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Review by Madwand 
Posted: 262 days ago
member for 6.9 years, 1531 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Toronto,ON
 $47 per month
 about 3 days
 "Always reliable except for throttling and no more unlimited caps"
 "not unlimited, and the throttling is absolutely horrible at 26kbs per second - terrible bad bad bad company!"
 "find a way around the caps. Others will be cheaper. hopefully they can be as reliable! good Luck!"
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If you don't mind paying through the nose, the service is OK if you don't download over 60 GIGS/month and don't torrent in the evening. Otherwise go elsewhere!
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 Review by Martin
UPDATED: 266 days ago
member for 4.5 years, 1526 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Quebec,QC
Contract price not specified.
 Bell Canada
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J'ai maintenant le service Internet HV de Vidéotron.
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Review by ed_scott0013
UPDATED: 268 days ago
member for 4.2 years, 47 visits, last login: 20 days ago
Ottawa,ON
$45 per month (12 month contract)
about 30 days
"Quick shipping of equipment and easy access to payment/billing information."
"Improper first setup and unwillingness to fix issues (telephone support)."
"I'm glad my contract is finally over."
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Where to begin...
When I first started looking in to getting a DSL service, I (naturally) checked the Bell Sympatico website and was impressed by the information about packages and bundle deals, as well as the ease of use of their online forms (to request service). A couple of minutes later I had signed up for their midrange package ($44.95) which was called "Performance" at the time if I recall correctly.
I said earlier in the sound-bites that they didn't set me up properly. To make a long and frustrating story short:
- They sent TWO modems (one to me and one to my parents' place).
- They created TWO accounts (mine and one in my name "on top" of my parents' name, but it got blocked by my parents' existing account so it was never fully activated).
- They put me on Internet Basic (instead of Internet Performance).
Once I called them to let them know they made a mistake, they promptly canceled the duplicate account and mailed out a return kit for the modem (which arrived rather quickly and was easy to use and send). Then even more fun begins!
They sent me the "final bill" for the duplicate (cancelled) account which had a $3.95 charge on it (I still can't figure out what it was for). I called Bell Sympatico support and asked them to take it off, since I thought I shouldn't have to pay for a mistake that BELL made.
The guy on the other end was a little frustrating to deal with, but in the end, I paid the $3.95 and got "credited" the amount on my proper account.
A month later, I get another "final bill" with the same charge on it. I call the guys again. They said to ignore the letter because it takes some time for the charge to get balanced in the system after I paid. No problem.
A month after that, I get another "final bill". This time, I get the guy to confirm to me that the charge is all balanced out and the cancelled account is clean. I get a confirmation and a "Sorry for the inconvenience, but rest assured that the account is clean. I see the amount paid here."
I must have done this three or four times in total, with every "final bill" that came, and I get the same answer (account is clean, no worries, etc).
A month later, I get a letter saying that my cancelled account has an outstanding balance that hasn't been paid in four months and they will now forward their request to a collection agency.
Now I'm REALLY angry (and a little bit scared). Here I am, having done NOTHING wrong (Bell screwed up the account setup in the first place!) and I'm on the business end of a collection letter!
My parents decided that the best thing would be to take it to a Bell Store and hopefully the people there could give me some insight. The woman in the store was super-helpful (gave me her card with a number written on the back and told me to call them and tell them to call HER if they gave me any trouble).
The number ended up being for the office of Bell accounting offices (I think) and when I told the operator all of all the issues I've gone through, they were like, "Why was this letter sent? I see your account and it's clean! Let me fix that up for you!"
After that day, I had one more "final bill" with a new total owing: $0.00. No collection agency calls, no letters, nothing. All it took was months of frustration and a boatload of phone calls.
Meanwhile when all of this was going on, I had problems connecting with my friend via XBL (Xbox LIVE). No it wasn't a router issue, no it wasn't a firewall or setup issue. I could connect to anyone except other Sympatico users.
After email tag back and forth between me and the Bell Discussion Forum moderator (who was also SUPER helpful) we figured out that something was wrong with the system in my area and that the routes weren't happening correctly.
It sounds like a quick and easy resolution, but I had to fight people telling me to buy into Bell's "Game Package" with access to online games or to call Xbox support (when it was in fact a routing issue).
