I am now writing this terrible review because I have been waiting on hold for customer service for…read morethe last 42 minutes. Although, they answer immediately if you want to buy something, after you buy it, it is impossible to get someone on the phone. I have been a loyal Comcast customer for years and years, but just moved and decided to try out Verizon Fios for a change. I spent an hour setting up my in house wiring earlier today to make it as easy as possible for the VZ Fios tech to complete the installation today. All my fiancé did was let him in the door, tell him which tv's to set up and let him hook it up. She called me and told me that the tech said he can't hook up one part bc the HDMI cable is crushed and that I need to get a new HDMI cable. I told her that is impossible. I just carefully set everything up. The HDMI cable she is talking about is 25 feet long, a high-end style, which I personally, and carefully, wired myself from our home office into the living room to be closer to the router. I checked it several times and it took me a while to complete. I just got home to check the work. It was NOT crushed. The end connector piece is now broken off of the HDMI cable and is stuck in the back of the TV. It looks like the tech (my fiancé did not touch a single thing), roped the tv away from the wall, without unplugging anything, tore the HDMI apart from itself and got it stuck in the TV HDMI port in the back. Now, my $1000 70" TV is damaged, my expensive HDMI cable is broken, then time I spent wiring everything was wasted, and VZ Fios Just charged me $90 for the visit. Plus, to top it off, I cannot get a hold of anyone at VZ to tell them what happened. All I can say is, I have had less than a day's dose of VZ Fios and I am somewhere between canceling and suing for a new TV. Stay with Comcast. This is not worth the headache.

They rope you in and then you can't reach anyone for customer service or you keep getting directed…read moreto someone else. Always on hold forever. We switched to Comcast! We asked 2ce to have our landline redirect calls which they offered and it's never happened. Expensive and not worth the aggravation. Trust me!

Ron is excellent - he is experienced, great value, reliable and prompt, and a great communicator. I…read morehad a great experience where he was able to help get the surround sound system going at my lake house. We inherited a system from the previous owners of the home, which was out of date and frequently malfunctioning.

From the owner: Orbit Satellite & Sound Systems is owned and operated by Ronald J Defosses. We have been in…read morebusiness for over 20 years providing excellent service and competitive pricing on all your Home/Business entertainment needs. If you have questions about our satellite TV services, HDTV's, sound systems products or services, please contact us today .We hope you'll make Orbit Satellite & Sound Systems your resource for satellite & sound systems in the New Hampshire, Vermont and upstate New York area. Our locations are in Rutland VT and Tilton, NH.

My install technician was Ivo. He was a very happy soul who came in and got to work immediately. He…read moreexplained what had to be done and had the installation completed within 1.5 hours. We went through the router settings, altered the password to my satisfaction and connected a couple devices to ensure the WIFI was functioning correctly. The premises were left neat; I am very satisfied with Ivo's work. Dan Mackey Framingham

My response back to Astound:…read more I made over 7 attempts to have by quote fixed to no avail. Astound kept increasing the price from $177 to $208. So happy I am not a customer. I saw their true colors on how they didn't care and they didn't want to fix the issue. Also, ASTOUND kept saying they don't have this information on the quote. I sent their own email to them 3 times with no resolution. I believe all the bad reviews on this and other websites. ASTOUND is merging with another company if you haven't heard. ASTOUND has 3 emails from me so they have the documentation. I asked to speak to a manager and they said 24 to 48 hours wait. I have notified the Better Business Bureau as well as the Secretary of State Office in Massachusetts with complaints about their deceptive sales practices and fraud. This is the response I received from Astound. Hi, Ann! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with Astound. We strive to provide transparent and accurate information to all our customers at all times. We take your feedback seriously and are committed to addressing these issues internally to prevent similar situations in the future. If you have any further details or documentation you'd like to share, please feel free to send us a private message. I'm sure we can get you set up with a package that is the right fit. Thank you again for reaching out, and for your interest in Astound. -Jackie Review of ASTOUND Astound engages in deceptive advertising. I was quoted one price and called to get it corrected and they didn't honor the price. I was quoted a price of $177 and when I called customer service they said price was $208. in addition, they didn't believe me as the customer even though I have a receipt of the amount. Customer Service said we see $0 dollars in our system since you haven't received your bill. How can Astound expect people to accept a service without a quote. I was quoted 4 free cable boxes and remotes and that wasn't honored. Overall, the worst experience ever and happy I am not going to be a customer. Clearly, they don't care about the customer and don't know how to provide sales quotes. Don't believe their sales since they will charge you a separate price. Be aware, you are not locked in for 5 years on the price. That is only internet, so be prepared for large increases. DONT TRUST ASTOUND SALES OR CUSTOMER SERVICE. THEY LIE ABOUT PRICING AND SERVICES.

The worst billing policy coupled with terrible customer service…read more Billing for fios internet. Beware, they charge for the complete month even if you cancel the service 1-day into the billing cycle. No pro-rating. My Mother passed away, I canceled the service and then received a "final" bill. In my case it was 4-days after the end of the previous cycle. So, full price for 4-days of unused service. I decided to overpay the bill by $1 so they have to figure out how to get that dollar back to me.

Called fios to replace our remote Joe cs rep said 25 dollar plus shipping charge. So unfair after…read morehaving Verizon fios for almost 10 yrs we should not have to pay for a replacement. We are now looking into Comcast.

