Spectrum has horrible customer service and is slowly increasing their internet costs per year. While dominating the market they upset customers. We need more competition! read more

If I did not have to give a star, I wouldn't. If I could give negative stars I would. This is the most incompetent bunch of clowns, I have ever tried to do business with. read more

This company will not take NO! for an answer. These asswholes send mounds and mounds of junk mail solicitation to both the P O box and the residence. They call every day, the "Spam" phone calls never stop. I have asked them for two years to leave me alone. The people say they will put me on a list that says I do not wish to be called. They also inform me that it will be 30 days before they will stop calling me. Then they hand off your number to another call center in another geographical area. The most recent annoying ass phone calls are coming from Virginia, a number from the 434 area code. And yes I do know how to spell the 11th word in this review. I save that spelling for the most annoying, those who won't stop! read more

If I could give Spectrum cable TV a negative five star review I would. I recently had to discontinue my service for financial reasons, and I asked them to refund my $146.45 that was remaining on my account. A woman on the phone refused to do so as did their executive escalation branch. I filed complaints with the better Business bureau, the FCC and the ftc. I also reached out to the attorney general's of connecticut, Missouri and California asking them to file criminal charges against their CEO Thomas Rutledge for grand theft and Anti-Trust law violation. I'm sure that their company policy to do this has netted rutledge and the other executives and their company millions of dollars over the years. I reached out to the governors of those three states as well. Their ceo, Thomas rutledge, pays himself 48.1 million dollars each year while price couching us for their services. And he's still refusing to refund my $146. Pretty unbelievable. I recommend that if you have lost money to Spectrum that you contact your state's attorney general and governor and local newspapers as well. read more

Omggggg!! Please make sure your parents or grandparents don't be taken advantage by this company. They promise to pay your cancellation fees here she thinks she's getting cash but don't explain that is a visa but don't help the elder to get it done. I had to wait in line for 30 minutes. For them to tell my mom sorry you have to figure out how to get the gift card for the cancellation fee. They wouldnt help her at all but yet they sure take there money read more

Lady in lobby was very rude, waited almost a hour just to return cable boxes. I DO NOT recommend going here.

Not very helpful at all. It looks like they don't want to help with your concerns you have. I do not recommend getting service with them. Bad customer service. read more

Insane waiting times. 10 registers and 3 people working a room with 23 people. If u come here to return gear get ready for a long wait. Management here really sucks. Should not let the room get this full. They need more people I know they make a killing they can afford it but don't . Still here 20 min later I have moved one spot.and now over 30 people on waiting list. How is it stupid companies make so much money? Really ridiculous wait time!! read more

I had a problem with our cable box. I looked to see if it was something obvious that I could fix. I checked the connections with it, but couldn't see any problem. I called the Spectrum line to have someone come out. I told her that I thought my son hooked up an X Box to it once. (Turned out he never did.) Her response was "Have your son fix it." and she hung up. Went to the Spectrum store. Have an appointment. read more

Always a wait. How you only gonna have one storre for all of bakersfield? I've driven across town multiple time for nothing. Bad customer service read more

Wouldn't help at closing time and I needed a new phone and wanted to switch over to Spectrum .

Customer service gets 5/5 on their own. On the rare occasion we've had an issue, they always get it sorted out really quickly and politely. I could be biased, coming from having terrible, TERRIBLE, AT&T service in every way possible for the first 8 months we lived in Bakersfield. Spectrum/Brighthouse was just our only other option in our area but we really have no complaints. We don't use television, so internet is most important to us. Our internet rarely ever goes down, and when it does it always comes right back on. We pay around $40 for just internet which, especially when compared to everywhere else, is not too bad for the constant reliability and speed we get with their network. read more

Worst internet ever , and I "had" there fastest. Cable way too expensive. Once they raise your bill up After the package deal , it's totally not worth the money , paid over $240 per month for just basic and unreliable internet . I don't recommend. There customer service can care less if you report problems , it's a best practice of there's to have you call every time there is issues with the internet so they can trouble shoot, I explained calling daily to have them do this just so the internet to work is just ridiculous, no one has time for that , I don't care how much time you have in your hands. read more

