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About Spectrum

Spectrum Internet provides internet, phone and home entertainment coverage to millions of homes across the country. It offers three plans with different internet speeds and multimedia options. Customers can combine TV, internet and voice services for the most cost-effective deal and take advantage of internet speeds as fast as 1,000 Mbps. Before you buy, it’s important to know that while Spectrum offers service in 44 states, not all features and speeds are offered in all areas.

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Pros
  • Offers a free modem
  • No long-term contracts
  • Packages for different budgets
Cons
  • Not available in all states

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2018

    We had a hurricane 5 months ago. The feeder cable was broken and the so called drop line to the house. Since then I have called them over 10 times to fix my cable!! They have came out to my home, surveyed the damage many times. They have the worst customer service and terrible internet service. I am not one to complain but this is ridiculous! Before the hurricane it took 3 different rep's just to hook up a cable wire... Finally fixed my cable to a room in my home took 3 times. The women that finally came out fixed it in 5 minutes. She said Spectrum has problems with people not wanting to work for them.

    If you have Spectrum, I feel sorry for you... Their internet cable box won't even reach 20 feet from their so called router. We had Brighthouse network and never had a problem for 14 years. If you have spectrum RUN!!! They're liars, I went without cable for 2 months. They said they would credit my account. I called them to fix the cable. They still haven't fixed it. They on the phone said they would open a case and adjust my bill for their problem... I fell over their cable box on the ground next to my driveway and I fell and my back and knee. They were here the next morning by 9 am. I guess I will be calling my lawyer to get results!

    They're the worst company I have ever dealt with. I have tried to be nice and wasn't going to sue over my back and knee but enough is enough and now I will see Morgan and Morgan my lawyer!! "BEWARE OF THIS TERRIBLE COMPANY." I never leave a review unless they're really bad. "SPECTRUM INTERNET IS TERRIBLE". A person just can't make this up! When I tripped over their little box I got hurt. They finally came out next morning and put little flags around their box 1 foot from my driveway. By the way, that was at least a month and a half ago. If I could take a picture of their mess and post it. Would. Again I tried to be nice and the people that did come out were also nice guys but still no results. It's Jan 23, 2018 as I am writing this. The hurricane was Sept 10, 2017. Still problems with my internet!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2018

    On 11 Jan 18 we decided to get cable package from Spectrum after being visited by a salesman stating we can get the Triple Play free for 30 days including installation. Yesterday I received a bill for $107, it was not even one week! The cable channels are not worth anything, we don't even get history or travel channel!! Needless to say I will have it taken out except maybe wifi unless they overcharge. BTW I do have written notice about this being free for one month!

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2018

    To begin with I've been lied to and deceived by Spectrum since April 2015, I was told by their agent I could pay my bill on the 15th of each month, since that date I've been late incurring a late charge every month. I waited 20 yrs. for cable to get in my area and for the last 18 mos. I've almost regretted having them, all Spectrum would have to do is make mine and all the other poor people able to pay their bill without all of this worry and aggravation every month.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2018

    Unfortunately, we are forced to use TWC/Spectrum for internet service as they are the only provider in our area. They frequently offer promotions that expire anywhere from 3 mos to a year. Often you don't know you are on a promotion until your bill comes and it is $100+ higher than usual. We should have known we were headed for issues the first day we set up service. Eventually, we were contacted by a corporate representative out of Charlotte named Robin. She apologized and told us this was not normal. She set our rate at $106/month. Fast forward a year later our bill started to climb and has done so every year. A few days ago our bill was at $206.

    Their internet has NEVER functioned in the three years we've had their service. We've had over 15 technicians at our home and still, our internet rarely gets above 20 when we pay for 100! We were told that once 300 became available we would receive the upgrade for free. Well, 300 is available but today we clocked our speed at a whopping 23! We can't wait to move and have service with a different provider. We've canceled everything but the internet and wish we could do without that!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2018

    In addition to trying to create a monopoly, Charter/Spectrum has swindled and lied to a lot of people in our community. While they brag about not requiring a contract, this allows them to avoid putting anything in writing so they can charge whatever they want. Here is a list of my experiences with Charter/Spectrum in the last month: Make offers they don't follow through on. Charge fees that they don't tell you about. Lie about what they told you. Sell you services you don't need.

    Instruct their technicians to cut cables from other providers. Instruct their customer service representatives to wear you down waiting for a supervisor.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2018

    We have been paying $250 per month for their stupid bundle. Although we do not use the phone at all and don't watch half the channels. But anyway, $250 per month for your TV and Internet? That is ridiculous? So we called up and told them I want cheaper and that we're going to disconnect cable and was quoted $69 this morning. Then calling back later in the afternoon they said $109 for Internet only. New customers get $49 Internet. How fair is that to loyal customers? I am so upset because they have a monopoly on the service in our area, and we cannot use anyone else but Frontier. Again, highway robbery. They also said they sent a mail piece that said we can save now that we switched from Time Warner to Spectrum. We remember no such mail piece. We feel very abused. And I was talking to the retention department. Talk about retention? We feel so helpless and screwed.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2018

    If you are a Time Warner customer and have not verbally said that you want to change to Spectrum, you are being charged more money. If you are a Senior or a Caregiver of someone who has dementia or has Macular Degeneration. This change will be more work for you. My father has a Spectrum Smart TV and I asked If he would be able to use his remote because the cable box remote is too much for him, because of the dementia and macular degeneration. Yes! I was told. Well I have been on the phone with this company and passed around like a hot potato. And no one could help me with the problem and there is no package for the elderly with such problems.

    I woke up this morning to my dad talking to himself, Why? Because he did not want to bother me about his TV issue again. I truly feel sorry for the people who can not advocate for themselves. I live in an apartment complex and can not have a dish and there is no FIOS in this area. Therefore unless I buy an antenna, my poor dad will not have TV because the poor thing can not handle the equipment. If you find yourself getting passed around by phone it is because the reps are getting marks against them if you downgrade. Most of them, can not answer most of your questions concerning SMART TVs. Read the Reviews.

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2018

    I had called Spectrum a few months ago and asked for a better deal on my TV and internet. I was told there was nothing cheaper only more expensive. A good friend got me a smart TV for the holidays so I called Spectrum to cancel the TV and keep the internet service. I was told that since I was a Brighthouse customer, I was grandfathered in with their services and all they could do is cancel all of my Brighthouse services and change over to Spectrum internet for more money. Right now I pay $30 a month for internet and Spectrum says their cheapest internet is $70 a month! They still have no other options for me, and they are the only cable provider in the 55+ park, so they have us "older" consumers are held prisoner by Spectrum.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2018

    I had to make numerous calls to have a technician come out due to phone and internet issues. 4 out 5 times the tech was a no call no show and when I called the customer service number, I was told by Spectrum that I called and cancelled the appointment. Simply unprofessional and deceitful.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2018

    Two days before Christmas a Spectrum contractor (Randall **) came to our house to collect a past due balance and said he’d give us until the day after Christmas (Tuesday 12/26) to pay. Woke up the next day to our service turned off. I made a partial payment immediately and I tried to contact Mr. ** and got his voicemail. I left a message calling him out on his blatant lies and he sent me a text message that read “** you and merry Christmas to you too”. After many attempts to speak with someone from corporate, no one has called me back to offer a formal apology and no one has taken this matter seriously. Now our internet is turned off AGAIN and My Spectrum account is “disabled”. This is ridiculous, unprofessional and completely unacceptable... to put it lightly. Worst customer service experience EVER.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2018

    I am a new business. I have called into Spectrum 6 times with issues on my new account. What a joke!!! My phone number is not ringing at my business, then rings once and becomes busy. After being transferred on hold, etc for several days. When ask for manager sent to voicemail once, told no managers on second occasion due to a meeting and no callback. Three days in a row told my issue will be escalated. Wow. No change. The downside, call center so you are NOT able to speak to same person or given same answer. Four occasions told NO notes. Very unhappy with lack of resolution.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2018

    We had Brighthouse for years. Spectrum bought them. My bill for basic tv, telephone and internet was $125. I get a letter raising it to $148 another letter raising it to &158 I call and they tell me take off phone save $3. They tell me next month my bill will be $178!! Senior citizen I am. Greedy company!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2018

    Recently I've used my card to pay my Gordon's account. They said it would be a one time payment. They said they took it off 4 months ago but it's still on file and ready to use again. This is not legal is it.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2018

    First of all, I feel Time Warner took advantage of me as an older person and had me on a ridiculous plan for slow speed and high cost that most other people didn't have. When Spectrum took over, they never bothered to tell me that the difference between what I was getting and others was so huge it felt very much like taking advantage of less tech informed older people. My daughter helped me get it sorted out and Spectrum offered me a plan more in line with what people expect today for speed and price. No problem, right? Less than a year later I go to log into my online account. My id won't work. My email won't work. I try to recover my id and my zip code and phone number don't work. They say that my zip code and phone number aren't in their system.

    I've had my address and phone number for over ten years, longer than I’ve had Time Warner or Spectrum. It’s never changed. So I talk to customer service online and they seem to have no idea and give me conflicting information. They found an account associated with my address, there is no account associated with my address. There is a different phone number associated with my address, there is no phone number associated with my address. I look more closely at my bill and realize, my name is misspelled. This could only possibly happen with manual entry. Why is someone manually entering my name into the bill when information should just be migrated? Can you imagine the havoc manual entry of millions of customers would wreak? But in their system they see it correctly.

    At this point I'm thinking something sloppy and incompetent has been going on in their back end over the past year and I don't trust them at all with my account information. I've also noticed that between midnight and 3 am the service drops a lot. It’s painful. It’s also slowing down. It’s not limited to those times, but those are the worst. When I visit a relative’s house, their service drops so much that it screwed up their router. Something is going on in the back end of telecoms, and for giant tech companies that make billions a year, I think we can expect better than misspelled names, screwed up accounts, and slowed dropping internet that messes up your equipment.

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2018

    I have had Time Warner Cable for a long time and now that they're Spectrum it's even worse than it was before. My bill went up to 164 and change. Called. Wanted to go to basic cable and internet which would have cost more because I have a stupid triple package with phone which I don't use. I am sooo sick of this company and I pray that someone comes in and I can finally cancel this awful company who doesn't care about keeping their customers. They only care about their own pockets.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupSales & MarketingPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2017

    Installation Nightmare - for new customer. Ordered Spectrum Internet ONLY (of course sales wanted to sell TV, phone, etc... I said NOOOO) at advertised price of 44.99 first 12 months and I will provide my own cable modem from their authorized and approved list for the 100Mbps DL speed. Appointment was scheduled for a 3pm Saturday afternoon, technician showed up on time, looked around the house twice, asked where the modem will be located, showed him the space, did not seem very enthusiastic about running a new cable from their location (pole in backyard) to the house through the attic and to the room.

    He said he needed help with an assistant to pull and throw the wire, he called his supervisor and they decided they will be back the next morning which was a Sunday morning at 8am. This was about 3:45 on Saturday. At 4pm I get an email indicating the appointment was cancelled and a new appointment for the installation is scheduled for 4 days later. Sunday morning I called the call center to see when the actual appointment is scheduled, they took all the information and promised someone will call back to verify the actual appointment date and time. STAY TUNED the story continues and waiting for phone call, and installation!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2017

    I had internet service only with Brighthouse for just under 5 years, when Spectrum took over. Two months later--the end of my 5th year--Spectrum raised my rate by 33%. When I complained, they said their service was more powerful. ONE year later, my rate went up by almost 40% of the newer rate, creating a difference of more than double what I paid B'House all those years. There's more, but I'll not waste another second on those ** con men.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2017

    I had the identical problem last week as PJ of Lima, OH. Paid my bill online through Spectrum. Inputted my routing number and bank account number provided by my bank. Spectrum claimed inputted wrong bank account numbers. And CHARGED me $30.00 because payment was denied by my bank. When I called Spectrum for a verification of the bank numbers, could not be provided... Claimed for security reasons all numbers are deleted. So has this happened to anyone else?? A quick $ 30.00 for Spectrum!!!

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    Installation & SetupPriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2017

    I has been receiving letters and also lots of promotions about changing my low speed internet I already have with them to a higher speed along with cable services for 59.98 per month. They also offered free DVR. Well the story is different when you receive your first bill, they add fees for the equipment, they actually charge for the DVR and idk how many other fees, long short story you ended up paying 125 per month, pretty much double of what you supposed to pay as far as promotions.

    Your first bill is about 200 because they prorate the service and install. I was thinking this must be an error. When I called they actually confirm with me that everything was ok on the bill and that's what I supposed to pay every month. The agent also added a comment, "If you are not happy just remember we don't have contract." I really regret switched from Dish Network. I had their services for over 7 yrs and never had a problem with my bills or getting false information. I am thinking in switch back with them. Spectrum mislead their clients, advertise false information and hide fees on their bills. Be careful with them!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2017

    We have been paying $100 for internet and basic TV for the past 18 months (Los Angeles, CA). This week we received a bill for January where price has now jump 25% to 125/mo. Response from customer service was "It's a competitive market, so do what you want." So I think we will dump the TV, and just go with internet which will likely cost $65-70 per mo. At the moment Frontier is the alternative/formerly Verizon Fios. However, customer reviews are terrible - even for simple internet, and they try to lock you in upfront with a 2 year contract, so looks like too much risk to switch at the moment.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017

    Spectrum called to say a payment had been rejected by my bank. I was shocked cause this account has been open 45 yrs & never a returned check. Told them to resubmit & I paid the $25 ret chk fee. Bank said payment never submitted! Called Spectrum back & talked to Andre the rudest person ever who was no help other than saying account number was put in wrong... by who me/them?? Asked for his boss & he became more rude (didn’t think that was possible). Waited over 13 minutes for John who basically gave flimsy excuses for the possible rude behavior & finally a halfhearted apology. I see why their reviews are so low. That one star is only because minus wasn’t available!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017

    I am satisfied with the overall service provided in the 3 year time I spent with Spectrum supplying internet in Indianapolis Indiana. There were 4 outages that I am aware occurred. The customer service was helpful, proficient at their job/English, and polite. The service itself changed price every year, increasing from promotion 1 to "standard" then they stopped offering the original standard and updated it to a new standard. The download speeds matched advertised speeds for the package purchased 90% of the time. The other 10% it would fluctuate 5% over purchased speed and up to 15% under purchased speed. THERE ARE NO DATA CAPS. STAR count. Pros: Reliable service +1. Reliable speed +1. Punctual time for fixes +1. Proficient staff in customer service +1. Cons: Shady "upgrades" increasing bill -1. Extra service charge in bill of 1 dollar that does not have any backing. Bill as of December 2017 $55.00.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017

    I am very unsatisfied with Spectrum. They have jacked up their prices even more and their service is not even worth it. There are no deals for us, no promos. At least with Time Warner we could call on every year for a new promo. Our bill originally use to be around $118 just a few years ago then jumped up to the $120s then to $136 after taxes. Now they want to charge us $170 and nothing has changed?!?