I have been a loyal (and patient) RCN customer for 13+ years for cable and internet. My bill is…read morewell over $200/month for basic cable and 300mbs internet which is completely ridiculous. I have until now overlooked the increasing random fees and surcharges and their suggestions to call back repeatedly to try to negotiate a better price. What I cannot overlook is the horrible internet speeds we get. I call and complain to an Rcn representative almost on a daily basis. Every time I call and I run a speed test all of the sudden I'm getting crazy high speed internet. Then a few hours later I'm lucky if I get 5mbps connection. Attached are some examples. I have much more documentation of this phenomenon where one wonders if they're running a "rob Peter to pay Paul" scheme and don't actually have infrastructure to support all their customers. I am so frustrated and unless performance magically improves I will be actively looking to switch to another provider. If anyone has suggestions please message me.

stay away from these THIEVES the reception was terrible I cancelled within a the month of getting…read moreservice I cancelled ,now I get a $215 bill my advice stay away from this company

Sorry for the length... Just want to preface this by saying…read moreI'm not the one paying for the service but I help my father with technical stuff. He has been with consolidated communications before fairpoint was bought out by them, and before fairpoint was bought out by verizon. He has been on a 15mb/2mb plan for about 2 years now. Our first problem was when consolidated first bought out fairpoint, my father wanted to switch out his modem for something more modern (it only had wireless A/B, it could also not handle throughput well and even wired devices had unstable signal and the range was awful) . So I helped him pick out a router which I knew could also be used as a modem/router combo. Outside of our house, there is a wall mounted fiber box which has two connections. One was cable which is what the old modem used, and the other was ethernet. I had my dad call consolidated because the connection had to be switched on their end. They said it could not be done and that we could not use a router as a modem (which I told them it was a combo). After about a month of back and forth, they finally sent a technician out to our house and when he checked it out he said "Oh this just has to be switched out on our end." YEA I KNOW. I had been saying it for a month. After that our connection had been fairly smooth right up until about a few weeks ago. Then I had noticed things like major lag in gaming, voip functions such as zoom calls, or game chats cutting out. I had run a speed test and noticed that we were getting about 14.25mb down, which is slightly slower than usual when no devices were being used (usually its about 14.75) but ok because it's never going to reach exactly 15mb, but our upload speed was all over the place. Prior to the issues I would check it occasionally and we would get a consistent 1.70-1.90mb up unless other devices were being used. Now I check it and it would be as low as .3mb up. Other times it may start at about a 1.10mb and immediately start dropping and get as low as .7mb. It never reaches it's normal speed. I check it in the middle of the night sometimes as well because I figure MAYBE there is extra network traffic in our area during the day but the issues persist. I have troubleshooted my router, rebooted it, made sure to have only one device connected during a speedtest, turned off QoS settings, re-enable QoS settings, tried disabling any firewall settings, checked for new firmware which there wasn't, and I reinstalled the current firmware). We called the consolidated communications service department and explained the situation. All they can check on their end is whether or not we are getting service because all their computers tell them is something to the effect of "Service = OK/Not OK". They cannot check that we are getting the correct service, only that we are getting ANY service. After running the speed test several times with the service person on the phone and telling him the numbers (which again dropped as low as .4mb up) he said that it is NORMAL for the upload speed to be vary and be below the recommended speed and that unless we are doing a lot of uploads then it shouldn't be an issue and they couldn't send a technician without a fee. UMM, no it is not normal to drop down to less than a quarter of the speed my father is paying for when for the past two years we were consistently closer to 2mb then we were to 1mb. And it DOES cause issues. Ever tried having a voice chat when every other word cuts out? Playing certain online games lag and disconnect like crazy. He basically told us there was nothing they could do because we were getting service and since we are using a third party router they can't service us anyway. So there's no way they can check what kind of speeds we are getting coming into the house? And they can't send a technician to check we are getting the service that's being paid for without charging us? That's ridiculous. The only reason I'm giving them two stars instead of one is because of the billing department, which my father called after he got off the phone with the service department (he was thinking about closing his account and switching services to xfinity which he doesn't really want to do because they are already close to a monopoly as is). My father was paying about $60 for 15mb/2mb and I knew that was pretty abysmal for todays standards. On their website they were offering about three times the speed for less money. The billing department said we were absolutely right and they offered to upgrade us to 50mb/50mb connection and they were going to charge him $25 less per month. I mean better late then never, they never should have kept charging him that price for that service but at least the billing department was understanding and did the right thing. The funny thing is they have to send a technician to our house now anyway to upgrade some cabling now and they are going to do it for free while charging us less money!

I was a customer since CCI was FairPoint Communications, so for nearly twenty years. I closed my…read moreaccount in mid-February 2026 and switched to another ISP. I was also on autopay for most of that time, but received an email saying my payment was due back in February. I called to make sure that if I paid manually, the autopay wouldn't go through as well. Well, it did, so I was double-charged for February. This, after closing my account a few weeks prior (they also don't pro-rate bills anymore, told me I didn't need to return the modem (recycle it), and that there was NO early termination fee. It's now May, and I'm still waiting, after numerous phone calls and hours, way too many hours, spent on the phone, to be refunded the almost one hundred dollars that they owe me for the double payment, and they're taking on an ETFee after they said they wouldn't. I'm so glad I got out and will be a lot happier when I receive my refund. I'll keep calling until that check is in my hands. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH CCI or Fidium Fiber.