Ok Yelpers, so I don't even know how to relate how bad of an experience I had with Spectrum (Aka Bright House) for the past two days. It all started last night when I received a letter in the mail stating that my service was going to be interrupted due to delinquent payments on a re-occurring payment card. I IMMEDIATLY called the number on the letter to find out what was going on as I had already updated Bright House with correct credit card information back in November when they CALLED ME TO TELL ME THE CARD I HAD ON FILE WAS EXPIRED AND WAS NO LONGER VALID SO I THEN IMMEDIATLY PROVIDED THEM WITH THE NEW CARD INFORMATION - 11/17/2016. Last night at the initial phone call I was told that I was three months behind and they demanded payment of $183.56 to re-activate my account with the next payment due on 2/14/16. I initially questioned why I was three months behind after I provided them the new credit card information in November but was give a response that the payments got returned. For there I quickly paid the $183.56 to ensure that the bill was paid so no other issues would arise as I always stay on top of my bills. Once I paid the amount I was ensured by the rep that the service would be turned back on in 2-24 hours and that the account was paid and current. So after the 1st call I just could not figure out how or why the auto billing did not go through. I was fairly sure that I had taken care of the issue back in November when Spectrum ( Bright House ) called me and thought that I had even seen the payments on my monthly bank statements. From there I decided to actually pull my Wells Fargo statements and saw that I had indeed paid the Nov bill on 11/17/16 at $69.00 and the same card was subsequently charged by Bright House on 12/11/16 at $61.35. After reviewing my bank statements I immediately called Spectrum (Bright House) back to find out what the hell was going on. Funny thing is no rep I spoke to could give me any reasonable answer, they kept passing me off to someone else and their explanations made absolutely no sense. Now I'm a reasonable business man who pays his bills and I also did accounting work for 9 years so I know a thing or two about numbers. That being said when I asked the reps questions about how they came up with the $183.56 amount I was immediately responded to with hostility. I was mortified by the way three different Spectrum representatives ( I made it through a few) were actually upset at me for not understanding there billing practices?????? All I was asking was for an explanation on how I could be three months behind when they clearly received proper payments every month. After and hour and a half of my life wasted Wednesday night on the phone I decided to just request to speak to a manager. Of course there was "no manager available" but I was ensured someone would call me back in 24 hours. From there I just verified that the service would be turned back on and awaited for a call. This morning I did received said call from "Wes" who identified himself as a Spectrum manager. When I questioned Wes on the same information (how I became 3 months late) he attempted to fast talk me about how there billing works, that I needed to go down to the local Spectrum ( Bright House) office to speak with a representative to get a detailed printout so that I would some how understand what had occurred. Wes too, seemingly had no way of answering me the most basic of questions?????? How could I have been current on my bill every month prior to the card change and then pay every month the correct amount after the card change and still be 3 months behind???? WTF? At that point I just became frustrated, and it take ALOT to make me this frustrated... Wes assured me that the service would be turned back on, but the $183.56 bill was my due to delinquent payments. So then I decided to just go to the local branch.... YEP I even Yelp "CHECKED IN" too...... So after waiting for 30min in line I actually got a rep who seemingly knew what she was doing. Well not at first though, at first she told me that the service was STILL OFF and I needed to make a payment in cash to restore it.. It took everything in me not to make a scene or an ass out of myself... I had to take a deep breath and tell her to please look further as I had just made a $188.18 payment last night to square everything away.... But to her credit she did what no other representative would do an really looked at the account. She found that in November no one had ever actually turned off the reoccurring billing on the old debit card numbers and squared that for me. She also saw that my account was STILL TURNED OFF and turned it on for for me. The local rep also told me that the payment I made last night paid me through March and I was not behind. The whole thing is absolutely Ridiculous!!!!!!! Spectrum you should be ashamed of the service you give your customers. read more

