 MadMANNPremium
join:2005-08-19
kudos:2 | RAIN?? ROFLMAO!! Since when did rain stop phone companies? Maybe lightning storms...but RAIN??? That's friggin' hilarious!
I can't believe PA isn't on that report. Verizon shows the same lackluster service here. Comcast & Service Electric are busier than ever taking their business and residential phone accounts from them. Comcast is there same day or within 24 hours for indivudual no dial tone calls and SECV is usually out next day. Oh, and both of those cable companies work in the rain. I can also tell you from experience that even people with cell phones will want their landline service repaired ASAP. They have a landline for a reason, which is usually so they don't burn their cell minutes. It seems Verizon is full of excuses only a naive mother could believe.
Right across the street from me, there is a feeder 500 pair cable that is losing its lashing. It gets further down the line every month. Soon, it will get to the point when the cable will be reachable from the ground. I called them about it 6 times in four years with no response. The neighbor who feeds off of the pole where the lashing is broken had a tech there last summer for a service call. I even mentioned to the tech that I called about it a bunch of times. "Ok, yeah. . .I saw that. . .I will open a ticket for it." Fast forward over a year later. . .well, here we are.
Additionally, there are fallen trees from last summer still hanging on their feeders and fiber. I can name three places where the lines are about 2 feet off of the ground from it. Oh well. Let them get fined by the township once people get tired of seeing it.
I don't know how many times I have also seen their house lines get knocked out by big rigs and they tell their customers that they will be out in a week to put it back up. One elderly lady was told, "Just pick it up and coil it in your yard so other cars don't run it over." (Wtf?) It must be emberassing to be a phone agent for a company whose SOP is to be out in a week and telling customers to pick up fallen cables by themselves. Actually, the only word I can think of to describe Verizon as a land provider is "pathetic". |
