19
- Comments
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I never write bad reviews, but I'm absolutely forced to with this shoddy service
Meant to install on a Thursday, engineer never turned up, called to complain then they rearranged later this week, never turned up again and customer services blamed me for this despite getting confirmation, and refused to do anything to help stating that open reach was an external service, which whilst is true to not care about a customers predicament when I explained I was in desperate need for wifi for work is extremely unprofessional.Immediately cancelled and once I switched to Vodafone things where sorted in the week. Avoid now broadband like the plague as they clearly don't value the customer
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- Location
- Harrogate
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-19
- Comments
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Avoid at all costs. Used to be really good when the CS team were in Ireland & had authority to change things. Now, it's all scripted from somewhere abroad and the CS (I use that term VERY lightly can only go through the pre-defined motions of the script provided. A lot of dropouts of the service, almost daily although when it worked, the speeds were as advertised but the frequency of this happening has reduced drastically. The router provided has an appalling range and very difficult to get the settings from to move to another type.
The final straw however is the intentionally deceitful wording on the email they send when the contract has around a month to run... I followed the instructions as copied & pasted below:
"Do nothing and continue with your existing membership for £23.49 a month. Or Pick from one of the packages available to you below".
I did nothing and then received saw that NOW had charged me £46.50. Queried it and they said to check the very bottom of the email where buried is a small section saying you'll lose your discounts. Cynical, misrepresentation & just downright sneaky. No offer of a refund & the new offer I could have was worse than the offers available for existing customers. CS could not care that I was leaving & just said that i need to give 2 weeks notice if I did.
Like others, I'll be forwarding the email onto the ombudsman for investigation.
Don't do it, I stayed as long as I did as they were the only ones offering a monthly rolling contract, with that gone & them just being a "me too" now, definitely not worth putting up with the almost non existent CS, poor speeds, dropouts & almost not for purpose router. You have been warned! Not just by me but read below too...
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- Location
- Morecambe
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-15
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Please do not waste your hard earned money on Now or Nowtv. They do not allow you un-subscribe without using 3rd party arbitration. Also highly inflate the monthly subscription bill there-after.
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- Location
- Brighton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-15
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I have for a whole month tried logging into my NOW account to cancel and every single time it says that the log in is not working at this moment. I have tried contacting them which also has not worked. This is an extremely unreliable company. Do not recommend.
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- Location
- Burnley
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-13
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I give Now a zero rating for customer service and satisfaction, I have requested a "shift and lift" on the line into a property ( in other words to move where the line comes in) Now firstly couldn't understand what was required and sent a fault engineer and now deny they can order this from Openreach, who tell me only the phone supplier can order a line shift. Absolutely hopeless don't go to Now.
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- Location
- Edgware
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-11
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Internet is not working, customer service is not so good, no ackknowledgement, i have been complaining since a week and still not resolved. Worst experience.
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- Location
- Whickham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-10
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I have absolutely no complaints about Now Broadband. Been with them for years with no problems. Only had one outage which was fixed quickly and I was compensated for this. Average speed always above promised speed even at peak time. Don't believe all the so called reviews on this site!
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- Location
- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-07
- Comments
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Like others received an email to say am now out of contract and have choices.
One is to continue at current price plus other options that all were dearer.
To stay as is you need to do NOTHING.
Now find this is untrue as you have to call them.
Totally misleading email beware.
Customer service is offshore and poor English speaking.
Will be leaving after this year but will involve lots of work transferring everything over.
Have to say have not had problems with the broadband service reliability
Just the totally misleading email
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- Location
- Bournemouth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-06
- Comments
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Broadband is crap! Do not buy!
I’ve called 20times regarding my speed and keep being told it’s at the levels expected despite my own speed tests being way under. I can’t have a teams call and upload or download at the same time and god forbid I want to watch a film on Netflix!! Customer services tell me there is nothing wrong so I can’t get out of my contract and if I want to leave early I have to pay off the entire contract plus a cancellation fee!! Disgusting service
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- Alexandria
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-04
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Ive just experienced exact same problem as previous post from Kai. Email received in December from NOW as my contract was ending, with choices which included do nothing and pay the same, This was confirmed further on in the email to keep same deal for same price. Only realised today have been charged additional £15.00 for last two months. Phoned twice to complain and ask for refund. Cut off both times when I asked to escalate my complaint. Their email is not only misleading, but also fraudulent. I think that the intention of their email is to knowingly deceive their customers. Im currently in process of looking for a new broadband provider. Absolute shocking customer services.
