C Spire Wireless
formerly Cellular South
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On my fifth trip to the Madison store in an attempt to get my new phone/service to work I asked to see the Manager, Lauren. She refused to see me but sent her assistant to talk with me. After an hour of working on my problems the assistant manager fixed them. I told him I would be letting Corporate know she refused to see me. He told Lauren this and then she had the nerve to come out and ask if I wanted to see her. Can’t say about other stores but stay away from Madison.
I paid my bill the day it was due. The machine I paid it on said $59 dollars. That's what I paid. They turned my phone off the next day. Then going to tell me I needed 99 more cents. But the minimum I could pay was $15. I think that's **. I will never recommend them to nobody.
When I signed up, I was promised a $100 rebate. I never got it. I called repeatedly to the number C Spire gave me to contact because the website had no information on it and was useless. The automated message on the call said "due to CoVid, we cannot take your call", and it hung up. This happened over and over for months on end. I finally contacted customer service about it, and they gave me an email address to send my complaint to. After many weeks, they finally replied, saying that because it had been over 12 months, they could no long honor the rebate.
If a company will not honor their commitment to their clients, then I will not do business with them. Plus, the service was horrible. If I wasn't on Wi-Fi, it was impossible to pull up any websites on my phone. So, I transferred my cell service to another carrier, and afterwards called C Spire to cancel my account. My automatic bank withdrawal had just gone through the day before. I was told there was no refund available for my canceled service. I wanted C Spire to be a good company to do business with since they are based out of my home state, but I did not have a good experience with them at all.
I had been with C Spire since 2008 when I started experiencing problems in mid January 2021. People on the other end of my calls from my home kept telling me my phone was cutting out and they couldn't hear half of what I was saying. I was told by customer service that that day they had sent an update adding voice over LTE. I turned off my wifi and discovered data speeds of about 2mbs. For about a month following that date I was assured they were working on it. During that time they billed me twice for service that could be best described as undependable. At the end I was informed that they could not correct the problem and was given a credit of 50 of the 145 dollars I was charged while the problem was going on. I switched service to Verizon and the difference is astounding. My average data speed is 50 mbs.
Today I received a final bill from c spire that showed an amount owed to pay off the phone (which I paid) and then an amount that showed a partial month charge. When I called their customer service the first person told me it was a charge for porting out my phone (canceling service and taking my phone with me). When I said I would not pay that, I was put through to a manager who told me it was an additional payment I owed on the phone not a charge for porting out. The charge is less than 20 dollars but after being strung along and billed for a month and a half I think it takes a lot of gall to apply this charge. I have read other reviews of long term c spire customers who have related the same story, when a problem arises with the service c spire keeps billing while they "work to fix the problem " and in the end when they can't still expect payment for the period when their service was substandard.
Pascagoula MS office is where I went to get service. The girl helping me put the C Spire sim card in and said she wasn't able to port my number over. From there a 5 day nightmare and I left them forever.
I had the pay to go plan with C Spire and I switched to another carrier on May 5th. On April 30th C spire sent me a text to make a payment or my service would be turned off, I sent them the minimum of 15.00. Then on the morning of May 2nd, they requested additional payment, so I sent them another 15.00. Then, on the morning of May 3rd, they sent me a text suspending my phone service with the exception of text messaging. I unlocked my phone per new carrier on 5/5/20, and requested a partial refund from C spire, and they refused to give me any of the 30.00 back. So, I was charged 15.00 per day for phone service.
I live on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where C Spire (formerly Cellular South) is based. On I-10 in Gulfport, calls are frequently dropped. Service is almost always at 1x. I keep up with the newest phones, currently using iPhone X. Their service cost more than the competitors and service is spotty at best. Do not sign a contract with this horrible company.
Very poor wireless service. It is slow and unreliable on the Gulf Coast of MS. Recently traveled to Orlando and Port Canaveral to get 1x or no service at all on the Interstate en route and in the cities (not in rural portions). Not sure what "customer inspired" the poor service. Will not continue service after contract is complete, and may even buy the contract out at some point.
We have been customers of CSpire since 2009, but I searching for our next wireless company. Without any warning our high speed internet was reduced from 50GB to 25GB. How is that even right? I can’t just choose to start paying them half as much as I signed a contract for, so how can they just choose to give me half of what I’ve been paying for this whole time? This is a quick way to get rid of loyal paying customers.
Been with C Spire since they were Cellular South. However I am switching to Verizon, I have no out of state coverage, they have made countless mistakes to my account, rude trolling reps, and have recently reduced data plans from 50 GB to 25GB without any notice. Verizon offers 75gb for 60.00 a month....so long c spire. You only rank 7th in the Nation anyway. Verizon ranks #1 .
I’ve been a customer of CSpire since 2015. At the moment I had two (2) lines zero balance on my account and both lines currently out of contract. While at work I damaged my phone so severely that it was not in working condition.
I went to the web to upgrade my phone line and saw that there was an offer for $100 discount on any upgrades of the iPhone 11. After searching I could not find any options to pay online and pick up in store, only delivery. Instead of waiting I went into the Clinton store location. Explained my situation to the store workers and to my amazement I was told I could not upgrade my phone in store with the $100 discount, they would have to charge me the full price, (monthly payments). They did say I could choose the option to pick up in store. "Ok, so can you place the order for me?" "No," they replied, well I don’t have a device to use, how can I place an order, I need a phone today versus waiting. They instructed me to call customer care.
