699 Customer Reviews over 18 pages
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- Moon
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-04-16
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Absolute rubbish might as well be on a desert island
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- Dorset
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-10-02
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Just the most terrible experience ever . I swapped from sky thinking that they are the same company what could possibly go wrong ? .. believe me I urge anybody to stay well clear . You cannot speak to anybody ... if by some miracle you do get through after hours and hours of being put on hold you speak to a northern Irish call centre who could not give two hoots if you have no phone or internet or both in my case . I cancelled . They still continued to debit my account . Believe me don’t sign up . You will regret it. Like I do ... big time
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- Redditch
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-06-14
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I have never left a review but feel compelled to on this occassion. Terrible Fibre Broadband coupled with equally terrible, rude customer service staff who could not give a damn about any issue you have. I regret the day I ever switched to this company.
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-01-10
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I just read a previous review here after my own awful experience and it clearly is an issue with NOW broadband DO NOT USE THEM.
I signed up for Now Broadband in November 2021 with a setup date at the start of December. A few days before setup I called because I hadn’t received a router but was told it would be there within days.
A few further texts and calls and start of January I was again told setup would be within days and in any case I’ll receive automatic compensation of £5 a day for the delay (perfect as that would cover the premium I’ve been paying out of contract waiting for setup).
Today I received a text saying my order had been cancelled so panicked and called Now. Now have informed me they incorrectly put through the request for broadband service to openreach. As a result firstly I am apparently not entitled to ANY compensation for a 6wk delay, secondly I have been asked to completely re-submit for Now Broadband. Unsurprisingly I’ve decided not to use them as my provider.
6wks of wasted time, incorrect information, and horrible customer service who said unless I use their broadband I’m not entitled to any compensation for inconvenience and all the lies and additional costs I’ve faced.
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- ka3
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2019-06-27
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3.8mb down and 0.3 up.
so called brilliant broadband.
there speed checker says 13mb and 1.2mb.
total crap. ive used several independent speed checkers and not one tested over 3.8mb. wifi signal drops of approx 8ft away from router with no walls or doors in way. customer services say . you bought cheap slow broadband so thats what you got, AVOID
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- Harlow
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2021-07-29
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***AVOID AVOID AVOID*** after waiting over a month with no updates, the company eventually told me that the order had been cancelled by mistake. They said I had to re-apply....(Not Likely). The staff are all on a work experience from a primary school. they are thick, rude, unprofessional, non empathetic, and totally useless. (They all seem to be based in Ireland! Make of that what you wish.) They quote data protection, and won't tell you who they are, they really don't understand life because they have no life experience. Pay peanuts, get monkeys!The negative feedback and comments on this site tell the truth. In fact they will not be around soon they are so bad, Virgin is much better, are they are also useless so YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. ***AVOID AVOID AVOID***
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- Oxford
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-01-27
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Terrible Experience
I should NEVER have signed up for Now Broadband. The service has never worked, despite long calls to the call centre and also formal complaints, which have not been responsible.
Seb
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- Runcorn
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-06-28
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Broadband Speed was so slow, communications were so bad. I literally had to wait 30mins each time when there is incorrect billing on their side. I'll never recommed NOW broadband to anyone, unless they are extremely stupid.
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-05-13
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I was worried about going with Now given all the people whinging on this site! Initially wanted to go with virgin but can't access them at the new flat, everywhere else was minimal 18 month contract. Bit the bullet and went with Now as could get a 12 month contract- have had no issues. Simple set up, fast broadband, arrived early and activated on the day it said it would. Would recommend.
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- Witham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-06-20
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Rubbish customer services, can't get hold of anyone, go round and round in circles trying to do anything and no direct number to customer service
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- New Malden Surrey
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-11-09
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I wish I had read this before signing my mother up to Now Broadband - useless speed - dreadful customer service and no way to speak to a supervisor - BT is 5 star by comparison and they were pretty dreadful!
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- Lancashire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-08-02
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Service is good. Customer service is non existent. Only tv customers can chat online. Broadband customers have to call but no number is listed on website or in member area. Online bot just sends you to member area.i changed payment details but they still trying to take from old details. Obviously they don't want my money lol
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-05-25
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After researching a number of broadband providers and reading various reviews I ended up going with Now and I couldn't be happier. Box arrived a week before live date. So easy to set up and it's never dropped out at all since we started it up (as some reviews suggest.) I work from home so rely on the internet being fast and reliable so I'm very pleased this has worked so well. Would highly recommend.