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- Location
- Surrey
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-03
- Comments
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Cuts out constantly, worse broadband I’ve ever had with equally useless customer service. Initially attracted to the 12 months contract but wish I’d avoided now.
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- Location
- Sheffield
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-03
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How petty can you get I've decided to go to a new provider leaving on the 19th of this month cancelled my contract last month by phone to give them enough notice no problem booted game console up yesterday the 2nd March to install a new game,the download speed was low went on to pc to check the speed should be 63mbps through wifi which I have been getting as my router is downstairs it is now 22mbps so just because I was leaving at the end of my contract they have been so petty to drop my speed down. Read the comments on this site and now agree with them if you are leaving NOW Broadband at the end of your contract give them the minimum notice you can because they will drop your speed down so it's virtually unusable will NEVER use this organisation again for broadband or any of their services including their TV services which I have also cancelled.
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- Location
- Teignmouth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-03-01
- Comments
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Big scam company they advertise there broadband cheap to get you to sign up but then they dont supply the said speeds or service, in fact from day one my internet did not work at all. I tried to phone Now but it is impossible to get through to a real person everything is just automated. I then tried to email them but again just got automated replies non of which helped. I then tried the live chat on there website but turns out its not live at all its just a computer. The problem was at there end not mine and because i could not get hold of a real person to explain the situation i could not try and sort the problem out so in the end i had no choice but to cancel the payments at my bank as i was paying for something that i never got or had. Now i am getting emails and letters demanding money for charges for leaving early. Mybe if they had proper customer services where you can actually talk to a real person then mybe i wouldnt of had to cancel at my bank and leave early. Now breaks there own contracts and terms by not supplying the promised service, they take money from your bank for something they never gave and when you dare to cancel they will take no responsibilily and blame everything on you and add charges and threaten you with legal action. I am taking this to watchdog as i am pretty sure its illegal to offer a service then not give it but still take money and add charges when they havent even supplied the service in the first place, just think of the world we would live in if everyone did that. Avoid this company like the plague there scam artists.
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- 1st floor flat in Workington
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-27
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Very very low Mbps speed close to the router barely 1.5 Mbps in the bedroom next door.
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- Location
- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-26
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NOW is staffed by completely incompetent people, I've been trying to take over/open a new account as my housemate has moved out, and every person I've spoken to says a different thing. I've wasted hours on the phone to these unprofessional clowns. It should be simple and straightforward but they can't be bothered to train their employees and seem to think people have nothing better to do than waste hours on the phone to them. The most painful unprofessional experience with a service provider.
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- Enfield
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-26
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Terrible and unreliable bband. Drops speed over and over again. Service is rude and very unhelpful. One of the worst customer experiences I can recall. Avoid
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-23
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Worst broadband experience I have ever had - and in general all providers are bad so the bar is low. Well done NOW broadband for being the worst. Internet connection is so weak my phone switches to 5G when I’m standing over the router. Customer service is abysmal and asking if the three lights show green and then saying there is nothing wrong when the signal is dripping out is unhelpful at best. Do not sign up with this provider, they are truly the worst.
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- Blackburn
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-21
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Underhand tactics to rip you off.
Receive an emails saying if you do nothing your bill will be 23.50 pm. Received a bill for 43 yet customer service have no interest what so ever in giving me my 20 back. Reporting them to financial ombudsman and ofcom
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- RG1
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-18
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- Northampton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-11
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Getting support is impossible. Customer care is just not what they do. If you need help the BOT takes you in a circular journey and then the pages fail.
Getting a human to speak to followed a 40 minute wait time and was then cut off. Just avoid like the plague is my advice.
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- Skelmersdale
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-10
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This provider gives decent broadband. HOWEVER. There is absolutely no app available that lets you control who uses the broadband in the house, device management, diagnostics, remote management. Nothing. It is something that they really need to address as it is lacking severely on its competitors. Is will be looking at alternatives when my 12 month contract is up.
