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Bell Canada offers telecommunications services, including internet, television and phone plans. Operating since 1880, the company provides high-speed internet, fiber-optic TV and wireless services. Bell Canada also supports business solutions such as cloud computing and cybersecurity.
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Reviewed Jan. 14, 2019
I am 84 years old and hearing impaired. For that reason I depend written communication. When the speed of my Bell business became unacceptable (error message that it could not connect and waiting to about one minute to read a newspaper) I tried to chat with Bell. The artificial creature responded obviously because of certain keywords in my first approach. This response was total useless. After I wrote that the chat was terminated by Bell. I was not able to find another suitable way to communicate with this communication business. So I asked my tenant to call Bell in my presence to quit the internet service. I already had found somebody better and cheaper. I trusted that company because I was using their VOIP services for any emergencies.
My tenant was for about 30 minutes on the phone and finally Bell cancelled my services. We requested that the service should stop on the last day of October. I did not want to be without internet. Bell informed my tenant that the modem must be returned and that I would receive a free shipping label. I agreed. Amazon does the same for returns. Bell canceled it earlier. Then I received another invoice from Bell for internet service without specifying for which period similar to what they did on their regular bills. I did not pay it and did not try to call them or to chat again. But I was still waiting for the label to return the modem. It never came, but another invoice that I should pay for the modem. Not being able to communicate in writing with them I wrote this review and hope that this will be a wake-up call for Bell.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2019
I work 1 hour South of Grande Prairie AB and there is very poor coverage in this area. Bell is well aware of this and has been for some time but have not rectified this so customers out in the field can get coverage. Telus customers (my work phone is Telus) have no problem getting coverage. I could understand this if I was further North, but an hour out of a large city center where a majority of the population works in the bush, there should be access to their network. A good reason to switch to Telus in my opinion. They have told me a handful of times they are addressing this issue, but yet, nothing has been done. They call themselves the best network in Canada when clearly Telus is.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2019
Absolutely the worst company to deal with, this is not an exaggeration. Get sent in circles & told different things from one person to the next, one day to the next. Waste so much time. Bell tells me I have to go to a Bell store & then the store says they can't do that at the store, you have to call in, and back and forth we go, in the circle again. "No we don't have that device in stock, it is on backorder with no date or eta..." Next day; "We have exactly 908 of those in stock, but you have to go to the store to get it," but when I call the store they do not have any and can't get me one, as I have to do it over the phone. Absolutely ludicrous, ridiculous. One star is way too high a rating. And this is not a one time circumstance, this is a repeatable picture of dealing with any Bell division I have ever had dealings with over the last 2 decades.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2019
The customer service at Bell is the worst I have ever dealt with in my life. Every time I call no one has a clue what's going on and I get transferred at least 3 times every phone call. (That's if I don't get disconnected.) Today was a 30 minute phone call and the problem still isn't resolved. Absolutely horrible.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2019
Bell is a greedy sneaky corporation who tries to squeeze as much money out of their customers as possible while pulling a hood over our eyes. Your CEO isn't making enough money already? While the rest of us work hard to make ends meet. The ethics of this company is disgusting. And when customers try to change or cancel services that they don’t need, you train your employees to give customers the runaround instead of being helpful. Your company makes billions of dollars yet you still need to sneak in an extra 10 dollars here and 10 dollars there out of every account possible. Absolutely disgusting. I’ll be taking my services elsewhere once I have the time to call your terrible customer support center, since the chat feature was useless.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2019
I sold my house and moved on July 16th and didn't take the number with us. Bell has been withdrawing pre-authorized payments since that date. They claim that I never cancelled the phone line, which is untrue. I asked them whether there had been any activity on the line since that time. They said they don't have that information. My husband is terminally ill and I hadn't noticed the withdrawals. Bell Canada owes me $500.00 and they refuse to return the money. Bell Canada stole my dime. Forget this company!
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2019
What was told to me at a Bell phone centre was different from what actually ended up on my bill--I was assured that my new plan would only be $10 more a month. I was also charged a $35 fee (for activating my new phone) plus another fee for switching mid-month. None of this was explained to me when I initially purchased the phone. This sort of thing has happened to me with Bell before--I no longer really trust them.
Also, I do not want to talk to someone in the Philippines when I do have a concern. My experience is that while the agents are courteous, they often attempt to 'upsell' me, rather than resolve my issue; also, they frequently do not understand the context of our conversation (a cultural/language disconnect, perhaps). I am searching for a viable option to Bell. They pretend to be interested in customer-feedback, but my experience with them is consistently poor. I would not recommend this company to anyone: 1. expensive, 2. inconsistent information, 3. poor customer-service.
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2019
1-844-415-0940. Executive.Office_Relations.Clients@bell.ca. The choice to offshore Customer Service to the Philippines is clearly a mistake. The domestic contacts above were helpful after 8 months of time wasted abroad. Good Luck.
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2019
We purchased business internet and phone. Added business TV to our bundle after a while. Our last purchase was due to false advertisement. When we try to cancel our Bell services, we have being giving wrong information on cancellation fees and because of that we decided to stay. When we figure it out that we don't have to pay full for cancelling the services, we called the customer service again for cancelling business solution products. But so far we are not able to get a full answer on cancellation fees. Supervisor of the customer service got an appointment for calling us but we never got a phone call.
When we sent an e-mail they said the supervisor did not come to work at that day. Since then we sent many e-mails but neither we got the phone call back or the answer to our inquiries via e-mail. We also filled out an escalation form, seems that is useless too. Due to their irresponsible customer service, we have been able to cancel our services and paying bills for the services that we don't use. We lost money and time due to Bell's irresponsible, unprofessional customer service. Meanwhile Bell internet is not working properly, we lose internet at least twice a day and when we get it, sometimes it is so slow that we are making our customers wait at the cash. If you have a small business stay away from Bell. Does not worth the money and time that you waste.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2019
Terrible customer service! I have been with Bell for years. I upgraded my husband's device with them and was told we have 3 gb of data. I cancelled my line with them and now I find out my husband was charged $50 for data usage! I call 'em up and tell them that he has 3 gb of data. Why the charge? I'm told the 3 gb was with my line not his! Why DID Bell not think to let me know that at the time of upgrade? And the account for both numbers were in his name so why wouldnt he have the data being the account holder? They DID not help in any way and were **! Do not do business with these people if you love your money! He pays $90 a month and no data!!!!
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2019
To get cheap wifi I bought a bundle with credits that made the other products null. I decided I wanted to change my package to just wifi because I dont use home phone or tv. They promised credits wouldnt expire, so I should just keep the package. 2 months later the credits expired and I have been trying for the past three months to get this problem fixed. The bill doubled in price.
Finally I got to their loyalty department and they promised that the bill would go back to normal... Ok fine. Now a month later it hasn't because my service was changed "halfway" (2 days) into my billing period. The problem is they don't care that their service sucks because we don't have a better option, switching is so expensive and all the packages are priced the same.
I am cancelling my service whatever the cost. This company is the worst company in the country. Far worse than the oil companies destroying the Earth for resources, because they own that they know what they are. Bell tries to pretend to be your friend and helpful, then boom you need to pay double and there is no way out of it.
Reviewed Jan. 7, 2019
My contract was up in August and I still had a 300 dollar balance to go. I was perfectly content with paying my bills monthly and upgrading in August. My phone's motherboard failed and as my occupation requires I have a cellphone I was forced to upgrade my phone. Fast forward to my conversation with Bell today. I was told that even though my phone broke down I was still required to pay 300 dollars. By no fault of my own I am required to now pay a total of 466 for a broken phone. The account supervisor I spoke with was extremely rude. She had zero understanding of my situation and my loyalty to the company meant NOTHING to her. She said I could have got the phone repaired and serviced, after I explained to her that I work with a vulnerable population that requires me to have a cell phone. She said it was out of their control and that I must pay.
On top of that the supervisor mentioned that I could set up a payment plan. I opted to at least get information about that. Once I was connected with the payment assistance department I was told I had to wait until my bill was overdue to set up payment assistance. Bell Canada essentially told me I must damage my credit score in order to have any sort of assistance. If you're looking for a company that cares about its customers you will not find that with Bell Canada. Zero care about loyalty, extremely high contracts that offer bare minimum benefits. I paid 118 dollars a month until an individual who worked at a mobile phone kiosk switched me to a better plan. Bell doesn't even care enough to inform its customers of plans that would be more beneficial to them.
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2019
Bell is the worst cell phone company in Canada. Not only are they expensive, they don't care about their long time customers. I have 3 lines with this company and 2 of the lines were out of contract. I called them to upgrade both lines but we only managed to upgrade one that day because I asked for a loyalty deal and was advised that department would call me the following day as they were closed. No one called me so I called them back. This time the loyalty department advised they could not give me the plan I wanted because I was not eligible. I had just been offered this same plan the previous day but hours later I did not qualify.
I hung up and called again. This time the person I spoke to advised they could upgrade the plan but now I had to pay for the same phone that was $0 the previous day. I have been with this company for 8 years but I was being treated as a new customer. I will be moving my service for all 3 lines to another company that will appreciate my business and hopefully understands customer loyalty.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2019
I used to live in the United States and thought Verizon was bad until I started using Bell. Horrible company and everything is outsourced to India or the Philippines so when you call them nothing gets accomplished and there is no way to solve your problem. I couldn't even get a Canadian manager on the line to help me. While the call center in Manila isn't abysmal it's pretty bad. The woman told me she could increase my speeds but it would cost me $20 more month. That didn't make any sense and I quickly realized that Bell has no business sense clearly.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2019
Called to lower my plan, they would not maintain my plan below 35$ a month so the rep offered to move me to pay as you go for $25 per 90 days. I told her that was still more than I wanted to pay so she offered $20 every 3 month. Followed by being transferred to a specialty customer rep of some sort that then confirmed what we agreed on after 2 hrs on the phone during vacation. Now they will not honor our agreement and say nothing in the system says this ever happened. Beyond frustrated, changing providers after being scammed by Bell employees. I will be fine with foreign competition after being treated like an idiot by my Canadian provider. Good luck Bell, you will need it.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2019
I'm not alone in stating that Bell costs are the highest in the world. **. The structure of the billing is borderline criminal - it is not actually possible for me to know what is my upcoming bill. The billing itself is insane - I am charged long distance rates for texting and mobile because I bought my SIM card near the airport when I arrived, making a call or text from Oakville to Oakville somehow long distance. Does Bell need a high school graduate to help them configure their routers so that the text doesn't go from Oakville to the airport then back to Oakville, or is this intentional price gouging?
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2019
When I first requested for Bell TV and internet for my cottage, Bell technicians didn’t show up, twice. I had to talk to their case department few times to sort thing out. It was not great experience overall. Each time I call, I had to deal with a different rep and explained what happened. My home residence account is also with Bell. When I temporarily suspect my cottage service, Bell pulled home my residence line by mistake for a couple of days. When they reactivate my residence account, they took off the discount and the price went up significantly.
Their billing service department put me one silent line for more than 1 hour only because I requested to speak to the group manager directly. It’s extremely frustrating dealing with different departments, receiving number of emails and calls. 70% of the Bell’s reps I’ve spoken to are not well trained with business etiquette and having the mindset of how to put clients first. I will stay from Bell and recommend each of you do so.
Reviewed Jan. 2, 2019
Have a Samsung 7 Edge on a 24 month contract. Battery drains in 2 hours, phone overheats and apps crash. Went to the local Bell store who informed me it was a known issue with the batteries. Asked if I could have a new one installed. The response was, "No we don't do those as they are a major PIA to do." The only resolution offered was to pay the remaining time on my phone and enter a new contract!!! 310 Bell told me the same thing. So the contract is completely one sided. The very least I would expect on a two year contract is a phone that works for two years. The lack of customer service is absolutely disgusting. The equipment craps out and I am expected to pay you... Hell will freeze over first!
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2018
Your Filipino representatives are the absolute worst. They are lacking training and even the supervisors are ridiculous. I have been dealing with an issue over a month now and I have been promised callbacks over and over and not once have I received a callback. All I ever get is Filipinos who have no training and lack and common sense to making customers happy. Bye Bell. I'm going to Telus who have all Canadian reps who actually care about customers.
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2018
I recently discovered from a Bell employee that I was being charged $50 per month 33 months later for a phone service that was suspended to the end of contract period, because I did not cancel? Bad assumption on my part I suppose that when contract expired that charges would stop? I’m being told by Bell that I must look at my bill and they are only able to go back ninety days? Although Bell is quick to contact you when you don’t pay, they are not responsible when you keep paying for a service that was suspended? I am on autopay and had gotten used to $250 recurring payment and had forgotten about suspended line?
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2018
This company is all about making money and nothing about people!!! As I was new to the Canada they took $500 security deposit and for the 3 months I have been trying to get it back- as I am entitled to-, and unsuccessfully!!! They have only one way to give security deposit money back - sending a check. Every time I call Bell, they say they will send me the check this time, but never do!!! I am so frustrated! I called them again today, and I was told to wait another 20 days, but I don’t trust them anymore, and there is nothing I or store rep can do... The worst service and the most careless company!!!
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2018
Phone and TV was to be merged to a one bill account. Was never done correctly, would receive a bill for one account then a credit in other account. Cancel service, returned equipment in summer. Bell claiming equipment not returned, & bill unpaid - sent to creditor - CCA. Proof of bills paid sent to creditor, creditor letter says Bell will forgive bill if pay for equipment but if return to Bell will owe for bills too??? Bell does not care about their customers, don't train staff consistently. Staff really not interested in finding a solution nor is creditor CCA. Will never return!
Reviewed Dec. 26, 2018
They no longer provide support for technical problems. Within the last month they have changed their policy to not assist your internet based problems. They state they are no longer responsible if a client cannot connect to you.
Reviewed Dec. 23, 2018
Bell customer service is the poorest service in Canada. No any agent have any information, no respect and no manners to talk to customers. Even supervisor name Kyla employee ID/Ez **, she doesn’t have enough training how to handle with people. They never make any efforts to make their customers satisfied. They never care how much customer paying to them and even they get paid from customers' money. I would never ever recommend Bell even if there is no any other network in Canada. Worst company, worst customer service, worst staff. They need to get trained from other good companies. I made biggest mistake moving to Bell. It is just month, but such a arrogant behaviour from agents, I would rather move to another company who will value customers' time and money. Bell should be banned in Canada .
Reviewed Dec. 23, 2018
Prices are far too high. Channel selection is okay. Service can be subpar at times. Sometimes their technical staff is unable to assist with issues in a timely manner. Unfortunately not many choices for cable service in Canada.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2018
Way overpriced and there is no competition. Only Shaw and BellMTS are available and satellite companies cost even more. It can be hard to cancel. I have cut all cable. I'm very happy just using Netflix and "other" ways to get my TV shows.
Reviewed Dec. 20, 2018
I received extremely poor quality of services from Bell Canada for months. Due to their extremely high prices for poor quality services, I closed my account before by billing month was over (which I had paid for in advance). I am outraged due to the fact that, when I cancelled my Bell internet service, I spoke on the phone on 2 separate occasions, to 2 different Bell Canada representatives. Both representatives confirmed to me that because I had ended my services before my billing month had ended, I would have a credit on my account, which I requested to have returned to me in form of cheque, because I refuse to let Bell keep this money. Both individuals confirmed that they would have a cheque sent to me, which I have never received.
To add to my frustration, I was shocked to receive on December 17th, 2018, a letter from Bell Canada dated December 7th, 2018, which stated I had an owed a balance of $13.94, by the due date of December 17th, 2018 (which is the same date I received the notice) – if not paid, the letter stated this issue would be escalated to Collections process for recovery. I called the phone number on this letter, and I was surprised when the representative informed me there was no notes or records of the TWO conversations I had earlier on regarding my credit.
This being said, Bell Canada has been sending me inconsistent messages for months. I am incredibly unimpressed and outraged with the extremely poor quality services I have received from Bell Canada, and feel incredibly let down. Bell is an unreliable organization and I do not feel I can trust Bell anymore. I expected more from a large company like Bell Canada, which claims to offer the best services in Canada. I have paid this balance, because I will not let Bell's embarrassment of a company affect my personal credit. Please note that I will never be returning to Bell as customer, and they have left me no choice but to leave poor reviews. I will not be recommending Bell services to any friend or family member, and will discourage any individual who is considering choosing Bell as a service provider.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
Have been a customer of Bell for 2 years. Internet is NOT the fastest, in fact it disappears often. Working from home is a nightmare as I constantly lose connection. TV is slow and picture freezes and volume disappears. Call customer service every month with no results. Customer service is awful. I was yelled at and told to "be quiet" multiple times. My bill is at $250 for channels that don't work and internet that is not reliable. Look for alternatives, don't waste your time or money on Bell.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
Was talking with some good folks at the Source about my data plan with Rogers. They said that Bell was new and improved and could offer a better data plan & cost. Talked with them - seemed to come in lower but previous experiences with Bell (crappy customer service) made me uneasy but wife convinced me so switched. After we did all three devices (all Apple) the iMessage stopped working - a fact we only discovered after we had headed home. I called up Bell technical support and asked if there was something different from Rogers (my previous carrier) or if there was something that needed to be switched. He told me only thing they supplied was data - nothing to do with them and why was I texting from a tablet any ways since his daughter had a mini and they didn't text (a bit different from iPAD Pro).
When I asked why it would work on Rogers but not on Bell he suggested that "I had 14 days to change my mind about joining (Bell)," WOW. Guess what - I will take his advice and for anybody thinking of joining BELL please run the other direction unless you enjoy non-existent tech support & sure customers service just feel sorry for wasting the time of the guys at the SOURCE.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
Since Alarm Force changed to Bell Home the quality of their equipment is unacceptably poor - and their service is non-existent. A new monitoring unit less than 3 months old just suddenly stopped working and no one available for a week! So if our house gets robbed who is responsible - Bell Home??? The (un) service representative - “Ram” was completely useless and as soon as my contract is up they will be fired. Don’t let anyone you care about sign up for this so called home security system.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
I am Bell mobility customer for more than Two years. My contract is over. I called five times to renew the contract and get new device. They are directing me to go to the store somewhere. Why they cannot do it on phone and I have to go to store wasting more than two hours. I am frustrated with this company.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
We signed back for another 2 years with Bell in August 2018. 3 days after the signing, call failures escalated to 2-4 daily with new iPhones. It’s now December 2018, no resolution and no responses from Bell. Have to reiterate the complete story each time even though we have an open ticket with no resolution. Every time we call Bell, the same run around or hand off to a tech who promises to escalate to the ‘heat’ team. Even the Bell Mobility dealer is fuming at this circumstance. This is a small business account number, I’m certain I’ve lots thousands of dollars from clients not getting through to me. I’ve asked for an account reset, but no. Is our account corrupted? Apparently not, according to one tech. Minutes later, another call fails. Apple has checked the phone, not the issue. New SIM cards have been purchased. Last resort is to buy out the contract - $1300 I just don’t have. Is there any recourse at all?!
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2018
Thank you to Bell Canada employee Terry **. She conducted business with me in a very professional manner. Informed and polite. She help me with my billing issue and is a credit to Bell Canada in the way she exhibited her duties.
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2018
I was looking for a SIM card for my family who was dropping in for 10 days. No one would offer pay as you go. So we signed with Bell, I was assured I can cancel after 10 days and pay only connection fee. We did pass the internet by a little bit, and we did pay for an extra gig when asked to by text... However, even if I gave my credit card, I was never billed. I was also never provided with a paper copy of any logs. I canceled after 2 weeks of use. They called me 2 months later, asking me for 250$. 250$ for 2 weeks. I told them provide me with the logs and I'll think about it. I plan on offering 100$ which is plentiful for 10 days of service, if they refuse, I'll cut Landline, Internet and TV just out of principle.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2018
Obligated to buy package deal in order to view local news. Multiple channels have the same programs airing. Cost is autrious. No personal pick. In order to have some savings customers MUST go with a package deal that includes cable TV with HD and internet service. We don't watch sports or have kids. Our monthly cost here in Canada is $200. Too costly for seniors.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2018
We made the mistake of changing mobile phone providers because of promises made by Bell. Not only were they misleading and aggressive salespeople, they were gaslighting experts. The first year after switching to Bell, when we put our phone contract on suspension while away for our usual 4 month trip to be with family in another country things went smoothly. They honored the suspension price that was promised - 25.00 a month versus a 10.00 per month charge we were use to by our past provider and most other providers, and of course extending our contract for those 4 months as expected.
But we were told the next year they would not do a suspension until after the 3 year contract expired and we were never promised a suspension price. They made us feel like we didn’t know what we were talking about (common gaslighting technique). Very confusing. Then we paid Bell to have our phone unlocked so we could use it while away, but when we tried to put a new Sim card in the phone while away we were told the phone was not unlocked. We were never reimbursed for the money paid to unlock the phone nor did they explain why it was not unlocked.