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Update to my previous review. On Dec. 29th I received another call for the person that previously had my phone number! What a surprise the problem had not been resolved. I again spent an hour on the phone with a supervisor and requested a credit to my account for the utter frustration and now 10 hours on the phone and was offered $20! What an insult. She offered to escalate my request and I would receive a call back in 24-48 hours. As I did not receive a call, I once again called them. Yes, another hour on the phone to be offered $20! I was told that Spectrum does no pay for customer's time and when I suggested that as a customer, I payed for his time, he said that Spectrum pays his salary, not customers? I spent additional time on their live chat to be told that they do not have any contact info for conflict resolution. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! read more

My cable box froze and when I called I as told to take it to this place to get it replaced. Only 2 people workin and 21 people in line while 1 person ( the manager) is just on the phone not helping anyone. This is the worst customer service I have ever seen. This company has been nothing but crap from the beginning I was with brighthouse for years with not a single problem read more

I recently moved to Bakersfield from LA, i carried over my spectrum services and boy the internet is horrible, I do a lot of things online, real time and it fails often. I do Online classes, and testing is interrupted. If anyone else knows about a better internet and tv service I'm willing to try it. The only thing that works fast in spectrum is their billing department. read more

Usually I don't pay attention to reviews of places but I have to say that this is probably the worse experience I've had with any mobile/internet service. I just came to pick up a modem and waited a little over an hour and a half to get help just to talk to a representative for 2 minutes. read more

Don't waste your time getting spectrum internet. You pay for a service, that hardly ever works. You'll be better off with at&t internet. You can get it for around the same price. But even if it were another $40 more than I'm paying for spectrum, it would be worth it. The worst internet I've ever used. I can't wait to call and cancel my service tomorrow. read more

Lame customer service from the young, brown-haired male staff member when we returned our router. In front of a customer you will say out loud to your co-worker, "Come on, you really mean this people to have a nice day?" The entire time he was just chit chatting with his co-worker next to him. No eye contact. Not even thank you at the end of the transaction. Ungrateful piece of thankless employee. Not everyone loves their job but please be civil enough in front of your customers. Glad I moved out of a Spectrum serviced area. read more

They're now Spectrum cable,and the service is even worse,I got the 100 speed internet and I've been having problems with it,called tech support and they said I was only getting the 60 speed that they don't have the 100 speed in my area of Bakersfield,but I can upgrade to the 300 speed,I asked how can I get 300 speed if I can't get a 100 speed,well I'll let you know when I find out they put me on hold for 56 minutes and counting,I think they think if they leave you on hold forever you'll give up.This is the worst customer service I've ever seen.Well 2 1/2 hours later and I had to call back because they never came back after leaving me on hold for a hour,I'm now on their most expensive internet package that was the only solution to the problem,and I'm still not sure how much I'm paying,they never really give you a straight answer,stick with your Bright House contract as long as you can. read more

Spectrum - Internet Service Providers Near Me - Bakersfield, California

Wow, I see that lots of people here hate Brighthouse. I can see being irritated with the service they get but not the customer service. I like everyone else has had some problems with my cable but I've never had a problem with the people. Actually, for a cable company they're pretty darn responsive to their customer's needs. Ever call DirecTV? I've lived in several areas of the country and I've used Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, Charter, Cox and Brighthouse. Brighthouse has by far been the best provider. I currently only use the internet connection but anytime I've had a problem they do their best to get it fixed as soon as possible. I've been reimbursed for lost service time on my bill, and the last time I called them they offered me a better price on my internet than I was getting previously. Who does that? They gave me a faster service and lowered the price. Sure they have their problems, but in the scope of things I see them as being an excellent provider. read more

I had to get a new modem for the internet. I arrived on a Saturday morning and the line was down the front of the Spectrum building. Many people were frustrated. I just stood and read my book while enjoying the shade. Paul was recording the customer's name in the order that they arrived. Paul had a difficult job this morning. Paul was very patient and answered questions. I believe he deserves recognition. After I made it into the building, I went to the desk and was introduced to Mario. Mario made sure that I got a new modem and explained patiently how to set it up on my computer. Mario also deserves recognition for his patience on the busy morning. Two weeks later, I had to return a modem and router for my son who returned to Bakersfield from college. I was glad to see Paul again as I stood in line. When I got to the entrance, Paul took me in and personally explained that I needed to return the modem and router to UPS instead of the Spectrum store. Paul was very patient again. Paul certainly deserves recognition for patience. On both visits, customers were frustrated, but Paul stayed patient. read more

