Hi, Guest
11-23-2007, 12:51 AM
yeah, I gotta call back.. which has been hard to do when I'm in all-day meetings.
But they got my highspeed back up.
Now, I have to admit that between Bell and Rogers disconnecting my homephone/DSL within months of each other, I have a pretty good assessment of who handles it better.
And I'd have to say that Bell holds the slight edge in customer service. The CSRs, or 1st line techs -- basically the first people I end up talking to when I call had all been very curteous and as helpful as they could be with their canned scripts (I now know it off by heart and can get through the script in 2 minutes while 'faking' the troubleshooting steps).
However, I'm pretty darn disappointed in Bell's testing center central office, and field techs as they are terrible at keeping their commitments.
How is this better than Rogers?
well, Rogers did take over 2 weeks to reconnect basically a VOIP service... no wiring, onsite, or otherwise required -- strictly a paperwork/configuration issue. Which also gave me a chance to talk to a lot of CSRs; pretty much only 2 out of 8 were particularily helpful... and a few were pretty ignorant at that. You can just tell that it's a cable company because they're not used to dealing with people who can't live without service for 2 weeks -- I know I couldn't impress upon them the importance of having a working phone enough (they just never got it).
Maybe it was my dealings with Rogers or the fact that I know the telecom business model better (tho, they're pretty much the same really), but Rogers was just more frustrating to deal with than Bell. And that's my honest opinion.
But here's the real problem with both Bell and Rogers -- the left hand doesn't talk to the right. The physical wiring is handled by a contractor, the billing is handled by a billing office, the tech support by a call center, the troubleshooting by a tesitng center, and nobody ever knows the story first hand.
So the 1st level support never knows (or checks) that I've already been through the script, that it's been sent to 2nd level, then handled by the test center, that a tech was scheduled to come out, etc etc etc... nobody follows the history or thinks outside the canned scripts -- so all you have is a big disconnected array of support structures that may work for 80% of problems, but can't handle complex situations.
But they got my highspeed back up.
Now, I have to admit that between Bell and Rogers disconnecting my homephone/DSL within months of each other, I have a pretty good assessment of who handles it better.
And I'd have to say that Bell holds the slight edge in customer service. The CSRs, or 1st line techs -- basically the first people I end up talking to when I call had all been very curteous and as helpful as they could be with their canned scripts (I now know it off by heart and can get through the script in 2 minutes while 'faking' the troubleshooting steps).
However, I'm pretty darn disappointed in Bell's testing center central office, and field techs as they are terrible at keeping their commitments.
How is this better than Rogers?
well, Rogers did take over 2 weeks to reconnect basically a VOIP service... no wiring, onsite, or otherwise required -- strictly a paperwork/configuration issue. Which also gave me a chance to talk to a lot of CSRs; pretty much only 2 out of 8 were particularily helpful... and a few were pretty ignorant at that. You can just tell that it's a cable company because they're not used to dealing with people who can't live without service for 2 weeks -- I know I couldn't impress upon them the importance of having a working phone enough (they just never got it).
Maybe it was my dealings with Rogers or the fact that I know the telecom business model better (tho, they're pretty much the same really), but Rogers was just more frustrating to deal with than Bell. And that's my honest opinion.
But here's the real problem with both Bell and Rogers -- the left hand doesn't talk to the right. The physical wiring is handled by a contractor, the billing is handled by a billing office, the tech support by a call center, the troubleshooting by a tesitng center, and nobody ever knows the story first hand.
So the 1st level support never knows (or checks) that I've already been through the script, that it's been sent to 2nd level, then handled by the test center, that a tech was scheduled to come out, etc etc etc... nobody follows the history or thinks outside the canned scripts -- so all you have is a big disconnected array of support structures that may work for 80% of problems, but can't handle complex situations.
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