So, right off the bat when I heard of this routing issue (and with no timeline for a resolution) I decided to try and cancel Sympatico because they were not delivering service at the level I desired. Unfortunately, they wanted charge me $100 for early cancellation and refused to acknowledge that the problem existed. They said stuff like, "It's Xbox LIVE" or "Our system is always working properly, it must just be you."
I ended up giving up on the cancellation, and fortunately for me, the system was fixed within a week or two and I could connect with other Sympatico users again.
After all this, I won't bother going into the throttling issues (it's a given), but do want to give props to John and Daniel (the online chat guys who found out the routing problem) and Claude (the Discussion Forum Admin) for looking after me and that woman in the Bell store (sorry I don't have your name handy) to recommending me to call that number.
Edit: The "from order to live" time is long because I ordered the service well in advance of the activation date. I just like giving people a long lead time.
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Review by Dslam
UPDATED: 268 days ago
member for 2.6 years, 856 visits, last login: 1 days ago
Canada
$35 per month (12 month contract)
about 5 days
"Fast stable speed"
"None"
"Non contract price of Ultra....Can be beat by the competition..."
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Ordered on a Friday and was live on Wednesday. $35 bucks a month contract with sych at 8 Megs down and 640 up is way better than getting bent over by the cable companies. It came with a free router, TVonMyPC and the whole anti-virus/spyware package for free. I haven't had to call tech support once but a few of my friends work there so they look after what I need. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I can't wait for the upgrades coming in the fall.
March 1, 2009. A few hickups in the past few weeks and calling tech support was horrible as usual. No DSL light and no help because I use a 3rd party router. I told them I unhooked it (which I didn't) and they continued on until they sent it for testing. The tech showed up as promised and quickly resolved the problem. I'm now paying 47$ per month with no contract so I'm changing ISP's to cable because if I'm paying that much, I can get much more from another provider. The switch will include home telephone, satelite, cell and internet.
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Scarborough, ON
| sympatico i have used adsl since their inception in toronto with bell
pent 144 etc compters and up the scale to p4 hard line to wireless they do a good job. the only problems i see is people aka (experts} that have neither the expirience or the education to slam a good and solid service provider.
sorry guys you have fallin on deaf ears
downloads 4300+
uploads 680+
consistant and reliable
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@videotron.ca | "$35 Bucks a month for Ultra - Can't beat that." Your original comment title showing up as stating:
"$35 Bucks a month for Ultra - Can't beat that."
If this change to 47 and can be beat, then shouldn't the title that is showing also reflect the changes?
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Canada | Good point Thanks, never noticed it. It has been changed to reflect my loosing interest in Bell and Aliant. | |
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Review by Gabidg11
Posted: 269 days ago
member for 284 days, 5 visits, last login: 12 days ago
Gatineau,QC
Contract price not specified.
"Rien"
"Vitesse instable, déconnexion constant, support technique horrible et une compagnie horrible"
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Ces tellement horrible comme compagnie que j'en parlerais pas.
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Review by tayls
UPDATED: 273 days ago
member for 8.8 years, 2696 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Lindsay,ON
$45 per month
about 8 days
Bell Canada
"Fast, reliable."
"throttling...caps"
"Reliable service."
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I have to say that Sympatico has been reliable for me, there has been some down time but for only short periods. The throttling issue sucks though, but the Sympatico help forum set up here is great though, the Bell members there took care of everything when I moved. I was worried about losing my "Unlimited" High speed which I can say I still enjoy.
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Review by otto66
UPDATED: 276 days ago
member for 2 years, 35 visits, last login: 65 days ago
undisclosed location
Contract price not specified.
Bell Canada
"Good reliable service IF … Too many IF’s to mention."
"Do you have a lot of time to waste? Call 310-BELL or 310-SURF."
"Still a BS satisfied customer? Just give Bell some time and they’ll fix that."
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I signed up for BS’s ADSL service in 1998 and since then there was only one instance when the service was down. As far as I know the cause was related to some work that Bell had to do to add additional phone lines and it lasted for one day. Other than that it was up all the time, whenever I needed to connect to the internet, day or night. From day one my connection speed was close to the max. (minus the 15%), right now I am on the 6 MB profile and the last time I checked I got 5166/674 kb/s. I rarely used the tech but whenever I did, it was ok.