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- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-20
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i wouldn't even give then 1 star disgusting service wish i never went with them and i have only been with them for 2 months knew it was going to be bad when they said i would have to change my phone number broadband went live on the day but no phone line got in contact with them said my line was no good been with sky for 2 years never had a problem, so out reach came out after a week said it was my phone nothing wrong with my phone it was the cable they sent that didn't work my phone was working after that another month on broadband went down for 3 days on the phone said i had a fault on line again they sorted it or so i thought now yet again my phone is dead now when someone phones me its engaged how can that be phoned up yet again and an engineer is coming to my house as its my home line that not working which is a load of rubbish so i dont have a phone at the moment so have to wait till Monday 5 days without a phone so fed up with all this, then last night i have a email saying my broadband speed is to slow and if they cant sort it out i can come out of my contact after 30 days with nothing to pay for leaving early so i don't no what to do they dont know what they are doing and after all this they gave me 5 pounds for all the problems that they have caused do not have anything to do with this lot im so angry unbelievable
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- Wales
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-06-17
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Signed up gave my current provider 14 days notice.
Plenty of e mails but no action router was charged for but not arrived, on day of change over b band disconnected, I contacted them and I had failed at the first hurdle but they did not know why. They really did not have a clue on what they were talking about . All I could do was reapply for an account and that would take 14 days
Went back to my old supplier(plusnet) who were very helpful gave me a good deal and would rush everything through.
Basically do not use Now is my opinion.
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- Mountain ash
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-12-26
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Absolute disgrace I moved 20 miles down the road and I've had nothing but issues, I called and checked if I could still get the same service I got told yes, I asked if I would pay more I got told no. September I move and I go without a service 2 weeks, when I get a service its weak and it was dropping 7 times a day. Now its December I've had 2 engineer visits and the service is worse its done nothing but drop since Christmas Day evening. I've not even been given any compensation for the 2 weeks I had 0 service yet. I was told when I asked about the higher bill that when I move that happens I asked to go back in a contact they said there is none for this area and then I get an email giving me a right to exit with no fee but they ask me to go onto a contract with them. Makes no sense. It's boxing day and my WiFi drops every 2 -5 mins it's not a service that is fit for what is advertised. The customer service team is hopeless they've not got a clue. They need shutting down.
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- manchester
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-06-25
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Awful. Gave it a chance and got BB +The Tv package for 18.99 a month. Awful constant buffering. Losing connection. At one point nearly everyday. When I called they said I only have copper wire I really need to upgrade to fiber as the package I'm on is only really for reading the news online and surfing and I'm only getting 11mbps! I was laughing at this point, and pointed out that they had sold me it with NOWTV CHANNELS lol. I swear ridiculous. I think I was more annoyed that they treated me like I was stupid. Now I'm paying £24 a month and to be honest its not much better, they said id be getting 40mbps plus.I am doubtful. Thinking of cancelling as I'm tied in for another year now apparently!
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- Birmingham
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-01-03
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If it was possible to leave 0 stars I would. I have been waiting since November 20th to have the broadband installed at my property. It is now January the 3rd.
I have had appointments booked and then pushed back 4 times
Now TV will say they will call you, but will NOT
Now TV will not compensate you for the negative experience
Now TV never go the extra mile for a customer
Now TV will provide a 3mbps service and charge you full price for it
Now TV will bill you incorrectly so you have to ring & adjust it every month
AVOID at all costs
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- High Wycombe
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-03-14
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Awful
Connection doesn’t reach any room outside of my living room. I was told to move the router which I can’t because that’s where the connection is. Then I was told maybe it is because of the walls in my house?
I was instructed to split my wifi connection to 2 networks (one fast one slow) and use the slow one when I move round my house and connect to the fast one when I am near the router? Surely I should just have wifi in my whole house like previously with other companies without having to connect to 2 different channels (the slow one still doesn’t work anyway)
Then they blamed open reach says they do the speed checking or whatever (trying to fob me off for the fact it doesn’t work outside my living room and it is just generally rubbish broadband)
Anyway I’ve decided to cancel and go with someone else, the service was rubbish too. Absolutely no empathy whatsoever
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- Lutterworth
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-02
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What a load of **** this is. Had internet for 2 days then stopped working. Rang ow tv up after half over half an hour to get though. Had to ring up again following week as still not working for then get told someone was coming out between 1 and 6 waiting in for them no one came this has happened to me 3 times now. Had no internet for over a month yet my bill goes out on time. No one seems to care or help and none of the people you talk to are English either. I will never use this again after I have cancelled it for good. I have even emailed a complaint and no one has got back to me.