    Their WiFi is horrible and their channels aren’t the greatest. They said we could drop our cable and pay like 18.99 a month to get Netflix and I think Hulu but what about channels like ABC, CBS? NBC and Fox?!? Spectrum is by far the worse company ever made, all out to rip off the American consumer because they are money hungry. I do not recommend them to anyone not even an enemy. If my husband would allow it I would switch us to DirecTV or Dish. Customers who have either are definitely satisfied. Spectrum you guys need to be shut down permanently.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017

    Lots of issues with resets and equipment. Nowhere near as good as Time Warner. Just not all that impressed! Maybe they should spend less on commercials and more on providing the great service they constantly brag about!

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    Price

    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2017

    The services I subscribe to, tv and internet, are unavailable several days every month. Spectrum Time Warner expects full payment each month, yet I do not receive full service. It is worse since Spectrum took over, Much Worse!

    UPDATE ON 01/05/2018: I was upgraded to a 100 Mbps internet speed by Spectrum, without requesting one. I had a $10 increase in cost, but worse the connection is slower on every type of site I connected with. It also drops out totally and I must reauthorize my SAME modem as new. Can and will Spectrum service get any worse?

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2017

    This products (cable service) Is horrible. On numerous occasions I have been overcharged. When I address it with customer service they act like it was a genuine error but it is clearly by design to trick the unexpecting.

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    Price

    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2017

    We initially had Verizon, until Verizon sold their Fios to Frontier Communications and their service went from average to terrible. We then switched to Time Warner cable which was decent, until they merged with Charter into Spectrum. After your one year introductory rate, the internet price skyrocketed but the service remains mediocre. I really do not want to go back to the Frontier and hate to continue to stay with Spectrum which I feel is ripping consumers off. The internet provider in my area is limited now to either Frontier or Spectrum (and we live in a suburban area).

    With one or two main internet companies, it seems like they can raise the rate whenever and whatever they want (because they monopolize the lines in each area) and there is no competition to keep the internet prices stable. This is really a bad situation for consumers like us and perhaps it is a nationwide problem. In today's world, the internet service is like your electricity and water; it is a necessary part of today's world.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2017

    In my area, I have the unfortunate dilemma of a monopoly on cable and internet providers. Spectrum is the only company that provides such a service. Ever since I have decided to enlist in their service, I've had continuous problems. I've had faulty equipment that was sent to me which they replaced, which was fine. I however then found out that I could not run my cable and internet simultaneously in my apartment due my cable box not having a coaxial out. I called Spectrum from August 6th of this year until November 5th of this year to try and resolve this problem, they could not fix it. The repairmen no showed to every appointment I made.

    On top of all of this my payments for the service I wasn't receiving would not officially post usually until a week later, but would show in my bank as posted. This caused an excessive amount of billing errors than I care to discuss. Ultimately my problems were never resolved, I canceled my cable on the first day of my billing cycle for November, they charged me the full price anyway, and now my internet is inconsistent. I told them I refused to pay for the cable since I was not receiving any cable in the first place and no one would show up to fix it, so now they have just closed my account with a balance on it. Not sure what to do, but I know that Spectrum as a company does not care about their customers.

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    Price

    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2017

    I personally believe that this market is terrible with the cost of living, and having to make a choice of the internet or better groceries etc. It should go down in price like cellphones.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2017

    I have no signal 50% of the time for internet. The tv has no signal for 30 minutes at a time so I lose the show. This is a ripoff. They force you to buy a phone line that you will never use if you have a cell phone. I pay 128 a month for basically little internet service. I have basic cable too. I don't get any good movie channels. Thinking about changing service to just internet company and buy a Wi-Fi for tv channels. Way too expensive.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2017

    Spectrum advertises on TV that they are good and everyone else is bad. Not true. They advertise $29.99 per month per service, but the small print reveals that offer is only to new customers. Those of us who already have Spectrum are paying through the nose. I, for example, have two boxes only, plus internet and a home phone. They are charging me $163.79 per month... Whereas a new customer would pay only $90.00.

    On top of that, I just received a notice in the mail that my bill is going up! When I called to see if there was something I could reduce, like maybe the house phone, the representative told me today "if you remove anything your bill will go up higher!" I don't know how class action suits are begun but I believe one should be initiated against Spectrum for all of the customers who are subsidizing new ones. I am a senior. I am living on a fixed income and things are tighter than they have ever been! Can anyone at Consumer Affairs help us, the poor Spectrum victims?

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017

    Service installed 10-19-17 34.99 installation fee, 44.99 a month for service. As of today 12-15-17 almost 2 months paid 87.34. Owe 108.93 due 12-31-17 so confused to what happen to 44.99 a month!!! Does anyone know math that can help me figure this out please!!!

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017

    I have been a client of Spectrum internet for the last year now. When I started looking for an internet provider the $29.99 advertised price is what caught my eye about Spectrum. I contacted them to connect to their internet service. I went through all the steps of providing all the required information etc. I was told that the first month was $44.99 which I assumed was for install cost etc. and the amount was not questioned by me. I agreed to do an auto-pay and then a month later I realized that I was still paying $44.99 when I was expecting to pay $29.99. I called Spectrum and I was told that the service was $29.99 when bundled with TV and Talk. I find this a very deceiving marketing campaign. Unfortunately it seems that there is no regulation of this ad campaign as it has been going on for a year already.

    It's now a year later after I signed up for the $29.99 internet service which I paid $44.99 for per month. I have just received a letter from Spectrum to indicate that the price is now increasing to $70 per month. That is more than a 30% increase which is unacceptable. I called them to discuss this and I was indirectly told that if I don't like the price I could cancel the service. I was happy to renew another year at $44.99 per month however the retention team at Spectrum were not in the least interested in helping me with better pricing. I told them I would take a few days to consider the new price of $70 per month.

    I have had major issues with the quality of the connection, it does not stream live tv or movies properly and then there are also other issues like dropped connection. In the space of 1 year I had the Spectrum service guys here to resolve issues 4 times and Spectrum can confirm this with my records. One of the service days I had planned to be home to be here for the repairs. The technician was scheduled to be here between 10-12pm. He arrived after 3pm so needless to say the service was pretty bad on that particular day.

    I decided to cancel the service with Spectrum and tried to call their retention's team once again to see if I could get a better price. No interest in helping me at all. I would like to ask Spectrum the following questions. Why is it that you constantly fill my mailbox with your promotions? Constantly get me to sign up for new services that I am not interested in? I would like to ask how is it that your marketing department works so hard to get new clients yet your price policies make it so easy for your retention staff to just say "Sorry there is nothing we can do to help you."

    It does not make sense. I have now signed up with Frontier Fios which will hopefully provide a better service. I did not want to end my subscription with Spectrum but I will not pay $70 or $60 when I can now get Fios for $49.99 including unlimited phone nationally. Spectrum, please remove my name from your mailing list and stop harassing me. I do not want to do business with you again. I feel used up and spat out. Disgusting you have alienated me as a client.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017

    Literally would give them 0 stars. Absolutely the dumbest selection of people I’ve ever spoke with. We should have had internet Tuesday. But because someone didn’t do their job correctly we are now suffering. Was told on the phone someone didn’t do the job correctly. We have been on the phone since Tuesday, it is now Friday trying to get an answer. This crack team of brainless idiots can’t give a straight answer to save their lives. Someone was supposed to come Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. No one shows. Every single day we called to find out why. Every single day a different answer. How hard is it to do the one job you have. Literally, every single person in customer care on up are useless. Would never recommend this company or service to anyone. I’d compare them to Comcast at this point for customer care. Hell at this point I’d say Spectrum and Comcast has a meeting of who could be worse.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017

    I called in wanting to reduce my monthly bill from $225 a month. I had a DVR, a HD box and internet. I told them very specifically I only wanted some local channels and the channels for my kids, they got me down to $125 a month, but what they didn't say is that I don't have any of them channels I wanted to keep, and to add these other channels it would be $12 a month? Per channel? I asked them if there were any types of promotion, or anything. NOPE! They have the nerve to thank me for my loyalty? Why? When they are not showing any to me. They tell me I am an existing customer, so I can't get the new customer prices. REALLY? So let me get this straight, because I am an existing customer, I cannot get new customer prices? WOW. Just wow, and you are willing to let me go after 17 years? WOW, yeah thank you for YOUR loyalty... or lack thereof.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017

    I give them two stars for fast service, and a great serviceman. Only two stars because they insisted I use their modem in which I lost over 10 Mbps download speed. I am paying $75 a month for 30 Mbps service. They said they don't have a higher speed Internet in this area, but they bought out Time Warner where I was getting over 40 Mbps. Hard to deal with as a company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017

    Charter Spectrum is the most dishonest company that I have ever experienced. For a few months we were paying for wifi and cable and in August we got behind and they shut us off. That is understandable. but then after we paid our past due balance we still did not have access to our cable. So we didn't pay our bill because we were getting charged for a service that wasn't even possible to use. When we finally had the means to communicate with them and tell them what happened they told us that there was nothing they could do, because our account was inactive. I told them that there was no way our account was inactive, because we were still able to use our wifi. They continued to tell us that there was no way we were using our wifi because it has been disconnected for a whole month.

    We still stood our ground, because we had an Ethernet cable hooked up to our modem so there was no way that we were somehow using someone else's wifi. We know they have a way to see if we were even using our cable, but they insisted that they couldn't because our account was inactive. So they said even if we were somehow using our wifi we wouldn't be charged again for the past month or this current month. Then we received a copyright email about them monitoring our account, which shows us that they do have the access to see what we are and aren't using on our account, contrary to what they had told us. To top off everything we just found out that even though they told us on a recorded line that we would not be charged for the past month or this month WE WERE STILL CHARGED. I will never use charter again even though I did like their wifi. Such a shame how a company can be so blatantly dishonest.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2017

    Had a triple bundle installed today. The gentleman hooked up all three services and then left without giving me ANY information whatsoever including my phone number. I guess I'm supposed to guess how to navigate their services for the television and call somebody with caller ID, or my cell phone to get the number. It would have been nice to have a number to call for problems, which I had 3 hours later with my cable and internet. I would NEVER use Spectrum, they are horrible.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2017

    If I could give this zero stars I would. Where do I even begin? I was paying for internet and Tv and told them. I don’t use the tv so they said, “Unfortunately we don’t offer internet alone.” Until one day someone told me that they offer higher speeds of internet for the same price that I am paying now for internet and TV! The internet actually goes slower now but whatever anyway I always pay 2 weeks after my due date. I’ve had Time Warner for over a year and once they switched to spectrum THEY SUCKED! My service was disconnected! I’ve never gotten disconnected before! So I called in. They told me, “Pay $79 by the 12th and you will be fine,” and they restored my service.

    I paid on the 12th and they disconnected me AGAIN! I called customer care. They were SO RUDE. They said that I had to pay $163 when the women told me $79. I asked them if I can pay $175 on the 26th which will bring me current. They said, “Yes but till then we can’t restore you. We don’t do that anymore!” My children are homeschooled! I’m a single mom with 3 kids and at the moment my car has been in the shop for 3 weeks so I have been spending a LOT of money on Uber and Lyft. They don’t care about anything. I’m a store manager at Verizon. I give the ULTIMATE customer service so I know how customers should be treated if my employees mess up on something. I honor what they say because my employees were at fault. They didn’t care. Spectrum is just very shysty. I wish it was still Time Warner!

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2017

    One star only because there's no half or quarter star option. Bill more than doubled as soon as introductory expired. Expected it to go up some, but double?? Bought the "Gold" package, which includes HBO, Showtime, Max, Stars and everything else, now for the last three billing periods I'm getting billed for movies I didn't order, didn't watch and don't care about at $5.99 each. Two to three movies EVERY month. There's only my wife and I, and she doesn't look at or listen to TV in English and we didn't by any foreign language broadcasts. She gets her TV over the internet. First month I told them I didn't buy them, the gal said "OK, but ONLY this time!" Now I'm seeing all kinds of "extras" on my bills, too. Slightest wind blows and reception goes to pot. Got better reception with the old roof antenna when I was a kid. Spectrum is NOT a good system. Should be sued out of business for all their false advertising.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2017

    We used to have Time Warner Cable before they changed to Spectrum and even then I was upset having to call in all the time with issues related to the internet and being overcharged for services not rendered which became a daily thing! It's now even worse with Spectrum even if you do get anyone on the line to speak to they are still getting used to the system and they falsely represent the so-called "excellent service", etc. by lying and have horrible customer service. I wish I could change companies since the internet never works properly and I am just sick of their B.S. They don't care and just keep charging more with false and empty promises of a supposed great service. I have now had to use my cell phone internet or hotspot and have given up on this idiotic company!