Whenever we phoned Bell about concerns we reached representatives in a foreign country who talked off a script (it was pretty obvious). While polite they could not answer our questions and promised that we would be called by a supervisor - which never ever happened. We did talk with a very arrogant and rude man once who basically told us tough luck! Then there was the miscalculation of payments - last April we received an email indicating our balance was paid in full, yet even after paying each bill until the end of the contract in September when we finally changed providers (3 year contract expired) we received an additional amount owing.
We called and explained however have been harassed since that time and have received threatening phone calls, a letter, and emails from them. We are seniors and in all our years of dealing with mobile phone companies we have never ever been treated so poorly. There is absolutely no point trying to resolve anything with Bell - they believe they are right all the time. No wonder they have the highest number of unresolved issues of all mobile phone providers. We want to warn others about our experience, so you can choose a cell phone provider that is honest, respectful, and is customer service orientated. We have returned to a past provider and have never been happier.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2018
I would have to agree with many of the complaints that have been written that there seem to be questionable billing practices with Bell. Specific to my issue was that Bell was providing me with a lesser package for internet/TV but was charging me for the correct (more expensive) package that I had requested. When I noticed that I was not receiving all the services that I had requested Bell made the corrections and I was receiving the level of service that I was paying. Here's the rub. Because my service was "upgraded", which was actually correcting an error that Bell had made, Bell viewed it as a change of service and the promotional price was no longer valid thus doubling my service fees. The phone rep acknowledge the error but maintained I had changed the plan and therefore I was still obligated to pay the new monthly increase. They would not take responsibility for their own billing errors.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2018
Closing account was a nightmare. They decided to put our 2 accounts together then when we told them to put the amounts back on the proper accounts they said we owed the amount they messed up. We have all the paperwork with a zero balance and they still say we owe. 4 calls later and we’re still fighting. 3 simple calculations. Add, subtract, total. Idiots.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2018
The worst customer service I have ever experienced. They never follow through on what was agreed upon. I recently cancelled and they told me they would send boxes for their equipment. When they didn't... I called and they told me I had to buy my own. This, after a very long list of billing issues and service issues! Never again. If I could give negative stars, I would.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2018
We switched to Bell to get a good deal on all our services. We were quoted a price, which we agreed on and asked all the pertinent questions. The Bell retailer assured us that because we were in a two year contract this was what we would pay for the two years. Well surprise - our last bill had an increase and when I questioned Bell Canada (310-bell) they told us they could raise the price for services at anytime. Bell Canada said that our discount credits would not change for the length of the contract, but that’s not what the Bell retailer told us. Our signed contract to protect us from increases only covers discount credits.
After talking to Bell Canada for 3 hours and 10 minutes (over 2 calls) the Bell reps could not do anything for me because what Bell retailers say and what Bell Canada says is that they can’t speak to that (Bell retailers). How do consumers make informed decisions when the information from the retailers differs from what 310 Bell says. If we want to cancel our services we need to pay a fee of $150 (less one year) and $75 in the second year of the contract. Bell retailers engage in deceptive practices with new customers.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2018
They rip me off in sign a 2 years contract deal for (home phone internet tv all basic services $100 month) 3 months after they cancel my promotion?? Started charge me full price $200 a month for the same 3 services. When I asked what's going on with my two year contract they response was "Bell reserve the right to make any changes to your account at any time without your consent or agreement". WTF? When trying to keep my services they saying the price is now $200 a month for these 3 basic services for 2 years which was not the agreement I sign? They break their end of the bargain and contract without customer knowledge? After canceling they send it to collections. WTF Bell?
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2018
I have been dealing with different representatives from this company for more than 3 weeks without getting any resolution to the problem. Their sales people only try to sell their products and services to get commission, without any regards of the customer needs. They promise that everything will be taken care of, and you don't have to do anything. Once their technician comes in and everything is screwed up, you are on your own to get everything done. You have to spend endless hours on the phone day after day speaking to different people. Each time you call in, you have to start explaining from the beginning again. They promise to call back and never do. I hope that my problem get fixed soon. I will never use this company again once my contract is finished.
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2018
I am currently a Videotron customer and have had two Bell Canada sales reps come to my door in the past year to try and convert me to Bell. Yesterday the second rep came and offered me a low monthly fee with extra privileges with no end date. The online offers are less generous and end after 12 months. Needless to say, I was very skeptical but told him I would compare the two companies. The Bell website did not give me all the information I needed to make a direct comparison. Later that night the Bell rep returned without being invited and proceeded to be pushy, asking several times to come in for 5 minutes to write down the details. After several minutes I had to close the door in his face as he was asking to come back again. I decided then and there that even if Bell has a better deal I will not switch to them because of their sales practices. Reading other comments here has just confirmed that I made the right decision.
Reviewed Nov. 28, 2018
Bell Canada has false promises when you sign up and over charge you after a couple months. They do not keep up with their end of their details that they agree to. I have to call in every few weeks to discuss billing problems each month. Not only do I have to call in, but they have horrible customer service... not only have I been hung up on and laughed at but constantly the customer service reps are just giving you the run around and wasting your time on the phone for no reason. The amount of times I hear them say "Let me check on that one with my supervisor"...is beyond me! I have been compassionate and kind about expressing my dissatisfaction with them on the phone each time but these customer service reps just don't care about what they are doing and it's clear that they feel like playing games with you.
I've caught the Bell Canada customer service reps in lies and then had them be rude to me. I've had them apologize to me for their behavior and then minutes later had them blame it on the rep sitting next to them. What on earth is going on with Bell and the people they outsource their customer service to?! It is maddening each and every time you need to call them...which does happen to be on average once a month...if not more often than that! So perplexed that there is even a company at this level of service to National residential services that operates in such an unprofessional and incompetent capacity. I am currently trying to figure out how to take complaints to a level of corporate so that something might actually be done about this. I would urge other to do the same. This is the only way to create positive change.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2018
For over a year I have been trying to unlock my device, I already made several calls, I already sent my phone to your support department and none of those actions unlocked my phone. I am extremely frustrated. Bell always gave me problems during my time as a client and I do not recommend to anyone, but I expected that at least to have my rights it would be reliable. Clearly it is not. I want a solution for this problem asap. I paid for the phone, I paid regularly my monthly bills and now I want my phone unlock as is my right. Thank you.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2018
I ordered a new phone line and a mobile phone from Bell and did not receive it yesterday. At first they wanted me to go to the store to provide some documents (identification and stuff like that). After calling the store he told me that he doesn't know why they directed me to him as they don't have any stock to complete my order. Then I called Bell and they told me that the order got cancelled. It was without any notice and without any consideration of peoples' situation. Not professional and I do not recommend them at all!
Reviewed Nov. 26, 2018
I am paying 99.99/month of high speed internet, but I am getting an average of 8.49 speed download and 5.62 upload on average. This server is suppose to be Fibe 100. I called in, was told if I want a faster speed, I had to pay over 200 dollar for another modem. The modem I have with my service barely have any range. My bedroom is on the 3rd floor, and I can't get WiFi from there. I run a 50ft cable WiFi to the 2nd floor, so I can get internet in my bedroom. We only have one working phone jack in the house.
So, if I have YouTube on and play my online game, my game would lag a lot until I turn off YouTube. Yes, I am still with Bell, I am waiting for Teksavvy to install my Cable internet in a few days and goodbye... Low speed internet.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2018
It all started a few months after I signed with them, when they randomly boosted up my monthly payments. I was already paying 75$ for internet alone, and then they pushed it up to 95$ a month without telling me. I called to complain because I put a set amount aside every month to pay my internet bill and this surcharge cause the payment to bounce due to insufficient funds and RBC charging me a 45$ fee. No one could help me, I had to have my boyfriend call back and be firmer for the Bell Rep to even consider helping us out. She eventually brought it back down to 80$ a month which is still 5$ more than originally.
I really did not enjoy having to deal with this and having to pay so much, so in September, I decided to switch providers. In November, I got a bill from Bell stating I owed another 80$ for the month of October. I called Bell to ask if I had to pay this and they said "NO, the balance will correct itself in the next bill. You can just leave it as is until then, and pay the difference," since I had canceled after the cycle had started. A few days later, I'm looking at my bank account and Bell had pulled out 80$ which made it so my new provider's payment bounced due to insufficient funds and now they're charging me an extra 25$ fee AND my bank is charging me another 45$ fee. I called and no one could help me. It was extremely disappointing and I feel straight up robbed of over 150$ fees during my contract with them. UNACCEPTABLE! AVOID!
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2018
After close to 20 years I went back to Bell this year claiming they have changed and stole my business from Rogers. Now regret it again. I had a door to door salesman call Chintan in the Brampton Area that came and sold services for a fixed price for a year on contract and now in 3 months it has gone up 20% without no changes done on my part. All their discounts have hidden condition that is not mentioned when you buy the service but then they have a field day tacking on service fees. What a disgrace of a Company. Being so big they have no shame and their customer service is pathetic. Avoid Bell Canada no matter how sweet the deal is because once you become their customer they have a hand into your bank account to steal. They raised their prices by 5 approx dollars per month stating they had expenses to cover and we have no say in it at all. Then they hide some of their discounts with bundles that they give for free and expires with it.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2018
The tablet could not be activated that day; I was told to come back the next day.
I called Bell and noted the above. They said there was nothing that they could do until a first bill was sent out. Call back then and they would credit the account the $30 activation fee.
Sept 17, 2018 - my email address was entered incorrectly into the system and I did not review full billing info until the paper copy was sent to me – received the evening before the 2-week grace period was up. Sept 18, 2018 - Called the store first thing in the morning to address the situation. Oct 10, 2018 - Followed up weekly with the store manager. Spoken with Andrew ** from the Bell Portage Place store several times and confirmed that the associate (Sully) admitted what he had sold me and has been advised that it was incorrect. The only response he can give me is that the Regional Manager, Stefan ** is “working on it”. I have requested a call from Stefan. I have heard nothing to date - Nov 13, 2018.
Nov 1, 2018 - Called the contact centre. Call was escalated to a Supervisor. Was told that the account was going to be credited to bring me to $0 and “start us fresh” and that the $10 credit would be applied to my bill every month going forward. I would continue to receive the 2GB of “free data”. I considered the issue resolved.
Nov 9, 2018 - Received my October bill. Once again what was told to me was not shown on the bill. Nov 13, 2018 - Spent 45 minutes on the phone with a rep who told me that it was impossible for them to apply a $10 credit to my bill every month, so I asked to be escalated to a Supervisor (Anne). She notes that nothing is showing as having been authorized from my conversation with the supervisor on Nov 1st for a monthly credit to be shown on my bill. They will listen to the phone call with the previous supervisor to understand what he told me and Anne will call me back to verify. If that’s what was said, they will ensure that happens going forward.
Noted that I was also disputing a late charge of $5.64 due to the amount owing for the tablet set up costs (that was ultimately credited). And that I wanted to revise my data to lowest package available. 2.5GB for $10. Was told that this would be back charged to the last billing date. I understand that I am still receiving 2GB of “free data” from this tablet. Nov 23, 2018 - Still no response.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2018
I currently have 3 lines on Bell, I called Bell on Friday Nov, 16 to cancel 1 line as the phone had been lost. I spoke to Jessica Employee # **. She was trying to convince me to not cancel as I was due for an upgrade, she offered me 2 free phones and upgraded my 3 line plans and included 7gb of data at a given cost. I wanted to wait until Black Friday to see the deals before making a decision, but she confirmed that they have a Holiday Price Guarantee and I would be guaranteed to receive any holiday deal they have. I received 1 of the phones and when I called into to activate it, I was told by Jennifer Employee #**, that the deal I was given was incorrect and they could not honor it. I would be charged additional monthly fees, if I wanted the additional data. In addition there was no way they could offer me the Holiday Price Guarantee either. So basically everything I was offered by Bell could not be met.
After being a customer for more than 10 years, they could not live up to what they offered me. I find this appalling, the phone call is recorded and the file is noted, but I am the one who is held accountable for signing up for a 2 year contract, but Bell is not accountable for delivering the terms their customer service representative offered.
Reviewed Nov. 21, 2018
Bell is a joke. They told me they would be coming one day and didn’t show up for 4 days. Mind you between those four days I called 15-17 times asking if they were coming and being told to confirm my address multiple times and being told that the technician is on his way and he never showed. I absolutely hate Bell. I called tech support and they told me they’d credit me for the whole payment and didn’t only for the ** 4 days. They’re a joke of a company. I will be cancelling with them as they’ve totally lost all respect from me.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2018
Bell Canada put fiber optic cable to my neighbor house which they connected from the other side of the street and the cable was hanging too low. When a truck was passing it reached the cable as the cable was hanging too low on the street. Once the truck hit the cable the metal thing came out from the house and fell on my car and broke my windshield. It's being more than 10 days I am trying to resolve the issue. Today Bell send me a text and asking to talk to my car insurance company to fix the windshield that broken by Bell Canada. My insurance company don't cover as I have deductable that is too high. I am too surprised the way Bell is handling and not taking responsibility of their action. I as asking Bell Canada attention and resolve the issue. I can be reached at **. Thanks.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2018
I signed up for Bell Fibe August 2017 for 2 years at $99.00 a month. I bill keeps creeping up and customer service redirected my situation, when I asked for the loyalty department, I was spun around to avail.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2018
No one worse customer service in Canada. Never seen in my life such a bad and worse customers service. Not recommended. They just knows how to cheat customers. Last 2 weeks calling them every day they will tell you different story.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2018
My wife and I are both longtime Bell Mobility customers. Her phone is under contract, mine is not. We recently moved and needed to port my cell number to our new landline. I called Bell and spoke with a customer service representative, explaining the situation and making the necessary changes. It should have been simple; my wife's contract and phone remain the same; my cell number was to be ported to our landline and I would be assigned a new cell number by Bell. Bell billed us incorrectly, charging the change to my wife's cell number and dinging us for breaking the contract. Because we signed up for automatic payments, Bell incorrectly charged more than $411 to my wife's Visa. I called to have the mistake rectified and have received a world class runaround! Fast forward 6 weeks; to date I have spent more than 4 hours on the phone with various customer service people, and their supervisors.
My wife's Visa has not been credited and the problem is ongoing. During my last call to Bell on November 12th, I was told by customer service that the $411 Bell mistakenly charged us had been credited to my wife's Visa on October 25th. That was not the case. Today I was on the phone with Bell AGAIN, and they have NO record of that conversation. So... I spent another half hour explaining the situation to two new people. Now I've been told they will get back to me within 48 hours. Ridiculous. My wife's Visa has been charged over $400 that we've had to pay. I have spent hours explaining, and re-explaining, to Bell, the mistake they made, and I've had to do so when I should have been working. We are no closer to resolving this issue than we were in early October. How is this acceptable?
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2018
Was a 10 year customer of Videotron (who have excellent customer service). Switched to Bell to get TV service for relatives who were staying with us. From the first call to a month and a half later I am on the phone with customer service once a week minimum trying to fix their screw ups. Here's the nightmare: Go online to Bell website chat with rep about ordering Gigabit Internet, TV and mobility service. Was very specific what I was looking for. Get quote for it, I go ahead and order it, turns out chat person (or bot) didn't include mobility in the quote. Have to start the same process all over a 2nd time with their mobility department (just so you know Bell mobile and Bell TV/Internet are like 2 separate companies and NO ONE talks to each other so you're like 2 different customers to them).
Finally hours later get a price for everything. I go ahead and order in the chat. I get the quote and it's higher than I was quoted (surprise, surprise with Bell), I call in and tell them that I was quoted lower. They say it's impossible. I ask them to check my chat transcript, she does and 20 minutes later comes back to say, "Oh if you order over chat you can get this price, but on the phone it's not possible???" She calls a manager and I get the price.
Bell TV/Internet asks for ID to prove I am who I am. I fax (yes you heard that right, you need to Fax them your ID), they approve it. And set me up, transfer me to mobility, guess what the fact I was just verified by TV/Internet means nothing. They require me to verify with them separately, but on mobility they can't accept email or fax, need to go into store for the same verification and to pick up what I quoted would be a free SIM card.
Go into the store they told me to go to. I wait, and wait finally served, they verify my ID for Bell Mobility. They call head office, verify everything, takes about an hour. Am told NO, no free SIM card. I show them the chat transcription and still NO, am told they are an "independent Bell store" and the SIM is $15 and to take it up with head office for a refund. I sigh and pay and go.
Drive back home, call to activate my Bell Mobility, am told, "No you didn't verify yet." I argue that I was just given the ok at the store and they verified, still No. She says they made a mistake have to go back to the store. And No she can't take the previously approved IDs from the TV/Internet side. Go back again, this time takes another 1.5 hours for the guy there to get to the right person to verify it. He does, and I insist he activate it on site before I leave, which finally works. That's a whole day toast trying to get a phone set up.
They send over tech to install the wifi and TV, which goes relatively well, except he puts the modem right over the microwave which I looked up and seems to be the worst possible place in the house for it, he insists this is fine and I agree. (Our 1 GBPS Internet hits 60 Mbps wifi if we're lucky which was slower than what I was getting on a much slower Videotron cable internet.)
Go online and login and order another TV receiver from Bell, get the price $7 per month, go to checkout, suddenly the price is $82. ($7 for a receiver and apparently $75 for a tech to come out to plug it into my TV! - No mention of a tech until checkout.) I cancel that order before finalizing. Go to the chat. The person says it's $7 per month rental fee. Because this is Bell I reconfirm is it just $7 per month or anything else extra (techs, etc. ), am told just $7 per month. Great I order. Get the email confirmation $57 ($7 per month rental fee and $50! to ship me a receiver from the same city).
I call in right away to cancel, they tell me sorry they don't have access to the order as I called in too soon after it was placed, please call back again tomorrow morning? Tech was prob ready to go home and didn't want to deal with it. Call in the morning, am ticked off about the bait and switch, and she agrees to cancel the order and to send me a receiver for $7 per month. I take down name, employee ID, etc. as this is Bell.
Receive the receiver (which turns out to be the order that was supposedly canceled). Seems to be fine. A week later receive a 2nd receiver (which is with French only instructions - I am English)... Am ticked. Call in and ask why they didn't cancel my order as they said they would and that I was not paying for another receiver. She tells me to send back one of the receivers, I of course ask which one, she says, "You have to send back the 1st one or you will be charged the $50 shipping fee (which was supposedly waived in a previous call)." I send it back. Hopefully I don't get billed the $50 but am willing to bet despite 2 phone calls and 2 confirmations I will still get billed the $50 and I will cancel everything if so.
That's how easy it is to switch to Bell! This is what they do: They tell you in the chat, over the phone or in person one thing, and when you get your bill you are guaranteed it will be more than what they quoted you. They tell you on the phone they will take care of things and then do nothing and you have to clean up the mess after on your own time. Get ready for a similar customer experience if you switch to this washed up dinosaur of a company. Every single step of the way they lie, screw up, take 0 responsibility and no one there really cares at all about their service. The worst customer experience I have ever had with any company ever. Once my promo period runs out, will switch back to Videotron and will never make this mistake ever again. They'd have to pay me to use Bell and even then I would refuse.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2018
I’ve been trying to have a group chat with people from work through my iPhone 8. Apparently Bell does not support group chat between different phone manufacturers. I was literally told the only way I could have a group chat where I could participate with the group is if the entire group has Apple phones. If not then Bell doesn’t support group chatting between for example iPhone & Samsung so messaging from an iPhone would be sent out individually and if I want to send a group message out I can also do this individually. Shaking my head. What year is this? And of course since it’s a new phone with a 2yr contract I have to continue with Bell. IMO Maybe Bell should ask Rogers how the technology works?!
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2018
I was travelling through Edmonton Alberta when the charging port on my mobile device stopped working. I entered a Bell Mobility store on the second floor of the West Edmonton Mall location to purchase an upgraded phone on October 8, 2018. While in the store location I decided on upgrading to the iPhone 8. During that process the sales representative advised me Bell Mobility is offering a promotional tablet. I declined the tablet on multiple occasions, insisting I was only looking to upgrade my phone and wished to keep my same plan features as I didn’t not want any features to be hindered for use with the new mobile device.
The sales representative insisted on multiple occasions that I take the tablet as it would not hinder my current plan, would not affect or change the features associated to my mobile device, would be free of cost less and additional hook up fee, and by accepting the tablet, the only change would be a separate 15.00 recurring mi they fee but my plan would remain unchanged. The concern I expressed clearly was I did not want to alter the GB of data associated to my mobile device. At the time it was 5GB of data. The representative had confirmed accordingly and stated by accepting the free promotional offer was my phone bill would be less on a monthly recurring basis, and that once the tablet is accepted I had the option of selling the tablet and/or would not be required to use it and I turn my monthly bill would remain lower than otherwise while allowing all features associated to my cellular device to remain intact.
After speaking with a customer service representative on November 18th, 2018 I was in fact informed my cellular device now only had access to 3 GB of data in the plan and the other 2 GB were associated to the promotional tablet that is still sealed in the original package and unused. Then I was informed the tablet can share the cellular data, however the cellular data is restricted to only to the cellular device. I was tricked into a promotional offer that removed 2GB of date from my cellular device through blatant untruths and false confirmations expressed by the sales representative.
