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Article #15Re: Covad, Speakeasy and their lack of service and complete incompetence.
From: Will Kramer
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00
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Didn't you forget a third party here?...the telephone company that provided the loop? Yes its crazy the way these DSL installs need to be coordinated but usually the biggest problem is the loop thats installed....did they ever give you the measured electrical distance? Will "Ian Storrs" <storrs@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >Below is the final e-mail concerning my order for DSL from COVAD and >SPEAKEASY. These two companies failed to get the line working in 4 months. >Indeed it seems that all they are capable of doing is opening and closing >trouble tickets in an effort to stall the end users. They openly lie to >customers about resolution dates for technical issues. In short they are >unprofessional and border on fraudulent. > >Open letter to COVAD, SPEAKEASY and their potential customers (victims). > >"Covad came to my house for the 3rd time, only to confirm that the line >still does not >work, which should have been obvious from my almost continuous calls to TAC. >It soon became evident that NOTHING had been done to resolve this issue, >despite assurances by e-mail, phone and in TAC updates. This was a total >waste of my time, as were all previous visits. This level of service is >totally unacceptable. This order is cancelled, and the Covad technician had >possession of the router when he left. All good faith has been exhausted. > > >Furthermore, I am billing Speakeasy and Covad for 7 hours of wasted time on >this order at $75 per hour totalling $575. Let me make it clear to both >companies that I am so upset by the way I have been treated that I will take >full advantage of the legal system to secure this compensation. > > >Finally I would like to make it clear to both companies that their current >methods for installation and support are totally inadequate. As I have >spoken and emailed with at least 20 different agents of these two companies >it has become evident that NO ONE seems to have control over how orders are >handled, there is no internal communication between or within these >companies, and customers are treated with absolute disregard. This is by far >the worst end user experience I have had in any commercial transaction. >Please have the decency to forward this complaint to you quality control >departments, if such a thing exists. > >Regards, >Ian Storrs >" > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4554,a2caff1f1c1fa00e X-Google-Attributes: gidf4554,public X-Google-Thread: 10bdad,a2caff1f1c1fa00e X-Google-Attributes: gid10bdad,public X-Google-Thread: f5dc1,a2caff1f1c1fa00e X-Google-Attributes: gidf5dc1,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,a2caff1f1c1fa00e X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public From: Will Kramer <willardk_NOSPAM@acedsl.com> Subject: Re: Covad, Speakeasy and their lack of service and complete incompetence. Date: 2000/02/21 Message-ID: <7c14bsglun334bprlrm6n69qdgt02u2mfr@4ax.com> X-Deja-AN: 588242901 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <Lcms4.3579$qf4.9690@news1.mco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: willardk_NOSPAM@acedsl.com Newsgroups: triangle.online-access,comp.dcom.xdsl,phl.internet,ba.internet