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    Reviewed Dec. 11, 2017

    The first service call was a no show and after the 2nd service call (telephone service not working) I was left with no cable tv service. How is it possible that a Spectrum technician can come in to your house with a working tv and when they leave the phone works but none of the TVs? Customer service takes 22 minutes to explain the situation and then tells me 2 hours for dispatch to return my call!!! Let’s see, should I take another day off work to be here so they can undo what they’ve done? Sooo frustrating - send the guy back!!!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2017

    My cable TV has gone out three times in the last 10 days. The outage lasted over three hours each time. It is difficult to talk to a real person and when you do they are not very helpful. Also, I pay for 24/7 cable service and for this to happen on an ever increasing frequency w/o any explanation as to why or even if they have found a cause or solution is unacceptable. I would like a rebate for the lost service and am seriously thinking about switching to another company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2017

    Too many interruptions as far as outages in my area. Messing with my programs while watching. Ugh!. Customer service is good. I don't know why this happens from time to time especially when I'm watching my shows.

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    Sales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2017

    Just realized I've been paying for a higher speed than I've been receiving for about 2 years... Maybe longer. I was on a "promo deal "$39.99 for 60 mbps." But I have never received 60mbps speeds. My download speed was around 7mbps. So this entire time I've been paying for 60mbps but have less than 10mbps. I went into the Spectrum store in Ohio and the lady said I was still "grandfathered into Time Warner's coding" whatever that means. They never switched me to a higher speed I've been paying for 2years. So she said she raised my speed to 100mbps... But now I'm only getting 32mbps... And they raised my bill to $44.99. I have had a tech at my house and they told me I needed a new router... And my speed would increase. But no one said anything about updating my modem. After doing research, I have a 2.0 modem that is outdated and can only handle 38mbps.

    They surely didn't tell me that though! It is impossible to get 100 mbps on a 2.0 modem... But they don't want you to know that! They want you to PAY for 100mbps but your speed is 75% slower than what you are paying for! How do they get away with lying and ripping people off?! I even asked the lady if I needed to update my modem for 100mbps. If the modem had anything to do with my speed... And she said she didn't know... Then she told me that the modem had NOTHING to do with my speed! Either she thought I was stupid or she works for this company and really knows NOTHING! An outdated modem cannot handle these high speeds. And this is why they are getting SUED by the Attorney General of NEW YORK!

    Now I have to buy my own 3.0 Modem and router so I can hopefully really get the SPEED I am paying for! This is the biggest scam company out there. I already know they will raise me next year. Every year they raise your bill saying you were on a "promotion" but they sure don't tell you that it's a promotion until they raise you! I hate this company. We need to break up this MONOPOLY!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaffReliability

    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017

    First of all the internet services are not reliable at all. You will have to reload your modem constantly for it kind of work. It constantly loses the speed. If you are to try to talk to the customer service people, they are rude and not helpful at all. I got SONIC for $40. It comes with the phone line and wonderful internet connection. So happy to switch!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017

    On May second 2017 called Spectrum to place account on seasonal hold until I returned in December. Three months of payment for full service was taken from my account while it was supposed to be on seasonal. Called several times and was told several times they had gone back to the notes and admitted a mistake on Spectrum end. I stopped payment in July. They have not corrected the situation and claim it's my fault, even though the employee's notes say I wanted to be placed on seasonal. I think they owe me a credit and they think I owe them. Worst thing is this company will not even call you back so every time you speak with them you start from scratch spending hours on phone.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017

    My experience has been a very disappointing one. Initially, I authorized a 'one-time payment' via check over the phone for services. Several weeks later when I happen to be at the bank I checked my balance before making a small deposit. I knew right away something had gone wrong. The account I used was an account I rarely use & the safest one to use, so I thought. I didn't bother to follow up for that reason. As it turned out in August, 2017 Spectrum was authorized to withdraw one payment of $149.00 when they went beyond that & over drafted my account when they withdrew the payment twice. That 'unauthorized payment resulted in a negative balance to my account.

    I called right away (from the bank) & about 45 minutes the rep told me they would send a check to the person whose name the bill was in (a family member that I made the payment for) but that it could take 7-8 weeks. OK, here it is a couple of months later, no checks. They agreed to return the overpayment of $149.00 + the $67.00 overdraft fees caused by their error. Well, as of today, after nearly an hour (54 minutes to be exact) all I got was that he was checking with the 'Back Department' (whom he was communicating with while having us on hold several times) & this would forwarded to their Banking Department. It should take 3-5 business days. After seeing what the fastest way to get the money back to me would be he would personally return my call.

    Yesterday when the account holder called them the rep told her the money was reissued to a card # but failed to say what card # & never asked me for my card # today to reimburse me. Tacky, Tacky, Tacky!!! Now, it didn't take no 3-5 business days to take the unauthorized overpayment. It didn't take them no 7-8 weeks to take the money no to subtract the credit from the account holders account. I know it won't take that long to retract the money he claim they refunded the money to on Oct 25,17 which is not showing on my card.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2017

    I was just sent a letter saying my bill is going up again and since they took over from Bright House they have cut channels twice and they advertise better service than Dish because when there is a storm Dish loses reception. But when we get a storm, we lose channels and on good days we lose channels and we pay for channels we don't even use and they'll add programs and charge us for them and tell us that they can't take it off, everyone gets charged.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2017

    Where I live it's Time Warner or Spectrum is their new name and my gosh they have the entire westside of Los Angeles on lockdown, how they pulled this type of monopoly off is beyond the pale. Firstly they put their calls mostly through the Philippines or India and that is a bit troubling at times, not that I have issues with either of those two places I just feel like if you can't relate to what I'm trying to convey, it's a bit of a problem. They also charge a month in advance and that is also corny, in my opinion for a second rate service costing 150 dollars per month it all adds up to LAME.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2017

    I received the letter today indicating my bill would be going up $30.00 next month because my promotional period is expiring. I called to inquire about any other offers as they had instructed last year when I moved here and started the service. First of all I had to ride the gauntlet of the automated phone system. When I explained the reason for my call I was told there are no other packages available for a reduced rate and I am actually still on a partial promotion but the bill goes up after a year. I asked about the fact my year is not up till January but she explained they prorate...

    At this point I am now thinking about canceling but I am kind of over a barrel because I need the internet speed for work... I asked if there was a notation in the system regarding my On Demand not working. She said that it shows I called on August 30th - she then asked if it was still not working to which I explained yet that is correct. I told her that the person explained on August 30th they were aware of the issues with On Demand and that since it's a free service there's really nothing to do until it's fixed. Ahhh - the joys of a connected world; damned if you do and damned if you don't. The really bad part is these companies continue to buy up and merge with to competition so you have no real options.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2017

    I decided to upgrade my cable and internet when Spectrum changed names from Time Warner Cable. I was promised a rate of $73 and some change. Come to find out they were charging me double the rate at $138. I found this out 5 months after being charged. Called to talk about it and it took 3 weeks for them to respond to me. Mind you I called them 4 times over this three week period. The final conversation said that I would NOT be refunded my money because I didn't tell them soon enough. All I have to say is this is the poorest customer service I have ever received by any company. No help. No one called me back, ever, after I was told I would be called back multiple times. I was not refunded even though they screwed up. Shame on you Spectrum.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2017

    We were never really "happy" with Time Warner but now that Spectrum took them over it's gotten so much worse. They absolutely don't care at all about retaining customers. All they care about is attracting new customers with the low service rates. The cable TV service has constant pixelation with both video and audio dropouts. They keep raising the rates for us "loyal" customers. When we tried to get them to keep the rates lower we were told if we weren't grandfathered from Time Warner, the service we already have would be over $200/month.

    We had been paying under $160/month. We had been told we could add or delete premium movie channels as we wanted while with Time Warner, not so with Spectrum. No changes or the package would end and the charges jump even higher. Spectrum is the worst company with which I have ever dealt. We tried to switch from residential service to business and take advantage of the internet + phone for just under $80/month. Then we would use streaming services over the internet with our Amazon Fire box. We were told we don't qualify for these rates because we're not "new" customers. Internet + phone would cost us $155/month, because we wouldn't be considered new customers.

    The FCC should be investigating them with a fine tooth comb. The Federal Trade Commission should be prosecuting them for unscrupulous business practices. I hope they are soon out of business. Customer support is a joke. All we get told is the same story over and over. If we change our existing service, we can't get back what we already have without a large price increase. If they aren't violating the law, they're operating just under it and in the gray area. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE COMPANY! If you have another option, don't sign up with Spectrum!! They need to be investigated by undercover federal agents and the CEO should be jailed, along with all of the senior executives!!!

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    PricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2017

    While their service has been fairly good it has deteriorated when Time Warner Cable was acquired by Spectrum. I do think they are unfair to old reliable customers as they charge us significantly more per month than they do new customers and they refuse to do anything about despite continuing to send me solicitations for a new customer. It is a good example of how large companies don't value old faithful customers who always make their payments on time.

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    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2017

    Been with Spectrum for a very long time. Recently they have stopped doing bill extension for those who can't make a payment at the time and also they have taken away channels unless you upgrade to a higher package. I really can't do Spectrum anymore. They have become quite heartless and It's time for me to leave them.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2017

    Where do I begin? I just bought a new home and considering what I paid for it, I was very specific in what I wanted, that everything was to be neat and orderly. I ordered the Silver package which was supposed to include everything I had at my previous residence plus increased internet speed and land based phone service throughout the house. The technicians arrived at the house at the appointed time as promised. The 2 technicians they sent took about 2 hours and hooked up the televisions and computer in most of the locations specified. 2 days later I went to the basement and found cables draped everywhere when they were specifically told where to place the lines and that we were planning to drywall the ceiling, one location in the master bedroom was completely in the wrong location. I called customer service and they sent another technician out who arrived 1 hour late but he reran the cabling like I had asked the first time.

    Fast forward to 4 weeks later... A notification popped up on our television that we had a call coming in but we heard no ringing. I went to the landline phone and picked it up and had nothing. I checked the connection and tried another phone just in case, nothing. I tried every jack in the house and still nothing. I then called Spectrum and reported the problem and they told me to look at the modem and seen if there was a telephone cable plugged into the jack which there wasn't. They scheduled a technician to come and correct the issue. The tech was supposed to arrive between 11 am and 12 pm he arrived at 2:30 pm as my wife was walking out the door for a doctor's appointment. The technician was specifically told to not move the modem or router. When I got home I found the modem and router had been moved to a room where they were specifically told to not put them.

    The power cords were stretched across the room and plugged into an extension cord and the phone plugged into the modem. We had no service anywhere in the house other than the room where it wasn't supposed to be. I called for service and the technician who was again late, informed me that he couldn't do anything. I then called customer service who then sent me to retention who immediately sent me to escalation. This is where I met Antwan **. who attempted to bully me into backing down and stating that it was not their responsibility to provide service anywhere past the modem. This was a complete contradiction as to what I was told and sold when I purchased the package. He told me to go to any dollar store and pick up a cordless phone and I would have service throughout the entire house.

    He then proceeded to tell me that I couldn't go anywhere else as they would expect me to sign a long-term contract and if I wanted to discontinue the phone service I would have to pay an additional $50 per month for breaking the bundle. All in all, they did not honor the commitment to arrive within scheduled time frames, did not provide the channels that were promised (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Nick), did not provide phone service as promised and also provided shoddy workmanship when they did show up.

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    Reviewed Nov. 29, 2017

    Spectrum's services are very lacking. Our box shuts off & resets, they say nothing is wrong with it. Rings for voicemail can not be changed. Was told to buy an answering machine. Services don't always work.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 29, 2017

    First, my rate was increased without my acknowledgment. As something my "data" package. I don't recall specifics. Then both of my cable boxes quit working. I called and was told to exchange them out. Ok fine. So I did. Then I get another price increase for upgraded equipment. I was not informed at any time. So, fine. Call and complain and they barely even apologize.

    Service connection. Why should I have to call several times a year due to service being down as a result of signal reboot need to be sent to equipment for them to function properly. Then this year I got behind on my bill. It happens. It's life. I was paying bills via my bank app at lunch at work. I had to guesstimate a payment to Spectrum payment as the web account cannot be accessed via mobile. So, on 9/28/2017 my service was "interrupted" as they say. Called 800 # a few times...finally got some sort automated message stating my account was off. I downloaded the My TWC app to my cell phone and view what more I owed. In red print it states full payment. And a reconnect fee and a month additional for service to be reconnected. I was frustrated and said, "Fine...leave it off." I will return the equipment and go elsewhere when my financial situation improves.

    I waiting for the next bill to give me a final total. The next bill had additional month charge. Called cs rep. They said they were printed before the payment was applied not saying my service was still on. Even though I asked why I was billed when my service was off. Next bill and it had now 2 more additional months of service. After calling multiple times...finally got a cs rep. She stated - "Well, that is flexible" and my service was turned on automatically the next day as they received a partial payment. I told the cs rep that I did not authorize it and was not informed services were restored. So now...my bill is over $400 and I can get a $75 credit for the misunderstanding.

    In process of obtaining FFC complaint details as well as other agencies that handle billing. When calling this time another rep made the familiar "flexible" statement. I have made numerous calls trying to speak to someone. I gave them my email. The same email they have on file to communicate with me. As I have private/telemarketing blocker on my phone. I asked for a number to allow them access to call me and they could not confirm an outbound number.