My address is over 400km from the store that was the point of sale. Upon contacting customer service, they provided me within the number for the Loyalty Team which turned out to be the complaint resolution center. That department advised the Loyalty Team would call me in ten days and transferred me to a supervisor in the complaint resolution department. After speaking with the supervisor, they acknowledge the manipulation and that consumer laws had been broken by a Bell employee which ended up hindering my plan. They acknowledged the contract was entered into under false pretenses that were staged by a Bell employee and then stated there was nothing they could do other than me to contact the store and visit the location to bring resolve.
After advising the resolution center that the representative that provided me with the false information which was used in my decision for the phone plan, also had the manager in the store within the vicinity to hear the entire conversation and was visually listening intently, did nothing to correct the false information and allowed the sale to proceed with the sale based on false information provided, did in fact not act any in way to correct the false facts or make any recommendation.
I advised the supervisor in the resolution center I did not trust they would bring resolution to their error as they knowingly broke consumer protection laws for the sake of the sale and was advised that was my only way to resolution and I would have to go back to the location 400km away to have the wrong corrected and made right while being unable to offer any assurances in the event the unethical sales person and store manager refused or failed to be of assistance. I then informed her, after speaking to two customer representatives prior to our call they acknowledged the illegal activity, agree it had occurred and instead of offering resolution, both responses were to promote upsell offers within my plan of which I declined. The experience dealing with the customer service department and resolution center was disheartening.
After I was taken advantage of as a consumer, lied to about my phone plan and what would be altered, then proceeded to enter into the next stage of the sales process after being provided with false facts by the Bell employee, what I though was the same plan with an addition of a device I did not intent to use, only to have less features made available to me when the representative specifically stated would not occur. I was lied to, taken advantage of, lost important features to my plan that was advised would not occur, and then told by Bell Mobility they cannot correct the situation itself and to deal with one of their stores seems to me like this happens all to offer.
When presenting my grievances, other representatives only proceed to acknowledge the events occurred and reacted to the situation by trying to upsell me on more features. The way consumers are handled by Bell, in my opinion, and based solely on my personal experience, is horrendous. I have now lost features to my plan through trickery and fraudulent actions by an employee of Bell. All trust in this company and their services is now gone. Before considering using Bell as a provider, I encourage you to research other providers.
The experience I have had with them, after being lied to and manipulated into a contract that hindered my features available to my device through unethical lies and untruths, and with three individuals not willing to do anything other than have me accept the fact that this occurred, move on, and try to have the Bell store justify their fraudulent actions on my own, leaves an unsettling feeling they may be actively ignoring or refusing to act and support their own customers and correcting wrongs committed to them by Bell representative with other cases. This is not a company or provider I can trust. Please consider my experience before using Bell as a cellular service provider.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2018
We were with a different phone company prior to switching to Bell, we had poor customer service with our last company and decided to change to a different provider. We reached out to Bell Via Twitter and were very quickly met with the friendliest Customer Service rep we had dealt with for many many years. This was one of two times Bell treated us like humans and not just another number.
After they got us signed up began our struggle with dealing with yet another greedy corporation. Our bill seems to randomly increase and as I have recently lost my job we have been struggling to make payments. Keeping Bell informed the entire time, we have put over 400 Dollars onto our bill in the last 2 months and they are still threatening to cut our services... When we called them to discuss this further we were passed from person to person until we reached an individual which met us with little compassion and the conversation screeched to a halt. We are now within 12 hours of our services being cut and another greedy company slowly drives the poor even poorer...
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2018
I’ve been Bell customer for almost two years, but I’ve experienced very poor customer service. So many times I’ve been changed over and spent over an hour just to fix the issue. Once I finish my contract I’m gonna cancel it. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone.
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2018
My internet at home keeps on going down because the line to my house is old and they won’t fix it. I used my phone data for emergencies and went over, waited 1.5 hours to get an agent and was told that nothing could be done, even though I’m paying up to 5 gigs of download speed I’m getting 0.8m when it does work. I’m rural and am stuck with Bell, no other company services this area. Bell is the worse company, I hope they read this reviews and get better as they were long ago. The only reason they have a one star is because we can’t do 0 stars I’m sure.

Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018
I have Bell since 5 years for business and home services... We wanted to cancel our home services to try different company and requested them to cancel for 27th November, they sent wrong update in e-mail with cancellation on 10th, we wasted another 1 hr and another agent said within 24 hrs it will be resolved. its been over 2 days still nothing happened, I am again on phone trying to reach out to someone wasting another hour... All our work is dependent on internet, we couldn't do salaries because we had no internet... Totally frustrated and do not recommend Bell to anyone and I am planning to cancel all my accounts with Bell...
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018
Please be aware when canceling service from Bell Canada. Customer Service just pretend they are deal when you tell them you want to cancel their service because of poor service and high price. I have to call them numerous times and they only start the process almost two weeks after my first call. They also charged me after I cancel my service. I would never go back to them.
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018
One of the worst company in Canada... They added the contract without our consent!! If I have authority... I will simply shut down this company. They charged the extra bill and the customer service is so worse...
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018
Bell should honestly get the hint with the one star - if I could have given them a minus million I would! Their customer service sucks! Their product is horrible - and if I had someone else to go to I would be! At this point I’m thinking no cable is better than Bell! I’ve given them a 1 on every survey and I can’t get someone to call me! Sad - I can’t say it enough. If you're not with them - thinking of going with them—DONT. YOU WILL REGRET IT! They may find their crappy useless equipment in the road!!
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2018
We had a problem with our Bell hub for all our services. Called C. Service to find out a fix for the hub. They gave me the runaround and said they would send someone out the next business day. Two days later and still no one came. I called and they said it's not their problem and the tech will be another week. We canceled our service after they laughed and said they don't care what we do. Fast forward to our final bill. They added a termination fee, after they told me there wasn't one. Then they add $150 fee for shipping 3 receivers 10 months ago that somehow they missed. They give you the runaround on the phone and have terrible customer service. I HATE BELL and will never again fall into this trap. They have gutless supervisors that don't want to work with you. I offered to meet in the middle on the charges and still pay some. Keep an eye on your bill as they will ** you as well. BELL CANADA WORST COMPANY AROUND.
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2018
Bell Canada used to be the best!!! Now it is the worse company EVER! All of the sudden they increased my monthly bill from $140 to $220! Called C. Ser. They said promotion finished. It Was first time I hear about promotion. C. Serv. Made fun of me. I spoke with loyalty dept. They refused to waive the extra charges and said IF I DON'T PAY I GET STUCK! V. Cheap and rude way of dealing. She pushed me to request cancellation all services. She didn't care and told me services will be cancelled tomorrow!!! WOW! I hate Bell Canada. They also cheated on the internet signal. TV was not working for months. Technical support couldn't fix it and sent new box and also didn't work. I had really hard time dealing with this bad company. Being with Bell Canada is suffering all the time. Regret to spent time with them.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2018
I have had Bell Fibe package (phone, internet and TV) for about the last year. Last month on October 5 I lost all three services. Not having a cell phone, I had to drive to my office to report the interruption. Tech support would not deal with me because I was not in front of my modem and they hung up. Called back on the 6th and explained my problem. They said that they do not show any problem on my end and told me to reset my modem. Called for service again on the 7th, they continue to say that they don't see a problem and won't sched a service call.
Called on the 8th and pleaded with them to come fix problem. They now admit there is a problem and will be there sometime in the afternoon. They show up around 4pm and find a break in my fiber where they ran it beside my HRV ducts. I told them not to rerun it through there. They argued with me and told me it would be fine. Service re-established for two days the 9th and 10th but on the 11th I lost all services again. Called for service and they sched me for the next day. I had to take a day off work to wait for them and they never showed. When I called them back they said they got backed up and could not make it. They now say that they cannot come for another two days, this is when I decided that I have no other choice but to change back to EastLink.
When their tech finally showed, of course the break was back in the same place where fiber was run next to my HRV ducts. I drilled a new hole myself through my walls and instructed your tech to run fiber through there. You know that I am a field service technician in a related field for the past 40 years and never have I treated a customer like this. And on a return service call priority should be a given. I cannot understand how you can get away with such poor service. I just remember what Ernestine use to say on Laugh In, "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2018
Had a scheduled appointment with Bell today to hook up our satellite TV, took time off work to accommodate their schedule, they did not show up. I called the office and was transferred to 3 different departments, after another half an hour on hold I was finally told the technicians would be at my house in half an hour, again we waited and no show. Called the office again and they were closed for the day. Bell doesn’t appear to need any more customers and the joke was on me. Good one Bell.

Reviewed Nov. 1, 2018
I have business account with Bell, I have 2 cellphones. Rules to know about their customer service, IF they are not able to solve the issue through phone and are rude and bang the phone. There is no details of this recorded in Bell network. I have had this multiple times and yesterday I lost it. Customer service lady kept the phone while I was on conversation. I didn't get her name. When I called the second time there was no track record of who she was since there was no notes updates. 2nd and 3rd time they could not open the account since system was down for 4 plus hours.
At night I was transferred to Alex, Retention Manager. Spoke well and handled my billing issue with calmness even though he could not do anything to fix it. Understandable, his limitations. Even though I threw a tantrum. Even Retention manager could not track the notes since there was none updated. After which I received a message from Bell to rate customer service. I have a screenshot of it. I pressed one for least and the message would not go. I tried it multiple time in 24 hours and it says message failed.
This is Bell customer service for you. If they are at fault there is no way you can track it since there is no notes or no way they can track the caller. But if you call to fix a billing mentioning I did not receive the billing email. They do not accept. Bell being the big giant. Don't give a ** about you. Even as a business account. Make sure you record your calls when talking to Bell since they wont be able to. I wish I could attach the screenshot here. Thanks.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2018
I received a bill from Bell amounting over $700. Only to find out that my plan only covers unlimited calling from Bell-Bell network and I got charged long distance calling other network. The plan I'm paying is $105 with only 2gb of data. When I called the customer service they said they couldn't do anything about the charges because it's valid. It doesn't make sense to me to have a plan cost $105 and doesn't cover unlimited Canada nationwide calling! This is absurd!
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2018
I will never go with Bell Canada again. We signed up for their high speed fiber internet and phone. At first the internet was fast and never dropped the 1st few days...then it started to slow down and would drop around the same time every day. This is not a good thing if you work online from home. We cancelled and switched services to Cogeco at the end of August 2018. A month later we got a bill for September. I called and told them we were not with them anymore. A Supervisor called me back and confirmed we were cancelled and paid up and were clear of Bell Canada.
At the end of October...got another monthly bill. I called again. They told me my internet was not cancelled and I owed them a cancellation fee. This is so frustrating. I spoke with someone from general customer service and from the loyalty department. They said I just had to pay a cancellation fee and pull be done and that my services were now officially cancelled (2 months after the fact). This is an unorganized business with poor customer service and internet overall. I hope I don’t get another bill again next month for services I don’t have with them…(if I do...I will not be surprised by this point).
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2018
Been with Bell Fiber since 2017 with no internet issues. October 2018 internet starts being slow across all devices. Oct 20 internet stops working completely. Call Bell. Agent on phone is unhelpful and does not want to send technician. Agents cuts the line and does not call back. Next day; still without internet. Using mobile data to hotspot computers. Call Bell again and this time technician booked for next day visit, W. Technician does something to modem; internet works. Today, Oct 26, 2018 F. Internet is so slow that cannot load a speed test or load multiple sites at a time. Call Bell. Speak to agent Mohamed **. Agent is initially cordial. Agent says that there is interference in the house that is interfering with day to day WiFi.
I explain that technician has come by already, so I want to know why internet issue persists. Agent does not explain their reasoning, instead tells me I am unhelpful. Asked to be transferred to management. Agent says there is no management here. Is this true Bell? Asked to be transferred to billing or another service agent, Mohamed refuses and becomes unprofessional. I am still with extremely slow internet at home which is severely impeding my ability to do any work. This internet issue has persisted on and off for a month, coming to a head this past week. Yet Bell charges interest for each day a payment is late. Bell Fiber was supposed to be the fastest speed available, which is why I switched from Rogers. A year later the internet is slow and the service agents are rude when you need help. If this issue is not resolved, I will switch back to Rogers.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2018
First, a rep called me to offer me the deal of the year because I am a preferred customer of Bell. He harassed me and I finally bought. Then, my hell started. They shipped to the wrong address and I had to pay the freight from NB to Quebec. They invoiced to the wrong name. They didn't want to give me the same numbers I had. They charged me for functions I didn't want. They charged me for 5 cell but I wanted and received 3. There are so many charges and credit that there is no way you can understand. They charged me $700 or a package of 3 cells at $50 each and 3 tablets at $10. They tell ma that I lie and that I have 5 cell numbers and so on.
Unable to talk to somebody who would listen, I finally got an email address where I sent a copy of all the emails I had with the salesman and the package I bought. 12 days later, no answer. I still try to explain to 15 different people from different departments that I want to pay what I owe them and not what they want me to pay that I don't have. They sent a letter the 14 that I got the 24, the day they finally cut the services of my cell and then we are 3 businessman without cell. You dial, you always have the message where you can pay the bill. You want to talk to somebody, then it is the beginning of the circus. I had to pay and after 20 hours, still don't have service. How can we sue them? I still have my blood pressure to the roof because you feel so angry not being able to explain what's going on with somebody who listen and who understand French. I have to stop before being sick.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2018
In my experience, Bell has been nothing but a pain to deal with. I got my MiFi box for school since I cannot get internet where I live. I could never get a signal from the damn thing, and they charged me a basic $60/10G which seemed decent at the time. I got my first bill which was $176/10G. I called and they made a ** excuse and danced around it, so I paid it. Next month was the same. I ended up adding gigs to my phone plan at Koodo for $5 more, so I called to cancel my account after all the **. I was told it would be closed after the billing cycle and would have to pay for the month I didn’t use it (0G for $67.) This month I received a bill for my account I was told was closed. When I called, they said they’d cancel it now, but I would owe for the month that I thought I didn’t have and didn’t use since it was suppose to have already been canceled. I would not recommend Bell. Koodo has been awesome!
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2018
I have been with a number of providers over my life, but the level of service and support at Bell Canada is to a level where I wonder how can they still be in business. I was with Bell in the past and switched because of their service and costs. But I recently moved and was persuaded to try them again, based on a flyer I received in the mail. I haven't had a home phone for years, I stopped watching cable TV 4 years ago, so I was mainly a internet customer. But I found a good deal for $80 for all 3 services. I called Bell, had to wait 2 weeks to get an install appointment. The technician came but was not successful in setting it up but didn't inform me.
I called Bell back, had to wait 2 more days for another technician to show up, he told me he couldn't set it up either and I would need a cable technician, he said he would set it up for me, another technician came and again he was not a cable technician. I finally spoke to level 2, they were helpful and finally after almost a week, they sent a cable tech. Unfortunately he wasn't able to fix the issue either, he said it had to be fixed at the Central station. Two weeks later still no services. I call back they say, "It's been fixed but we need to send another cable technician. Can you be home on Thursday morning from 8-12."
So I am home, no one shows up, I call Bell, they have no tickets open on my account, they have no record of any open tickets or issues. Level 2 then says you need to speak to level 1 and open a ticket. I ask to speak to the manager. He picks up the phone and doesn't want to hear what I have to say and say you need to speak to level 1 and open a ticket. Before I can tell him my issue I am on hold for level 1. I speak to level one, they try to give me an appointment for 3 days away. I say I need someone this morning. They say, "We will send someone tomorrow."
I agree and ask what time, they tell me between 8 am on 10 pm. Are you kidding me, so 5 weeks ago I ordered their service, still no internet, TV or phone. They want me to take a 5 day off work. Is there anybody at the company accountable. How are they still in business, they are the worst company I have ever dealt with. Problem is no one in this space is much better. If anybody has any advise I would be happy to listen.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2018
I called Bell to let them know that they were charging me more than what their own website was advertising. I was put on hold for 12-15 min and then they hung-up. This happened twice. Ever since I had fiber optic line put in by Bell, my internet service is gone down the tubes. Always dropping off every so often.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2018
I've been with Bell for 10 years and decided to get another line with them. I was told that my bring your own device plan would give me a decent amount of data along with 4 Gigs from 2 other lines and 3 gigs extra. I decided to get the phones. Once I got them, all hell broke loose. I would never get notifications for data such as "95% usage, etc". They would all of a sudden charge me 50 dollars, 300.00, etc.
Once I called they waived the fees and everything was okay. Then within a month my bill went from $85.00 for a remaining balance to an $800.00 bill! I called them and they said they there was nothing they could do and that they credited me already even though no messages were sent to warn me of the 95% limit. On top of that, they were back charging me for their own mistakes with data! They told me it would 1700 to cancel. It's useless to have such a monopoly in this country for cell phones. Only 2 companies have quality service and Canadians aren't doing anything to stop it. This needs to end and end NOW!
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2018
They have very pathetic service. Got roaming charges on data service which I never used. When I call them, they say nothing but offensive. Ended up paying 50 extra. Wish never entered to Bell. They have poor and bad customer service. Fido/Rogers have best service, it was a mistake to come this service.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2018
Man what a ** service. So English is not my first language and I had a little difficulty explaining about how my credit card was charged twice and I could literally hear people laughing on the line. It was really offensive. Also after all 15 mins of talk I ended up paying extra $110 because the payment that I did was not registered on their system and I had to pay two months worth of bills. Just horrible service.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2018
I plan to use Velcom internet service in Gatineau, they booked a Bell Canada service technician to come to my house to install the DSL service, the technician showed up at my house on Wednesday afternoon around 2:00 pm, he checked the phone jack on the wall of my house, and told me that the signals is perfect, then we shake hands and he told me he will back to the central control to turn on my DSL signals, and said when I pick my kids and back home at night I will have internet, but it never happens, I called Velcom and been told Bell said I was not home when their technician came, and the next installment date is one week later. Why is the big company like Bell Canada lying to customers?
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2018
I requested my Bell TV service be canceled due to selling and moving. Bell canceled my service a day earlier than requested. They reinstated my service for a day to correct their mistake but now want me to pay a $50 connection fee. Can't believe how this company handles their mistakes and Customer Service!!
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2018
I am speechless at the duplicitous sales tactics Bell uses (that's why I am writing). Bell Canada agents say whatever they need to to get the sale and then string you along in a series of calls to eventually get a part of what you wanted. They also force you to own a home phone to get a discount - is that even legal (I suppose it is, but it doesn't make it right)? I don’t want a home phone and took one anyways! They also require you to renew negotiated discounts every year and if you are one day late in calling them you lose the discount for a month. Worst of all I feel is the smug «you're a stupid user» attitude you get from virtually any of there agents when you make inquiries. I am moving to Rogers, they are quite honestly try a little harder.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2018
If there are any promotions you receive from BELL don't go for it! IT's scam and their deception motive to lock you down with a contract and then do incremental increase charges for every month. They are one deceptive internet and TV provider, they tied you down and then they can impose any changes as they wish. Somehow they upgraded my account and charged me all kinds of fees and puts the blame on me for making the change, which I never did and they had no record of it too. But because it was ongoing for 4 months, I am responsible for all those charges. Scrutinize your bills closely for every billing cycle and do not rely on them charging you correctly, they will always add things you never thought of, they promise you will X amount but when it comes to the bill you are paying for XYZ!
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2018
Bell is the worst internet provider you could ask for. This is coming from an ex-customer who has been with this company for 10+ years. My family used to pay about 112 dollars every month just for the internet! Even though the original price was supposed to be something like 60 dollars a month which meant I was paying twice as much than I agreed to. I don't know what they put in the fine print to raise the price that much. Thank god I canceled the service, now I'm using Altima. The switch the smartest move I've made when they say I'm paying 55 dollars a month. It stays that price no matter how much I use the internet during that month. Plus it's because it's so much faster than Bell, it made me realize that Bell was probably slowing down my internet on purpose.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2018
I had internet service installed for 3 months at a rented summer cottage. I called on August 18 to have the service canceled on the 21st. I paid my last bill, was given the address where to ship the modem back - which I did and have the return receipt - was assured by Bell that I did not have to worry about the service anymore. Two months later they claim I owe $125 and that my service is still active! I call and tell them the name of the person I talked to, that I have return the internet box and am now back home in Florida. The cottage has been empty for 2 months and they never canceled the service. I explained what is going on and that Franz didn't do his job. They claim the charges are valid and I must pay them.
