BT Home Broadband Reviews

WORST SERVICE I HAVE EVER EXPERIANCED ... IF YOU ARE THINKING TO JOIN BT PLEASE DONT

Terrible Customer Service. Called up countless times to have the 218 pounds they owe me refunded. 4 weeks on and I'm still waiting!

Joined BT from sky on the 23rd April, smooth transition over. However on the 5th June after numerous phone calls to BT about broadband dropping out, not having the channels I was promised and the telephone not working, they said I could cancel penalty free due to being miss-sold. I was offered a good deal with sky therefore I went back. Sky sent me an email on the 5th June telling me that my SKY TV was active and they were doing a working line takeover of my phone number and broadband on the 19th June. BT sent me an email to tell me that my services were ending on the 12th June. I rang sky to make sure the 19th was the correct date and then called BT. BT said that there was no active line takeover and told me to call sky again, I called sky, and they said 100% that they were taking over on the 19th June. I called back BT who again said that this was not the case. They told me to call sky again, which I stupidly did who told me the same thing. I called back BT and they said what they would do is cancel that cancellation of my services for the 12th June and keep them running until the 19th June when I would need to call up and cancel (penalty free still) and they would refund me my money for this month. After checking my BT I could see that this was not done so I called BT again and said its still not cancelled, I kept getting told by different agents (always a different one every time I called, apologising and saying the last advisor was rubbish and that they are amazing and will get this sorted, none did) that the cancellation of the cancellation was done and that my services would continue. On the 12th June, I woke up to find my broadband had gone off. I called BT straight away who apologised that the agent before had not cancelled the cancellation properly so my TV and phone line were still active but broadband wasn’t. They then proceeded to tell me that I could get the broadband turned back on but it would take 2 weeks. Which was ridiculous given that telling them 15 times and it being in my notes that sky were taking over on the 19th.

So I was without broadband for a week until sky took over. I received a call on the 20th telling me that something had gone wrong and bt was saying that I still had my phone line with them, despite sky having it. He said he would have to send it to the off line team to cancel and that I would get a call on Friday telling me that everything had been cancelled down properly and I would have a refund for the month of services I did not have.

However! I wake Friday to 3 emails from BT at 5am!!!! First at 5:20am saying thanks for choosing bt there is an update to your order. My calling plan for the phone will start on the 22nd June for a years contract (WTF!) and will cost £21.99 a month (HUH!)
Second at 5:21am asking me to return my bt equipment as I don’t need it anymore.
Third at 5:21am telling me that my bt service is ending sorry to see me go. (this is just for the TV that I haven’t had since the 5th June).

Broadband: Over the course of 12 months with BT Broadband we had outages roughly once per month. Additionally, every weekend at some point as well as random other times the service would drop to a very low download speed (1-2mbps). So, it failed to meet speed and reliability expectations/promises.

Customer Service: When switching providers we wanted a slightly earlier date than the end of 12 months (already paid the full 12) because it was easier for us. BT informed us we'd be charged an extra £63.40 even though we paid for 12 months. When I called to try and sort this out I spoke with two people who both told me they weren't actually sure what the final bill would look like and couldn't tell me if there'd be more or less charges until the account was closed. So literally I could be charged £0 or I could be charged an unknown amount and I won't know until I have no way to change that. Terrible customer service. Go with Sky, or honestly anyone other than BT.

i am lucky to be able to write this review as i have a 5 minute window of being online before my BT broadband drops out again.

I have been with BT for about a year in a property and they have sent about 10 engineers, ive called them about 50 times and still i cant even send an email without it cutting out.

when i try to call up to downgrade the guy on the phone tries to sell me a higher priced product and tells me that new customers are higher priority.

I then ask to cancel the TV package and only use the broadband (so i dont waste as much money as i do now) and he asks me why. I then say that i prefer to use netflix and he asks why and tries to upgrade the package again.

I would highly avoid this company - load of rubbish.

Terrible terrible customer service, I had loads of issues and could only speak to an outsourced office in India who wouldn’t help me, and who refused to give me any other numbers or addresses to complain about my experience

Absolutely disgusted with BT returning customer who was assured i would not have the same issues as last time. They have taken the bad service to a whole new level by billing me for engineer visit after services crashed within 24 hrs of being conected

Sainsbury's Gift Card never arrived and they were appalling when I contacted Customer Services. Dreadful Indian Call centre. Junk mail pushing BT Sport every two or three weeks. Prices exploded as soon as contract up. Just spotted small print with days to go I had to opt out not in to BT Sport after free 6 months. Broadband itself was good but when it cut out it was down for hours rather than minutes. I went with them as I needed a new line installing in a new place and they were cheapest for that. But left as soon as contract was up and woukd never go back based on Call Centre service and Gift Card con.

got fibre ￡34 per month,worked well for 3 weeks then speed dropped drastically.Bt have fobbed me off for months now and with no real help.My old standard plusnet was better value.This has been their 2nd chanece,I will never use them again

The only reason they get a 1 star is because you can’t leave 0! Worst customer service I have ever experience! They don’t care about their customers in the slightest! They’ve cause me nothing but issues and stress since signing up! Avoid them like the plague that they are! Their service is substandard anyway, got to hyperoptic and get a much much faster long for a better price!! Absolute joke of a company that I will never be a part of again!!

went with BT to save money on the TalkTalk after five year. BT are absolute rubbish for £30 a month I can get better broadband is like 90's DSL. only 2 Wi-Fi devices working at same time.

