This company's overall performance is beyond abysmal. It is absolutely STUNNING - the degree of pronounced, repeated INEPTITUDE that permeates virtually every department, from Billing to Marketing to Customer Service to the "contractors" under their employ.
A WARNING TO ANYONE MOVING TO LOS ANGELES: AVOID TIME WARNER CABLE AT ALL COSTS - Time Warner Cable sucks.
We were customers of Comcast until TWC took over (most of?) Los Angeles. Years later, they STILL CANNOT GET THE BASICS OF SERVICE RIGHT, and they cannot deliver a relatively reliable product, be it Cable TV, Internet Service, Phone or any of the elements of same, contained therein (such as On Demand).
For the first eight months of our relationship with TWC, they were charging us for a connection speed that, after multiple tests at bandwidth.com and dslreports.com, it was determined we were not receiving. Inquiry with TWC resulted in them telling us that "the speed for which we've been charging you has not been attainable since we took over Comcast's areas."
Nobody home at the helm of this company. There is no leadership, no follow-through, no commitment to the customer and no comprehension at TWC that they are as dope-slap STUPID as they are.
All of their "services" are subject to constant, repeated outages, included, but not limited to: faulty or unreliable DNS servers, Cable TV signal, On Demand, DVR, HDTV.
This is BY FAR, the WORST company of its size that our family has ever dealt with, period. Calling Customer Service is like sticking toothpicks in your eyes, as most of the employees we've spoken with (likely 50+ thus far) are so dumbed-down, it's virtually unbearable to speak with them for any length of time.
"Now let's see, is the computer plugged in?"
My wife and I are programmers, and we both do a fair amount of work from home. Using TWC is like having an absentee business partner who keeps taking the keys to the establishment, loses them and can't remember taking them in the first place.
The people of Los Angeles need to organize and stand up to this poor excuse for a company, which is currently being sued by The City of Los Angeles because of their BEYOND POOR service - and fraud. Google it.
As professionals who have worked for major media companies, both directly and as contractors, we can't help but wonder - who is at the helm at TWC? Who is in the board room? Where did they go to school and what type of IQs are we talking about here? Because this type of behavior typically doesn't play (for long) in the professional business community. Why do we have to put up with this? We have no choice in LA for comparable (when working) internet connection speeds.
The kicker here is TWC's marketing (on their Cable TV system). The level at which customers are BOMBARDED with self-congratulatory, overblown, overstated claims about the greatness of TWC is - first - heretofore UNSEEN from a cable company. And we've lived in 5 of he top 6 media markets over the past 20 years. The level at which this company interrupts national spots prematurely, dropping in their brand-propaganda, is nothing short of masturbatory and is cause enough to puke after only a short time as a TWC customer.
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