I asked to speak to a manager, I gave them all the info I had, they said that they are not responsible and I must pay the fees. When I make an error with my clients, I pay for it. When Bell Canada makes an error THEIR CLIENTS PAY FOR IT. They don't care, there is absolutely nothing that the person could do for me. He had no authority to waive those fees and told me that no one in the company could do it because they were valid. A bunch of baloney! I am livid! I took the time to do it correctly and was assured that on Monday the service would be disconnected. They screwed up and now they're asking me to pay for it. I am so mad. Worst company ever.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2018
All I can say is if you have another option, use it! Worst customer support and even worse service level. I’ve had 12 technician to my house and been on the phone 100 times over the last year since we HAD to go to Bell because of our location. It is absurd that this company can function like this. Avoid at all cost if you can.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2018
I have been using Bell cellphone service for 3 years. I have been very happy with the service. I won't say never had problems or mistakes but they get resolved right away. I moved to Ontario from Saskatchewan and from Ontario to Newfoundland in last 3 years. I had Bell service with me all the time. I would like to mention that when I was on ferry in the middle of the sea, I had Bell network on my phone. Now in NF I wanted to add internet home service. I read so many horrible reviews about the internet installation and tech etc, I still went ahead and booked the service. One more time with Bell, the amazing experience. The tech was on time, called me before he arrived and perfect. Got all done and connected.
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2018
If you call to cancel the service, they will just hang up on you or put on hold and never will be back to you. If they promise you discount, they just trying to get rid of you for this moment, they not even leaving note on your file. I regret I get their services. They treat customers like annoying **.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2018
The last call I made the service rep assured me she understand what I was asking. After clarifying several times she 'assured' me she understood what I was asking. Called back again because I wasn’t comfortable that she knew what I was asking and it turned out I was right. That is one complaint which has happened quite often. Second complaint — I am positive the reps don’t document conversations correctly and probably not even all the time either. They brush you off until you have to threaten closing your account. I asked for a manager to call me back and the guy assured me he sent the request and documented it but speaking to the rep today I don’t think he did. I will talk to the manager if I have to call every day — and wlll cancel all 4 of my cell phones if I have to. Sure it will cost quite a bit - but it would be worth it to not have to deal with most of their incompetent reps anymore. It’s truly exhausting.
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2018
Bell Canada has wasted so much of our time and will charge us over $400 for services that were supposed to be have been canceled. After calling them one representative confirmed they would retract charges since we switched our services, but nothing happened. So we were still charged even more. Different representatives keep running us in circles and saying the same things. Very very frustrating. They say they will email us after we speak to the rep, but it does not happen. If you speak on the phone with to a Bell rep, write down the final order number for every cancellation or change in services. Otherwise Bell is going to give you a very hard time, and send an unfair and massive bill.
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2018
I talked with a very worse customer service ever today. He has to learn about communication with clients. Even he didn’t want to finish our conversation so that he can respond for all my queries. Instead he switched off the phone. I am wondering how this man did get in service. Very worse service. You risk to lose our money. They are many companies with a good services.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2018
Horrible horrible customer service, not transparent at all. Lie to get sales and change your charges when they feel like it. If you’re thinking of switching providers I highly advise to stay away from Bell. The customer service agents won’t even put you through to managers to escalate your complaints. The one I dealt with said “the boss doesn’t take phone time so that means I am the boss” ridiculous.
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2018
I have dealt with many many companies and hands down Bell Canada and Bell Mobility is the worst company I have ever dealt with in just every aspect from service, billing and overall just about everything else. In 2016, a "too-good-to-be-true" (in retrospect) promotional package enticed me to move from ACN (with whom I had been a happy customer) to Bell Mobility. It was a HUGE MISTAKE! I never got the phone number I was told I would be getting and my bills were a lot higher than before with ACN. Nearly every month, for almost 2 years, I had to spend 1 to 2 hours monthly with Bell's "Customer Care" to have the billing corrected and a credit issued for the overbilling and trying to get the right phone number. I was told that they would drop all cancellation fees and keep getting the bills. Called in again and was told I have to pay the fees because it's not Bell's problem. I'm unhappy with the service and canceled my accounts.
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2018
Moved into our home in Tweed, ON. No real choice in providers so Bell it was. We were told we would get Fibe 50. On day of install told we could only have Fibe 25 to find out the cost was the same as Fibe 50 and not unlimited as we were promised. TV also installed. We didn't want the PVR, no use for it, only to find out that is what was installed. Complained. Spoke to a manager from Montreal head office, told internet would be given to us as unlimited but could only have Fibe 25. Gave us a better price... July, Aug and now Sept we've had to call every month due to bill not reflecting proper pricing.
TV wow what a nightmare, called. Said, "Sorry we told you we didn't want the PVR. Please swap it out," that idiot rep cut off our service. The next rep fixed the service and sent a reg HD rec with a tech to install it at no cost since it was their error... Manager confirmed this in Sept. I get a bill and charged for additional rec. install. Each month since June there have been issues each month. I am given better pricing supposedly, however it's never reflected on my bill, even the reg price for the TV which is $84.95 is always shown as $114.95. Not one bill from install in June to current Sept 17, 2018 has ever been correct in any way. It's always an argument. The rep even went so far as to argue what Bell clearly includes in writing in their packages.
Bell is the most incompetent company I have ever dealt with in my life. For all the discounts they keep giving me due to their errors my bills should be getting smaller. How does internet at 49.95 per month, TV at 55.95 per month and my cellphones at $65 per month (the only thing that is ever correct on my bill) add up to $327 per month... Last night's rep couldn't even do the simple math. My time is valuable. I shouldn't be spending hours every month on the phone trying to get my bill fixed!!! And not only fixed but not reflected on next month's bill but on the current bill... Sick of the BS and highly suggest if you have other choices besides Bell (wish I did) go with any other company but Bell. Prior to this I lived in an area where I could only get internet via the Bell Turbo Hub, told it worked everywhere. 2 year fight over that as it does not work everywhere... Bell finally paid 1/2 the cost of a cell phone booster. It helped a little. I HATE BELL!!!
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2018
In 2016, a "too-good-to-be-true" (in retrospect) promotional package enticed me to move from Fido (with whom I had been a happy customer since 1995) to Bell Mobility. It was a HUGE MISTAKE! Nearly every month, for almost 2 years, I was overcharged, and had to spend 1 to 2 hours monthly with Bell's "Customer Care" to have the billing corrected and a credit issued for the overbilling. Because of Bell's dysfunctional billing system, the credits were always applied against the next month's bill, rather than being subtracted from the bill for the month in which the overbilling occurred.
In total frustration, I terminated Bell's "service" (an oxymoron) just short of the 2-year mark, and switched to Videotron (MUCH better service, better packages, better prices, and a FAR BETTER (i.e., accurate!) billing system. Now, the Bell hyenas are sending me monthly bills for services NOT rendered, compound interest on the fraudulent bills, and letters threatening to "terminate my services" (!!!) if I don't pay them! Idjits! STAY AWAY FROM THESE FRAUDSTERS AND MORONS!
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2018
I had some technical issues with the internet. When I called them they told me that something is wrong with the modem and they will send technician next morning. When I called them, they told they have shipped the modem. When I received, it still didn't worked out and they told that they will send the technician and they didn't. We had assignments and everything pended just because of their services. Their department doesn't even know the technician timings themselves. When I called them to cancel my service and upon asking them the amount I will receive back, they told me that my service cannot be canceled until few days after and I will only receive 6-7 days of money which I was suppose to receive for around 12 days. Instead of giving the extra credit of the days I didn't had, they were saying such sort of things. They ended up agreeing for 9 days. Had a very bad experience, would recommend no one.
Reviewed Sept. 14, 2018
Sold me (over the phone) hi-speed internet service on landline -5-6 Gbps for 1 year at $49.95 net 62.09 with tax; however increased price by $5 after 3-4 months. I phoned them and explained they did not say price would increase; and the only thing it says/said is, after 1 year price would increase. I told them I will only pay the 62.09 per month as originally stated. They refused to cancel the increase. They disconnected the landline Aug 22nd without notice. Note;- I continued to try to connect my workstation without success (it does not have a wi-fi connection. And I trying to find the problem on my laptop it eventually failed- continuous screen flickering making it impossible to read!
I tried to reboot with Toshiba program which did ok; But when rebooting continually tries to finish loading window? Which does not make any sense because I used windows after the Toshiba program finished. So now I do not have a Laptop working either. Obviously I need a boot disc to fix windows; but also a fix for the screen flicker, which may be impossible if it is a component failure due to continually rebooting which I did for days to try and get it working. Eventually I had to buy a wifi connector for my new HP WORKSTATION, from the USA as could not find a suitable one in Montreal or on Amazon.ca- Canada??? I had to buy one on Amazon.com (USA).
I have also just read that Bell have more than 100,000 sales complaints in 2017 0r 2018; and that they should be regulated. If you phone them you speak to someone in the Philipeans who only after a long time transfers you to someone in Canada. HOW RIDICULOUS. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO EMAIL THEM SO THAT EVERYTHING IS RECORDED.
I have since received another invoice from Bell this time in the mail??? With another $5 added. But it also shows the price includes $20 for a VPN AND WIFI. So I am paying them 22.60 tax included for Sep. since they disconnected the landline Aug 22nd. That invoice is fraudulent; showing 59.95+tax plus the 4 x $5 for the previous 4 month! P.S I notice prices are Double on Amazon.ca v.s. Amazon.com (USA) for identical items! Stranger since CDN $ is still worth $0.70 US. And with free trade still in effect it does not cost Amazon much to import bulk shipments. Hi-speed internet 5gbps over land line for 1 year.
Reviewed Sept. 13, 2018
Misled into purchasing a promotional package for US-Canada voice and text plan...$30+$5 add on. However, when I returned back to Canada from Calif, my next bill showed that I owed close to $400 for LD and Roaming fees... I gave them info re: agent who arranged the travel promotion with me, dates I spoke with their agent, as well as the time of coverage. I also provided info-Proving per their email confirmation that I de-activated their roaming service plan upon my return to Canada.
I was told they would remove half the charges if I agree to pay the other half. I said "no way! I will NOT pay a dime over the amount I agreed to". So, now 2 months later, I am still being harassed to pay what they claim is an outstanding balance of $185. (Since my return I have continued to my monthly service plan fees On Time!). These charges they are bullying me for are for LD US-Can roaming charges that should have been covered by the Unlimited plan I agreed to purchase for $40 total--The plan I was led to believe would cover June 1-June 30, even though I only used service for 24 days. Once upon a time, I was a loyal consumer of Bell Aliant/Bell Mobility. No more! I am seeking another provider.
Reviewed Sept. 8, 2018
Friday September 7th 2018 I arrived home from work to find that my television service was not working. I spent almost 3 hours on the phone with tech support, continuously requesting that they send a technician. When finally they accept to send a technician on the Saturday. Saturday arrives, no technician shows up. Call again, spent 2 hours, telling me I would have to wait until Sunday night. I ask to speak to a supervisor because this was unacceptable. They proceed to tell me I would have to wait 24-48 for someone to call me and then they hang up on me in mid sentence.
Reviewed Sept. 8, 2018
I have dealt with many many companies in my day and hands down Bell Canada and Bell Mobility is the worst company I have ever dealt with in just every aspect from service, billing and overall just about everything else. I cannot understand in anyway shape or form that a company that claims to be Canadian has their call center and help desk in another country. Yes, Bell Canada has their customer service calls going to the Philippines! Sales is in Canada but most of billing and service is abroad. As far as their products, it is what it is and it's ok. Nothing special, I wish there were more options in our country for cellular services and internet besides Roger's, Bell and Cogeco. It is really sad!
Reviewed Sept. 7, 2018
My boyfriend and I aren't too fond of Bell because of past experiences but we were able to get a decent deal, $50 for unlimited usage and 50 Mbps - no contract or expiry, so we decided to give them a chance. We scheduled a technician for installation on September 2nd. The window was from 12pm - 5pm, and we waited all day at home and no one showed up. We received a call at 3pm saying our technician was on their way but then 4:15pm came and no one was here yet so we called Bell. The rep on the phone said the technician showed up at 12:30pm but we weren't home (why did we get a 3pm call notification then?).
Obviously this was not true because we were home all day waiting for the technician. We asked the rep to call the technician to see if he can "come back" and the rep said he has no way of contacting them. Okay then what good is calling you if you can't even contact the driver? After a few more minutes of back and forth he said he'll give the dispatcher a call who will contact the technician... Why couldn't this have been done when we asked? Anyway, he got back to us and said the technician cannot come back today and we must reschedule, so we rescheduled to September 5th (5pm-9pm). We made it clear that the technician needed to call us when he arrived this time so we wouldn't miss him.
The rep tried to compensate us by giving us some sort of free cable TV for 2 months, and if we didn't want it anymore after 2 months, we had to call and cancel. We refused, knowing that they would probably still charge us after 2 months even if we did call to cancel because of previous experiences with them. We said we'd take 2 months of free or discounted internet, but he wouldn't budge.
September 5th came and the technician arrived around 730pm just to tell us that he needed access to our "telephone box" of which only our Superintendent had the key to and since it was pretty late into the day, he was not around to allow access. We were furious now. If they needed access to anything for the installation that required our Superintendent, why didn't they state that when we made the appointment? We would have made the necessary arrangements ensuring that they had access to whatever they needed.
Also, it wasn't as if the technician showed up thinking he could have accessed the telephone box through us, he KNEW he needed the Superintendent because the first thing he did when he arrived was ask if he was around so he could have access... If we needed the help of our Super, you'd think they made sure to tell us that prior to the technician arriving! So we ended up not getting internet again that day, and they wanted to reschedule. We said no way and cancelled. The rep on the phone didn't even push back, just said he understood and cancelled our account.
Absolutely ridiculous. It was like they didn't want us to use their service the way they made everything so difficult! We shouldn't be begging you to install internet for us. Shouldn't you want our money? So on the same day that this all happened and we cancelled (Sept 5th), we called Fido for their $32 unlimited internet deal with 75 Mbps. They set up our account and we received the modem the very next day (less than 24 hours later) and plugged it into the wall and were connected to the internet right away.
We were so impressed with Fido after the hell we went through with Bell. I don't understand how they were able to set us up so quickly while Bell had to drag everything out for days. If I could give Bell no stars, I would. I've had previous crappy experiences with them prior to this one but this was the nail in the coffin. NEVER going to try to use Bell ever again no matter how good the deal is. Rogers is better.
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2018
I switched to Bell from Rogers about a year ago because they were having a good promotion at the time. I had no issues from them until it came time to renew a new promo which was expiring on Aug 25. I had called a month in advance (beginning of Aug) in which I was told I would get a call back (it never happened). So I called again a few days later and was told to call on Aug 25 (when my promo expired) to look at other promos. So Aug 25 came. I called and yet again was told to wait 5-7 days for a call back. Are you ** kidding me!? I don't understand why they can't deal with you from the time you call. They then transferred me to the loyalty department because I was getting irritated so finally (after a very long discussion -__-) they were able to give me a new promo which would have totalled $147.86 for 24 months.
So fast forward to Sept 5 when my bill came totalling $192.19... I called yet again to ask about the overcharge and was dealt with an extremely rude and incompetent agent. I was basically told that the charges are valid due to the expiration of the promo and that "I should've called to avoid these types of things". Really bud?... like really. Their customer service is a joke. At least with Rogers they value you as a customer. I shouldn't have to call more than once to get an answer and BELL, next time write your notes properly because YES I DID CALL 3 times actually you dumb**. BELL, you need to work on your customer service skills or you will lose all your customers. Now that I look back I completely regret leaving Rogers... Lesson learned...
Reviewed Sept. 1, 2018
Pay for 100 mbps get 700 kilobytes - For over 15 years me and my family had Bell internet. 400 kb at the start. Spend $1400 to change home set up. Receive 700 kb after. We pay $200 for 700 kb. Try to cancel. They lose our cancellation for 15 years. Ok so I got a gaming desktop still 700 kilobytes. So I work in tech support so now I know it's a line issue and has been. They change our modem and offer to give us a cheaper plan. The plan became more expensive magically in 3 months. So now we are paying $250 for 700 kilobytes. No change in internet. Modem change did nothing and it's rented so we are paying monthly for trash. Ok let's now talk to them about changing our line. They hang up every time it gets to the point where I wonder how this scummy company has not had a lawsuit against them and been shut down for scamming people out of their money. Also all of these speeds are wired.
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2018
I have been getting issues since almost 2 years. Spend time on phone numerous time. Even the Bell technicians came for repair and he confirmed that the service is worse than he expected. He did fix it but only for a while and that has been recurring during that 2 years. I received a credit to maintain. Supposedly they gave me a credit for $40 and I have proof via email that it is indeed a credit but when I called to cancelled first thing the agent said, "Good then we will take our credit back". When I ask his ID he refused, I then ask his manager's name Josh but he hung up before I continue. If I have top write, pages won't be enough... Worst service ever and I hope someone from Bell is reading those reviews.
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2018
Super terrible service, I originally accidentally sent a payment on the 9th or so, didn't notice till 8 days later. Bell Mobility told me they would reverse the charges into my bank. I contacted customer service who said they were sending a cheque but that it was never actually sent out, I contacted RBC to dispute the services and they could not because Bell Mobility lied and said they were sending a cheque (or perhaps the 2nd agent lie) I contacted them today and was transferred to the number I called, effectively sending me back to the start and then I wasn't able to connect to Billing because it was then past their hours.
I contacted tech support who was a supervisor and who told me everything the first supervisor and Bell support specialist was wrong and to disregard it. It's now going to take 2-3 weeks to get the refund cheque and Bell has no way to expedite it or to assist me in any way despite making claims that they could in the past. Overall a really shady company.
Reviewed Aug. 29, 2018
Bell Canada is the worst company for customer service, it took 3 wks and 3 different orders for a simple bundle package that should have been installed in 1 day. We were given a quote of $99.85 for the 3 services received. Our first bill and price was way off. Rep said that there was no info on file with that rate, funny how they lose tape recorded conversations at their convenience. Nothing but problems from day 1.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2018
After the 4th call after spending hours on the phone we finally came to an agreement with our Bell Mobility provider, well another verbal contract and not sure if they are going to stick with this one? I will believe it when I see it. So don't accept everything they say. Just hang-up and call in again until you get close to what you think is fair.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2018
After talking to reps on 5 separate occasions, we finally came to a verbal agreement about a cell phone plan, so we thought. The next day we got a call telling us that there is no such plan available.
Reviewed Aug. 25, 2018
Our Bell home service has been out for a week now. We have had no home phone, no internet or TV. I had called customer service explained that every time it rains our service goes out. They said they would send a technician to take a look at it. I specified that I believe the problem may be outside. A technician finally showed up 4 days later, spent 2 hour looking and testing everything. Came to the conclusion that the problem is outside in the wiring (didn't take a genius to figure that one out). He told me that a team will have to come tomorrow and fix it between 8 am and 10 am. It was what it was. It's now tomorrow and it's about 3 pm on a Saturday. I have canceled all of my errands and plans waiting for them and no one has showed up.
I have called customer service 3 times today and was told I will receive a phone call back with an update... Guess what. No one called me back. It's now raining we still have no service, no one has called me and I'm left frustrated beyond belief. They keep saying, "We understand your frustration," which really I don't think they do. If my parents had an emergency and I wasn't home they wouldn't be able to call 911 (very old school European and don't believe in cell phones). I'm left with no other options and can't believe this is happening. I've never had to talk to so many incompetent people who don't care about their customers. They are one of the most expensive companies in Toronto and with paying 150 dollars a month I should not get treated like this.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2018
Our Bell Mobility 2 years contract was coming to an end on August 25th 2018 so prior to this day we called Bell and asked them about any new deals that we can switch to since we were paying almost $300 per month for three cell phones. The sales representative told us nothing was available so we decided to transfer our services to a new provider when the contract has ended. On August 21st 2018 someone from the loyalty department called us and offered us a deal which were Bring Your Own Devices plan which were $55 plan plus $35 for 6 gigs of shareable data.
He also told us that the two additional phones will be charge $45 each so we agreed and told him we will accept that deal. So a couple of days after I checked my account on MyBell App and it shows that all Three phones were being charge $55 each. So we called customer service and we spoke to an agent name Dawn and explain the problem which she check and transfer us to another agent. This man told us that there is no records of this transaction in their notes and that if someone had offered us a deal that we should have accepted right away.
I told him that we did accepted the deal the day that the sales representative called because our old bill cycle was on the 25th of each month and now he is telling me that the new cycle is on the 21st of the month. Arent conversation recorded at Bell so that they can check to see what was said. Anyway I already port all my numbers from Bell but their deception and then acting ignorant to the facts is truly unprofessional and Bell Canada needs to look into the sales tactics of their agents because they will be losing customers like us in the future.
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018
Switched to Bell home internet services in July 2018 and have found that the wi-fi service is even slower than my previous provider (unfortunately had to make the change). Am looking to cancel and find a different provider but may be difficult in Northwestern Ontario.