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- West Sussex
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-10-07
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I originally made an orderw with NOW broadband 3 months ago. Over 2 weeks ago they cancelled my order because they told me BT Openreach were not able to port my original Landline number. I re-arranged an order with them and was given an activation date. In the day there was no Internet or phone line. They then arranged for a BT Engineer to come. They never came. I then phoned up to ask what was happening. They told me BT Engineers did not come because of strike by BT workers. In fact, the strike was the day before my appointment with the engineer. They then told me I had to phone back after weekend to arrange another BT Engineer visit. Basically, they were asking me to do their job for them. They are also taking direct debits from me when I still have no service. I hope the BT engineer comes next week, otherwise I will have to cancel.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2021-08-02
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Absolutely useless without a doubt the worst option on the market I’ve cancelled after two weeks customer service is terrible internet connection is terrible WiFi Is simply unusable steer well clear of now broadband!!!
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- Gwent
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-09-28
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Takes most of day to get through to customer service and just found out that caller withhold and call baring is extra , looks cheap on face of things but bits like this add's to the price. Broadband not the fastest either. Can't wait for contact to end and I'm gone.
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- Luton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2020-12-22
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I can't fault NOW TV Broadband. After reading some of the other reviews and getting my date delayed by 1 week with an OpenReach issue, it turns out that it actually was an OpenReach issue. I spoe to NOW a couple of times, very quick to answer once you go through the Option 3, Option 1 answer message. Very polite staff, apologetic and contacted me to say they had heard from OpenReach and confirmed the switch on date. OpenReach arrived well in time, connected to the OpenReach socket and didn't have much of a signal, so the engineer put a new socket in within 2 minutes and I instantly got great coverage in all rooms with no lag whatsoever. My son started downloading his PlayStation 4 updates and games, we went out for an hour and came back and all was downloaded. Can't fault them to be honest, right from the start they've been consistently extremely polite and very helpful. I've got the 38Mb/s fibre broadband with landline and for £23 per month on a 12 month contract, they are cheaper by far than any other. 5 stars all round from me.
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- uk
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2018-06-20
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Had this Broadband for a couple of months now.2 Openreach visits 2 routers and still constant dropouts.Please do yourself a favour and avoid.Fibre joking uploads faster than downloads.Router is the worst i have come across wifi impossible if more than 10 feet away
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2021-07-28
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OMG....Do not waste your time with these cowboys. Waited over 1 month for connection, then they cancelled order due to a technical error. More like a thick member of their team from Northern Ireland who refused to give their name or team due to data protection. This was not a data protection issue, just rudeness and thickness from the thick female. Believe me these cowboys won't be in the broadband business for much longer. They are rubbish, even Virgin are better, are they are really bad !. Eventually they terminated the call because they had no where else to go......YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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- Northallerton
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-02-06
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Switched to them using Uswitch for Broadband & TV
Five days after switch still have no phone or internet. I work from home and it just a disaster.
Can’t get anywhere with the call centre.
Nightmare.
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- Morecambe
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 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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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-07-26
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If only I could give minus five stars
Avoid like the plague
Absolute junk of a router, weaker than a nun’s fart, and the customer service is really poor
You get what you pay for. There is a reason why these cowboys are so cheap
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2022-07-29
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Got my installation address completely wrong & despite repeated efforts to get them to amend it, they kept saying 'we use the Openreach address for your property' when I went online to Openreach used their post code checker for broadband for my address, up it came with my correct full address. Now ignored it even when I sent them the screenshot.
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- Lincoln
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2022-05-11
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Absolutely the worst provider I have ever been with. Customer service is non existent, always blaming the customer for the glacial broadband speed. Never take responsibility for their poor service. Broadband works 5 minutes out of the day and that's about it. NEVER GO WITH NOW BROADBAND. It will be the worst mistake of your life
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- MANCHESTER
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-11-10
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MOST People only write bad reviews if they are unhappy ... i am not Got rid of Virgin and quite happy with the service i am getting ... funny enough better wifi coverage in my house than Virgin ... just my pennys worth
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- Scotland
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-08-14
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Failed to supply purchased router. Switch went ahead away so no access to broadband until replacement sent.irish call centre less than helpful verging on contemptuous. Refuse to supply details so that I can use my own router in the short term and we don't even switch until tomorrow. Terrible start, terrible customer service, terrible mistake. Once up and running again first Google search will be for another more professional provider than these bunch whom I suspect are operating out of a caravan!