We needed to cancel our spectrum WiFi because we are moving to a place that already has WiFi set up and I kid you not we were only there for maybe 15 minutes. Robert was able to help us out and let us know some good deals if we were ever interested. No hassle in returning it like other big companies that make you go through red tape. Spectrum will be something we will be keeping in mind if we need anything. read more

SpectruM is NOT an honest company. I used 2 days of service and they refused to prorate the rest of the month. I've asked to speak with a supervisor. They have promised they would call me back but have not. It's ridiculous to pay for a service you are not using. In my book, that's stealing from the customer. By the way, I only cancelled tv and phone, I still planned on keeping inteRnet. Now we will definitely look for other options. read more

Received call about going from 50-300 on our business internet speed for free $0 charge. They added another $11.04 to the service and once I ask to then change it back, the answer was we cannot, because we no longer service that plan. Plan! wait, I never agreed to changing our plan. I then checked our cable and found our channel line-up was completely different. I called back to ask them about it. They want to charge another $17. 00 to add the channels that we already had in our previous plan. I mentioned that non of this was explained to me that it would all be changed, it was only supposed to change internet speed. They apologized that it wasn't explained but could not give us back our original plan. Now one of our business phone lines is out of service, ahhhh! I called back and was told it is because our equipment does not support 5 business lines. I said we had never had a problem before. The tech ask if we had turned in any equipment, I said NO! Tech then said he will need to send out a technition, and apologized for the inconvenous for our business phone line not operating. Which doesn't help me in any way, one problem after another and for offering a free internet upgrade, I have been getting charge more for less or no service. What happened to providing that great service they so proudly advertise. Beware of receiving calls that give free upgrades, your probably on a list they have to con you out of more money and get you away from an existing plan thats been working fine. Oh, they offered a one time $10 off next bill of 281.04 for any inconvenience. Business phone still not working +%#$#@!@@$#%* read more

Horrible customer service ! Ever since they changed their store this is legit ridiculous! I waited 1.15 minutes just to pay my bill .... it's ridiculous this is definitely not acceptable! read more

Looking at other people's opinions, I can see that I am not alone with the frustration with spectrum. My service at home had been spotty at best. We've had techs over, but our internet is always down. Then we go to the spectrum office and they have the slowest response time... representative of the internet service!! We have been with them for a long time...things have been getting worse and worse. One of my pet peeves is when the lobby is full and only two or three reps are at the counter and there are tons of reps walking in and out of the door. Obviously customer service is not important to spectrum...they have a monopoly in Bakersfield which is not fair to us hard working citizens who just want promised services of cable, internet, and friendly customer service... read more

UPDATE: This update came after the review below under the stars. I tried to use my second telephone line. The 4th person I mentioned below also falls into the incompetent category. She disabled my second phone line. I had to call in a get it restored. Maybe she did not like the fact that I turned down the several offers for different packages. Or, maybe she truly is incompetent and/or vengeful. If not forced to use Spectrum I would flush them down the toilet! ******************************************************************************** I tried to change my account by removing TV services and retaining internet and phone. The reason for this was a 44% jump in monthly costs - all at once. We don't watch enough TV to make it worth the money and such a price increase is terrible. I had 3 morons spend an inordinate amount of time attempting this. Each of these 3 miscreants simply put me on hold after blabbing for a while and then a new person appeared. The 4th person appeared competent and ultimately did take care of what I required but it took their tech people an extremely long time to simply switch my modem over. This 4th person did give me periodic updates. However, over one hour to accomplish something that should take five minutes is ridiculous. It appears that Spectrum tries to keep you from downgrading services. Apparently incompetent people coupled with interminable wait times is usually a recipe for disaster. Unless you have a lock on customers who have few alternatives. They should do better. They should be ashamed of themselves. read more