    All in all, they stated I was misunderstood as my service was "interrupted" not "disconnected". However the notification on the bill speaks more definitively as to service reconnection fees which I was not willing to pay. So, I did not pay the Total Balance so their electronic system turned my service back on automatically even though I did not meet the criteria for service to be turned back on whether it was "interrupted" or "disconnected." Terrible company. Terrible customer service. Terrible cable/internet service connection.

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    Reviewed Nov. 29, 2017

    Spectrum was the easiest provider to get started with, also the fastest that's why I have nothing but super things to say about this company. I love them.

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    Reviewed Nov. 28, 2017

    My internet seems to be slow at times when I have more than one device running on it. When I have company I am hearing how slow it is from them and when I watch movies it buffers.

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    Price

    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2017

    Taken over from Time Warner - the service is as slow as any in the States. Up and downloads are slow speeds compared to Asia and Parts of Europe. If it goes down it is down for about half a day, but the help desk is very efficient and will tell the truth for downtime. Sixty bucks per month for slow internet alone - pricey but the only show in town. Some jitter and hang on high def. YouTube.

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    Reviewed Nov. 26, 2017

    I was approached to change from Time Warner to Spectrum because they would be faster and I would have more television stations to choose from.... Neither has happened. In fact, my internet is slower.

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    Reviewed Nov. 23, 2017

    I actually get the lowest speed and it is okay for me. I work on the internet all day so I do not use it that much when I'm at home. I checked my e-mail, I pay some bills, I'm a look at something I have an interest of and that is about it. I do not think it is a bad price for what I do get and it serves me very well. Their customer service is a little to be desired but I do not have to use it much. I am able to troubleshoot myself and if I have to call them I do and get through it as best as I can.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2017

    I had Spectrum internet for a year at $45 per month and not without problems - internet dropped out once a month, had to restart router, sometimes that wouldn't fix and I'd have to call them to ping test, etc. Now that I've had their service for a year, paying every bill on time and in full, my bill got jacked up to $60 per month. When I called them, they tried to justify the increase by saying the original promotion period ended and now I'm on their current best plan and that they could have raised it to the full amount of $70 which they won't do until the following year. The longer you're with them, the more they take advantage of you. Good business practice is to reward loyal customers, not punish them. They're begging people to switch to a competitor and banking on those who don't have another option available to them.

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    Price

    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2017

    It's been few months my internet is running so slow or actually not running at all. Is this a joke that you provide 60mbps as a starting internet speed? And where is the price starting at $29.99. I am paying two and a half times of that - $65 for just the internet. This is the net speed test today - Upload speed - 9MBPS, download - 5MBPS. And I also did net speed last month and this is the speed I get upload speed - 24MBPS. I want my money back for this is not the speed I am paying for.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2017

    They sent a bill collector after me for $70 that I did not even owe them. I paid bill collector because I thought I made a mistake. Spectrum waited 3 months for me to figure out the mistake for myself and call. Said they'd mail me a check. One month later I call because check never came. They have no explanation but they'll send it out now. How is this legal?

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2017

    Cannot pause or rewind live TV. Freezes constantly. Have to reboot every time in order to watch. Cannot watch recorded shows. Cannot delete recorded shows. Results in error messages. Cannot exit the guide. Service person did not keep appointment; didn’t call. Screen goes black. Stops responding to remote. Channel won’t change. Error message reads “We’re sorry, we’re unable to display recordings. Please try again later. If the issue continues, give us a call at (855) 757-7328. If you contact us, please provide this error code: 8014.” I called 5 times. It still isn’t fixed.

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    Reliability

    Reviewed Nov. 20, 2017

    Just moved to a Spectrum cable area and got "service", though I use the term loosely. SPECTRUM INTERNET IS GARBAGE. Pages take MINIMUM 1-5 MINUTES to load, if at all. Open more than one browser tab? Internet crashes entirely. Try reloading? Watch the wheel spin... and spin... and spin... until the browser finally dies. Go ahead, reboot the router. Try different sites. Try a different browser. Nothing will change. Call Spectrum, even; they'll just stall by sending out a technician to replace your router, but nothing will change. You can't fix stupid... and you can't turn garbage into gold. AVOID SPECTRUM! SAVE YOUR MONEY! SAVE YOUR SANITY! (Don't believe me? Do a simple web search; even the New York State Attorney is suing these crooks.)

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    Staff

    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2017

    I have only been a customer since April of 2017. In the last 3 months I've made 28 service calls I have had five service technicians out here. I have spoken to 8 supervisors, none of which are nice and I still to date do not have cable. That's ridiculous although they take my money every month. Also none of these no one knows who the CEO is and no one will give you a corporate office number because I think this is the practice of Bright House Spectrum.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2017

    I am reviewing for spectrum internet service that I had in my Brooklyn apartment. I had my own 2 in 1 modem+router that a Time Warner (now Spectrum) staff installed at my apartment with the installation fee $50 in December 2015. I moved to California in December 2016. On March 2017, I received a bill of $75 from spectrum that said that I did not return their modem. I called Spectrum customer service regarding this and explained the rep. that I had bought my own and that I never received a Modem from spectrum. The Rep. said he took care of it and that I don’t have to worry about it anymore, so I threw away the bill and felt relieved. On October of 2017, I received another mail from Spectrum saying that my bill was transferred over to collection agency because I did not pay the modem bill or did not return the Modem.

    I called Spectrum customer service again and explained the whole situation and also mentioned that I never saw any equipment renting fee in any of my bills while I was in Brooklyn Apartment. She said That I would have to return the Modem or would have to mail them the receipt to prove that the Modem was my own. I explained it has been almost 2 years that I bought the Modem and I don’t have the receipt anymore. She said I must pay the bill in that case. So I finally paid the $75 billed for a modem that I never rented from Spectrum. Everyone, if you buy your own Modem please keep your receipt otherwise you might be billed by Spectrum saying that you did not return Spectrum’s Modem.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2017

    I have had Time Warner, now Spectrum for a few years since my move to Port Hueneme. Unfortunately, last year I became too ill to work and no longer could afford paying $164.00 a month for TV, Phone and Internet. I spoke to Spectrum several times about how best to reduce my bill, with no assistance. Finally, I went into a Spectrum office, and was told that if I changed my account from Time Warner to Spectrum, my bill could be reduced to $140.00 a month. I have been asking about what I could do to reduce my bill for over a year. Now it appears I have to pay a one time charge of $289.00 because I changed 2 days into the new billing cycle (therefore, I had to pay the old rate in addition to the new rate). I was not told anything about this additional payment.

    Also, if you look at their ads on TV they talk about how you can get Phone and Internet for $29.00 each... That would mean that their TV is $80.00 a month, which I know is not the price they brag about on TV... Sorry, I don't recall what price they state. Anyway, they are the most expensive option, and I now may decide to go with DirecTV, which is $50.00 a month... Even with a contract, I will end up saving money. I am so angry that no one at Spectrum told me to switch to Spectrum from Time Warner to save $24.00 a month for over a year (that would have saved me $288.00 in a year). This may not be much, but for someone on disability, it is a great deal.

    If I go to DirecTV I will save another $30.00 a month. I would advise everyone to be careful when dealing with Spectrum and their Customer Service representatives. They appear to be dishonest, and unhelpful, unless you go directly to their office carrying a cane and looking ill. Also, being angry and a bit assertive may also help.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2017

    I sign with Bright House on 12/16/2015. My promotional price was $54.00 for 12 months, on November 8 2016 I receive a letter that said my "special offer is about to expire; however your services will continue at a new price. Beginning with your December 2016 bill statement, your monthly bill will change from $54.00 to $74.00." Now Spectrum send me another notice and it says "when you signed up for your services, you received a promotional discounted rate on your bill. Your discounted rate for your promotion is expiring and your services are scheduled to be billed at the standard rates. Beginning with your next statement, your monthly bill will be approximately $90.00 plus applicable taxes and fees." I call this morning and Spectrum said it will be $105.00 a month. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT FROM DECEMBER 16, 2015 TO DECEMBER 16, 2017 MY INCREASE WILL BE $51.00. Could you help with me this issue. Thank you.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2017

    We have received numerous offers from Spectrum Cable company that tells us we are qualified to get better service and value on what we have now. Shows on paper what we have now and what our new services would be all for $89.97 /mo for 12 mos. TV+ Faster Internet (100Mbps) + Voice Service No contracts ever. Nowhere on this offer does it say for New Customers Only to get all 3 for this offer price. I went to their office wasted my drive and time to find since I already had all three that I was not qualified for that offer. If I wanted to upgrade it would cost me $129 a month. I consider this "false advertising." If a store did this they would have to honor the offer. We have received over 10 of these letters addressed to us in less than 2 months. What a waste of wood and postage. Hopefully soon we will get another company out in this area that offers internet service. That is the only reason I am still with this Time Warner now Spectrum.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2017

    Just moved to another unit in the same building. They left my old account open in my payment going to the account that they were supposed to close... bad customer service, slow internet, rip off. I felt that I was forced to get the triple play to get a "DISCOUNT"... **. Just the worst experience. Can't wait to cancel. Waiting for my lease is over. I will move just to never give a penny to this pig CIA.

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2017

    As a current customer of Spectrum with only Internet service I received a call from a Spectrum agent that told me I could get an increase in Internet speed to 100mbs for only 1 dollar more than I was currently paying if I combined it with phone service. After several attempts verifying it with the agent that the increase would only be 1 dollar after taxes with no installation charges or anything else. I checked my bill 2 days later and I was being charged 132 dollars, 35 for installation (which was just a tech bringing out a phone cable) and now 89 dollars a month. Talk about dishonest salespeople. To top this off after increasing the speed on the internet I spent most of the day having issues with my internet was speed tests showed me at my highest speed of 32mbs.

    So here I am spending almost 2+ hours on the phone with Spectrum in order to get these items removed. This needs to change - we should not have to be held hostage by 1 internet company. So after spending time on the phone with Spectrum I get the charges taken off, but told my bill will now increase 6+ dollars a month over my previous bill because they now have me moved over from Bright House to Spectrum. Basically that is telling me that they are telling their own customers lies in order to get them over to the Spectrum system in order to in the end increase their bill by an average of 6 dollars a month. At first look this doesn't appear to be much, but take that over thousands of Spectrum customers and you make a killing. This is the second worst company I have ever dealt with, Frontier Communications is the worst...

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017

    I have had a seasonal contract with Bright House/ Spectrum for several years. Came down last Friday... 6 days ago, and still have no phone service. On the chat line with 4 or 5 people, had a serviceman in for over an hour and a half last Sunday... and still, NO PHONE!!! Absolutely amazing. This company is for the **. Our condo association pays the basic, but if it was up to me, I would be looking elsewhere. Avoid these guys at all costs.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017

    I called to cancel my service after 8 days because I had to leave to Mexico for the earthquake situation. I talked to a rep called Nora. She was really nice and told me my account was going to be at 0. I won't have to pay anything. That way when I come back I could reinstall my service. Well I'm back. I called today 11-9-17 and found out my account is in collections and the guy I was talking to said that they can't do nothing about it and when ask if I could talk to someone else he let me on hold for almost 15 minutes, talked to someone else and said I have to pay my past due balance. This is not what Nora had told me and they can't credit my account because Nora didn't write that in her notes. I feel I should not be in collections because they told me my account will be at 0. I find this really frustrating as they can't keep what was told to me from the beginning.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017

    Spectrum pricing is deceptive. I tried to upgrade my service from internet to internet and TV but was forced to buy the triple play --- internet, tv and phone for $110. The next day I get a brochure in the mail for internet and tv for $39.99 each but when I called to get this service I entered a chain of six people only to find out that $39.99 times two is still the same $110 price. I get so annoyed when I call them that the only thing I want to do is cancel my service. They told me I could cancel the telephone but I would still have to pay the same price. And of course as we all know in 12 months the price will suddenly jump to $139 a month.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017

    Only 2-3 months service and we're getting very poor service, and Spectrum doesn't care what they do to the customer... Totally vicious customer service. Reading all the below complaints... Now tells me and confirms to me that Spectrum is ripping people off millions & millions of dollars. Why isn't the government stepping in to stop this injustice? Instead of an actual person breaking into my home robbing me, I'm PAYING Spectrum to rob me.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2017

    After inadvertently making payments to my old Time Warner account (I discontinued cable which virtually closed out the old account with them, but kept internet which was now through Spectrum), my statements were now coming from Spectrum (same statements, but unbeknownst to me the account number changed). I contacted Spectrum to have the $$ transferred to my Spectrum account. They acknowledged the credit balance and agreed to transfer funds to cover the amount due on my Spectrum account. Four calls to 4 different CS reps, and the problem has STILL not been resolved.

    Yesterday received a letter that my internet service would be disconnected if payment was not received within the next 2 days. Called AGAIN, spoke with yet another person who assured me payment would be transferred but "our automated payment system takes at least 48 hours before the $$ is posted." Same story the 4th time. The last and previous calls I was assured this transaction was escalated so that it would be taken care of. I asked if I could get a confirmation when this was posted for my own reassurance and was told there was no way they could notify me when my payment did post.

    I don't blame the service representatives for having their hands tied. I do blame Spectrum for having such poor accounting/billing policies that they cannot expeditiously take care of issues without going through what has now been a 2 week teeth-gnashing effort to get my account issue resolved. The customer has no recourse or guarantees their issues will be resolved. When I asked the last CSR how could I know that my payment had finally posted. His response: "If you still have your internet service, you'll know." And this is how a communications company wants to do their customers? I NEVER had an issue with Time Warner in the 13+ years I dealt with them. Spectrum's off to a very, very bad start with me.

