International service gets negative stars due to zero phone service or data.
Customer support gets negative stars (eventhough some reps were nice, they were unable to help)
I don't have the patience after at least 15 hours on the phone with "support" over the last 2 weeks to write a thorough review. But I'll try.
In June I got suckered into switching from Verizon to Spectrum because of the much lower price (true) and the claim that they use Verizon towers (not sure if this is true but I know the service is NOT the same). Like most upset Spectrum customers, I've had Verizon for decades, since my first cell phone ever. I always bragged about how great their service was.
I have traveled extensively with Verizon, around the U.S. and around the world and have always had voice, text and data. This month we traveled to Chile. I called Spectrum and spoke to a very nice tech support person (Spectrum calls it "repair") for an extensive amount of time who assured me we were all set to travel, that all our phones would work.
Fast forward to Chile...one phone could make calls, text, and VERY limited data, one phone could call, text but no data, and one phone could text only and receive calls, but could not make calls. All 3 of us on iphones, all 3 of us together, and all 3 followed the same process to set them up to work. We separated in travel, and the 2 of us with no data and only limited calling/texting were left together and were beyond inconvenienced! We had no car and were traveling by bus/backpack through a country just ravaged by storms with roads closed, transportation delays, etc. After multiple calls and no success, hours on the line with Spectrum, we texted our son in the U.S. who is far more proficient that the Spectrum support. Over the next several days he had to call Spectrum and once he would get through to support, he would have to 3 way call them to connect them to our phone that could receive calls. During one attempt at help, the "repair" at person at Spectrum DELETED MY ESIM, immediately dropping my call to him and rendering my phone that up until then could at least could call and text completely dead and useless. We were now left with one phone that could text, receive calls but not send calls. We spent hours and hours overs days trying to get service. I couldn't even add a Chilean sim card to get data in Chile because my iphone was locked. Spectrum refused to unlock it so I literally paid the remaining balance of over $700 over the phone so they would unlock it so I could at least buy a sim card and pay for data using a Chilean phone number no one know meaning I could not be reached. It was a nightmare. Upon my return it took another 1 hour and 2 minutes to get my esim reactivated and I finally got transferred to a supervisor who was NOT helpful in any way. And no calls or messages sent to my number appeared once I got reconnected so I lost any calls or messages that were personal or work related for the entire time I was gone. There is no way to measure what that cost me. In the end, she agreed to a $29.99 credit.
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