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018
Please never work or deal with Bell Canada. I am a customer with them for four months in a rented apartment, then I transfer the account to the next tenant, for which the representative confirmed that the transfer was successful. After half a year, Bell reached to us saying there is payment due because the next tenant did not pay the bill. I am not sure how it relates back to us as I was assured that the transfer was successful, and I even received a refund for the service I did not finish using before I left the apartment. Ok fine, then I asked for a proof of internet usage for the months that the bills were not paid, so that I can argue with the next tenant for him to pay the bill. But the representative refused to give it to us saying that they were not able to retrieve this information. So you have the information of monthly bills, but not the monthly usage? How elementary is your system to not have this basic information?
Ok fine, I paid the bill in full, and I specifically asked the representative that is the account is fully closed, that I do not have to deal anymore of this, and the representative said yes, that the account is closed and everything is settled. But today, one month later, I received another bill saying there is outstanding balance. I am starting to believe that I will never be able to get rid of this account and I have to pay the bill forever. I had never any issues with Fido or Telus before. Please tell me if there is a way to cancel an Bell account, everything is not simple when it is about Bell. Please never ever deal with Bell under any circumstance or you will deeply regret it.
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018
After being Bell customer for 11 years cancelled my account with Bell 3 phone and iPad account. Bell is worst in billing. Always charge you for unnecessary services, their phone plans are the worst, after charging my sister 140$ a month she cancelled too. ??? This is what they get from me.
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018
I went into the Bell store at the Eaton Center, Toronto. I replaced my iPhone for an iPhone 8, I was offered a free promotional gift of a Samsung Galaxy Tab E. Looking at my bill I realize I’m locked into a two-year contract at $15 a month. To get out of this contract I have to pay $302 for the tablet. I called to complain about this and was asked, “Did you sign something?” “Yes I did sign something.” More than once I asked “So this doesn’t cost anything?” To the guy at the Bell Store who repeatedly told me it didn’t cost anything and pointed to where I should sign. I truly believe I was straight out lied to just to get a sale. From this point on I will read everything. I have called Bell twice and nobody can help me at all.
Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018
They can’t seem to cancel my account. I’ve been calling every month for 6 months, and they still send me a bill for a home phone that I never used... They’re scammers and if you go with them after reading this, it’s your own damn fault!!!
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2018
It use to mean something when you were a customer of 40 years, now I wonder why I have given my Business to such a dishonest, dysfunctional company with the worst service level imaginable - Bell Canada! After reviewing the bill that my wife normally pays, I questioned why the T.V. was so much money, and the long and the short of it, was promotional channels that were added and just kept on being added to our bill over the years. When I question on what authority they could do this, they said it was an email sent out stating the added programs. I asked for the email stating this and the authorization and of course they could not produce the email saying it was too long ago and they don't keep this information - this was only after many calls and escalations later. They also said - it is my responsibility to check my bill - wait a second, you add something to my bill without authorization and I am responsible for your error?
Reading other reviews, it seems other charges are being added to bills of consumers - so check that bill, it is only a matter of time as to when a class action suit will be brought to the attention or the CRTC by some lawyer who realizes the abuse of companies like Bell in charging consumers for business they have never ordered. When challenged, Bell can't provide any support documentation, emails etc... to support the added charges - so strongly suggest you look at your bill. The customer service of a company that calls itself a 'communication company' is abysmal - with wait times of 30 plus minutes or more if you ever do reach a real person.
So what to do? File your own complaint, hold 'big business accountable'. I know the other communication companies are much the same, but when customers start leaving and customer retention is slipping - they begin to notice - Rogers asked me the other day, what they need to do to get your business back (cell phones). In closing, shame on Bell for not providing any consideration and yes, I will watch my bills more carefully especially with the new communication company that we switch to and hold them accountable.
I should also mention, we have had horrific experiences with internet and spent a year with different technicians who all blamed the previous technician for mis-diagnosing the problem. Despite letting Bell know about the problem and weeks of interruptions - there was no compensation. Instead they wanted to debate the hrs. that the internet was running properly. Hope others will take the time to post your frustrations for the benefit of other consumers and hold big business accountable!
Reviewed Aug. 8, 2018
We ordered a Cottage Plan satellite dish package where we paid for the receiver and Bell installed the dish. The installation was free and the Bell system was installed. We had continued problems with signal drop, system shutdowns, and incorrect remote control. Three separate techs were dispatched to correct satellite positioning, incorrect control, and setting tv to HDMI3. We were billed for each visit but told not to worry because we were not being billed for these visits.
Our first bill arrived one month later for $606.89 instead of $78.95. We have made over a dozen attempts to call billing to correct the problem but end up speaking to customer service in the Philippines where they either promise they will resolve the issue and provide a confirmation number and email. Callback attempts show no notes in the database, fictitious employees and employee numbers, lies upon lies and then 4-5 calls a day from the collections department. There is no way to be transferred from the Philippines to Ottawa Customer Service. If you do get Ottawa Customer Service, they will keep you on the phone stating name, employee number and confirmation numbers that never show in the database.
Our new bill arrived several days ago and increased to $753.74. We have spent dozens of hours trying to resolve this bill correctly with people that do not have the authority or integrity to resolve this billing issue. Bell employees do not know product promotions, how cost is generated nor have the faintest clue on what true CUSTOMER SERVICE is really about. We continue to deal with Bell over the phone to resolve correct billing (currently been 124 minutes) but issue a warning to anyone looking for a satellite solution, RUN FAST, RUN FAR, from Bell since they smile and lie about their products and service. THERE IS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE dept. in this company.
Reviewed Aug. 8, 2018
We moved to Bell hoping for better service 3 months ago. Since then we have been receiving constant interruptions for internet and TV. Their technicians doesn't know what's the problem or the source of it. Each one of them blames the one before him. In one month we had over 150 service interruptions and it's still going with no solution. They only say that they are highly monitoring our issue but no solution.
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2018
Worst Service as well Worst Customer Service. People don't understand English. They lie. In one day spoke to Tony, Laura, Mark, Jennifer, Denis, and Micheal. Have been having issues for one year. Still can't fix it. Called in to cancel service. Was told by Denis that they will compensate for the loss of service. When I called back they said, "Sorry. You are still in promotion. Can't do anything for you." What a great company.
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2018
In July of 2018 I was over on data. I paid the data fees to have my phone outgoing call reinstated. On July 20, 2018 I call customer service to add 3 GB of data. It was not added when I was assured it was added. During that call I asked what my account balance was. The employee told me I had a credit of $20. I used my data (for income reasons) and on July 22, 2018 my phone was again restricted for data usage. I paid 150.00 via credit card and had service again. On July 23, 2018 I called Bell customer service again to find out the extra data was not added and received a long winded nonsense explanation from the employee. I asked to speak to a supervisor. Waited 2 hours and called back. Then spoke to John employee # ** about the data and I was told data was now on and I had a 172.03 credit that would be applied to my August bill.
I made another payment in July for 44 dollars after knowing about the 172.03 credit because I received a text. My total amount owing was approaching my credit limit. So August bill date comes. No credit and service suspended. I call Bell customer service and spoke to employee # **. This employee stated, "We are current producing your bill," and she unlocks my phone. She states By August 9, 2018 it will be all cleared up. Now today August 4, 2018 my service is suspended again! I call Bell. Talk to Marie employee number **. Whom stated my bill is 459.00 for one month!! I blow up now and I talk to Mark employee number **. He apologizes and says, "Yes. There is a credit for 216.03 and no balance in your account," and assured me to shut off my phone and turn it back on and it will work. If there is an issue dial *777.
Well guess what. It didn’t work!! My call directed to customer service and back to square one with no credit but rather a huge balance and restricted outgoing calls. Waited several hours with no callback from the manager or supervisor! I am currently cutting my losses and moving to a new cell phone provider. Do not. I repeat. Do not become a Bell Mobility customer!!! Their customer service is awful and their billing is close to fraudulent in my opinion! I have strong reasons to believe I will never receive my 215.00 plus dollars in credit from Bell.
Don’t be taken advantage of by this horrendous company! This fifteen year customer will never have another Bell product or service. My adult children left Bell services for reasons similar to this several years ago. They sucked me in with so called Loyalty upgrades. Don’t be sucked in. Don’t be taken advantage of. STAY away from all Bell products! It took me several years to realize how horrible the Bell Company is!!!
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2018
Bell Canada provides misleading information through their customer loyalty department. After several calls in the past as a 20+ years customer of Bell about Bell Canada increasing their prices for services, their loyalty department convinced me to stay with them with what they told me on the phone is a "promotion Package". Now that it's time to cancel because they have again raised their prices and is not competitive with another provider, they are now informing when I called to cancel their service that I agreed to a contract which they confirmed by e-mail at the time they provided the "promotion discount". They claim that they confirmed that I have a contract by e-mail.
The agent never mentioned that during the conversation or I would not have agreed. Bell in their retention effort is misleading customers with calling the discount "promotion discounts" and not ever mentioning on the phone that the "promotion discount" ties customers to a contract... The real story. They are charging $100 for terminating the contract before the term which is very discouraging that the government is allowing companies to hold consumers to contracts which is obtained by this type of misleading sales tactics. I would suggest that old folks with no access to internet is being taken advantage of with this type of tactics by Bell and would like to receive a call to further discuss my concerns.
Reviewed Aug. 2, 2018
A few days ago I got internet service through Bell, since the signals were not strong enough for the large size of my home, I requested them to send me signal boosters which did arrive a day later than originally planned. Not big deal, I called for technical support as the Pods needed set up on Bell.ca. The agent Mr. ** agent ID ** informed me that he can’t help since it’s only self serve service online.
I asked me if he can provide me with my account number so I can register my account at least, which he refused to give as company policy and said I need to wait a few weeks till my bill arrives and all this conversation took over an hour with exorbitant wait times and Mr. ** refusing to help any further and telling me "Good luck and have a great day" and hung up, now can someone tell me where do I go from here, need to take this up to the president of Bell for cheating honest hardworking Canadians of service they say that they take pride in providing. How the hell do I set up the signal boosters provided by the company. This happened on August 2nd 2018 at 530 pm for the record. I sincerely suggest this staff should be fired not only for the sake of the aggravation to customers but for company policy in providing Customer Service.
Reviewed Aug. 2, 2018
Over the last few months, I have noticed in my online billing statements with Bell Canada, that there is a fee being added to individual's bills that would normally go unnoticed because the charge/fee is only for a few dollars per month. I happened to notice it because I had several issues a few months back that took several months and several government agencies and complaints to resolve. This fee is listed on your bill as a 'late fee unregulated'. Look for it. Whether in your online statement or on your hard copy bill.
My personal bill is issued monthly and only online. (Screenshot enclosed). I have paid those bills AHEAD of the bill actually being issued, so no late fee could be added as the bills were paid in full, on time and before bill issue right? Wrong! Bell is fleecing the Canadian public in new and interesting ways by charging UNREGULATED LATE FEES, that is the key word. UNREGULATED. Here is the scenario. These fees if I hadn't noticed them, would amount to between 30.00 and 36.00 per year on a bill that amounts to under $100.00 per month for internet services alone in my case.
There are 9.008.000 Bell customers nationally throughout Canada. I'll do the math for you. With this 'unregulated late fee', that is 270,240,000.00 dollars that Bell Canada have just taken from the Canadian public with no legal repercussions whatsoever by the Canadian Government because this is a charge that no one ever thought to regulate. If you aren't mad yet, you should be! Ask yourself, why in 2018, the Canadian Government has not legally intervened and issued a regulated Terms of Services contract that service providers are obliged to use without alteration, nationwide. A contract that protects the consumer and legally holds providers accountable for illegal activities and obliges them to provide the services promised and paid for by Canadian consumers.
We are now, officially, an undeclared extension of the United States where Capitalism is King/Queen/ and President, and the Canada and the Canadian Government that we used to know that protected its citizens and whose social programs and society were based on socialist ideas and ideals is officially dead. Insert The Purge TV alert here... Capitalism Reigns/Oh Canada!
Reviewed Aug. 1, 2018
Recently I ordered TV & Internet from Bell... from 1st day TV Receiver started to reset by itself. I called on Bell Technical Support. They sent me a new receiver, now I have 4 bad receivers in 2 weeks! So am fed up. I called to cancel services. They said I have to pay 150$ cancellation fees! If I used the service and want to change fine. Fair to pay. But the service actually never worked. I went through hell for 4 weeks and now they want fees for a service technically it does not work?? Welcome to Bell.
Reviewed July 30, 2018
Bell has the best tv and internet service (quality-wise) in my area, but they are the most dishonest and unethical company I have ever dealt with. You sign a contract with them, and before you even get the first bill they send you a letter increasing the price on all three services. When you call them about it they say to read the small print. Most of the complaints given to ConsumerAffairs also apply to me. They are a horrible company.
Reviewed July 27, 2018
Need to share this unbelievable experience with Bell. I waited until my contract was up to cancel my service. In their system they put in a date two days before the contract ends and they send me an early cancellation fee. I called to complain and get my money back and they said they need to investigate this to go through recorded calls to make sure I didn't cancel two days before contract ends. I said even if I made a mistake with the contract date, you guys would not make the adjustment or tell me to wait a couple of days to call back and all she says is that they need to investigate. WOW, this is truly unbelievable.
Reviewed July 26, 2018
I have been subscribing to Bell for internet, mobility and TV for several years now. This month I was promised an increase in download speed; they were going to double it. Well the 100 mbps I was promised haven't materialized. After three visits by technicians (and I will say they are punctual in their appointments) the speed is still around 12-15 mbps. Bell may say in their defense that the building is over 50 years old, and that the circuitry is not what would be ideal for today's world, but they shouldn't be allowed to sell download speeds that simply don't exist.
Reviewed July 13, 2018
My iPhone ear piece stopped working June 5 so I contacted Bell to upgrade. After spending time on the phone we came up with a new contract. Just prior to submitting the order, the specialist and I applied my new address to the account. She said it was a good thing we did that so the new phone didn’t end up at the wrong place and kind of laughed. I was told it would arrive in 3-5 business days. I was excited for a nice transaction and my new phone. Well a week went by without a phone and I had a hunch it ended up at the old address, which it apparently did. They said I’d have to wait for Canada Post to return it to the Bell warehouse then they would resend from there. They guessed it would be another week to two.
I waited a week and called back. They said it should now arrive in about 2-4 days. Once it reached the 6th day I called back. They said they have no telephone contact with their own warehouse and would have to email them!!! What?! At this point I was informed the phone was being held at Canada Post for a week when it was sent to the wrong address and could have literally got it at that point and he was surprised nobody told me this. At this point it has literally been exactly 5 WEEKS and I still don’t have a phone. I’ve been offered a $50 credit for their absolutely HORRIBLE service. I asked him if there was a note on their computer stating to treat me as poorly as humanly possible.
The customer service is very friendly but I have been misinformed and given the run around since day one. I would actually cancel my service but I trust this company so little, that I actually am confident after them saying I currently have no payout penalty, they will slap me with a large penalty. I am stuck in a hard place and have talked to several managers with zero resolve. I feel like I am a butt end of their joke. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SERVICE.
Reviewed July 12, 2018
My advice is - don't use Bell for services. I scheduled to have internet service installed in Montreal on 7/6/18. I received a confirmation email for the installation on 6/24/18. I received on confirmation call from them on 7/4/18 @ 6:18pm saying that they would be there on 7/6 between 12 and 5 for the installation. They were a no show and a no call. I called them that evening and asked what happened. They said that there was an external problem with the internet and that they would call me within 24-48 hours. No call. I filed an escalation on their website on 7/8. I called them again on 7/9 and they told me that they would call me within 24-48 hours. They confirmed that it was an external internet problem. No response.
Finally, I called them to cancel on 7/12 - a competing internet company installed my internet within 24 hours with no problem. They did cancel the order; but, they said that it was a problem on with identification and there was no problem with the internet. This is the first that was ever mentioned. This was probably someone who was trying to cover for bad service by blaming the customer. The company is, at best, disingenuous and most likely dishonest. I would avoid them if at all possible.
Reviewed July 11, 2018
We switched to Bell 3 years ago from Rogers because they have the zero dollar phones that my husband wanted. When his Note 4 broke, they said they could not do anything. We sent it to "get checked" nothing happened. We got swindled by one of the tech shops in our area. We had to buy a new phone and opt him out of the shared plan. And that's when the inconveniences started. I switched the account on my name. Never told there was a fee. It was 45 dollars for a freaking transfer! Every month they have new charges that I did not use/know of.
So every month I needed to call them and fight the useless customer service reps in order for the charges to get refunded. And their customer service is the worst, it seems that 90% of the reps have language barrier! It is very difficult to talk to them. I paid 62 bucks for a stupid 2.5 GB. Whenever I cross the border to the states, they offer 100 MB for 7 dollars. WHAT A JOKE. I turn off all my roaming settings and data and still they found a way to charge me!
When that promo of doubling your data was offered by Rogers, same was advertised by Bell that they will honor the same deals. Went to the mall and Bell said I was not eligible and told me some BS about Bell and MTS being different and separate (but their name says BELL MTS!). No company made me this angry. It was the most awful experience. Do not switch to Bell. Trust me on this. Went back with Rogers and my friends are with Telus. If you are with Bell and would like to leave, unlock your phone first. DO NOT LET BELL KNOW AT ALL COSTS YOU ARE LEAVING. WAIT UNTIL YOUR NEW PROVIDER ACTIVATES THE SAME NUMBER UNDER THEIR COMPANY.
Reviewed July 7, 2018
I have been a customer of Bell Canada for at least 15 years, I dropped my phone and broke the screen on my new SG7 and requested it be repaired and I would pay for the repairs as it was my fault. I spoke to someone from India who could not speak very good English and the phone was returned without repairs done after they said they would repair it. I chalked up the failed repair as a language problem and called back and requested to speak with someone from Canada. They refused to let me talk to someone from Canada and even tried to put me in touch with someone who pretended to have a Texas accent while I could hear laughter in the ground.
From the time I put in the repair request to the time I attempted to have it repaired a second time they failed to update my billing for three months and then slapped me with a $711 dollar bill which I told them I could not pay all at one time. I told them that I would pay 200 (145 being the regular monthly fee) a month until the remaining amount was paid off.
They said that would be ok and that they would make a note of it in the system but for some reason I would get two daily text messages and phone calls from the billing department which would ring me hang up and then ring me again over and over. I eventually had to block the number. I called and attempted to contact someone in Canada which they refused again and they claimed they had no notes in their system of the agreement. They cut off my service and continued sending me texts and started calling me from different numbers so I couldn't block them... Some of them would just hang up and dial me back. At this point pretty much harassment.
I had to call them from my work phone registered in my company's name and tell them what was happening. Again they wouldn't let me talk to someone in Canada and as soon as I hung up with them after unsuccessfully resolving the issue they started texting me spam for new phones up to three times a day. Even though this was a brand new phone. They were clearly doing this a as harassment technique. I called in and canceled my contract and now owe 911 dollar bill. India has the rudest and crudest support centers and Bell should be ashamed of outsourcing to the companies that operate there. I will be moving to Telus for the time being.
Reviewed July 7, 2018
I am with Bell Canada for telephony/internet/TV. We changed in January from Videotron to Bell but it was not a good idea. Because making calls Canada-wide and international it is really expensive with Bell, we choose Comwave as provider for this service. It is the same company I used for 10 years with Videotron with no problem. Starting January we can make any calls in Canada or overseas. We call Bell and Comwave weekly but they send us from Bell to Comwave, saying it is not their fault. I have no idea what I can do, I can't call my sons in Canada, my friends overseas but I am paying my bill monthly for nothing. Last week a Bell representative told me that I am right, the configuration is not good but, today a lady told me that everything is fine, nothing to be done at Bell. I am losing my time and my money for nothing.
Reviewed July 6, 2018
Deregularization of the telecom industry in Canada has had no positive effect for consumers. Bell Canada's service has continued to worsen while their dishonest sales tactics have resulted in class action suits against them by both customers and employees. Get frustrated enough to mention that someone should take legal action against them for their dishonesty or incompetence and their reps have been instructed to stop talking to you, obviously the result of so many lawsuits.
Meanwhile their Executive leads a lavish lifestyle, unaccountable for the damages this company wreaks upon the average person in the street. My personal experiences over the years have simply astounded me with the lack of accountability of their rank and file and the depth of their incompetence and dishonesty. While I have come across some top tier individuals in this company over the years, the corporate culture of this enterprise does not empower them and rewards instead the dishonest, the corrupt and the political.
Reviewed June 30, 2018
The worst company ever, they will treat you like garbage. When it comes to get their money they will come behind you. They will call you every minute. I had with the company the 400Mbs internet, I was late to pay one day. They cut the service. After two months I changed the company and I forget to cancel the service, so they were asking me to pay four months payment. Thought they know I didn't use the internet.
Reviewed June 27, 2018
On my Nov-Dec 2017 bill appeared an overcharge of $276.37 which I was really responsible for about $50 which I paid, the remaining amount couldn't reach an agreement so I escalated it to the CCTS. Many months went by and I get a call from Bell's executive office just to let me know they are still proceeding with the overcharges so the CCTS assigned an investigator to fully look into the matter. It's been over six months and got tired of fighting with Bell for peanuts and decided to go with another provider but now I had $120 overcharge balance after paying my monthly fees. I couldn't use my phone with another provider because Bell had my phone blocked. I sent an email to ** and they say they get back to you within 48 hrs. It's been 3 days and no word from them.