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    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2017

    Bought Triple Play and decided 2 days into having product that it wasn’t worth the money, tried to exchange for only internet and was told I would incur a 25% increase of what the internet was available for prior to trying Triple Play. I call this BULLYING. Someday a real rain will come and wash…

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2017

    After Hurricane Irma around September 29th we decided to get Spectrum Cable Phone and Internet bundle. Which included one Cable Box only. I was told my monthly price would be $105.00. After 12 days of having the service we received a bill of $441.58. Then on 10/03/17 I was billed $294.47. Then on 10/27/17 I was billed $333.59. All these bills for one month of service. We have already paid $158.00 plus $82.00. I do not understand what is going on. And a lot of people I know are having the same issues. Spectrum is scam!!! I never have problems con Bright House, help please, all my statement are for 37 days!!

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2017

    Consider that as -1 star please. Thank you. Started my services last year, when I moved to Orlando. Had a bundle for internet, no contract or anything. Suddenly this month, bill is $20 higher. I called the customer service, they told me that they are stepping up. Stepping up what? Do I get better, higher speed internet? "No, you get the same old internet with a lot higher prices." Did anyone send me an email or post regarding this change? "No, why should they?" Did anyone tell me at that time that promotion will expire in a year? No, the technician rather informed me that this rate will stay as long as I had the internet at this apartment. (Really!!!) Can you transfer my call to the person who is capable of making any change? "No way, we are not authorized for that." So, Just pay the damn bill, or go to hell! And yes, you have to pay next month bill, this month. Cherry on the top! Well, you don't have much of a choice, so suck it up!!!

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2017

    Subscribed for cable/internet/phone 9/2014 with stipulation I can pay bill @ end of month (fixed income). Was told "no problem". First 3-4 mos, kept getting late fees; called & they were waiving as I told them they could pull conversation and see that's what was agreed. I also didn't want my bill to go over $99/mo since my income wasn't increasing. They then said they couldn't keep waiving late fees; fine. I kept getting minor increases often; then serious increases along the way due to expired promotions! I said I didn't want a promotion - charge me a flat rate that won't go up - no such thing.

    I asked why it was that their ads advertise very low ($29.95) triple bundles when my bill is now $165/mo for BASIC cable & low MG internet??? "That's for new customers" was told. I contend that their "promotions" are a scam to enable consistent rate hikes! The loyal customers pay the brunt of their "new customer low rates" and it seems to me there should be a law against that! I just canceled my cable TV; with internet & phone only, plus the local channels - no cable, my new rate is $115.95 - ABOMINABLE! I have no choice since I have no car & must have some form of diversion to subsist. Spectrum should be audited by FCC for fraud in my opinion (I should mention there were costly errors in their favor along the way to which they tried to compensate with a gift card that never materialized & couldn't win the debate since no one seemed to acknowledge the verbal commitment from one of their agents!)

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2017

    I have a serious complaint about Spectrum and my apartment complex The Gables. We were forced to include your internet and cable services for an additional $80 a month included in our rent part of our lease, that I did not want. So management advised the tenants that as of August 11, 2017 our personal service accounts with Spectrum would be termed. And that as soon as the internet and cable were installed our first month was going to be free. I have the emails from The Gables to prove it. I am currently being billed by Spectrum for billing dated 09/28/2017 for usage from 10/02/2017 to 11/01/2017.

    I have paid my October's rent included are the $80.00 for Spectrum and I have paid November's rent including the $80.00 from Spectrum. Every time I contact you people you have a tunnel vision and you are not interested in resolving this issue. I chatted with one of your representatives she was not listening to what I was explaining to her. She was following the script that I had to pay my bill for $78.00 in order to avoid my services being interrupted. I will have to contact the Better Business Bureau and if you interrupt my services making me break my lease you can expect a lawsuit.

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2017

    Spectrum Time Warner Cable is a terrible company. I watch a lot of TV as I am disabled. I like to watch it on my laptop in bed. Right now I cannot watch as there is an issue with online TV. I spoke to customer service. They have no idea when online viewing will resume. This company also has no regard for nonprofit businesses in my area, which is very depressed. So any business is welcome.

    However TWC charges $99 for installation for internet only plus a monthly fee of $65 for only internet. Company doesn't give a hoot about anything but money. I am retired, on a fixed income but my bill with them has consistently risen. I really wish I had recourse but I am nobody against a big company. I can't even switch to another company.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2017

    I moved today and had called ahead to have my service transferred and was told no problem. Big problem!!! Not only did I have to fight to get the same service, I have to now pay 22.00 more for it! Really? After 11 years with the same company... Now Spectrum buys it and I not only have to pay more for the same service... I had to argue with a superior sounding witch who would not give me her supervisor! Spectrum... I will be looking for different services.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2017

    Spectrum cable is horrible. We have had Time Warner for years with sub par service but when Spectrum took over it just got worse. Tv service is even worse than before, now instead of one box for the house and cable service for every tv in the house you now have to have a box which now costs 5.99 per box per month for basic tv channels. As far as streaming services for phone, computers or tablets, don't even bother, they are constantly buffering and loading, it is not possible to watch a complete show without missing half of it due to buffering or loading issues, they say you can watch DVR from devices, this is not true. You can set to record or cancel recordings, that's it. I bought a 30 dollar antenna and receive 56 channels for nothing of open air tv. It's your best bet instead of wasting money on Spectrum. Their service dept could care less about you or any issues you may be having. So in short save your money and buy an open air antenna instead.

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2017

    We signed up for a bundled service with Spectrum for TV/Internet/Phone. Our first bill arrived October 4, 2017 covering the 10/3/17 to 11/2/17 service period, for $115.51 which is about what we expected. On October 1, 2017 we returned to Spectrum a DVR box since we had no need for it. When we returned it to the Spectrum Office in Rockland, ME we were told that our monthly fee will be reduced because there will be no rental fee for the DVR box. On October 25 we received a new bill for $181.50 for the period covering 11/3/17 to 12/2/17. When we inquired about the high bill, we were told that returning the DVR box took us out of the Bundled package and put us in another non-bundled package... And they cannot put us back in the bundled package even if we take back the DVR box.

    This is wrong for many reasons: 1) We were clearly told at the Spectrum desk that we will get a discount rather than an increase when we returned the DVR. 2) There was no mention of us not being eligible for the bundled package price. 3) Nobody bothered to call us before switching us to a different plan. We are requesting to be put back into the bundled package we were on in October with or without the DVR Box... Your policy is unjust, unfair, misleading and unethical and should be unlawful.

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    Reviewed Oct. 26, 2017

    I've been a customer for almost 2 and a 1/2 years. Always paid my statement bills which Spectrum called me a courtesy call. Payments were made on the time allowed. I always paid on my bill the amount of past you never ever did I have a problem paying the full amount, on the 25th of this month paid $137.04. Midnight my service was interrupted. I called about my service payment, Spectrum explained through all my years always paid their past due,

    Spectrum now says I have to pay $600.00 to get my service going. Supervisor from last was bringing out 3 month passed, but however I explained to him that I always got a bill and the past you was printed in red. I was never question about the amount past it. Was always being the month precedent highlighted in red which needed to be. Supervisor was very rude telling me that Oct for went back as of August which I explained to him when I do get the bill it's always highlight it red which need to be paid and the amount highlighted in red was the amount I always. Never was I question about my whole entire bill, as long as the highlight red amount which I always paid.

    I feel that this is not right. The supervisor was very rude did not even give me a chance. Was making me feel very upset. Didn’t not want to make any type of arrangements. I had payment 137 for the month Oct the past due and ask if arrangement on the 2nd of Nov 2017 pay 200 on top of the payment $137. He telling me to return the equipment, he then told me $600.00 is now due. And I hope years a being with this company. I've always paid the past you on the payment due date highlighted in red never did I have any problems until the 25th.

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    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2017

    Like most other reviews, SPECTRUM IS HORRIBLE! Save yourself the frustration & do NOT go with them! The customer service is horrid & all they do is LIE! They'll send you a bill stating one thing, then next thing you know, your internet is cut off early & you call them to see what's going on & they tell you all this BS that they only see on their end! You know damn well they CAN turn it back on, they just don't WANT to! & they'll make it a big struggle, even when you call them out on all their BS! They do not care to keep customers. So don't even bother going with them.

    On another note for OTHER people, some I know have started with Brighthouse & then they merged to Spectrum, prices have gone up for them! Yet all "new" customers get the cheaper prices? That's WRONG! Old customers should have the new cheaper prices. Also, on the radio, it ADVERTISES for 100mbps down/ 10 Mbps UP, for $44.99 a month, yet when you call in to get that offer, it's apparently ONLY ON THE WEST COAST OF FL. for that! Even though it advertises it HERE!

    They don't even know where their own company is advertising! Then all it is a let down from there! I stress, save YOURSELF from stress & do NOT go with Spectrum. These companies were MUCH BETTER BEFORE MERGING! Spectrum has nothing but liars, & they don't care about keeping customers or getting good reviews. They'll have to eventually make things better if they want to keep running.

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2017

    I have only internet now with Spectrum, and on Saturday I spent an hour and a half on the phone with them trying to determine why we had no internet. After an hour and a half they determined they needed to send a technician out to our home. The appointment was set for Monday between 6-8pm. I was informed by the technician scheduling my appointment that the technician coming to our house would do a call ahead before heading to our appointment. We confirmed the phone number on file, which is the one that is used to reference my account. We patiently waited at our home, then at about 7:30 pm I contacted Spectrum to check on the status of our technician, as I have two little ones who need to get ready for bed. I was informed that our appointment had been Cancelled due to a failed attempt. I asked which failed attempt?!!! Nobody has been here, no call has been made!

    He apologized to me and stated I needed to call in before the 8:00 pm cut off, I explained to him it WAS 7:28 pm. He then scrambled to get a supervisor and stated on would be calling me from the dispatching department. The technician from the dispatching department informed me they would not be coming this evening and would reschedule me for another time. I told him no call was made and nobody has been to our home, all he could say was "I do apologize." My family set our time aside to wait for them for 2 hours. I have never seen such terrible customer service!

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017

    Forced to move from Bright House to Spectrum - Now I pay more for less. 200 MB vs 100 MB and they refuse to support my two access points. INTERNET DROPS TWICE A DAY. Awful phone service and idiots will service your house in person. NO OTHER PROVIDER OR WAY TO UPGRADE!!!! THANKS TRUMP!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2017

    Had Time Warner - they switched to what they call it now as "Spectrum." My bill for exactly the same TV package - without even a notice or upgrade or changing any equipment modems etc. went up suddenly $58.00 per month more - said I was on some kind of "promotional" feature that they had come up with. I hope they keep their promise of NO DISCONNECTION FEE - 'cause that is exactly where this scam is going! You wouldn't think the FCC would let them get away with this. The "FAKE COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION."

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    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017

    The WiFi constantly goes out and even when I had the home phone it would go out for DAYS. The service is terrible. Then last week I had a salesperson come here more than once trying to convince me that I do not have Spectrum and to sign up for a package. Even after I showed him my bill he told me that wasn't possible as I wasn't showing in the system. I don't know who he thought he was fooling, I've had Time Warner for years. That was extremely unethical and makes me question their business practices.

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    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2017

    I am a property manager of an apartment complex that provides Bulk Internet Service to our tenants. Originally through Time Warner, until Spectrum took over. This has been a horrible experience. We have no retention department, changing our contract, charges that were not agreed to, disrespectful "representatives". It has been a nightmare. DO NOT CHOOSE THIS. If you can, utilize another company. Do not give this company any of your hard earned money.

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    Reviewed Oct. 15, 2017

    I was a Bright House customer. I went in to see if I could lower my bill. They disconnected my phone when I told them not to. When I called to tell them to turn my phone back on and ask again about lower my bill they told me since I went in to have my phone turned off I was no longer grandfathered in to my Bright House rate. My bill went up 30 plus dollars the next month. This sounds illegal to me. I am looking for a new way to watch TV. Everybody should...

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    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2017

    Not happy with their internet services at all. They bought out my previous company, Time Warner, and greatly increased the internet speed as to force people to pay more. I was able to negotiate a lower price and keep a slower internet speed, but within the last several months, I can't even watch regular tv on my laptop without the show constantly stopping, freezing, and/or not playing at all. I am extremely frustrated because there are very few options for services in East Dallas and cost are extreme.

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    After a positive interaction with Spectrum, C. increased their star rating on Nov. 17, 2017.

    Updated review: Nov. 17, 2017

    On a further call I got someone genuinely helpful who arranged for a technician to come out who replaced the broken outside wire box which resolved the problem of the loose dangling wires blowing in the wind and disrupting my cable reception. Therefore I'd increase my rating based on this.

    Original Review: Oct. 14, 2017

    Since Hurricane Irma September 10, an outside metal cabinet which holds the Spectrum TV cable wires for the building I live in located in an apartment complex has been broken. The door has been forced open and will not now close. All of the cable wires for Spectrum customers in this building are hanging out of the box. When the wind kicks up beyond a breeze, TV reception cuts on and off.

    I reported this issue over a week ago and someone came out. I was appalled when he asked me if the wires were supposed to hang out that way! He just photographed the box. Could not tell me a time I could expect issue to be fixed. I got no further response and no indication of Spectrum intending to fix this issue. It seems it would be a simple matter to fix a broken hinge on a cabinet door. Spectrum continues raising the cable TV rates at every turn, the latest raise is to cover "road construction required by local government" but when it comes to getting a response to an issue they are indifferent. Due to the location of my apartment, satellite service is not an option. If Spectrum will get this issue fixed I will be glad to update my rating to a higher number. The ball is in their court.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2017

    Don't trust Spectrum's advertising for $29.99 per service (when combined: WIFI, VOICE, TV). I received the ad by mail and then saw it on TV so I called and was told I qualify for this offer and there is no installation charges. The next month I got the bill, it is $137+$64. Then I called to find out why they practically told me that was a bate, then they told me the $64 was for installation. Spectrum is the most dishonest company there is, don't trust a word they tell you.