Shocking absolutely shocking I pay £70 a month for these tv channels and I can’t even watch bbc & itv in hd what’s the point I miss all World Cup what a waste of money and I called customer services for help. The lady on other side put phone down on me never ever again I will change with somethingalse ASAP

Right so first off the customer service is crap. Secondly ur ripping us off for internt that don’t even work yeah. Whilst I play my Xbox and PC, of someone else is on the internet it lags I get kicked out of games, it takes 10 bloody minuets to load a YouTube video. UR SERVICE IS SHIT UR BROADBAND IS SHIT, DONT BUY BT THERE A WASTE OF TIME THEY CAUSE U STRESS U CANT DO NOTHING DONT WASTE UR MONEY GUYS. JUST DONT.

I transferred to BT Mobile after 14 years with Three. Not only did I get a cheaper deal, but the 4G average is 97mbps compared to Three’s 53mbps. I honestly thought that all providers used the same masts. I’ve had 2 issues with 2 calls to knowledgeable people in the UK! What a difference not having to repeat myself again and again. Both calls were answered quickly and sorted in a single call. I have signed up for BT Plus and Broadband speed is decent for my area. Having double my mobile plan means for workers from home I can tether to my iPhone and get websites uploaded 700% quicker. I still believe the fixed line could be quicker, but overall, very good to have a British brand firmly back in Britain!

THIEVES
BT have been overcharging my granddad who has dementia and knows no better for a substandard copper broadband package. He's been getting charged over 100 pound a month for a package you can pick up for under 40 pound from themselves. Safe to say I have cancelled it and will never use BT as long as I live.

After several calls to chase up a broadbabd fault on Sunday now being told they need to send me a new Hub and that could take 5 days! No reasoning with any of the advisers. Engineer came out this morning reported we needed new router but still hadn't been auctioned when I rang to chase up! In the middle of a house move can't action e mails or transfer monies do they care no they don't. Bet if I rang up as a new customer they'd use next day delivery to get my router to me . It appears that those of us who've been with them for many years get poorer service for our loyalty . Adviser told me once problem was fixed I 'wouldn't regret sticking with BT '. Yes what I'm moving house and there are plenty of other providers in the market place.

If you value your health then don't get into a contractual obligation with these guys. They will hang up on you if they don't like what you are complaining about, they will tell you they'll fix your broadband speed because you've been put on the wrong plan (a cheaper one of course) but they won't, they'll tell you that you'll get a rebate but you won't, they'll tell you they'll call you back but they won't. The most appalling service of all, you will get. They organisation is so chaotic that nobody knows what they're talking about are and everybody is just trying to blag it. One guy kept repeating that my speed is measured in Megabytes/s and another was making drawing comparisons between my 2 years old telephone filter and a 16 years old girl which is supposedly better than a 60 years old women (not sure in what sense)!

BT Infinity in Postcode MK44 2__ is not workable. The lines from the Cabinet are not only too long to provide Superfast Broadband, the copper is too thin. Can't even support 10Mbps Standard Broadband yet BT will tell you that between 10 and 19Mbps Download is achievable. The BT App asserts that their SpeedTester is the best at assessing line speeds and network capability. Does not compute. OFCOM are paper tigers.

BT customer service is rubbish. I have been without email for almost 2 weeks, have spent hours on the phone over the past 10 days speaking to one call centre or another and been fobbed off each time. Just do what you promise - if you say you are going to resolve my problem and call me back at a specific time then do it! I still have no email after speaking to yet another ‘help’ line person this afternoon who told me there was a problem, I am aware of this but no one seems to know what the problem is or how or when it can be resolved. I am waiting in again for yet another call tomorrow which may or may not happen; if it does then I am pretty sure that my problem will not be resolved. I am paying for a service that I am not receiving and this is unacceptable- do not use them! I have put my email in so that I can submit this review but it is not working - ask BT why!

Failed to install on the day, ended up with no landline, no broadband for 4 days. Only got it fixed after numerous calls and finally exploding - 15 mins later it works. I register a complaint and I start to get texts from Indian sounding names to my daughters BT mobile (she's 11) about the complaint. I reply to tell them not to use an underage girls number...they send another to that number. In the end I call them and spend an hour to get a miserly £20 back for forf the trouble and a total refusal to reduce a £59 connection fee i.e. it's fine that I should pay full for a botched service and any losses incurred as a result are my problem, they don't care. Also they have totally lost any record that I should have got reward vouchers so I should kiss goodbye to that part of the offer I signed on for. The customer service is shocking. If you want to listen to 'unfortunately' and other trained platitudes but a refusal to do anything, please give them a call. I only moved from Sky as they kept sneaking the price up and at one point even charged me for not having their TV service...so thought i'd try BT. All as bad as each other.