I notice some comments/questions whenever someone had a similar experience so I’ll try to address them in advance.
While I am not using any file sharing application I believe that over the years my internet usage was above the average BS user. My first dial up account (2.4k modem) was in 1993 using both win 3.1 and the first release of Slackware and when I switched to the ADSL service I was connected with more than one computer, each of them being either a triple or quadruple boot system running different Windows versions, different Linux distributions and Solaris (that should give everyone a good idea of my internet usage). As far as the DNS problems that BS had in the past, I was not affected since I was running DNS servers on my systems.
My only problem with BS is the fact that they switched my grandfathered unlimited account to the new limited account. After an email to Mr. Kevin Crull and several phone calls to/from his office nothing has changed, BS does not have unlimited accounts anymore.
UPDATE Feb. 2009
I did not plan to update my review so soon but my 2007 review does not reflect the reality anymore. As I mentioned for the first 10 years everything was just fine until the end of 2007 when the “switch customers from unlimited (lie to them if you have to)” plan/policy was put in place. Speed wasn’t a problem, reliability wasn’t a problem, latency wasn’t a problem, Bell’s attitude was. Here’s what happened in 2008:
For months nothing happened until they increased the fee for the phone bundle so I decided to drop the bundle and keep only a few (phone) services that I used to have before the bundle. I called 310-BELL, had a lengthy discussion with the CSR and the bundle was dropped, everything was back to normal. Forgot to mention, I also told the CSR that the call was about my phone services and specifically asked not to make any changes to the ADSL account.
Hours later my speed dropped to half of what it used to be. Well, well, what can it be? I do not know for sure, maybe just a simple coincidence. Here we go again, this time BS, speed problems. 310-SURF … No, I did not install anything; yes I rebooted everything, and so on. Finally I was told that a ticket was opened and second level will look into it. When I asked for a ticket# I was told “you don’t need it”. I found it unusual so I insisted and I was told “we’ll take care of it”. I insisted again and finally got the ticket#. Done for that day, the bundle was cancelled and I was hopping that next day BS will fix the speed.
Next day I noticed that one of the canceled services (part of the bundle) was still up. First I thought that there’s nothing unusual, any business may need 24/48 hours to make/run the changes. But this wasn’t any business, this was Bell, they lied to me before so I thought I’d better call them and double check the bundle cancellation…What cancellation? What changes? We’re sorry … There was a log of my call but no cancellation of the bundle … the short version, nothing has been done.
I asked for a supervisor, I will call him Mr. “5 bucks”. Very professional, he told me that he cancelled the bundle, … but “I have to inform you that there is a $5 cancellation fee”. I wasn’t told anything about the cancellation fee when I accepted the bundle, so no, I am not going to pay. Mr. “5 bucks” finally agreed to “waive” this fee and told me that everything is done (cancellation), … but I want to advise you that there is a $5 “one time” fee to activate the …. Now these are creative people; a service which I activated in the 90’s, which at that time was active and Mr. “5 bucks” wanted to charge me a “one time” activation? It was time to move to the third person. The manager(?) didn’t mention any of the $5 fees and assured me that the change will be done. Later I got a call from Bell (4th, CSR) to confirm some details and next day the change was finally done.
Since I insisted on getting off the Bell medication (drop the new and improved and more expensive bundle) I was prepared to deal with the side effects (BS) so again, just to be on the safe side I called 310-SURF to inquire if anyone has taken a look into my speed problem. Sure we can help, could you press the Start button and go to ….., Please no script for me today, I already had it yesterday, here’s the ticket#. Surprise surprise, ticket did not exist. There was a log of my call but … no ticket, again the short answer is that nothing has been done.
Since there is no ticket could you please press on the Start … (going through the script). So here we go again, No, I didn’t install anything and yes, I rebooted everything … Here’s another ticket# second level will look into your problem. No thanks, been there done that, let’s see what a supervisor has to say. Good news, the supervisor told me that a technician will come to my place next day to …. (even today I do not know why did they send a technician to my place).