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2017

    Service outages, called cust. service, tech says cable bury from box to house is unsat., need new cable in conduit buried. He calls in bury ticket. Dispatch unilaterally cancels that ticket. I restore it, they unilaterally cancel again. I call supervisor to restore, and he assures me notes on ticket will NOT cancel. Today it's cancelled a 3rd time unilaterally. Cust. service & customers not allowed to talk to dispatch, they are insulated from contact and never return messages. So they can decide to just not work and cust. service says "oh well, nothing I can do." This is UNSAT. a company that doesn't do work they promised, cust. service that can't schedule and verify work done or escalate to get someone to do their job... Why isn't dispatch cleaned house and get people in there that actually will do the job?

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    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2017

    This is insane, the most nasty people I ever spoken. I been with this company for more than 5 years and it seems that the price is going up every time. So I called to change the plan since I have almost 300 channel and I don’t watch too many TV. I asked for a basic channel and internet. Well after I spoke with 3 people, which they don’t have a knowledge and don’t know what they doing, I asked for a manager which her name was Drew and she was even worse, and rude and sound more like a robot, by repeating herself that she was given me a best deal. Well how the hell you are giving me the best deal, do the math. I have almost 300 channel with internet for $120. And you are giving me a best deal with 9 channel and internet for $100. What kind a deal is this, but yes a best deal for the company.

    This a rip-off company which they trying just to make money for themself. Disgusting insane company, they don’t care about customer, and when I asked for the plans they have online, she said that's not for standing customer. It’s for new customer only so (they get them in) and that was with this unprofessional, rude and robot manager Drew which she was repeating herself about the good deal, over and over without thinking. These people don’t care and don’t DO NOT value the customer. Unbelievable... I hope that everyone leaves this company like I’m going to do, so they can lose their job and their business, so they can understand and value the customer, which pays their bills... Disgusting insane a rip-off company!

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    Reviewed Oct. 5, 2017

    They unilaterally dropped my service until I paid them approximately $300 which I didn't know I owed. They claimed they had emailed me 5 days earlier but I never received it. After 18 years as a customer their actions and subsequent customer service were terrible. They would not send me a copy of the alleged email and were aggressive in their comments. Since they have taken over Bright House they've raised rates twice and continue to have numerous monthly interruptions. To better ensure I get their emails so I know I owe them money before they disconnect service I asked them to send a paper bill as well to which they told me they charge $1. If you have an alternative get rid of Spectrum.

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    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2017

    Spectrum is horrific!!! Please we have to do something. I'm calling for a boycott. I know winter is coming but this company is out of control. This is the worst cable provider I have ever had to deal with!!! My bill was $148. Spectrum took over and it went to $194. I called to discuss this. Was quoted $154 losing channels and my home line. I was fine with that. THEN GET THIS! I was transferred to someone to disconnect my home phone and told I was given the wrong information, he said sorry but... ready for this??? You will still lose cable channels and your home phone and pay $202 a month. I couldn't even respond. I just hung up.

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    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2017

    Just about every month Spectrum calls and harasses me after I've told them several times that I don't want to upgrade my service. All I want is internet, I don't want their tv or phone package that they are trying to push down everyone's throat. Why do I need a home phone when I have a cell and why would I pay for cable when I can get Netflix, Hulu and Amazon cheaper and watch what I want. But that's not the straw that broke the camels back with me, about every 2 or 3 months they call me saying that I've missed a payment. How is it that possible, I have plenty of money in the bank and it's on autopay. I tell you how it's possible, they are doing it on purpose. So that you have link a bank account number to your Time Warner account, so it's harder to cancel. But I have news for them, next week I'll be canceling my service with them.

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    Reviewed Oct. 2, 2017

    Spectrum, perhaps the most despised company where I live, has the nerve to run incredibly sappy ads promoting its excellence. In fact, locals call it speculum ~ which is a medical device ~ insinuating they screw their customers. How? Price, promises, and impudence. First, my service includes basic tv with no extras or premiums, landline which I don't use, and the lowest internet speed available, all for the amazing price of $156 per month. I am told that this is as cheap as it comes. Though my Spectrum bill has doubled in six years, my income has gone down. When I asked to quit my phone service, I was told that doing so would cost me $15 per month MORE. Charging more when removing a service sounds downright illegal.

    Second, just try to take advantage of an advertised price. In my experience, it doesn't apply to existing customers or so I'm told. Admittedly, I have given up the "trying." Third, I don't need to address the rudeness issue as so many reviewers (at this website) have already done a great job describing their experiences. Just a few cable companies control the market like AT&T controlled phone service a number of years ago before it was broken up by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Is it time for government to take a look at the cable monopoly?

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2017

    Right now when you call them the standard response via automated voice is "We are experiencing a high volume of calls at this time, please hang up and call back." Does not matter what time of the day it is - same response. Useless service provider but there are not a lot of choices out there -- unfortunately!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2017

    I paid a new bill that was 353.00 and then they cut me off. I had service for 3 months. Now I have a extra bill that I never had. This company is a rip off. They told me to call a collection agency. I did. I was told no one had me in their account. No one can help me. I want my money back. They are fraud. No bill. No account.

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    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2017

    Worst company ever. Why we pay for service... I have no idea. We can't get any of our channels to work and the internet service is down about 80% of the time each day. We have had someone come out to "fix" the problem. Within a hour or so the problems start back up. Ridiculous to pay monthly for no service.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2017

    I’ve had Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) service for many years. I would switch service to AT&T or Spectrum depending on who had a better deal at the time. Both companies are terrible but that’s for another review. Internet service has always been bad with Spectrum but there are no other internet providers in my area and they take advantage of the legal monopoly. If you want the internet speed you paid for you have to call at least every other week for them to “reset your modem” or whatever they want to tell you the problem is. Then After a 30 minute phone call your internet is magically working and you may or may not be able to pry a few dollars of credit out of the customer service representative.

    This past month they really got me upset when my service was constantly below 10mbps (worst it’s ever been) when I was paying for 50mbps. I’m working two jobs and going to school and I didn’t have time to call customer service for the whole month. Today I set aside time to solve the problem and sure enough after a 30 minute call to customer service my internet is magically fixed again. After demanding a credit on my next bill and stating I had records of every speed test I’ve done in the past month I received $5.

    My bill is $50 for 50mbps, I was getting 10mbps or below for a month with proof of poor service. They said that because I was still receiving some service and that there were no “outages” recorded, they couldn’t give me any more credit. I would have been happy with $25 or at least $15. I mean seriously, it’s going towards my next bill for heavens sake. But they just give you $5 to shut you up, and hope you don’t have the patience to call back next month. This is plain stealing, a business that has any care for its reputation will give its consumers their money back if they’re good or service does not deliver what was agreed upon.

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    Reviewed Sept. 20, 2017

    I always feel there is room for improvement. Like letting their customers know when there is going to be a rate increase. I am on a fixed budget so I have to watch every penny. I switched from CenturyLink who was double what I am paying now. Their every month would creep up, with NO explanation.

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    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2017

    I called Spectrum yesterday thinking I was calling Bright House. I told them I wanted to set up my internet in my formal dining room area. They said they could do it. First, the service person called me and was making every excuse he could not to show up, I told him to get here and hung up. He gets here and I tell him what I want done and he says, "Oh I know Bright House use to do that but we don't do that stuff." I then asked, "What the hell do you do?" And kicked him out the door. Thank you Bright House for ** us over!! Now we have a cable company that doesn't want to do what everyone else does and is used to. Spectrum you are a piece of ** company!!! ** you piece of trash company!!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2017

    I received an invitation for a special cable and internet combined promotion. When I called to accept the offer the customer service representative very rudely told me that their prices had gone up from the three days prior that I got the offer and it was no longer valid. When I asked to speak with a customer service manager she left me on hold for about 15 minutes before coming back and telling me no one was available that someone would have to return my call. Here we are two weeks later three phone calls in and about 7 emails with no resolution nor any contact.

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    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2017

    If possible, never do business with Spectrum (formerly Time-Warner). Customer service is the poorest I have ever experienced. Discovered them digging in my yard one day to replace their cable which did not work any longer (I was not a subscriber at this point). Their effort so far had damaged my lawn, broken the sidewalk with their boring machine, and broke a lawn sprinkler head. I opened a complaint and was assured that damage would be taken care of. Met on site with both Spectrum rep and contractor rep who documented problem.

    Since my house was for sale, I think they decided to just ignore problems. I had to purchase a sprinkler head and fix the damaged irrigation system myself when the rep who was supposed to fix it just did not return as scheduled. I made several calls for reimbursement of repair expenses and was told that someone would call me but they just don't. This is why I don't do business with them as they do not care about customers. Mathew ** was the supervisor from Spectrum I met with and Mike ** from Cat 5 was the rep who was to repair the damaged sprinkler. My claim number was **. Should anyone care to verify my complaint. They can change their name but their services remain poor at best and dishonest at worst.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 11, 2017

    Bright House went to Spectrum, and Spectrum for my TV with Showtime, one DVR and one HD box and within two years they've gone from charging me $140 a month to $195.31 a month. I called to complain and spoke with Miss **, a supervisor, because everybody I spoke to lied to me. After complaining profusely, I was told I would be charged $185.01 per month, and when I received the very next bill it was $195. TV, telephone, Internet and Showtime. My friends and I are all changing to Frontier (FL) PS. Their CEO signed a $75 million contract to go with them. Nice, huh?!?

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 3, 2017

    I have been with Bright House for many years now. Ever since Spectrum took over the customer service has seriously declined and the service (primarily internet) is basically non existent. I have to reset my cable modem and router every day, sometimes multiple times a day. They always state their signal is fine, etc but my I can access the internet much faster using a hotspot on my phone even when my 4G is all used up.

    I also have had billing issues. The most recent stating that my last ACH payment came back NSF. This is impossible for two reasons. One, I have had plenty of money in my account to cover whatever comes through. Two, both of my banks have confirmed to me that no ACH payment was ever presented to them by Spectrum. They charged me the NSF fee and will not remove it from my account. They told me it is impossible to do. As a person who has worked for service provider companies and have dealt with these issues, I know that is a lie.

    Also, they cut off my internet (I thought it was just the usual issues or thunderstorms causing me problems) and I am a student trying to complete my final projects. I had already used up all of my 4G because I wasn't aware they cut off my internet until I got the notice I'd used all of my 4G and so without my internet I had to buy more 4G and hotspot to work on my school work.

    To make matters worse, when I had noticed that the payment had not come out of my account on the 18th of June, I made another payment while waiting for that to resolve. This did not prevent them from turning off my internet even thought the other payment had been returned (according to them). They still refuse to provide any satisfaction to this situation. I finally told the third customer service person that I spoke to that they can just close out my account. I paid the final balance and their stupid NSF and late fees. I can't deal with their terrible customer service and terrible internet service anymore.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2017

    Poor quality service. I have been experiencing problems with Bright House since I moved to Florida in 2014. Now that Spectrum has taken over it's even worse. They continue to have service outage and my bill keeps going up. Why can't this town in Florida offer more competitive service like Cable Vision or DirecTV? Where I live I have no alternative but to go with Bright House. It is a scam. In the politicians to do nothing to protect the consumer... There was Bright House Spectrum service outage in Davenport, FL today. I have no landline phone, no Internet and no cable TV. This is the second time I called them and told them I want two days' credit. I'm not paying for service that I don't have! If it's happening to you call and get your credit on your account. This is ridiculous.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 28, 2017

    I have been a customer of Bright House for a few year. On Jun 27, 17 I talked to a bright house employee in the morning (still have record log in my cell phone). She said that Bright House change to Spectrum and she will send out someone to pick my old modem and send a new faster modem between 12-2 pm. The new modem will run faster speed 60 mbps compare to old 25 mbps. And she said our monthly price will be $44.95. A lady showed up to pick up the old modem around 12:30 pm and I asked her "Are you dropping of the faster modem". She said "That person will come behind her". So I keep waiting and nobody to show up to drop off the new faster modem. I called Bright House and asked them and spoke to Victor (supervisor) from North Carolina plant. They said they have no record of the dropping off the new modem but he saw I called in the morning.

    Finally, They disconnected my service and want to charge me around $65 monthly and also want to charged me a reconnection fee $35. I told Victor "This is your employee fault and now your company increase my monthly to $65 and charge me a reconnection fee $34? Is this fair???" The lady picked up the old modem lied to me and the lady representative lied and did not do as she said.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 21, 2017

    Back in 2014 we were currently customers of Bright House we had moved and had to open up a new account. Upon doing that our payments were being put on it account that was supposed to have been closed. They sent me a bill say to stating I owed $465. Upon calling them to settle the issue I was told they put it on the wrong account and there was nothing they could do about it or was going to do about it. I have disputed it several times and still they have not fixed their mistake. Just recently about three years ago my husband decided to give them another chance when we moved to our new home. They continued raising prices changing everything so we cancelled service. they came and picked up the equipment and now they are trying to bill us once again for equipment saying that it wasn't returned.

    We called them with our confirmation that they picked it up and still more bull crap stories. I would not recommend this cable company to anybody. The only thing I have on my credit is Bright House as being negative and yet has been able to get this issue resolved considering that I've already paid the bill. I don't feel that I should have to pay it again but yet it's still being held against me and hurting my credit score. So when looking into cable companies I highly suggest stay as far away from Bright House and Spectrum as you can.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2017

    DVR cable box stuck for 3 days on l-3 with no service. Replaced box 2 times still the same issue. Call services support, reboot device many times, still the same issue. Tech came, check signal and all good but still the same issue. Now waiting for the second tech arrived to my house...paying for something that I can't used.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed May 12, 2017

    Prices have skyrocketed. I called about the new pricing and was told that I would lose 40 channels and my price would go up $11 if I went to the same package it was over $20 per month more... I was transferred to retention who offered me a package where I would lose 40 channels but my price would actually go down $8. I agreed. They were able to change to the new package as I was on the phone. I took notes and reviewed to make sure I understood. I then left town for 3 days. Upon my return I find out that I did not lose 40 channels. I lost over 100 channels. I was told that I would have 165+ channels.