On top of that, after I called them to notify them about my last payment and they wrote down the reference number, in the next hour they canceled my service and they said it takes 3-5 business days for the payment to go through. I call them to explain to them what a terrible experience and such awful customer service they provided. I wanted just to leave them and ask them kindly to unlock my phone. I mentioned that I wasn't happy with them and that I was so tired of dealing with their terrible service and that I could see what kind of company they are if they charged me those $120 overcharge remaining on the account or they just let me go. So they decided they will only unblock my cell phone after I paid the remaining unfair balance. So that is the kind of company Bell is, they will fight every penny even if they lose their clients.
Reviewed June 27, 2018
Bell Canada called me to strike a deal, better speed internet, same price I was paying previous company. Seems good right? WRONG! Every month Bell has tried charging me for TV, saying it's having TV AND PHONE, which makes my internet price so low. I do not need TV and phone. What is MORE, Bell constantly send me a bill higher than the one we agreed upon. In one year I have had to call 3 times. Every time I call, the call is outsourced to Tunisia, India, Philippines, or another country where English is their second language. These people are slow, they waste your time, they repeat things and constantly say "I am checking ma'am" without actually doing ANYTHING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
It is beyond frustrating and the WORST COMPANY I have honestly ever encountered in my entire life. Bell Canada does not care about Canadians or providing good service. They are shady, - and it takes hours to correct your incorrect bill every month. Hours of your time spent fighting these people who do not even understand what you are calling about (no offense to them!)
Reviewed June 27, 2018
Called Bell Canada for a small business internet service. After a few "deals" that did not match my budget or needs, the customer service representative proposed a $78/month deal based on a 3 year contract for internet Fibe 50 with a fixed IP address. That person assured me that this is what I would pay and failed to mention that this price could actually change at any time. Bell (he) gave me the impression that to have/keep this price, I would have to commit to a 3 year contract. I accepted the deal at the beginning of a month, to be installed on the 1st of the next month, so roughly 25 days later. I received an email stating that my monthly fee would be $78 with a contract attached on the next day of the call.
Bell came and installed the necessary hardware on the 1st of the (next) month and I used the internet for 26 days, until I received my first 5 pages bill of $137.18 full of annotations and whatnot, which made no sense at all and no mention anywhere of the $78. I called the small business customer support for explanation and reached a first representative that tried to make it look right by losing me in some calculations, that the billing cycle starts on the 10th and that there is an extra 10 days at a pro rata that is added to my bill. Unfortunately, that person failed to find a formula that explained the gap between $101.40 ($78 + 9 days pro rata) so at this stage I was ready to cancel my services since it was clear that I got tricked into it and was already paying the price.
As I was not having it; that representative bounced me to another representative, who basically tried some other mental gymnastics to come up with a reason why my bill is of $137.18 and failed to do so, and finally ended up passing it as a billing error, while she had tried very hard to justify the amount for the longest time. That person was the rudest person I have ever talk to in my life. Contemplating her failure, she told me to pay the full bill and that I would get a credit over my next bill, which I refused. I told her to send me an updated bill of the right amount which she refused to do so.
That person also let me know that my $78 could go up at any moment has the fine prints in the contract reveal, and that to cancel my services, it would cost me $500, since the "cool-off" period had already ended. I told her that I didn't want to be in business with a company that already tried to scam me off at the first bill and because I had been using their service for less than 30 days, I should be able to just cancel without any fee.
She then hung up on me. I'm now trapped in a battle with Bell who can basically does whatever the hell they want with the price of the service and I am not sure if I will be able to get out of it without paying outrageous fees. Side note on the cool-off period, it starts when receiving the contract, so by the time I could first use their service, the cool-off period was already over, which is counter intuitive to say the least. In any other case, you would pay for something and start using it and return it if you are not satisfied, which is not possible to do with Bell.
Reviewed June 21, 2018
After years of frustration with Videotron, I signed up for Bell after speaking to a representative who assured me that the plan I chose would never change in price unless I changed services. Three years later, the price goes up $10 per month. I call to ask why; they say it had been a "promotion" that ended. I complained that this had been misrepresented to me, and they agreed to give me a new plan that offered faster service for the original price I had been paying. Ok, great. I asked for a confirmation email and was told that would not be possible. I should have realized what they were doing. One month later, no change to the increase in my bill.
I phoned back and explained the situation again, not to one but two representatives who asked me the same questions over and over, and kept trying to sell me services I don't want or need. I became frustrated and said that if she couldn't help me then I would simply cancel my service. The agent chastised me for being "argumentative". Finally, after I confirmed for the FIFTH time that all I wanted was my original service at the original price, the agent gave me what I asked for. Twenty minutes of hell and now my blood is boiling. I can't believe that Bell treats its customers this way. And the agent I ended up speaking to was in their "Loyalty" department.
Reviewed June 20, 2018
I am a 20 year customer. I was convinced to purchase a new bundle (with Fibe TV) which would ultimately cost me less per month. I am now being charged almost $40/month more. I spent more than a half hour on chat trying to resolve it only to be told that I need to call another department to cancel the Fibe and get back to my old rate. They sold me something then they tell me to remove it??? Makes no sense. Now I have to call someone else to try and correct it... more of my time. And, they have gone ahead and charged me when I did not agree to pay this amount every month.
Reviewed June 19, 2018
The worst company I have ever dealt with. Dishonest! As other reviewers have remarked they guaranteed me a fixed monthly rate for two years in January 2018. Within 4 months the rate was already increased. I called customer service to complain - nothing they could do other than offer to terminate service for $150 penalty. When I requested transcripts of my original calls when ordering the bundle service I was told only "the court" could order these transcripts! As usual, the dishonest runaround. Filed a complaint with the CCTS. Suddenly I get an email saying I can get transcripts but it will take up to 30 days. Some manager also called offering a 5$/month discount for 12 months.
I refused saying I wanted Bell to honour the terms of the contract I agreed to. Unfortunately, delivering service as promised is beyond Bell Canada's ability. I am hoping to use the transcripts of my original calls to take Bell to Small Claims Court as Mr. David ** did in April 2018 for similar dishonest practices by Bell. Mr. ** represented himself and won. I have also contacted Go Public the CBC initiative to address such dishonest business practices as Bell continually carries out. I will forward copies of my call transcripts to both the CCTS and Go Public who are talking of a class action lawsuit. In addition, Bell is continuing to bill me which they are not supposed to do while the CCTS is investigating a complaint. Do not deal with Bell. Zero stars!
Reviewed June 17, 2018
Best company I switched to. They are really helpful, their service is really good across Canada and their plans are cheap and really effective.
Reviewed June 16, 2018
I waited 3 days for internet service... each day I called and they said to wait to midnight for dry loop to be completed. Is that their standard response in training??? Why is it they act like they have no info in front of them... don't they take notes from the call? If they do, then they are complete idiots. 3 days to get someone who knew what they were talking about... they are going to have to pay me to stay with them. I am done, forever with Bell.
Reviewed June 14, 2018
I changed from Bell internet to a different provider that runs over Bell lines. I gave Bell proper info as to account cancellation which was confirmed by an on phone Bell rep. No problem? Bell tech changed the IP address on the Bell Box and all was well briefly. My new IP provider modem promptly crashed. I called my new provider up and was told that Bell had said that I had changed my mind about canceling Bell internet services. Being single and the only person with access to my PC, this was impossible.
After numerous calls to my new provider and to Bell (who were rude as could be) it turned out that Bell had decided to reactivate their IP address on a "Free Don't Go Away Trial" causing my modem to crash while trying to handle the two separate IP addresses at the same time. I threatened Bell with legal action and they finally removed their IP address from the line; however, I did have to replace the modem (my new provider did this for free). Just another Bell Canada story!
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Reviewed June 14, 2018
I have bad experience with Bell Company. They keep on Charging my cellphone Higher and Higher. First they charge me 400 + on my bill, the following month is 600. The next bill is 500 which I did not pay yet because they don't fix yet my last month complaint... When I check my bill I investigate. I found out that they charge me for many unknown caller... I'm a common sense guy... Who will accept unknown caller? I am a busy person. I only accept caller that is I know or there is a number on it... The worst thing I do is I let them on my pre-authorize debit account on my account. Now because I'm mad at them I remove them on my pre-authorized on my account. Do not deal with them. They are thief and great on stealing your money.
Reviewed June 12, 2018
I had decided to change from Rogers to Bell, as a nice young man came to the house and explained how much better their services were with the new fibre cable. He came to the house to explain it at least three times, after hours, and we were impressed with him and the potential of Bell. Then the trouble started. We booked an installation appointment, and a technician came. He said your neighbours are not home so I can’t get permission to do the install, goodbye. I called Bell, explained the problem, asked someone to get permission from the neighbours before they came next time, and rebooked. Another technician came, said he couldn’t get permission from the neighbours, and left. He said no one had told him about the last problem.
At this point, I asked our sales rep where the box was, he said at 41, I took some pictures of what looked like the box, we talked to our neighbours at that address, and they gave us oral permission. We booked again, the technician came, said that was the wrong box, and he couldn’t get permission from the neighbours where the correct box was. He said he would just go and do the work, except that the neighbours explicitly said he couldn’t enter. He left. I went to the neighbours at 47, they gave me permission, I called back the technician who had just left, he said he would see if he could come back, I heard nothing more from him. I rebooked.
Today, someone was due between 8 and 10. No one arrived. I called, and was told someone was on the way. No one arrived. I called after 12, and was put on hold for 20 minutes while someone tried to find dispatch. I eventually gave up and called back. This time someone told me that “control” had failed to assign a technician to the appointment.
Either Bell is extremely incompetent, or someone has decided that installing their services at this address is impossible, but is unwilling to say so. This is infuriating. Their relations with our neighbours are terrible; they complain about technicians stomping through their property and cutting trees. Their customer relations people on the phone do not provide accurate information and different technicians have different understandings of what kind of permission they need. The coordination between their sales, technical and telephone staff is not working. I am retired, so I didn’t take four days off work to stay at home waiting for Bell. However, I did set aside four days with nothing else on the calendar and have spent a good deal of time talking to Bell representatives and dealing with neighbours. Totally frustrated, we have cancelled our order.
Reviewed June 11, 2018
I live in a rental basement. Around early May 2018 I switched my ISP to Bell Canada, and what a huge mistake was that! The technician installed a temporary "above the ground" fiber optic cable, and said within a week or so another technician will come and run a permanent "underground cable" for me. My landlord, who lives above me, had signed up with Bell couple of months before me and her permanent optical fiber cable had already been put underground. Several days after getting my temporary internet cable with Bell, while nobody was at my/my landlord's home, a technician came to put my cable underground. The technician put my cable underground and mistakenly assumed that my landlord's cable is unauthorized and cut HER internet connection.
My landlord not knowing what had happened to her internet connection called Bell and a technician came and connected her internet connection, and doing the same mistake as previous technician, this time cut MY internet connection. The mistake of cutting MY internet connection and HERs repeated for about, get this 6 TIMES (unbelievable, isn't it). On the occasions that I was accidentally at home while the technician showed up, I would explain the problem to the technician, who would believe me only after checking the cables and the technician would leave without putting my cable underground as "this wasn't his job".
To this date my cable is still "above the ground" and the next technician is scheduled to come late June. My landlord and my next door neighbor, are understandably mad at me, as every time that a technician shows up, they walk on the grass and make a mess of the front yard. What is unbelievable is that Bell Canada not only cares about the customers, but also doesn't care about wasting their own money, as they have been paying their technicians for doing the wrong work. At the end this is my advice to you: DON'T SIGN WITH BELL CANADA.
Reviewed June 11, 2018
I have a trailer, therefore satellite service for 6 months, when I suspend my service I always ask what will be my monthly cost when I reactivate my satellite. Every year, when I get my first invoice, I am so upset because every time I get my bill, it is billed and not at the price that I was quoted. I called Bell, spoke to three people, asked to speak to a supervisor, well that never happened, they kept saying, "I am sorry for the misunderstanding." It is not a misunderstanding, they do not own to their words or commitment, nothing changed, kind of suck it up buttercup. I am now looking at changing provider such as Shaw. Bell is not geared to customer service, customer satisfaction, they just do not care about the customer that is paying their wages. Be aware before you sign up with BELL CANADA.
Reviewed June 9, 2018
We continue with my story I reported on 6/5/2018. I have been getting fraud emails, fraud text, now orders on PayPal, which I'm trying to confirm, can't even get in my account. And also can't get into my account to check on Trans Union, after I have called them 3 times, and they reset my password, still says can't verify that it's me, great, can't check. So I was looking of ways to see if I've been compromised, and if my information was sold SIN number, email mail, password etc. So I found a website called, Have you been pwn, of course I didn't give any information to the site until I read who this person was. Troy ** an amazing story, hackers actually brag about hacking, and send him information of where they have hacked, and also a list of personal listings who has been hacked. How it works is on this website you put your email in and he research if you have been hack.
So I did just that, and there it is, I was hacked 5 times, starting with Bell Canada I guess when I purchase an iPhone for working at CIBC where you need a smart phone as a mortgage specialist. This is where it all started, I have sent Bell Canada a letter, and at this point I will have to get a lawyer involved. I have had problems with Bell in 2015-2016, had several issues and would call tech, and customer service to get someone on line that is rude, foreign that I cannot understand and even them hanging up on me. I already had sent Bell an email about my concerns then, about customer service and tech was in another country like India. I had to cancel my service with them sometime in 2016.
So now I know, it was the first hack through Bell, and now 4 years later I'm living a nightmare, watching my bank account, deleting old files, canceling LinkedIn, Alignable, LinkedIn was hack also 180 million, I will cancel Facebook. And my email mail with Hotmail, where it's not secure. I will email soon with feedback. Good Luck everyone, can't even go to a bank now and talk to cashier, many banks are debit machines only, you need to deal with them online or phone, Great!
Reviewed June 9, 2018
Bell is very scammy. They constantly (and intentionally) overcharge you for Data, and then put the onus on you to call and disputed the charges, which are exorbitant.
Reviewed June 8, 2018
I have 2 line with Bell mobile. Been 2 years. Long time to wait call centre to answer. No single in underground parking. Complained about it, they said if not happy just go. I have contract with them so didn’t cancel my service. Finally my contract almost over, called today to cancel, I wait 50 minutes, then they say office close now and apologize for that. I was wait 50 minutes. No way to go back. Thank you.
Reviewed June 2, 2018
Bell cold called the house for an upsell on TV packages. While they were speaking with a visiting family member who answered, I interceded, as it’s my account. Very rude, aggressive and demanding sales agent. I instructed her to not cold call for sales anymore, and hung up. Now my account is ‘locked’ due to a stuck pending order (apparently the do not call request). The online customer service keeps telling me to call billing. Billing keeps telling me to ‘escalate’ through TV customer service. Because I refused to be slammed with products I did not want, and because I requested to never have it happen again, I am now the victim of targeted harassment from Bell Canada. I can’t even cancel my service due to the stuck pending order!! Online ticket “Something else [#**]”.
Reviewed June 1, 2018
I changed my credit card numbers and didn't update my Bell portal fast enough so the auto payments failed. Somehow, my data sharing feature for my iPad was placed into a separate account that I had no access to. They then continued to charge me for that feature, however when I changed my card numbers again, the update didn't make it to this new, isolated account. It should have been under my Bell portal, but was unaccessible. $125 dollars, and 4 to 5 calls a day from their Accounts Receivable Department. The last voicemail was threatening, that "I must call Bell back by 10 pm EST or else". Account Manager - Brittany - Was willing to listen at first, then became combative, unwilling to do anything, admitted to the screwup, but still made me responsible for the Bill. Needless to say, I've now paid them off, and are transporting my service to another provider. Bell Sucks. Go to anyone else but them.
Reviewed June 1, 2018
After cancelling my home phone with Bell. I kept getting phone calls about our service. I told them that I did not want their Bell phone. That they did not treat me good when I was a customer. I asked them to stop calling and to not knock at my door. I was told by the person I talked to that I would be put on the do not call list and that no one would knock at my door. Tonight I had a nice young man knock at my door. I told him that he was not allowed to knock at my door. He said that he was a contractor from Bell and that they gave him my house number, he gave me the number of his supervisor. I called and talked to him, he said that Bell gave him a list and that my house number was on it. He told me to call Bell at 310-Bell. I did and was put on hold for 15 minutes and then Bell hung on me. I called back. Was given a different number.
I called that number and was on hold again for 15 minutes. When the person came on the phone he asked for my home phone number. He told me that it wasn't an actual number. I told him that it was the same number that I have had for 32 years. He then asked for my Bell contract number. I told him that I was no longer with Bell and did not have one. He then said that he could do nothing for me. I asked to talk to a supervisor and was again hung up on. Bell use to be a good company back in the day that they actually cared about people. Now since of the rudeness of the service department I am still on the list that they told me that they removed me from. I am tired of the lies of Bell's customer service. I want to be actually be put on the do not call list and promised that they will not knock at my door again.
Reviewed May 31, 2018
Bought a tablet 2 years ago and was offered to integrate the cost of the tablet into my existing Bell accounts (cable and Internet). Was told it would be $10 a month. Fast forward to a year later and I start receiving calls from a collection agency saying my account was sent to them from Bell for non-payment for the tablet. I was shocked as I thought I was paying through my monthly bill. Spoke to a Bell rep about the issue, they informed me a supervisor would get a hold of me. That did NOT happen, that phone call happened last Sept 2017. Fast forward to yesterday May 29th 2018 (still btw receiving calls daily from collections); tried to buy a new phone through Virgin. This account is now preventing me from getting a new phone, I call Bell and they don't help at ALL.
In fact they're rude and dismissive and spoke to me as I have not been a loyal customer for 5 years now, have paid all bills on time. They were also tacked on a cancellation fee on top of the price of the tablet, even though the error was no fault of my own. I even agreed to still pay for the tablet but requested they waive the cancellation fee. Tired of getting nowhere and just wanting to purchase a new phone I agreed to settle the account with collections. I go to The Source to now buy my phone and open another Bell account to find out there is still an outstanding balance with Bell. I call back. The last hung up on me! You just lost another customer and to think it was all over a $200 tablet I was still willing to pay for. SMH.
Reviewed May 28, 2018
Paying $200 for 3 services. Bell customers for past 20 years. Basically they told me that they don't care about any of that. Spoke with rudest customer service manager by name of Denisha who at the end of conversation could not care less that they are losing loyal customers. Great job Bell. I guess you got so big and money hungry that you forgot your main focus. Your customers. Happy to cancel the services and go somewhere else.
Updated review: June 14, 2022
It took four years but Bell finally installed their wireless 50mbps internet... Hurray.. We're now happy.
Original Review: May 25, 2018
I see folks here complaining about 50 mbps, I wish I could get anything near that. I'm out in the country and Bell offered us "Up to 5 mbps". UP TO... we get 4. Well it's better than dialup!!! Maybe... At least dialup was stable. My biggest complaint is: it's not stable. Our internet won't stay up. I came home today, which prompted this note, and our internet was gone, AGAIN. I had to reboot the modem to get it back. I always have to reboot our modem. I've had to install a WEMO and schedule a reboot daily in the wee hours of the morning and hope it stays up for the day. Most times it does but today it died even though it was rebooted this morning. It's now afternoon.
I have called in so many times about this and I end up with the same lame Tech Support who ask the same lame questions (obviously reading from a script) and I go through the same lame procedures with them and... nothing. I escalated a complaint to their escalation department and they call me and discuss the problem, they even sent out a Tech but nothing changes. It goes down again and again. I'd like to know why? I now realize there is absolutely no point in calling Bell. They can't and won't provide anything better than what I have. Bell isn't capable of providing DSL here and if I go to another company they simply use Bell's access lines to my home and again nothing changes. I reboot and then later it goes down.
I'm told "well we'll be putting in Fibe someday". Not in my lifetime they won't. Even so; we have friends in town with Fibe and it's awful also possibly even worse as they lose everything even their TV. At least our Sat TV stays up. Bell's other services Sat TV, Home Phone, and Mobility have been great, at least for us. No issues there, but the internet has been a disaster. Bell Canada should be banned from selling internet service until they can guarantee at least a 95% availability and for that 5% outage provide a refund automatically for the periods it fails. But again, not in my lifetime. They take your money and provide crap and raise the rates every year. Explain the rate increase if for expanded service but not in our area. Just more crap.
Reviewed May 25, 2018
Bell signed us up for 50mbps service (which is really slow by today's standards in urban areas - many areas come standard with over 10x that speed - not with Bell, mind you) and have not been able to deliver it to us at any point. They also refuse to change the plan because we signed up for it and it allows them to take more money from us. We've had them out multiple times because they keep talking about being able to deliver the speed but every technician throws their hands up in frustration and they all say it just isn't possible.