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- Hertfordshire
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2018-04-27
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Don't go near this company! unless you would like no connection and a barrel full of excuses about how BT "Open Reach" are to blame. Just wish this website advertising was more honest.... some like - There no NOW in now TV just empty space and certainly no chance of broadband being connected anywhere near the agreed date. Ps. you will be required to chase them as they will not communicate with you, they taken to putting their "head in the sand" with new customer and hoping for the best.
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- Swindon
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2022-01-21
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Just switched today from sky. Link speed on hub diagnostic page shows 64000kbps but only 34Mbps on Speedtest? Guaranteed speed 40mbps. However, first experience of calling Now customer services was great, shortest wait time for many other utility companies that I have had GREAT misfortune to deal with (especially the cable company) , and although they didn’t resolve speed immediately they explained the usual 7-14 day DLM process, so I have to wait 2 weeks, which is fair enough. Line reliability seems good, I have been messing around with the wiring to remove extension wiring etc and after switching off hub a number of times it came back very quickly. Very stable D/L and U//L speeds (just not as fast as promised on D/L)
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- Dunstable
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2023-10-14
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Broadband went down at 5.36 Saturday morning. Now website says we're working on it.
12 hours later I call for an update.
They will be a MINIMUM of 72 hours before it's looked at. They don't work weekends.
I will be leaving on Monday for someone competent.
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- Gosport
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
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- 2017-12-19
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Just switched to NOW TV and switch over day came and went, after speaking to customer service they told me the phone had moved across and they were still working on the fiber. phoned again today and they now say there is a problem that they are not sure what it is and it is OpenReach that are causing it, and they will get back to me in 72 hours to give me an update. This si astounding that it takes 72 hours to get an update, with working from home i need internet to do my job and so far NOW TV has let me down, if they get nothing back to me in 72 hours (22 Dec) i expect i will be without internet for christmas holidays, if this is the case i will be cancelling and moving to someone else.
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- London
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2020-05-11
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AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!
Its very rare a company gets it so wrong and Now Broadband have got it terribly wrong! When signing up to the service I was aware they said they cannot guarantee speed and I remember that but the problem was the wifi signal. You basically can only get a good signal in the same room with nothing in the way. You can imagine in a house you can't get good internet in most other rooms.
Trying to get through to them was a joke and it took many attempts and ridiculous waiting times only to get cut off and then start the conversation again. Furthermore, no matter how many times I told them that it wasn't the speed they would feed me a line and keep testing the speed.
Finally someone understood and told me I needed to buy a booster. I though that was a joke because they were not providing the service. In the end it took several months and a third party regulator to get £25 credit after suffering 8 months of poor service.
So in conclusion, they may not give you a service, the customer service uses no common sense. they are ridiculously hard to get a hold of. If you want more proof there was a national news article of something terrible that happened because they have no common sense or sympathy. No willingness to try and fix things properly.
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- Tunbridge Wells
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2022-10-04
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Hi, Now broadband is the worst ever experience i have had since 2008 in UK, their response is pretty poor and bad, they don't provide service connection on time, even after rescheduling the connection doesn't work. if you call customer care they are saying we will test and takes 72 hours and then if we find a fault then will arrange engineer, that could take another 1 week. this very very bad service. and no option of expediting the problem. no escalation mechanism.. poorest service probably I ever imagined in this digital world. god save us with this kind of providers. i dont recommend this service and they are not even allowing to cancel service despite they were not able to meet the service start date. NOW BROADBAND IS PRETTY BAD SERVICE...
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- newcastle
- Reviewing
- NOW Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-01
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First 6 months was fine, last 6 months horrific. I gave both now tv and now broadband. Put the tv on and at least 15 times every evening it stops with an error message and 5-10 mins before it comes back on. Wifi also constantly cutting out. Had no connection or tv for two whole weeks and they refused to refund. Shocking customer servive and refusal to fix the issue. One person even said if youre not happy leave!!! I was with virgin for 7 yrs prior to this, my internet went off twice in 7 yrs and both times i was refunded. Now i go for weeks with no connection and no help whatsoever. Its with Ofcom at the minute but luckily my contract runs out in a week...that will be one big celebration! Stay away from this awful company!
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