    My channels also now turn very slowly. I called to make sure that a mistake was not made. I was told then that I was only given the 125 channel package and there was nothing they could do. WHAT? NO ONE EVER SAID ANYTHING about a 125 channel package. I would not have lost over 100 channels for $8. That is just stupid! I was actually talking to a very nice guy in sales named Larry who sort of made it better. My price went up $15 but I gained back some of the channels. So now I have 175 channels compared to my 225 plus channels and I am paying a lot more money. DO NOT change your package if you are on an old Bright House package. I am very unhappy as there are no other options. Have no TV or get ripped off. I thought there were laws against this!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 29, 2017

    We've been w/ Bright House-- now Spectrum for 7 years-- started with exact same package under $100 per month for cable, house phone & internet. Understanding inflation, completely acceptable to expect rate increases over the years. HOWEVER, approx TWICE a year, all the sudden your monthly bill changes, with no warning, nothing. In the past, when we've called to inquire, the company was usually pretty good about putting you on whatever their most recent promotion is, helping to keep the bill reasonable. Now, here we are & in less than 2 months, my bill has gone up TWICE-- a little over $3 last month to approx $151. per month, and now this month to over $167 per month.

    Upon calling both times, we are told, "Sorry, that's the best you can have"-- REGARDLESS of being a perfect pay customer of 7 YEARS and REGARDLESS of new customers receiving bundled services, for the SAME 3 services we have @$29.95 each = less than $100 per month!!! Buyer Beware --- YOU WILL GET SUCKED IN AT A GREAT/FAIR PRICE-- BUT DON'T SET UP AUTO PAY OR SET YOUR BUDGET FOR SAME PAYMENT EVERY MONTH. Further-- there is zero loyalty from this company to their long term customers. Shopping out services from other companies NOW...

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed April 25, 2017

    We have been a loyal customer of Bright House Network for 16 years and have never had a problem with them. Of course, prices go up and discounts expire; however, all you had to do was call Bright House customer service and they would work with you and offer new promotions/discounts and life goes on. NOW we have to deal with SPECTRUM and the only thing that they can offer is less for a lot more money. Why is this, because we do not qualify for any of their promotions because we are/were Bright House customers. I spent almost an hour on the phone with SPECTRUM customer service and no matter how they worked it out, I pay more for less.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 19, 2017

    My condo association changed our cable contract to Bright House / Spectrum. On January 1, 2017, my service was changed over. Every bill that I have received from them each month has not been correct. I was billed for a Spanish channel for 2 months. Called to get credit. $20.00 credit was never applied. Showed my account past due because the credit was not applied and showed a balance of $20.00. Was charged $8.95 late fee. Called to get late fee credited and to be sure the $20.00 credit was being applied.

    Next bill... totally screwed up. I called again. Was told adjustments were made and told me what I should pay on the next month's bill. I paid what I was told. Next month... I was billed late charges again, because adjustments/credits still not applied. I paid current month's bill on 3/29/17 (not due until 4/16/17). Said they did not receive the payment. (My bank verified it was sent. I had to fax the proof to Bright House Cash Management so they could trace a "missing payment.") I kept receiving automated calls that I was past due. When I finally got to actually "talk" a person in Cash Management regarding all the errors on my account, she mentioned, "Your service has been turned back on." I said, "Why was it even turned off???" Then I go to my account online, and I was charged $4.99 to reconnect for nonpayment???

    The errors on MY account are made by Bright House / Spectrum. I have done EVERYTHING I can do to keep my account paid. What happened to customer service??? They should make sure MY account is correct, and then figure out what is WRONG in their system. It should be an internal issue, and the customer (me) should not have to continuously receive INCORRECT STATEMENTS. I just want to receive a bill for exactly what I owe every month. It should always be the same... I don't add anything or order anything. I just want to be billed for what my account was supposed to be set up for on January 1, 2017. It is now April 19 and I have yet to get a correct statement.

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    Installation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed April 13, 2017

    Was called and sold on a $10/month upgrade to add basic cable and telephone line. Was told there would be no installation fee and I would have two boxes. Had one box installed and received a bill that was $50 higher than usual, not the $10 increase I expected. Called and they said there was an installation fee and that another box would be $5/month. I was either lied to or they are incompetent. If the other choices for internet were not so poor, I would drop Spectrum in a heartbeat.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 12, 2017

    I have contacted the Tech Support several times, I've had techs come to the house twice but the problem continues. I have been told by Spectrum and the HOA that many of my neighbors have also complained about the internet connectivity, and that techs will be sent to fix the problem. Last time I called the internet support tech said the outages in the community has been resolved that same day, and that they could offer for another tech to come and change the equipment.

    Shortly after the tech left today the internet dropped again. The tech over the phone instructed me to unplug the power and wait, the same thing I have been told to do each time I call. I explained to him this is a reoccurring issue and that removing power will only temporarily fix the issue, he replied with nothing can be done by him.

    I am disappointed in the quality of service I have received in attempt to fix this issue, I've had techs immediately respond and try and fix the issue and others who want to get off the phone, either way the issue isn't resolved. I just want consistent internet service. I am paying over $140 for their fastest internet speed, even when the internet is up it is incredibly slow as shown on many speed test done by me and over the phone with a internet tech.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2017

    My father was in the hospital, hospice, and we have to deal with funeral home (Feb-March). So we call, they had a $370+ bill, then they said was now over $700. My son took the March 17 bill and death certificate (March 4th) to their office with the equipment. Bright House Networks know he did not use Feb and March but would not waive it one dime. They bill until you cancel they said (but they did disconnect his service in March; liars too). Well I don't think my Dad could cancel then or now. He's passed. My father died and they still billed him for non usage. These people are crooks IMHO. No respect for my family during this very sad time. All about the money. We paid so probate does not get hung up. People try anyone else, trust me.

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed April 3, 2017

    My bill continues to increase. They are advertising $29.99 bundles. I currently have basic Cable with Phone and Internet. My bill is over 200 per month. I called about the bundles they are advertising and was told the promotion is not for existing customers. Only new customers qualify. I don't understand. I've been a customer for 13+ years but yet I don't qualify for a bundle or promotion? I asked if there was anything that could be done for their loyal customers and was told there is nothing. When I advised that I would have to shop elsewhere to lower my bill I was told by the Rep "I do understand". I guess they only want new customers and screw all the long time loyal customers. Time for a change.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2017

    Coming from the North (Now I am in the South) I was looking forward to getting Xfinity from Comcast. Unfortunately Comcast does not service my area instead I am tortured by Bright House Spectrum which has the worst cable service ever. I barely watch TV as is and when I go on On Demand to catch up on my shows I get an error message or the box will freeze. I have only had this service for 3 weeks. I never thought I'd say this but I miss having Comcast. Bright House is the only option for my cable so I am stuck with it but I am not happy at all. I am also not looking forward to my $150 month bill either for such crappy service.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed March 18, 2017

    When Spectrum took over Bright House, I met with the Spectrum rep at the Key Vista clubhouse. He gave me a written quote to switch over my "triple-play" bundle ($29, $29, $29, under $110 with tax and fees). My first bill was $270. I complained to the local office in Tarpon Springs FL and they told me that I would have to bring the written quote to their office (could not send by fax or email). When I brought them the quote, they said they were aware of the problem and that I would get a credit for the overcharge and would be billed at the quoted rate which did not happen. I then contacted Spectrum and they said that I did not qualify for the quoted rate because I was not a "new customer" by their definition. After more complaint calls the charge was adjusted to 170.

    Later, when I called to cancel the service they reduced the charge to $142/mo. I still believe that Spectrum should honor the 12-mo quote that their rep gave me when I signed up. I also feel that it would be appropriate for Spectrum to compensate me for the time I spent trying to get them to honor our agreement. Over 12 hours on phone/hold and travel to/from the Spectrum office. In my opinion two months' free service would be fair.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 17, 2017

    I moved to my apartment complex back in 2013 which they had a account with Bright House for cable. I put cable and everything was fine. I had financial problems months later and my cable was disconnected but I paid it to have connected again and continue to make payments. Without my knowledge they closed my account and gave me a new one which I was paying the bill. I periodically check my credit when I see they have put it on my credit report the old account and was charging me over $400. At this time I was getting continuously cable.

    On March 10, 2017 made a payment of $171.74 which they applied it to the old account that they said it was a write-off. I've called numerous times which they haven't help me at all only to say to me today March 17, 2017 "you need to pay the remainder of $245." And we can't transfer the payment you made from the old account to the new one. They are terrible, they are thieves, everyone gives me different answers completely worthless. I don't have my old account number. I wish I could sue!

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    Reviewed March 16, 2017

    I ordered Spectrum service in hope that I could live stream movies and sporting events the same as on my cell phone (I have 4g LTE from a major cell carrier and am able to live stream movies and videos on my laptop with no changes to the settings on my laptop with no clipping stopping and or resetting service from my cell phone to my laptop).

    When I plugged in my cable from spectrum to my laptop to stream movies and sports I would see clipping and delays in the video and eventually would freeze on laptop screen. My speed from my cell carrier to laptop is 8 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up. Spectrum was running at 100 Mbps up and 10 Mbps down. Never could get service to work from spectrum. Canceled service.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed March 15, 2017

    I had Bright House last year for two months, they told me December my rate will go out twice the amount because I was being grandfathers in to Spectrum. December 17, 2016 I had the service disconnected and took all the equipment to a Bright House store. Today is March 15, 2017. I was called this morning and told my service is now disconnected and I have a balance of $900, wtf. I been on the phone all morning and told I need to go to the store. I took the equipment and find whoever to prove they did their job correctly because it shows I have the equipment. Bright House is a rip off. They only take all your money, the speed is slow and they will not log your equipment when the time comes you don't want the service.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed March 15, 2017

    I have been a loyal customer with Bright House Networks and have never complained. In December of this year, my credit card number got stolen but my credit card company assured me it would automatically update all my auto payment accounts with the correct number. Unfortunately, that didn't work for Spectrum and I didn't realize it until January. I was only late for my payment by a few days and put in my new CC number and continued on with auto-correct. I thought that everything was updated for my account until last weekend. I occasionally work from home on the weekends and realized my internet and cable were both not working on a Saturday. Thinking it was a technical issue, I called and was told that my account was CANCELLED because of a late payment in February (by again 4 days). Apparently, I had to call to update my new CC number in the system and not just put it in online.

    I received 0 notifications of a late payment and when I logged in to my account, it even incorrectly said that I had 0 balance. I told the rep that I was working from home and could just make a payment over the phone but they refused and had me drive to customer service location and pay in cash to reactivate my account. After I drove almost two hours to make the payment and come home, nothing was working. I called again and was told I didn't pay "enough" which was absolutely ridiculous since I paid the full balance in person. I had to talk to several more people and finally a manager to get it sorted it. I am an oncologist taking emergent patient phone calls over the weekend from my patients. Urgently needed the internet so I had to have my colleague cover me for most of the day.

    My biggest complaint is the lack of communication from this company. How can you cancel a customer's service without any notification?? Many of us depend on the internet to work and pay high premiums to get it. One of the reps even admitted that many customers have had similar issues recently. I'm looking for other providers in the area and cannot wait to cancel my service.

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    Reviewed March 12, 2017

    This service is beyond frustrating. On Demand works for 3 minutes then flips back to main menu! Change channels and get "Please wait" message. Then another message "Channel is unavailable. Please try again later". Wait another minute or two and the channel comes through. What a piece of junk. And there is no such thing as escalation! Just go on hold and listen to instructions on how to reboot the modem. If I wanted to troubleshoot your problem and fix it myself I would not have called for assistance.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 10, 2017

    Bright House Cable has been overcharging me since the year of 2013/14 to present. I moved in my new place in the month of July 31, 2013 with a zero balance of my bill. I was told my bill will be $95 plus tax. They came out on Aug. 1, 2013 to install my cable in my new place. I got a bill saying I owed $145.00 for September which I paid. (Although I called to dispute) I paid $100.00 in October. When I opened my bill in November, the bill was $637.00. Thinking and knowing this has to be a mistake, I called them. These people told me that my bill was correct. I told them that this is a major mistake, and I have never in my life (since I've had cable) seen numbers like this! They insisted that they were right! I told them, "Look I've only been living here for 3 months, and there is no way that my cable bill could possibly show these ridiculous numbers."

    I have been going back and forth with these people for 4 years and I'm still seeing these ridiculous numbers on my bill. Where I live I have HOA whereas cable is included, and I do not have ANY movie channels (never have because I don't look at movie channels). I'm still trying to dispute these ridiculous numbers on my bill, but of course they transfer you all across the country as I repeatedly tell my story over and over again! I know for a fact that they are robbing me with no doubt! Instead of taking responsibility for their wrongdoing, they even tried to tell me that I had not paid my bill.

    I went to my bank, and faxed my documents to them showing where all my money had came out. They told me that they see where I had paid, and will refund me my money 5-7 days. No money refunded, and my cable bill is still way over the limit!!! I have called Channel 8 on your side because someone need to stop these people from robbing people of their hard earned money!!! Can someone please help me!!! They are liars, and are stealing!