I got internet because my daughter needed it for school because of covid ... it was 49.99 then went up to 54.99 now it's up to 79.99.... I've asked for some kind of deal so I can keep internet ... I've told them I only get 300 a month ... but they won't work with me or help me .... I only have internet no phone No cable .... They can do better ... but they choose not to read more

Brighthouse is one of those companies I just have to hate to pay. I love my cable and LOOOOOVVEEEE my wifi. My wifi is great in all areas of my house except for one. My bedroom. It sucks, it won't pick up signal there. When there is an outage I see no reimbursement on my bill though. Hmmmmmm Also wish my internet worked in my bedroom. It is fast in all the other rooms. For $140 a month I feel it should work in all rooms. they go up and up and up as each year passes. I see new customers getting the same thing I have for $80??!!! Offer something to the LOYAL, LONGTIME customers for once. Wish there were more options to be honest.... Comcast in the NW was much better. Wish it was available here. Brighthouse, 2 stars. read more

we are in 93306 area code. we pay for spectrums top internet service. 1gigabit . seems like lately we spend more time with our service off than on. we pay over $100.00 per month and receive poor service. read more

This place is a complete joke. I will be switching back to AT&T. The installer left without programming any of the TVs. I called for him to come back and he said ok then just never showed up. The tv "spectrum" app never works. Netflix and Amazon Prime never work because the signal fir WiFi keeps dropping. I've called multiple times and still can't get help. I even upgraded to the "fastest" service. read more

I signed up for internet April 22nd, I pay $22.99 a month, I'm happy with it, nice customer service. A internet service named bundle finders connected me to them read more

Spectrum tv, I have been with them for 6 days, I was told when I signed up with them to purchase the apple boxes, I purchased the Apple TV boxes because they told me when I am traveling in my RV I could view my spectrum tv, this is an absolute lie, I hooked it up in my trailer and you have to be hooked up to your home internet, lie lie lie, so I called them and told them o would like to return the apple boxes, you know 30 days money back guarantee oh Woops not the Apple TV you have to purchase those it's in the contract you know that small lettering,I would not recommend spectrum to anyone and yes the internet is a joke also my apple boxes don't match the channels don't match my DVD channels I. Other words I am missing channels,, fricken crazy,,I would not have given them 1 star but I had to to post this review, read more

Yes I did know what I was getting when I signed up for spectrum streaming. Have had it for about three weeks and the system will not allow me to connect this premium program that I signed up for. I've had numerous conversations with numerous technicians. I even had an expert to come out to our condo to get a Roku set up and he just couldn't do it. Right now I seem to be paying for something that I'm getting very little service for. Called yesterday and the lady said that multiple people were calling me with the same issues so spectrum was working on the problem. Till this check that later to see if it was operational. I told her I would give them end of the week and then I will cancel my service. So if they can't figure it out what is the customer to do?This is been a very frustrating experience. read more

Good thing this town discourages competition. If they didn't have a semi-exclusive contract, BrightHouse would be out of business in a second. Shoddy equipment, disinterested and uninformed service installers and a local tech department that point-by-point contradicts every security suggestion posted on their own website. Where are you when I need you, Comcast. read more

Paid double for slowest modem, when in to cancel and turn in modem they informed me they issued me wrong modem. No rebate no apology they acted like it was my fault they issued it. Three months later I am turning in fastest modem cause the WiFi hasn't worked for the last four days and they can't deliver it til next week. It's ok only 14 people a head of me. We need a second cable company in this town, choice would clean this up!!! read more

very consistent high speed internet with some of the fastest speeds around. I have turbo and i test at nearly 30 mbps download and 2 mbps upload. I have had very few to no issues with the internet service, television is a different story. read more

The employees rate ten stars but their equipment is pitiful. I have never had a issue with any employee of Brighthouse being less than a ten. Their main problem is their equipment is so dated. Their DVR only records two things at a time and boxes go bad frequently. They really need to invest in some new technology. Beware they advertise whole house wireless but it must be if only you have a teeny weenie house. Their own employees will tell you that you need to get another router to get whole house wireless. I have one router in the office and the other one in the family room and we had to buy the other router ourselves if we wanted the wireless to extend through our house. Ten stars for the employees but two stars for the dated equipment. read more