Next day, the technician called me and showed up as promised. I showed him a couple of speed tests and he called in for troubleshooting. After a short discussion, whoever was at the other end of the phone told him that “it’s fixed/done”. Wait, wait, let me check and I notice that the speed was consistent to the 5M profile so I asked the technician to ask “the smart guy” to put me at least on the 6M profile (Performance up to 7M). At first, he was reluctant to do it and told me that it will not work (he was on speaker phone) but when I told him that I was on the 6M profile for the last year he agreed to try to put me on the 6M profile . Then I asked him to put me on fastpath but he didn’t want to do it, “your line cannot handle the speed”. Again I told him that it’s been like that for about a year, so finally he made the change. And just to make sure there’s no misunderstanding, all the time that I was on the 6M fastpath profile (direct to CO no stinger) I didn’t experience any problems (disconnections, errors, etc) which would justify the automatic line test to drop my speed.
Let’s see, 10 years without connection problems, always close to the speed limit of the profile on which I was, for an year on a 6M fastpath profile (SNR=15, Atten=30) and now after I was put on a remote, supposedly an upgrade and not a downgrade, the tech (level 2 or above) tells me that I cannot be put on the 6M profile, then that I cannot be on fastpath because my line cannot handle it? In the past I didn’t trust Bell but I always trusted the techs but it seems that they are not immune to the Bell’s BS/virus.
And to close this chapter, I asked the technician if he has checked/done anything before getting to my place and he told me no, I first came to see what is the problem that you are experiencing. I assumed that he was very busy (BS clients have called his cell several times) so I asked him; “Why didn’t they made the changes yesterday when I called, why did they send you, why did they waste your time (and mine)?” His answer was that he did not know why, that someone else has made that decision.
In the following days I called a couple of times, once the port was reset without any change in the upload speed and in the end I was told that everything is just fine (6016/768), another time I was told that there are no logs or any other way of finding out what happened, when and who put me on the remote (the BS/virus is spreading quickly among the techs).
A couple of days ago I checked the 2Wire modem and noticed a change twld.ds_capped_rate = 7616 but the speed was and is the same as on the 6M profile. I do not know what would be the maximum speed limit if I would be connected direct to CO (no remote) but I can tell that the remote didn’t do a thing for me except double the pings and I wouldn’t be surprised if I would get an increase in speed if I wouldn’t be on this remote (only on 7m profile). But then I’m only guessing, capable technical people (level 2 and above) have told me that now that I’m on a remote my line cannot handle the 6M fastpath profile so I stopped thinking about the 8.5M profile.
The only good thing is that for I do not know what reason I got a second discount. I called 2 different times to clarify this issue but they didn’t have an answer. The only thing that they could tell me is that I will have those discounts as long as I do not make any changes to my account.
Speed tests:
- 2007 speed test (direct to CO): SS5200, 6M profile 6016/800 SNR=14 Atten=30, speedtest.net Toronto server (50mi): 5147/672 21ms
-2008 speed test (on remote)– 2Wire, 6M (6016/768) then 7M profile, speedtest.net Toronto server 4314/646 162ms. Tried other servers and the best results were with the speedtest.net Montreal server (~300mi): 5164/670 54ms
The latency used to be around 15ms to the 1,2,3 hop, now is 45ms, so it’s more like tripled not doubled. So, was this (remote) an upgrade or a downgrade? Since I was put on the 7M profile I suppose it was an upgrade as far as Bell is concerned, and that’s the only thing that matters. While in the past (no remote, direct to CO) I was told that I can get very close to 10M now I know that I could get UP TO 10M; translation, same speed as I have now plus “your line cannot handle more” so I can finally say that I joined the BS club.
And here’s the latest BS from BS: their email says: “Even though you have requested an ebill, we will continue to send you a paper bill because your balance is over $500”, and surprise … one of the discounts has disappeared.
While my experience doesn’t even come close to some of the horror stories that I read in this forum it proves that if you were problem free for 3, 5, 10 years the question that you should ask yourself is not if but when you are going to join the group of BS’s dissatisfied customers.
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Toronto, ON | tech support You have great tech support with them? You're one of the lucky ones.
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Niagara Falls, NY
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| Tell Bell Sympatico where to go! The only thing I can say about Bell Sympatico is that I never lost any email when their servers when down, ever. This is not something I can say about TekSavvy.
Anyway, Bell Sympatico service stinks, really stinks. From inexperienced support staff (and I have done this for over 24yrs now), to blatant lies from their people, to downright ignorant people, I have never found that they investigated and resolved any incidents I reported to them in well over 3 years of service with them. They were the only game in Toronto years ago and I was ver thankful to getting rid of them.