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    Reviewed March 3, 2017

    I received an offer from Spectrum for internet service at $39.99 for 12 months. After ordering the service I was billed at $44.99 and not the advertised price. After contacting Spectrum I was told there had been a price increase. I questioned that I had sign up for the service at an advertised price at $39.99 FOR 12 MONTHS. The representative said there was nothing she would do and they would not honor the price that they had advertised. I will be leaving them again asap.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2017

    I returned to Spectrum in December 2016 after being with another tv provider company for 2 years. They offered me a promotional package for $142.00 (no tax). My bills have been $500 and I have made approximately 13 calls and it's still not fixed. Thus far, I have paid 492.13 in which I should only have paid 300 and I'm ahead of the billing cycle. I have asked for the Corporate phone number and they send me to everyone under the sun. My bill is currently at $400 and I am livid. I can't get anybody to assist me!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2017

    About 3 days ago I started having issues with my internet service. I pay for 100 download/10 upload service and now my internet is randomly running at 9-108 download /0.3-2.6 upload, yes that is correct. 9 download and point 3 (not 3.0) upload. My service also randomly drops me and my download and upload sit at 0 for a few seconds.

    I called tech support and they sent someone from maintenance to fix my connection issues. When the Tech arrived, he informed me that there was nothing he could do to fix my service. He also informed me that Spectrum was "cleaning" up the mess that Brighthouse had in this area and that my connection could be this way for months with no estimated time of repair and no compensation for the horrible service I will be provided with. So what I am being told is that I have to pay full price for crappy connection for an unestimated time frame? Are you serious?

    I was not having ANY connection issues 3 days ago and haven't for about a year. I greatly appreciate the honesty from the tech but I cannot believe that business practice of Spectrum/Brighthouse/Charter. I think it's time for me to start looking for another provider. Just to make my point, I am added some images taken of my connection speed using brighthouse speed test at http://speedtest.bhn.net/ which was suggested by Spectrum/Brighthouse/Charter phone tech support. I am unable to show you when the speed tests froze from losing connection but this in itself are good representations of my connection.

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    Price

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2017

    I have been a Bright House customer for many years. It was recently bought by Spectrum. The price of my services increased and the quality decreased. I called to ask if I could get my price lowered so I could stay with them and they said "NO". I tried finding another service and realized my area is monopolized by them and AT&T. I will never use AT&T again and now know that Spectrum knows that they too, have me right where they want me. Two bills, two increase already. Who can I contact about being gouged?

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2017

    I pay my bills online through my brokerage cash management account. My payment to Bright House does not get posted as paid by Brighthouse. The payment showed up as outstanding meaning that Brighthouse never accepted the electronic payment. The supervisor for Brighthouse says that they have trouble accepting electronic 3rd party payments. I cannot believe that a company of this size in this business can be so out of touch and inept in this day and age. They say I have to send them a payment direct because they can't handle electronic payments! However, I shouldn't be surprised; all of their services are of very poor quality. I can't wait to get back to my DirecTV!

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    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2017

    Telesales call from Brighthouse wanting me to upgrade my modem. I had declined before. My system worked fine. Brighthouse offered 60 mbps which is more than I need. I declined again. The rep says no charge for install and no increase in modem rent. Finally, I relented and said come on out. They did and my sister was visiting from out of state. I was not there. When I returned I found that my wifi was disabled and the new modem had its own. I worked for hours trying to get my wifi back up. It never fully has recovered and my printer remains offline and not working. The phones calls drop every day and almost every call. I have since bought new phones and a new wifi. But my tech savvy friends tell me it's best to get a new computer with newer operating system as well as mine is 4 years old.

    To continue I finally called tech and they turned me to sales and after dodging my original complaint they offered to subscribe me to their wifi. For only $6 bucks a month. You can buy a great wifi for less than $80 why would I want to "rent" wifi at $6 a month? $72 cost the first year, $144 the next and so on. I called and asked for my old modem back. They responded with "can't do it". I asked for tech to come out and they responded with "they don't work on privately owned equipment". SCAM. SCAM.SCAM. Just an extra bit of profit margin they can squeeze. After a bit of asking around I found the exact story with not only residential clients but business accounts as well. FYI, the BHN/speed test reveals it's not that fast after all.

    DON'T LET THEM CHANGE MODEMS ON YOU. As far as tv, I've canceled the premiums long ago. Not worth the extra fee to watch movies from the 80's and 90's. Now I have HULU, Netflix and soon to come Sling. I have double channels, same channels just different number, so I have lost some. I can't wait to fully cut this cord and never come back. Through Christmas I traveled to Illinois. They have Spectrum fully installed. It's a nightmare to try and navigate. Why we let these huge corporations merge I have no idea. The promise is always better quality and service with a lower price. That's never true. In this case it's worse quality, price and service.

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    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2017

    What's the point of high HOA fee to include cable when it doesn't? I had Bright House/Spectrum internet in my old apt.. Had downgraded to just internet because cable prices were ridiculous. I just moved to a new location that has an HOA that gives all residents free cable, internet and phone. The tech I spoke to that was installing someone else's service said I get 1 HD box, 2 converters, internet and phone for free. If I want wireless internet, it would cost less than $10 a month.

    When I called, not only was I transferred twice and had to wait over an hr. for them to get my acct. set up correctly, but they said I only get one box. They said I can get the other 2 converters if I was grandfathered into the plan. They said Spectrum only has regular boxes. My advice is to go with anyone else. If you have to pay for cable, get internet with anyone else and just stream. At least until Spectrum gets better service. Right now the employees are at that crossroad where left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. God knows what is happening internally, but it's definitely affecting their customer service.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2017

    I had Bright House internet services. I was paying $34.95 a month. Very fast, never a problem. Since the merger here in Central Florida the price nearly doubled to $60.30 for the same service. I called customer service and lied to me saying that my promotional price had expired. I was never had a promotional price. That's what I had been paying for the past year and a half. As I told the woman at customer service I will be looking for another provider.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2017

    I have been a Bright House customer for several years and have always been very happy with their customer service on helping me resolve tech problems and with making payment arrangements. And the past two weeks my mind has been changed due to the incident. January 15, 2017, I had agreed to make a payment. My bill was $189.56 and I called in on January 15, 2017 to the automated line and made a payment with my bank card which is the same card I use every time to pay my bill so Bright House automatically saves the card number. So I made a payment of $190.00 which I rounded up to make it easier. Went on about my day.

    The next day was Monday I went to work 9-5 and on my way home needed to stop at the grocery store to buy food for my family. So I looked at my bank account balance before I went shopping and my account was extremely lower than it should have been so I browsed thru my recent transactions and saw the Bright House withdrawal of $190.00 then the next transaction was a Circle K Gas amount. The next transaction was another Bright House withdrawal on January 15, 2017 for the amount of $189.56. And I realized that the 2nd withdrawal... must have been a mistake so I called Bright House immediately and explained my situation. And the C.S.R. said, "Let me look at your account." Then he sees the double withdrawal on the same day for the slightly different amounts and says that his records showed I made a payment by phone of $190.00 and on the same day.

    It shows in his records that I also drove to a Bright House Office and made a payment in person for $189.56. And I assured him that I did not drive to their Office and pay in person (as the computer said). And I nicely told him that I believed that because they stored my bank info into their computers. That someone must have did an accidental automatic withdrawal. So after going thru the details I assured him THAT I NEVER NOT ONCE, AGREED TO ANY AUTO-WITHDRAWAL. And I also explained that I am a single mom with two kids and I only get paid every two weeks. And that I needed that money for groceries and gas for the next 2 weeks. The CSR said he was documenting everything and he was then filing a ticket to refund and it would take 2-3 business days. And it would show back in my account.

    So I waited.... and by Thurs I called back to ask why I haven't received my refund yet. And this CSR said, "Ok explain to me what happened." So I did... Then the CSR says it may take 3-5 business days. So I waited a few more days and I called on Friday Jan 20th. And spoke to a CSR she said It may take a few days. So I asked to speak to a manager. And again I explained what happened. And the manager tells me that she found my "Ticket/Req for Refund" in the wrong location department. So she said she was filing it to the correct department and it would take another 3-5 more days. So I waited again... checking my bank account daily and still NOTHING WAS RETURNED!!!

    NOW TODAY IS JANUARY 30 2017 AND I CALLED AGAIN TO SPEAK with someone. I explained once again to the CSR what happened. And she tells me that now my next bill is due. No refund will be made. So me and my family struggled for 2 weeks to get by on almost no money or food because Bright House never claimed responsibility for the double withdrawal and then lied to me for 2 weeks that it was filed wrong or misplaced long enough until they could say that my next bill is now due today so there will be no refund of money to my bank!!! I am pretty sure their mouths were fed and they did not worry about how to have gas for 2 weeks to get to work everyday.

    I had faith that Bright House was going to RIGHT THEIR WRONG. So now it is time to let my Bank's Fraud Department handle it while I find and Cable/Internet Company. So if any customers read this it could happen to you too. WARNING. And to Bright House Management you are sure happy to make payment arrangements. But returning money that you took unlawfully deducted and then procrastinate until a time that you could say, "Well you did not get your money refunded 2 weeks ago. Because now 2 weeks later your next bill is due!!" That's not the way to treat your customers.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2017

    I am not normally driven to the brink of writing complaint letters, but in this case I am compelled by the reprehensible bait and switch tactic of Spectrum customer service. I have been a customer of Bright House for nearly 20 years and basically satisfied with the service other than the rising cost and then suddenly with the transition to Spectrum I lost a couple channels because now they were moved to an upgraded package. This is where things go downhill...

    My wife contacted customer service to inquire about making some changes. She was advised by a rep named Pam that our modem is not correct and we needed an upgraded modem. She put in an order to have a tech bring one out. When he showed up he said the modem we had was the right one and Pam didn't know what she was talking about, that if he changed the modem nothing would work because we are Bright House customers and the codes would need to be changed for Spectrum. My wife calls back and speaks to a customer service rep who tells her that to have the 100 mb modem and the package that includes the channels we had under Bright House our bill would cost even more than what we were currently charged.

    Our objective was to lower our bill, not raise it. My wife stated that we would just eliminate cable, but was transferred to the retention department where she spoke with a very nice rep named Kasey. Kasey offered a new 100 mb modem, up to 4 dvrs for a year, and the Silver Package that included our prior channels, and our monthly bill would be reduced by about $30. Fair enough, rather than drop cable we accepted the offer. Technician Parker came and installed the dvrs and modem. For 2 plus weeks we enjoyed the service, until one day the wifi didn't work and couldn't get the premium channels. Thinking it was a technical issue we called in. Ultimately we were told that we would have to pay $3.00 more for wifi. That's where things got ugly.

    We were transferred to the retention department and were told that we are not eligible for the services we were offered by Kasey 2-plus weeks prior because we were not new Spectrum customers. Well, in a way we are technically new to Spectrum because we transitioned over from Bright House, but that's beside the point. Also, they said our order had been cancelled. How was it cancelled when a tech came out and installed a modem and 4 dvrs which worked fine for over 2 weeks? We asked to speak to a supervisor who confirmed we were not eligible for the service we had agreed to, that other rep was in error, made no concessions to right the wrong and retain a 20 year customer, but if we wanted to keep the service as is our bill would actually be $35 more than where it had been previously with Bright House.

    This can be called nothing but a case of Bait and Switch, not lack of training as suggested by the supervisor. After 3 hours spent on the phone, we asked to speak to someone higher up the corporate ladder, but were told we would have to go through the website and write a complaint letter. So here it is. Ultimately, we were compelled to discontinue our relationship with Bright House/Spectrum and requested to cancel service effective January 27 and have taken service with a competitor. Also we are seeking to join a class action suit.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2017

    Several automated answers which state "all our associates are busy now, please call back" CLICK! After two weeks of failed attempts, I wait on hold 20 minutes to discuss reducing my service to basic – we have AMAZON, HULU, HBO online and don't need the big package any longer. Being a customer for 3+ years I expected to save a few $$. Nope, although I pay in excess of $240.00 monthly - my rate would INCREASE if I downgraded to BASIC cable?! I saw no other option than to cancel and sign up with ATT. Now I can't get a hold of Spectrum to return their equipment... ugh.

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2017

    Bright House have just been taken over by Spectrum and already the service has gone down the drain. Prices are rocketing and they don't care whether you stay or go. But if you have a problem they normally attend the same day and there is no charge.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2017

    My 87 yr. old mother and 95 yr. old father have been clients of Bright House for at least 15 years. Their bill has always been on auto pay. Recently, a credit card was changed by their bank, and they forgot their Bright House/Spectrum bill was on auto pay, and forgot to send the new credit card info to Bright House/Spectrum, and of course the payment was declined by the old credit card. They received no notification of what the problem was, other than a new bill with a new amount due. The bill was paid by check, and my parents did not realize it was still on auto pay (they are 87 and 95!) but Bright House/Spectrum, with only one payment due, turned off their service for phone and tv leaving them with NO ABILITY TO CALL 911!!!

    After at least 2 hours on the phone trying to resolve this, we were told payment had to be made in person in cash, and the office would not be open until Monday. No other fix was available. We offered to pay the full amount by credit card to at least have the phone turned on. But customer service was not able to help. Waste of time. This all occurred on a Saturday afternoon, leaving a 95 year old and an 87 year old WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO CALL 911 until we could get to the service center on Monday. Please be careful if you have elderly parents - this company does not care, and will not assist in situations like this. Not sure we would have been treated this way before Spectrum bought out Bright House.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2017

    Ever since Spectrum has taken over Bright House I continue to receive letters from Spectrum saying my bill is being increased by $10 monthly. The letters state that the increase is due to the ending of promotions is the cause of the increase. What promotion? The one I've been receiving for years? Bright House was just recently taken over and my bill has since increased by $30 per month, and who knows there could be more letters in the pipeline... Previous Bright House customers, prepare for increased bills.

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    Bright House Networks
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