To give you a practical idea of how it goes, I can't download or upload anything and then accomplish anything else on the internet. It's one thing/task at a time. Their terrible bandwidth can't support standard internet use. My practical download speeds for large files went from about 15mbps with Rogers to about 1mbps with Bell. We are getting 25mbps service according to the speed test system that is built in to the router, but testing of internet with a wired computer shows often less than 1mbps on download speeds.
This was never an issue with Rogers and we used the same ethernet cables and computers with them, so it's not the cables or computers. Also, we are about 2 blocks from their Central Office where they have all their local servers and we are so close that our line goes directly to that Central Office (unusual with Bell service, usually there are multiple connection points between the home and CO). So the odds of it being a bad line somewhere out in the streets is zero. Our line goes from our building to their building and that is it.
Bell wants around a thousand dollars in penalty fees if we cancel early at this point. Rogers service was fine. We switched to Bell because Rogers TV is terrible. It's as bad as Bell is with internet. But between the two of them you can get some decent service with Rogers as internet and Bell as TV. If you have it the other way around, I feel for you. That must be awful.
Possibly the worst part of Bell is their "customer service". They just bounce you around from department to department and you spend more time being transferred around their offices than anything else. None of them want to accept you as their problem. There is too much internal incentive for them to just transfer you to someone else. Must be pressure on the employees to get call times down or just absolutely atrocious training. Probably both. I will never give another dollar to Bell and look forward to them reaching out to me in the future with promotions of their terrible service so I can deny them entry into my home. I will also not use any third party services that use their lines because then I will again be dependent on their crappy service/technology. For 2018, in an urban area, this service is pathetically weak and their customer service to fix the issue is just as bad.
Reviewed May 24, 2018
I had issues with Bell before, but decided to give them another chance two years ago...what a mistake. I got on two years contract and regret about that every minute. First of all, during accepting contract, I had been told, that my price will not change during that time - wrong. Apparently, there is somewhere small shrift stating that it will change, when out loud Bell say it will not...
My payment was lost. I paid bill 10 days before due day, it never got posted, two days after due date, I received letter from collections stating that I owe money. Money, Bell got lost, and decided to blame me for it. Finally, my contract got to the end, and I found another provider. I had phone call from the Bell saying they received cancelation request for services and they wanted to offer me something better. Of course it was not even close as good as expected. I declined offer and confirmed that I would like to cancel my services on April 16. Bell agreed, however, they keep sending me bills, for services I do not have, and was supposed to be canceled over a month ago.
Moreover, apparently, my services never been canceled, and even I returned all equipment, according to Bell representative, I still have to pay the bill for something I do not use or have. This company is horrible. I am planning to sue them, as someone should stop customer abuse, and Bell should pay for it. NEVER GO WITH BELL, NEVER!!! THIS WHOLE COMPANY IS ONE BIG SCAM.
Reviewed May 24, 2018
I've been with Bell for several years and they screwed me around. I tried to switch my billing dates and they charged me about 50.00 just to change for 8 days. If I would have known about that I wouldn't have done it. I advise not to go with Bell.
Reviewed May 23, 2018
I called to cancel my home phone, they stalled and then hung up on me, and it was closed when I called back. I called the next day, the first person hung up on me. Now calling for the 3rd time I am ready to cancel everything I have with Bell, I got sent through to a retention person, who offered me a deal that was worse than the one advertised on their website??? When I pointed that out, I was told "I am not sales" and she cancelled everything I have with Bell and didn't seem to care at all. I have never seen a company care so little about their customers before. I called to cancel home phone and ended up cancelling home phone and unlimited internet (over $150 a month on a terrible plan). Amazing "customer service" to actually ruin any chance of staying with the company. If I could give no stars, I would have.
Reviewed May 22, 2018
We have been a long, long time customer of Bell. We recently got talked into taking an upgrade in Modem to Fibe 50 which is a faster mb download. We did this because I was looking for a better deal on my bill since I've been carrying all 3 services for years. The tech came and had to put the modem in the basement. The speed was terrible so I had to call again and this past Sunday (2 days later) another tech came to put the modem upstairs in one of our bedrooms. This all went fine until the next day when we noticed that one of our phones was not working properly as a result of the move.
I then proceeded to call again and explain this to another Bell person who, after speaking with them for 30 minutes stated that there would be a charge for the tech to come and fix the line. So, because of the fact that we upgraded our Modem and now one of our phone lines doesn't work, they want to charge me $75.00 for the internal line repair. To make a long story short, I finally called the "Loyalty Dep't" and they did say that they would charge me but that it would be credited to my account at a later date. It has been quite an ordeal dealing with Bell all because we're basically giving them more business. As it is we have 3 of Bell's products in our home. TV, Phone and Internet. The whole thing has been such a waste of time and has given both myself and my wife a headache. Exhausted!!
Reviewed May 16, 2018
I have been with Bell for a long time. My contract was up long ago (thank goodness). I got the bundle service (internet, phone and tv). The cost of my bill just kept going up and up without any notice! It was outrageous! I called Bell many times to try to get my bill down in cost monthly or I told them I was going elsewhere for my services. They wanted to keep me as a customer so they would try to get it down with a credit here and there. But my bill NEVER goes down! It keeps going up!
Recently I kept getting a white screen from Bell everytime I try to type in and search any URL telling me I need to register my new internet service? I never got any new internet service! I always tried to go with the lowest priced package for internet they offered and even that was too much money for me and my very tight budget! When I kept getting the white bell page asking me to register the new internet service I decided to investigate what was going on. I had no idea what I was going to discover. I found that BELL CANADA upped my internet package without asking me and without my knowledge! A $99. package! It said they gave a $10 credit bringing it down to $89. But my package I had was less than that! That is when I made my mind up to get rid of Bell ASAP! I completely cut them off!
I am with another company and my new monthly bill (regular everyday price, no contract) is less than half of what Bell charged me! They can send my name to the credit bureau for all I care after cheating me and doing what they did to me without my consent! I have no idea what else they were charging me with that I never signed up for! Bell Canada are crooks and cheats! That need to come off their high horse as there are so many much cheaper choices out there for services! Yet they keep increasing their prices and sneaking add ons? Pathetic!
Also after being a customer with them for so long and paying my bills they wanted to suspend my services because I was short about $36 on my bill payment due to my dog getting diagnosed with diabetes and having to scrape up fund for him to go to the vet. It was a week before payday and they would have gotten the new bill paid in full along with this balance overdue! Yet they couldn't wait? I was still in the crying and scared stage after my dog was diagnosed. I was distraught and they added this burden on me! I needed my phone for the Vet in case of any emergencies with my dog.
After the vet bills I have no money for feed myself. I have about $25. in my bank account for food for the next week. I gave it to Bell to help cover the $36 balance I owed from my previous bill. I now owed $11.00! They still threatened to suspend me if I didn't pay it all! Then they wanted me to pay the new bill also in full right then! According to my new bill I still had a week before it fell into being overdue! They had me crying, panicking and feeling like giving up! I am more than happy not paying this last bill! I could care less what they do about it! How dare they get so greedy and treat a long time customer like that! Shame on Greedy Bell! I am so HAPPY I am with the new company I am with!
Reviewed May 15, 2018
I signed up for Bell internet online to skip the hassle of calling in and received my confirmation email with an installation date of April 28th. The day comes around and the tech doesn't show so I call to find out why and they tell me the facility was insufficient for a Bell line so they needed to send an engineer to the site to get it ready. This was scheduled for 2 days later with a promise to call back and set an appointment for the in-house installation. Okay, no problem I thought. Two days later, nothing. I call back on the 3rd day and find out the order was on hold because of some "looping number" whatever that means. They send another tech 8 days after the original date and this guy notices hey the facilities were insufficient and an engineer had to be on site. Back to square one.
Call in again asking if it's even possible to get Bell internet, got put on hold and this CS agent had no clue what to do so she tried diverting me to another department and then asked me if I everything was resolved LOL... I just kept muttering, this has to be some kind of joke while I was on hold so she came back on and told me someone from Elite group was going to call me with more info shortly. They call set up a new appointment 16 days post original one. When the day comes, the tech doesn't show. I call in asking why and they tell me it had to be postponed to the day after because they're spread too thin because of the storm.
I decide to cancel by calling the same number but get diverted to a number starting with 1866 669... call this new number and the agent couldn't find any info regarding my order or at least pretended to because I gave her everything from the order number to email and address. She said it wasn't in the system. So I called in again the following morning to the CS line I've been calling all along and this time they were able to cancel my order.
I was asked if there was anything that could change my mind and I told them if they offered free service for a year I was still cancel. My advice to anyone considering Bell. DON'T. Try smaller start up companies like TechSavvy or Start Communications. They operate on the same lines as Cogeco, Bell or Rogers but are easier to reach (e.g. a call to Start Communications lasts on average 1-2 minutes whereas Bell has had me on for over 30) and they offer generally the same internet packages. Plus discounts (e.g. Start offers $25 dollars off next bill if you recommend their services to a new customer, my name's Benyam ** by the way).
I hope this helps anyone considering making the fall to Bell. I wasn't rude once in any of my phone calls, didn't curse at anyone because it really isn't their fault, the company's CS is just flawed. They outsource it to American companies and the disconnect is so apparent. When you call the smaller companies you dial local numbers and really good CS.
Reviewed May 14, 2018
Greed and fraud are what motivates Bell. Scamming subscribers (cancel and support honest companies sic.) is written in their marketing strategy. I have now canceled my subscription, but while I was a member I had made no less than 20 complaints on double late fees, fees that change from month to month (one month 3.99, others 8.94). One time I was charged 13$ and was not late at all. Investigate Bell immediately. People cancel in protest.
Reviewed May 11, 2018
I left this company 9 MONTHS ago and I'm still suffering for it! After breaching their contract multiple times by altering my bills and charging me for services I never signed up for among other foul plays, I gave up and switched back to Rogers. I ensured to pay off all of my balances and even confirmed with the company that it has been paid for. Of which the agent I spoke with said, "Yes. You no longer owe us anything".
Fast forward 3 months later, I received a call that I owed some money, so I was stuck on the phone for over 20 mins disputing their claims. Eventually, after being passed around through multiple insensitive agents, a superior agent reversed the fee, and again confirmed I owed nothing. Fast forward another couple weeks and the same thing happens again and I had to fight it all over again. After all, it has now been over 5 months since I left Bell. (As at that time.)
Today May 11 2018, I got a call from a collection agency, (PVB or something like that ) that I owed $228 because I didn't not return my Bell cable box. Bell never contacted me regarding this (probably because they know I did in fact return their box in late August 2017 couple days after canceling my service). They waited almost a year before sending my account to collections, knowing fully well that I won't have any proof lying around that backs up my defense.
The collection agent was rude and condescending on the phone so I hung up and contacted Bell directly. They told me to provide a tracking number as proof. One I obviously no longer have. Considering it has been 9 MONTHS!!! So again I went back and forth with Bell trying to recall days dates and whatnot including the method of which I returned their equipments e.t.c. 'I mean I left your company almost a year ago. Why would I keep your box??? I sent it through Canada post as instructed by your agents.'
This company is a big scam and I sincerely hope that one day they mess with the wrong customer and get what they deserve. I almost cried on the phone cause they are always trying to put me situation and it just so infuriating... I can't sue them, they are too big. I guess it's why they bully and rob their consumers. Seriously, dealing with this company is like joining a cult... You never fully leave, and when you do, they find a way to pull you back in. It's sad and stressful to say the least... I won't even advice my worse enemy to sign up with them cause you gonna spend a chunk of your life arguing with them on the phone... mainly proving your innocence like you some kind of criminal.
Anyways, I spoke with a Bell agent today and once again they claimed to have reversed the collection bill and made a note that I have indeed returned the box since 2017. I asked for her name and ID number. Let's just hope that nothing springs up again in a couple months. It's a really exhausting, and a regrettable experience all round.
Please don't use Bell. It's not worth the stress nor fee. They throw tempting offers around, trust that they will only adhere to it for the first few months and then screw you over! The service isn't all that to begin with. I'm still amazed you had my number and email the whole time to contact me, yet you sent my account to collections for something you were certain I didn't owe. Wow! I think their favorite victims are people with unique foreign names. They assume you don't know anything which I guess makes you an easy target! I feel sorry for Canadian newcomers. But what do I know. Don't use Bell! Don't do it! For the sake of your sanity.
Reviewed May 11, 2018
We have been paying our hard earned cash for the worst service and programming from Bell. They play the same movies over and over for months at a time which can ruin even the best, like “Young Guns.” They totally ran it into the hate list. I think Alexander is getting even with the Canadians for not supporting him when he was young, so he turncoat and is trying to get even by shoving their ** service on us. Let all sabotage the local recycle ♻️ programs until someone somewhere straightens these thieves out.
Reviewed May 10, 2018
Bell Mobility is THE WORST company I have ever used. They charge in excess of at least 50 percent more than they tell you when you sign your contract. The customer service is horrible and constantly drop calls, and do not call back. Do NOT use Bell. Save yourself time and money.
Reviewed May 8, 2018
I had agreed to give Bell a chance to win my internet business back after a 10 year boycott. 10 years ago they had the worst customer service known to humans. They haven't improved. Read on. The problems started at the installation appointment. The tech couldn't finish before I had to leave my house for an appointment so I rescheduled for 2 days later. The tech finished up while I had already left my home. When I returned to my home the tech had left the modem on my front porch where anyone could have stolen it and I would have been on the hook for missing equipment. That was a bad sign but it gets worse.
I was told that the second appointment would only take 20 minutes at 10:00 am. The second tech came at 10:00 am said he would be back in 10-15 minutes, he left, but didn't return for over an hour. I had to leave for another appointment so I called the sales rep and advised him I was cancelling and to not touch my home. There were too many signs this would be another bad experience with Bell. My rep said he would call the technician. When I returned from my appointment the technician was working at the side of my house. I advised him to stop working and that he could remove anything he installed. He tried to convince me that he was almost done but he hadn't even started drilling a new hole for the fiber line. I went inside to call 310-BELL to cancel and while I was on hold my internet with Rogers went out.
I went outside and asked the tech what he did to my internet. He tried to play like he did nothing but the Rogers box was cut open. Tie straps were on the ground. He played with some wires and reconnected one. I finally got through to a Bell rep on the phone to cancel but my internet was still not working. I went outside and looked in the Rogers box again I noticed that the internet fiber line had been cut. I didn't notice it the first time and the tech had left. The tech had intentionally damaged my existing internet. If he returns I'll consider him a threat and will deal with him as such. Stay away from Bell. They are still as horrible as ever and they hire criminals that will damage your property.
Reviewed May 2, 2018
I have 2 accounts, 13 TV sets in my home and high-speed internet. Not only does are system not work correctly, we have been overbilled by in excess of 30% more than originally agreed upon. I have been promised on 5 different times from loyalty and never lived up to these promises. I can give great advice to anyone considering Bell. DON'T DO IT.
Reviewed April 28, 2018
Some TV channels taken away without adequate notification. $5 charge to get back. Next month's bill shows a $12.31 increase. No satisfactory explanation, just the usual runaround. Does anyone in customer services, including billing, know how annoyed users are? Please bring us Fios, Verison, and ATT, etc.to compete with the CRTC protected vultures!!!
Reviewed April 25, 2018
Be aware of Bell (Kingston Ontario) and Cellcom (Ottawa). They provided me with a business internet hookup only to disconnect after a week of service with no notice or reason. Cellcom employee Steven ** provided me with a business internet account. When Bell disconnected he promised to fix, 2 weeks later he did nothing but harass me and verbally retaliate against me for placing a complaint against him, I have written proof. Bell refused to hook me back up but enjoyed sending me 2 bills for a months of service when I only got 1 week of service FRAUD. Debating whether to go public or not. Stay away from these 2 companies. Very abusive and rude and they commit consumer fraud and somehow get away from it.
I'm so emotionally stressed by how Bell and Cellcom treated me. Almost had a nervous breakdown. Bell uses Cellcom to obtain more customers. They are greedy. Attached photos. Now I have to pay for 2 months of service when I only got a couple weeks of service. Thanks Bell and after fighting with them even head office executive Michelle ** ignored my complaint. Bell refuses to provide answers. It's been weeks now. So I guess I'll just have to shut up and pay a fraudulent bill because no one seems to care about how they treated me including Cellcom .
Reviewed April 24, 2018
Service this bad requires special skills. I've gone from puzzlement to exasperation to anger to rage to laughter. No exaggeration to say that this is the most deplorable service I've encountered with any company in my life and I'm no spring chicken. It's quite clear that Bell is not actually a company that services customers but rather a cohort of executives with stock options who hire the cheapest, most profoundly incompetent sub-contractors possible, and then have drinks with their buddies in private clubs laughing about the idiots who actually pay for their 'services.' - Another company will finally be servicing our area shortly: Sayonara Bell and never, ever, ever again.
Reviewed April 19, 2018
I had been with Bell Canada for over 10 years but decided to switch to Rogers because of the following: 1. Bell Canada agents were calling 3 or 4 times EVERY day, to market/upgrade services. 2. Their internet service was slower than Rogers. 3. I upgraded my phone and received a better deal on Rogers. When we called to cancel the account, we were told that we will received a pre-paid package to return the Satellite box, and we paid the final bill to make sure nothing was owed.
To our surprise, the same amount that we had just paid, $331, was charged again, because we were on a pre-authorization method of payment. When we contacted Bell, they said that Rogers was supposed to take care of the transfer, and that they never canceled the TV, so we were being charged for it. They absolutely refused to give a refund despite the fact that they knew perfectly well that we had called to cancel the TV service (hence the note on their account about returning the Satellite Box - and the level of incompetence goes further since we never received that package).
I am appalled at the service and feel very foolish for giving them our business for that means years. In conclusion, I will never give them any business and will share this experience with others, so that they know what they are dealing with - very unprofessional and no accountability (they made the mistake of charging us twice and never sent the package to return the equipment). I wish we had just canceled the pre-authorization for automatic payment, but we were dealing with a death in the family, and the last thing on our mind was how to avoid being robbed of $331.
Reviewed April 19, 2018
On March 15 I agreed to Fibe 25 service in my house via chat with their representative. She clearly identifies herself in the chat as a Bell rep. Through the discussion she agreed to $45.95 per month for the next two years and waive installation charge. I get the confirmation email and the price is wrong so I go back to chat with a different agent and she confirms that she has made the change to $45.95 per month and no installation charge. I printed out both of these conversations. I get my bill today and being charged $74.95 a month. I call loyalty department and get someone who cannot speak English very well and he proceeds to be all over the place when I called to speak to them about my TV and internet and no interest in home phone.
I just couldn't believe this guy. He told me I should get Fibe 25 when it clearly states that what I have on my bill. I lost my cool with him and told him I wanted to speak with manager and he says he can schedule a call back for me at their convenience??? WTF??? They are losing clients like flies but they are also not honouring their word. I have just emailed the President's office and see where that goes. If nowhere I will forward the conversations to the CRTC and see where that takes me. I got this in writing no getting out of this. If you ever have a chat conversation with them always print it out.
Reviewed April 18, 2018
First thing - My husband paid off his bill in full amount of $800 one year ago and the credit department did not update it on the credit report and my husband was refused his job offers because of this and when called in for continuous 3 days one CSR kept transferring phone to another! Second, I got 10$ off on my second line of phone which was not updated for 4 months. I called every month to get the $40 and every CSR said, "Yes. It's done," and just hung up the phone and when called again other used to say, "No. There are no changes made," and they asked me proofs that I called them to ask for my genuine discount. Overall they just want to sell their product and want their money!! They do not at all care about service or customer care. Bell not recommended for anyone. My contract will be done in June and I will be done with Bell too!
Reviewed April 16, 2018
I've contacting Bell mobility customer service since February due to my issue at credit bureau. I never been a Bell subscriber and yet I got charged $180 year 2012. They keep on promising of calling back 10 to 14 days every time I will follow up. It's been over 2 months no one has contacted me from Bell, just telemarketing.
Reviewed April 12, 2018
I got bundled services with this company 1.5 years ago. For the first 6 months billing was fine. After 6 months services and bills started changing. I brought that to their attention by calling them and their agent suggested a different package which would meet my needs under the budget I was comfortable with. When the bill came, it was more than what the agent told me. I wasted countless of hours trying to resolve billing issues over the phone and setting up the right TV channels and package to fit within the budget. The bills were always off. I set up automatic withdrawals for monthly bills, automatic withdrawals did not take into consideration actual balance on the account. It took out the entire bill amount which was over by $250 instead of the actual balance due mid January 2018. I called Bell to try to refund the overcharged amount of $250.