Run a Web or FTP server from home and every once in a while they would close all ports on their DSLAM. Reboot the modem and it's fine again.
Report spam to them and then find the ports closed again.
Very ignorant considering your barely using 1GB of bandwidth per month on an unlimited cap account.
Their original internet bill used to breakdown the monthly cost of $44.95. $5/mth network card and $10/mth modem rental. Consumers must use their modems. That works out to $69/yr every year for a $15 network card and $138/yr every year for the modem rental of a $25 Siemens Speedstream 5262/5260 modem.
When the were notified of me moving to another ISP they started calling to get me to stay. So I told them exactly what I thought of the crooks and liars.
About mid 2000 their monthly invoices shopped showing the month fee breakdown costs.
But in Quebec consumers can use their own modems with Bell Sympatico for a reduced monthly internet rate.
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Nepean, ON | ? lol your on a limited account now ?
so now why not switch to an ISP that is
1. cheaper
2. unlimited.
3. no more BS
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| Yes, I’m on a limited account for over a year but my problem isn’t necessary the GB limit, it’s the way Bell switched my grandfathered account.
As far as switching to other ISP I am considering all my options. Got a partial answer from BS and we’ll see if they want to address the speed issue and latency (maybe another modem). Meanwhile I’ll get Rogers for a month or two and then I’ll make a decision.
And a correction to my review. I just tried an old SS5200 modem and I got 9-12ms for the 4 x.bell.ca hops and the same speed 5M as with the 2Wire. So the BS “upgrade” 7M profile+remote+2Wire has not changed my speed but increased the latency 4 times (and not 2 or 3 times as I mentioned above). | |
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UPDATED: 277 days ago
member for 2 years, 616 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Canada
Contract price not specified.
Bell Canada
"Got a killer monthly price for HS Ultra"
"Throttling, tech support, imposed GB monthly cap on new customers"
"Depends on the deal you get."
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- 6mb profile
- Speedstream 5200
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Review by Cozman99
UPDATED: 290 days ago
member for 290 days, 6 visits, last login: 12 days ago
North York,ON
$52 per month
about 10 days
"Over the past 5+ years they had good uptime for their service"
"P2P Throttling, Modem rental fees, High Cost"
"Throttling, modem rental fees, high cost then there must be better alternatives."
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Throttling, modem rental fees, high cost, it leads one to look for a better alternate provider.
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Peterborough, ON | bell tech 100%? 100% tech support? have you called there tech line yet? | |
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North York, ON | Re: bell tech 100%? It used to good when Bell DSL first came out many years ago. I had the Bell CSR help me out with several windows related issues. That is when they were based in North America. I guess I have not had any contact with Bell Sympatico's CSR lately. | |
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Review by crumbworks
UPDATED: 294 days ago
member for 2.9 years, 3 visits, last login: 129 days ago
North York,ON
$36 per month
Bell Canada
"Reliable - hardly any downtime"
"Atrocious customer service - outsourced and often inept; Terrible caps and throttling"
"Choose Bell only if you have no other choice -- which you probably do"
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Bell Canada is absolutely inept. The only way that the service is tolerable is if you never have to actually interact with them after the initial setup.
The customer service is terrible. Last year, the local DSL central switch was down for a week and they sent out the wrong repair team twice for it -- one for home phone repair and one for satellite service repair. Seriously, are you kidding me?!?
In terms of the one positive thing I could say, it would be that the connection is fairly reliable. I have had rather minimal downtime overall. That one week mentioned above is about the only extensive downtime I've had. Other than that, it has been a few blips of an hour or so every few months.
Calling them is a joke. You are virtually guaranteed to be frustrated by a whole multitude of things -- from long wait times to useless, scripted responses. I haven't reached someone locally in a very long time, and I wonder: how can someone in India know how to resolve issues for an ISP that doesn't even exist over there? (oh, and as per some policy, they have to tell you that they are in Canada when you ask. idiocy...)
I've escalated calls before. I end up reaching another guy in India who is often times harder to understand than the first guy.... and the answers I have received from them are just as scripted and useless, and have never helped me one bit.
