Aliant Problems the Saga Continues

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

So Aliant customer service calls me, not to try to convince me to stay or to see if  they can be helpful but to tell me I have to pay them for 30 more days, as they added a note in small print to my bill, but never told me nor notified me in a clear precise manner.

By paying your bill you agree to the small print that says you are required to give 30 days notice even if you Don’t Have contract and they never tell you. They said this was added onto your bill awhile ago and that is all the warning they had to give me small print that you can barely read as they have done everything they can to hide it.

So I have to keep paying them for 30 days, what a bunch of crooks first they give me poor service I tried to get it fixed and they tell me no, and then they tell me well we are going to charge you for the crappy service even after you told us you don’t want it.

That’s just great know what I spent 8 years with this company and i’ll spend the next 10, with a different company and recommend to anyone who asks to switch to a competitor. They made sure not just to burn the bridge between themselves and a customer but to create a huge gorge so that I’ll never want to try to cross it again.

Rogers is going to have to do something awful terrible to make me consider using Aliant as a service provider. As soon as my cell phone contract is up Hello Fido, and i’ll be telling Bell/Aliant thank you for doing everything possible to make me want to switch.

Problems with Bell Aliant going to Rogers

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Well for years I would have told anyone who asked to go to Aliant, a firm believer and maybe a reluctant joker that the service offering and the care and attention would be carried over from NBTel.

I have used strictly Bell and Aliant for my cell phone, home phone, internet for 8 years, and bell for my tv for 5 years. After all of this time I thought when my High Speed Internet (up to 1.5 mps) was only producing 100kbs download and 50 kbs upload for the last two years they would do something to increase my high speed. I was told there was nothing they can do and I would have to live with it. (yeah I know why did i put up with it for 2 years)

A good friend of mine living in St. Stephen paying for the exact same package gets 500kbs download, why am I only getting 100kbs? I have been told it’s my lines to my location, my jacks, even the box that they gave me, so I had a new jack added based on their recommendation and still left with 100kbs.

So I decided that I would switch my internet and only my internet to Rogers just so it would be faster. When discussing this option with Aliant, I’m then told that I will lose my long distance, my value package and more. They will knock $52 off my bill but add $20 to my cell phones and for basic long distance another $16 and that without internet through them there was no value package options.

So frustrated and annoyed as they would not work with me to come up with an alternate solution. All I really wanted was a faster internet connection, I mean online gaming, web design and web development does not work on a slow internet connection.

I called rogers and told them what I wanted and the guy on the phone says “Sir we want to work with you to give you the best services and options we can.” Even through I am stuck with Aliant on my cell phones every other service is now switching over to Rogers on the 19th. Yes now have a download cap but they said if I’m not getting my 7mb sec they will be at my house to get the problem fixed, the slowest I should see is 5mb sec which is Fine by me.

It works out that I will only be paying $30 more a month that what I am right now due to the facts that our cell phones are jumping by $20 a month. I am actually recieving way more in terms of tv with an hd pvr, hd channels and more. To get that with bell I would have had to add on $60 a month to what I’m already paying for the same thing…

So in the news Aliant is cutting jobs (sorry to those people who lost thier jobs),  well maybe if they would give better service to people living in the cities they wouldn’t be switching to Rogers. This is one customer that didn’t want to switch but was left with no choice.