It is unbelievable to me that a company can stay in business with the level of service that Comcast offers. That's what a monopoly will do for you.
If you are a business, please, please, please do NOT sign up for Comcast service.
Our company signed up for Business Phone Service (A PRI circuit) and 150mb internet service on a 3 year contract one year ago. We told them that during the term of our contract we would definitely be moving and asked if that would be an issue. "Definitely not" was the story. So we proceeded.
Fast forward 1 year where we are just moving down the hallway in the same building. Call them up and tell them we are moving and we just want to move our equipment. They don't have to do anything, our data contractor will run the cable and move the equipment.
NOPE. Not only can't we move the equipment, but we have to sign an entirely new 3yr agreement at more expensive pricing. That doesn't work for us as we will be moving again in 2 more years which would be coterminous with our original contract but we would have to do this all over again if we have to sign a new agreement.
After DAYS or dealing with this and pushing up to managers I finally got them to agree to a new 2 year agreement at just a small price bump. Any other time I would think I got screwed but with Comcast I call that a win.
Moving day comes and we have planned carefully for it. We make the call to switch the services over to the new equipment and, sure enough, it does not work. My engineer had to spend several hours on the phone with the technician. During this time, my engineer was telling him exactly what the problem was but he would not believe him. The Comcast engineer was telling us they would need to roll a truck and it would be the next day at best that they could get here. This is a business and we are completely down without these circuits. Still, no sense of urgency at all from the engineer on the phone.
My engineer says that we will agree to let them roll a truck if, first, we can try just moving our old equipment down to the new space. If that doesn't work we'll concede to them rolling a truck and being down the rest of the day. The CC engineer says there is no way that will work but if we want to try it to make us happy we can.
We move the equipment and sure enough everything comes up immediately (Something that my engineer has been saying for over 2 hours at this point). The CC engineer is puzzled and says ok, he'll set our account to have that old equipment still (again, something that I asked them if we could do two weeks prior and was told that was impossible). Then the engineer proceeds to tell us that it is lucky we are doing that because the old router we are using is much better than the new router they gave us anyway. UGH!!! read more