Their technical support is simply painful. They will never, ever admit that the problem is on their end. They simply tell you to reset your modem/router as if that is a universal resolution for any problem.
Installing new service is as pleasant as being punched in the face. I helped my friend set up Sympatico last year. They don't even make any effort to help you. They forgot to ship out her modem and when it arrived, it took them weeks to fix some sort of glitch to get it to work. When she called them, their answer was to simply "wait a bit longer".
While I am on a grandfathered no-cap service since we've had it since 2001 or so, there is still no excuse for having such ridiculously low caps. I can say with certainly that since I upgraded from dial-up in 1999, I have never had less than 60 GB total usage per month.
The worst part has to be the throttling. Basically, as I said, the service is tolerable as long as you don't have to interact with them because the connection is usually quite stable, but then Bell thought "let's find a way to screw people over even further" and decided on this massive throttling between 4pm and 2am every day. It is absolutely awful, especially since it affects resellers (like Teksavvy).
To be frank, I am only with Bell because my family has some sort of longstanding loyalty with them and they are too lazy to switch.
When I move elsewhere and leave my family with this grandfathered no-cap service, I am positive I will not go with Bell -- or Rogers even, due to both having a cap. I will certainly be considering Teksavvy due to the overwhelmingly positive reviews that I have read.
All in all, Bell is just a waste of time and money. Their service is worthless.
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@videotron.ca
| just a question I don't really have anything much of value to add to your review, but I noticed one thing.
You said, 'All in all, Bell is just a waste of time and money. Their service is worthless."
If its worthless then the "value for the money" is a big fat zero. Why give them 40% for value? Felt like being nice?  | |
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@bell.ca | Bell is also raising the price of a declining asset The ultimate slap in the face. Bell is raising the rental cost of renting a declining asset March 29th this year. The price of modems on the world market is like all other electronic products from China... declining in price. | |
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| My thoughts I totally agree with your comments crumbworks! Calling Bell for any of their services is very painful. If you don't like the customer service in India, go on the French queue, and if you don't understand French, find a friend that does. The French queue NEVER goes to India.
I stick with Bell because I like their product and I also get a large discount. Plus I don't believe in switching to another company in order to solve a problem. The others have flaws also which would probably make me come back to Bell anyways... and of course... deal with their customer service...! | |
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| Bell Price games I had similar bad experience with bell ... but worse.
I've been with them for ADSL service since 1999 and I left them, effective Feb 14, 2009.
I'm sick and tired of the games they do with prices (they regularly add 2 to 3$ to the bill), taking unauthorized amounts in our account and the unannounced transformation of my unlimited account into a traffic limited account.
They also blocked me from seeing the billing history for the past 6 months (preventing me from seeing the exact amounts they charged me), but I could still access the older billing history, since 2001, and the current month.
Without any warning, they transformed my unlimited account into a capped 60 Gigs/month account, and billed me for extra bandwidth nearly doubling the price. I called, and the guy told me it was a mistake, as there was no such thing as a 60Gigs/month account with Bell (false). He confirmed I was on the unlimited plan, credited me for the bandwidth usage, said he will signal the incident to administrators and told me to call if it happened again.
The next month the credit was applied, but I had another traffic surcharge.
I called again, and the guy clearly lied to me, pretending Bell never had an unlimited account and all accounts always had been capped to 60 Gigs (a clear and direct lie) insinuating I was trying to cheat on them. He went as far as calling the credit I got a mistake. He naturally refused to credit me as the previous guy told me would be automatic if I was again billed for usage.
I then got an email warning me that my 30 Gigs/month account (???) will be 'upgraded' to 60 Gigs/month in February 2009 ... and the cost would go from 39$/month to 44.95$/month !
I called again, they confirmed I already had the 60 Gigs account and when I asked about that 'upgrade' letter, they told me I was lucky to have the 60 gigs billed for the price of the 30gigs and the price increase was simply a correction of this situation.
That time, I had enough and cancelled my account (Jan 14, 2009). They refused to do it before a 30 days delay.
I then got 3 calls trying to prevent me from cancelling.
I fully expect they will illegally bill me *after* I leave and I'm ready to fight them in small claim court if/when they do so.
Avoid them like plague !
I recorded nearly all of my phone calls with them (more than 10 hours) and can prove everything I wrote in here. | |
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