They told me that their system did not allow this and that I have to wait for a check which can take weeks. On January 26, 2018 I decided to disconnect my services with them because of my overall frustration and they tried to charge me an early disconnection fee because I was on a 2 year contract. The email that their employee relation sent me said that this charge was because of When I talked and shared my overall experience with Bell the agent who was in charge of closing my account, she waived the disconnection fee. I returned my cable and internet equipment. Bell processed a refund in February which never got to be because it got sent to my address without the actual suite number as per their agent when I called them towards the end of March, 2018. The agent assigned a case manager to get in touch with me to get this resolved.
This got overlooked and no one contacted me or did anything on my account in order to get this resolved. I found this out when I called again In April 12, 2018. I asked the agent about the number of times I called Bell in the past few months and she said that I called them over 26 times since October, 2017. I am still waiting for my $250 check and a call from a Manager. I have easily spent over 20 hours of my personal time trying to resolve billing issue with this company and still waiting for my refund of the overpaid amount. Would it be fair for me to ask for a compensation for the amount of time and stress I went through? I hope my story reaches the right person within Bell. If not Bell I hope other consumers who are trying to find out whether Bell is the right company for them read my story.
How do you hold a company accountable for the amount of time a consumer wastes trying to resolve billing issues caused by a system that does not work efficiently? It is interesting to note that the refund process at Bell make sure that the customer experience remains poor because of one option which comes with delays in check processing. When it comes to accepting payments their system has so many options and flexibilities. I find that very interesting for a company that presents its self as being customer focused.
Reviewed April 12, 2018
I called them to make an appointment for Thursday morning and they set the schedule for me. I gave them a phone number that is different from my phone number because I am not the owner of the modem. I told them seriously about calling to this number instead of my number. I had test on that morning, and they called to my number. I was so angry about it but could not go to pick the phone up because it was not allowed. Then, they let the owner wait about 3 hours. After finishing the test, I called them to be sure that they could come back again because the owner was still waiting, but they said they couldn't and asked me to make another appointment in the afternoon. What the heck? Let your customer wait in 3 hours with a wrong calling phone number? And now telling me to make another one? Do they think that our time have no value? If I can, I will sue them.
Reviewed April 7, 2018
2 months after cancelling my Bell account and paying all my dues, they send me another bill saying I have to pay extra 3.60$. It is not the 1st time this is happening with Bell and I known many people that have issues with Bell all the time, which lead me to write a review about it (something I don't do often). Also, Bell always puts extra charges on my bill and I have to call them every 3 months to clear them, which is a waste of time spent on customer service.
Reviewed April 6, 2018
I was going to switch my services to Rogers and Bell called me saying that they would match Rogers price. I could not believe it when I realize Bell delete everything on my phone. They took off my voicemail, call waiting, call display. they strip my services to nothing in order to match Rogers' price. They are such liars. The agent reassured me that my voicemail and call display was included in the price. I called back to make sure and was also told that it was included. Bell also added $199 for a modem. They did not advise me of this. I called and they changed it to a rental fee of $ 7. I was not paying a modem fee prior so why would I choose to pay now. I cannot believe the level of dishonesty in this company. So terrible. I asked them to play back the conversations I had with the agent. Bell refused.
Reviewed April 6, 2018
Bell customer service was ridiculous. I have been Bell customer for last 6 years and they screw me very badly. My plan was loyalty plan and I have been getting 6 Gb data and my wife was getting $65 no data. So I asked the customer service agent her name was Abby to change my 6 Gb to 3 and give me unlimited call and text and change my wife plan to 75 where she can get 3 Gb data. But what she did she was so happy to degrade me to 3 Gb and after she is changed right away saying that she can’t give $75 for other plan. So I asked her, "You promised me first. So if you can’t change then back me to my old plan." She can’t do that as well. They will always ready to degrade you. So please beware of Bell representatives. I never recommend Bell to anyone.
Reviewed April 5, 2018
To begin, I would like to say that I have been a customer of Bell Canada for close to FORTY YEARS. I used to have Bell WiMax modem, which had good speed and zero caps on usage. About 6 years ago - give or take - they informed us that we would be switched to something sooooooo much "better". Of course no choice in the matter. WiMax was discontinued. I still to this day wonder why, unless it was strictly for this cash grab called Turbo Hub. I immediately went online to see the reviews of this new modem/service and was greatly disappointed. Nothing but complaints about the prices, service and the agents/tech support not knowing what the *bleep* they are doing.
Now that I have been using the Turbo Hub modem for this many years, I have nothing but bad things to say about it and the "customer service" that goes along with it. Everything I read on the review sites is happening to me. Being passed around from agent to agent to agent when having technical or billing issues, each agent blaming the last one in lots of cases (very unprofessional). Don't even get me started on this ridiculous cap of 80 gigs. Bell is probably the only service in Canada doing this. No upgrades to it, sorry this is not available. I can do 80 gigs in a week if I was allowed to watch Netflix. But no, I even have to be careful of how many cute and fuzzy cat videos I watch on YouTube because this can put me over at the end of the month.
The price for this piddly 80 gigs/month!? $70.00. So if and WHEN you go over that incredible fee for what you get, you pay $4.00/gig in overages!! Do you know how fast that adds up? That's 20 dollars for FIVE gigabytes!! Talk about raking it in, Bell! I am just dying for Rogers or some other service provider to come up here. It won't be long now, we're just north-west of Orangeville. I don't care if their reviews are just as bad, it's the principle of it now.
And finally. The Bell.ca site, or log in to My Bell? As soon as you get used to their stupid layout that's hard enough to navigate, they go and change everything to a worse layout than the last! And good luck if you choose the Chat With an Agent option on the site. They take a two-minute problem and turn it into a two-hour marathon with all their scripted BS that they fill the chat screen with. Ok. I'm done. Purged. For what it's worth. I know nothing will be done about any of this by Bell themselves, but maybe, juuuuuust maybe one person reading this before locking into a contract for at least one year with these bandits will think twice and go with Xplornet or whoever else is available in their rural area.
Reviewed April 3, 2018
The customer service is NOT customer service. I was given a new cell phone from the smart/phone care plan because I dropped the other one I had and it needed it replaced. I gladly paid the fee to get a new one sent to me, because I dropped it, it was my fault. They sent me a refurbished cell and it just crapped out on me, the screen suddenly stopped working. They sent me a faulty phone and because it has been past the 90 day warranty they expect me to pay another $300 for a new replacement. How is that fair? I was given a faulty cell, I should not have to pay for a new one considering it was their fault. They sent me a refurbished, faulty, cell. Where is the customer service in that? I am willing to pay the $600 to cancel my contract with Bell, I would rather find a new provider than get ripped off from a multi-million dollar company. I am getting a new provider and cancelling my service with Bell.
Reviewed April 1, 2018
Basically the Bell Technician who came to my house was an incompetent moron who couldn't tell the difference between PC and Mac. He made multiple offhand racist comments about ** people and made comments that I was a loser... he refused to identify himself and made threatening comments if I reported him. When I complained to Bell this ** Dave ** called me and was very rude and basically called me a liar, strangely multiple times he compared me to his own mother... he let me know without a witness they weren't going to do anything and wasted my time. I never thought a company could be as bad as Bell but they have had an almost monopoly for so long they think they can get away with anything.
Reviewed March 30, 2018
Bell Canada does not deserve any star. The customer service department, which is the face of Bell Canada do not know who to be customer service people. I was kept on hold being bounced back and forth between departments for 45 minutes. They said they would get back to me and it's been a month and I'm still waiting. As soon as I can find another provider I will be done with them.
Reviewed March 26, 2018
Bell Canada does not deserve any star. Worst unethical company. The management should be ashamed of themselves running such organization. First of all, customer services sucks and not helpful okay? Secondly, what's the matter with your unlimited corporate greed to suck every cents out there in your customer's pockets? Changed from Bell to Virgin last December (both belong to the same ** By the way) and finished paying all that was owed to Bell. Bell account was deactivated so there was no way to find out if they sent me some message to Bell account.
Got 21 dollar surprise bill in March suddenly from Bell saying that I owed them. It does not make any sense to me. They said they sent the bill in February to me which I did not receive at all. The mystery of this was created when I called Virgin customer service number to activate my new account with Bell number and account (I had Bell unlimited call plan by the way) apparently, Bell charges you to call other provider's customer service number. Where is the contract promise? Unlimited calls in Canada should be unlimited. Period! I pity you little parasites at Bell. Never buy anything from Bell, people! Stay away from them!
Reviewed March 24, 2018
It's the most ignorant company I ever deal with in my whole life it's call (Bell) Canada. Actually no stars but your system make me click on at least one star and I believe you do not deserve any star.
Reviewed March 21, 2018
Whenever I call Bell Mobility about my account I end up speaking to someone in the Philippines. I would like to speak to someone in my own country. When I request this they tell me they cannot transfer me. I am repeatedly told it is not possible for me to reach someone in my own country.
Reviewed March 20, 2018
I switched from landline to mobility. They billed me $788. I called to find out and they kept transferring me to landline and mobility departments in circles. I was on the phone for 2 hours. Every one of them said they don't see the balance on their side and they can't even find my account. One of the reps even hung up on me. I thought Rogers was a bad company but Bell is just plain stupid and moronic. One of the reps named Anthony said this might be a scam, I logged into their website and saw my bill. How could that be a scam? What a fool. He also said he will transfer me to someone who can "really" help me with and he would explain to them and hold line but he didn't. People who works as reps needs to lower their pay and learn about what customer service really is. I will never use Bell or refer this demonically moronic company to any business owner. I will do my best to stop anyone I know in business and family from using Bell.
Reviewed March 20, 2018
Constantly calling my friends phones even after telling them every couple weeks that they need to call my phone if they need to talk to me. I have 4 cellular lines with them and when I first signed up with them a couple years ago they were great. This past year however it's been a non-stop battle. In fact the first week of January this year I spent over 30 hours on the phone with them after my phone was stolen to get it replaced. And than after one of the calls they disconnected all 4 of my lines go no reason.
Come February I get my bill and it is 950 bucks for 1 month of service so on the phone with them again. Took about 10 hours on the phone with them to get it adjusted and for them to send me a copy of the bill that I have still yet to receive. Then this month my bill is over 1000 bucks again. I am to the point where they can take their lack of service and shove it up their ** if they can't even bill properly and then sit there and argue with you. And that is if you can even understand the person on the phone as none of them seem to speak any English.
Reviewed March 20, 2018
~136$ tax in became 172.41$ tax in, in about 2 years. Of course, those are normal business practices, that only Bell seems to apply. So, we were paying for limited 20mbps internet, telephone with no long distance (we have a different service for that) and a TV service with sub-par programming (as all TV is nowadays). So, we called to compare with a competitor. And that competitor blew them out of the water, and onto their sorry ass in under 5 minutes. How is it possible in 2018 to pay 40/50/60$ for phone services when there's widespread VOIP connectivity? This is unsatisfactory. And then the internet service - 20mbps limited at 300-400gb? In 2018, North America? at 60$? only if you're high – or in their case, dishonest.
And then, we made our decision: to switch internet and telephone to the competitor and cancel TV plans altogether. And that competitor managed to give us double and above the speed of the internet with unlimited usage. And unlimited long-distance phone calls for 30$ - which of course would infuriate any Bell user. Additionally, we decided to cut TV for the simple reason that between YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify – we get most of our entertainment for less money and with a higher quality.
Two phone calls later I have heard the following dishonest upsell tactics: "Other companies rent the line from us, so their lines aren't as good." (Not all other companies run on Bell infrastructure, and you’re not supposed to **-over your corporate customers that are renting from you.) - "Other companies might not have a service in your area (that particular competitor did, and so do 6 others)" - "Other companies' hardware is not as good as ours" - "We provide a superior service." Listen, honey, these are half-truths left for interpretation. If you aren’t technically inclined, you might misinterpret what they’re saying as being facts. This is dishonest.
Reviewed March 19, 2018
Bell Internet, cable - OK Service TERRIBLE cx service: Bell is a terrible company because they never follow the conditions of the contract. They have little fees for everything and next thing you know there is $1000 bill accumulated which essentially should be 0 according to the contract for an x number of months. CUSTOMER SERVICE 0 stars. I would give a negative rating if that was possible. They wait times are at least 2 hrs. They get on the phone, listen and leave you on hold for hours without checking in with you to ensure that they have not forgotten about the cx. It takes weeks to get in touch with them and God forbid you have technical difficulties which also happens a lot.
I feel bad for all Bell consumers. They are a mafia and don't give a damn about their consumers. I have switched and my family and in laws have since switched to better providers. I have been with Fido and it's been 2 years and I have never had to make a call or experienced an interruption or slow service. That's the way it should be. I HATE BELL. I am embarrassed and appalled that such a huge company has such poorly trained staff and salespeople. The service and products are a joke.
Reviewed March 17, 2018
I called today to modify my services with Bell and the reps were very rude when I told them I was canceling the landline and cable only to keep the internet. They also did not respect the original internet pricing contract. Will not do business with them in the future.
Reviewed March 15, 2018
My family are subscribed with Bell in the province of Quebec since the late 60's and we were really proud to be with but since a decade, I've never got satisfaction from their services. A lot of mistakes were made on my billings and on the installations. Some of their employees don't have a complete training. Many of them are Arabs and ** men which lack of comprehension about how to find solutions "in the Canadian way", lack of politeness, not serious at work, rude on the phone, and else. I'm just saying the truth and of course some people will be against my reviews but that is reality. I am sure a lot of other customers did struggle same as I did, hours on the phone trying to get back our stolen money from Bell.
Reviewed March 9, 2018
I have lost approximately 25 hours of my life, over the past 5.5 Months to this company. In September 2017, I received a charge on my Mobility account for $517.30. I have never had a mobility charge over $200, in my eight years with Bell Canada. I logged on to MyBell to view the bill, as it was obviously incorrect. My bill was not available online, in fact my September bill is the only bill EVER that has not been available online. No worries, I’ll contact customer service and they will provide it to me.
Over the next 5 and a half months, I called into Bell at least 3x a month, requesting this bill. On every occasion, they reported it cannot be sent via email or fax, and that snail mail was the only option. It was “sent” to me via mail approximately five times. I never received it. During that period, I received approximately 15 letters from Bell, in regards to promotions, threats of cancellation and threats of sending my account to collections. But still no bill. Every time I called in, they would re-send it. They promised not to charge late payment fees, yes charged them every month. Every month I would have to call in, and have them manually remove the late-payment fees.
Finally, in March 2018 I was broken. I have contemplated accessing lawyers, however the time and effort while working full-time and raising a family were just too substantial. Today, I paid in full a fraudulent charge on my account for $517.30 that they were never able to provide a bill for. They have no evidence they rendered any services to me in September 2017. This is illegal. This company committed a crime, and yet they will win again.
This is not my only massive issue with this company. On a number of other occasions they have “forgot” to credit my account after returning my PVR. They “accidentally” charged an old MyBell account $150.00. I called in and they responded, “Oh yes that is not a valid charge” and simply removed it. Without my one hour phone call, they pocket $150 illegally once again. If you are set-up for pre-authorized payments with this company, you are undoubtedly out 100s of dollars.
I wish they had pulled this on me in my younger years, when I had the time and ability to go toe to toe with a giant organization and get legal representation.Overall, stay away at all costs. This company needs to be held criminally responsible for what they do to their customers. After 8 years, I have likely paid them over $20000 for services, some rendered… others fraudulently created with zero tangible evidence. This is my story, don’t let it happen to you.
Reviewed March 9, 2018
We went into Peterborough wanting to switch phones not knowing if we needed a new SIM card or what. Natasha was most amazing. Helped us switch the phone over, added what we needed to our account, set our old phone to a new phone app. An excellent experience. We have two cell phones and a home landline with Bell Canada. Have always had excellent customer service also and we are 25 year plus customers. But the Rep Natasha at Bell world was very kind and very knowledgeable. She provided excellent customer service and My Husband and I would recommend Going there.
Reviewed March 8, 2018
After reading all these negative reviews I had to share my experience with this horrific company. I purchased my house 2 years ago and decided to go with Bell because my neighbour told me that Rogers was running slow in my area due to the high demand. I have 7 Smart TVs in my house and 6 Bell boxes ($7 each box a month). I was paying $260 a month for Internet, cable & landline. Within the 2 years, I’ve had Bell technicians at my house about 50 times (not over exaggerating)! First time they came they hooked up all their services and everything was fine. Then I realized that every time Bell would put in their modem it would interfere with my alarm system (Guardtek). My alarm would stop working so I contacted Bell and said I don’t know what your technician did but my alarm is not working!
Customer service said not my problem call Guardtek, our services are fine. So I call Guardtek schedule and they said our services were in first so it’s Bell that’s doing something wrong. Got another Bell technician in and he said I don’t know. Then I made an appointment with Guardtek and they came in and had to draw me a circuit diagram to give to the next Bell technician to show that they were putting a filter that was blockage my alarm. Guardtek had to reword everything again which costed me $400 after they had to come 2 times due to Bell's incompetence! I should of gave that bill to Bell! Finally got my alarm up and running and then lo and behold my TV starts freezing and internet kept crashing all the time! After that was finally taken care of, one day my electricity went out in my house due to a storm and I lost my services for 1 week!
I contacted Bell. They said, "All our technicians are busy. They will come to you next week!" I said, "Are you serious!? So reimburse me for that week". They said no, I even threatened to leave to go to Rogers and they didn’t care and said, "We will transfer you", I said, "Great now I have to talk to another idiot for an hour!" Bell has replaced 4 modems in my house in 2 years and no one can seem to figure out what is going on. The Bell technician comes and blames the previous technician. It’s like come on people! How hard is it to do your job? My final straw with Bell was last week. Fibre Optic just recently came into my area and I called to make an appointment for them to set it up for me and they said it’ll be a $7 extra charge. Now I’m at $267 a month for freezing TV and failing WiFi. They said this will fix all my issues with the TV freezing and lagging internet.
They sent a Bell technician that wasn’t even trained to set up the Fibre Optic! I stayed home all day for the Bell guy to come to my house to say “Sorry mam, they must of sent the wrong technician I am not equipped to do that ” I’m like great another waste of time! So what do I do, go back on the phone with Bell! Set up a new appointment for the right technician to come and he said that he would have to set up the Fibre Optic wire from my backyard and run it into my basement and run the wire on top of my ceiling. I told him that’s not happening. My house is new build. I’m not having a wire from the back of the house all the way into the middle of my house on the ceiling! He began to stare at me for 5 minutes and another 20 minutes into my electrical room and then said, "I can’t do it." So I said, "Okay that’s fine. I’ll get my electrician in here to run the wire properly and I’ll make another appointment with Bell".
I then told the technician, "Since you’re here my PVR hasn’t been working for 3 weeks can you fix it?" He said, "I don’t have time, I’ve been here for too long." I responded, "You’ve been here for 5 minutes and you would still be here if you were running the Fibre Optic!" I lost it on him, I said, "Is this a joke?!" He was huffing and puffing and said, "Where’s your PVR" and I said, "Upstairs". I take him to the PVR he takes a look at the PVR and looks at me and says, "I don't have time". I said, "So why would you tell me to take you upstairs? To stare at my PVR that doesn’t work". So I told him, "That’s fine. Don’t worry" and told him to stop wasting my time and get out of my house!
Rogers came knocking on my door last Saturday and offered me $160 promotion package for 2 years, no contract. I showed him what I was paying with Bell and that my services were always failing and he almost dropped his iPad. Next day Bell technical support called me and offered me a lower package, no super channel and removed a bunch of other features and said it’s going to be $210 + tax. I told the lady, "I am done with Bell." It’s not about the money! I’ve been paying $260 a month for 2 years! I told her, "Your services are garbage and I want all your services removed from my house ASAP!"
She kept saying, "We will offer you this and that but Rogers doesn’t have that." I’m like, "Listen lady I’ve had nothing but problems with all your technicians", I told her they’re all brain dead and she said, "As a Bell customer myself I am very sorry." I’m like, "Ya I’ve heard sorry from you guys for 2 years but no one feels sorry for me once you continue to take money out of my account!"
Whatever they offered me didn’t compare to Rogers. I would have to limit my channels in order to get the same rate as Bell. Rogers said to me, "Why are you paying for 6 boxes when you have Smart TVs when I can give you 2 boxes and you can hook them up to every TV." I said, "Amazing done!" I am so happy to have switched providers and my life will no longer consist of calling Bell 10 times a day for the same issue over and over again. If I wrote the rest of my experience with Bell then you guys would call me stupid for continuing to give Bell my business.
Everyone seems to have the same issues and bad experience, now it makes sense why every time I call Bell I’m on hold for 15 minutes trying to get a hold of someone who is more incompetent than the last person I spoke too! Bell is a joke and does not care about customer loyalty as much as they say they do! They won't do anything for you but cause you aggravation and grief! STAY AWAY.
Reviewed March 8, 2018
I will add my name to the long list of unhappy Bell customers. They overcharge. I switched providers recently. When I called to cancel my Bell internet the woman on the Bell end nearly refused to disconnect my service as I asked. I demanded she disconnect my Bell internet or I would lodge a complaint. She finally relented and agreed to do as I asked after a near argument with me.
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