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- Uxbridge
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-09
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I've been with NowB for a few years now. Back in Aug 23, I received an email saying I have two options and one of them was to keep what I had for which it said: "Do nothing and continue with your existing membership for £30.49 a month". Overall this was a better option and I "did nothing" to remain on that package. However I noted they started charging me £48 rather than 30 (do nothing option). I called today to seek refund, they say you never called back to confirm your new package and that's why you're on the standard rate.
I called this daylight rubbery!
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- ALTON
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-09
- Comments
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Very quick to take a payment but when it comes to actually getting it activated I am left waiting. No feedback, just told to wait another 24 to 48 hours after the due date.
Working form home without broadband is causing endless hassles. Should have gone elsewhere.
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- Hawick
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-08
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Took 2 weeks for the broadband to go live. Does not work as there is a fault somewhere that needs to be investigated by 'the team'. This will take another 48 to 72 hours. If I want to be compensated for no service I need to contact them again. No phone number available on their Web support although it states you can only contact them by phone. Say need photos of the installation before can do anything which takes yet more time. Truly awful service and cheap for a reason. Will switch to someone else while I still can. Be warned...
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-04
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The speeds I get are actually quite good but the connection drops on a daily basis. Currently I'm out of contract which is always a way for them to excuse charging more than double for the same service simply because you haven't promised further payments even with the months notice period.
Yet during this time of higher charges the connection has dropped more than normal!
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- West Midlands
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-04
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Appalling. Happy to upgrade me then wring billing, late upgrade, slow Broadband and dead landlines. Try to resolve this today was cut off 3 times after 4 phone calls. Issue could not be resolved. Landlines still dead. Shoddy, poor and inept.........
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- East Sussex
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-03
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I had a no contract service with NOW for 3 years. They advised me that the price was increasing slightly. However they increased my bill by a mystery £15.
Apparently they roll in a free calls package (even tough i don't have a landline phone) and then jack up the price. However this still didn't account for the increase.
Call handlers were hard to get hold of, off-hand and unable to explain my bills. They also wouldn't refund over charged payments or rectify the issue without forcing me into a 12 month contract. They also continued to charge a call package after termination of my account and switching to another provider taking 3 months to refund this.
Just appalling
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- Perth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-02-02
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This is easily the worst broadband I've ever had. It keeps cutting out, and when it is running, it is so slow. I also had to buy an extender because it's so crap. Avoid at all costs, it's a bunch of complete rubbish. DO NOT BUY!!!
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- Cricklewood
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-01-26
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Slow Slow Slow. So slow my search times out. I can’t wait to leave
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- Location
- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-01-25
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Wish we'd read these reviews first. I've never had such an awful experience with a utility company. Two months delay connecting our broadband - no explanation other than to blame Openreach. A problem that other utility companies apparently don't have. I think I've managed to deduce that it is a computer system issue at NTv end. Messed us around for 2 months, no info, didn't even reply to emails to the complaints department. How they are allowed to operate in this industry with this level of non-service, I'm mystified. Don't bother, we only chose them because of lack of fixed contract. We've given up and gone with BT.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-01-18
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Absolutely useless. The product is terrible and the speeds are just nonexistent. We have been with Now for a month and it feels like a year! We have already cancelled to go with someone else sue to how poor everything has been. The signal is terrible, we have had to buy 2 boosters for the house to try and get any signal anywhere, and still have incredibly poor connectivity. We have called customer services a number of times, they seem to just want you off the phone quickly and don’t really offer any help. They were supposed to send an engineer after the 4th call to them just for my wife to wait in all day and no one turn up. Having called them again, they eventually admitted that no one ever did come out. As I type this, no streaming services on my tv which is in the same room as a booster, can connect to anything so I will need to reset the hub for the 7th time today!! Avoid this lot at all costs.
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- Oldha.
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2024-01-18
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If you enjoy your broadband repeatedly disconnecting every day whilst trying to work from home and having every task uninterrupted for hours, then sign up to this rubbish. Otherwise I'd recommend you steer well clear
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