So, I’m inside the store at this point using a display phone to call customer care. The phone that’s attached to the wall with a wire keeping you from walking away. Finally, a customer service representative answered the phone. I explained my situation and again was told that they did have a few phones in store available for me to purchase and pick up in the store. "Ok, can you process the information and just charge it to my account or I pay for the device over the phone." "Yes", she replied. "But I would have to charge you full price versus the $100 discount."
I explained to her that I already tried to complete a store pick up online and did not see an option and at the moment I currently do not have a phone to utilize. All I’m wanting to do is purchase a phone with the $100 discount and leave. Remind you, I’m inside a C Spire store on wall display phone with customer care!No one, could help me. Only inform me of upgrading, paying full price. I truly believe the employees tried and did everything in their powers to help but they were so scared of going against policy that there was nothing that they could do. Basically telling me if they allowed me to use their computers or if they used their computers in store to order the phone that they would be fired, literally!
I left the store and went 2 miles down the street to AT&T. I can proudly say I now have (2) new Iphones and my account with Cspire has been terminated! Cspire says they have the best customer service, this experience was so far from the truth! I will now spread the word to all my families and friends, LEAVE CSPIRE, the hassles are not worth it. This complaint may fall into death ears, but as a long term customer and the thousands that I have paid for services and products over the years meant nothing! I’d rather take my business to someone who appreciates the customer and long tenure. This is how you looe a customer of five (5) years. ✌
I have 3 lines with C Spire. 1 of them stopped working, and the other 2 I have to restart them 3-4 times a day to receive calls or it goes to voice mail (lots of missed calls). My data does not work in the lte coverage area on the cspire website. They opened a ticket, strung me along for a week and told me nothing is wrong. I call customer service, because I wanted to end my contract. They told me I had to pay in full for the 3 phones that didn't work if I wanted out. Then they told me in a nice way "We don't care if your service works, you signed the contract, you're stuck with it". When this is done I will go to att. PLEASE DO NOT USE CSPIRE. YOU WILL BE UNHAPPY.
C Spire is an ripoff. I have a total of 5 lines and only get okay on 1 line. I have been with them since Cellular South days and my service has gotten worse. C Spire do not care about the customer. Please don't use this service. You it not worth it.
They are putting down new lines on Meadow Pointe Cv in Brandon, Ms. Doing so they are destroying peoples yards and have cut 2 gas line and water lines. I hope they have someone to come out and resod our grass for our yards. When AT&T did their's they were very neat, not this bunch.
My spouse passed away in June 2019. Since then I have paid off the phones that had amounts owed on them. So technically I own the phones, or rather my dead spouse does. I have tried to get the numbers transferred to another provider and I was told by both C Spire and the other company that I was committing fraud even though I had death certificate, account numbers, etc that would be needed to make the transfer possible. It is now September and the account will be closed in about a week's time. I want the phones unlocked but I am still trying to get information on how to make that happen after the account closes and cannot. They won't share and they won't help. DO not USE THIS COMPANY! They will not help you with anything important.
I spoke with a representative today and we discovered that there was a billing error in the system. I only owed my normal monthly charges for my final month with them. I feel much better about the situation now.
I have been using C Spire since the company was Cellular South in 2005. It is the only company I have ever used. I've put up with the lack of service and remained a loyal customer. I had an unlimited plan that cost me a total of $68 per month and OUT OF NOWHERE my bill jumped to $171 in one month. I figured this was impossible because A) I have UNLIMITED B) I stay on wifi everywhere and mostly converse within network people I go so this shouldn't be an issue.
I called to complain and they reassured me that this was correct and I should update to a newer unlimited plan for $5 more a month. I waited until my data cycle was over, paid my next bill in advance and quit services the day my data cycle ended to avoid any other bills. I confirmed that I wouldn't receive anymore bills after cancelling because of my timing with THREE associates. I cancelled services in June and all of a sudden I get hit with a $233 bill. $171 is "past due" from June 19-July 19 (I didn't use services then, I already ported out) and an additional $50 for "usage fees" along with "late fees".
I went to check my online profile to see where the charges were coming from and it won't let me see anything because I'm not a customer anymore... lol. So I randomly get this paper bill in the mail and when I went through the online chat I was told that the amount was correct and that I needed to pay it. I won't be paying this, I am livid that I was told something different and now I have to pay 4x the amount that my bills were supposed to be. I would have continued to use services for the month that I cancelled if I knew that I would be charged that amount anyway. I absolutely don't deserve to be paying this amount ESPECIALLY because I was told that I left with a clean slate by three associates. Do not choose C Spire.
This is our 3rd year of C Spire service. There have been very few problems and only a couple of glitches that were quickly resolved. The overall rating is based on our experience of using many of C spire’s services thus far. We have encountered a few low signal areas in more remote rural and fringe coverage areas, but this is to be expected. We also use a mobile hotspot router for secure connections when traveling and that has also has worked well for our applications and purposes. Overall, we are, and have been very satisfied with the provided services and equipment thus far. From our experience in the U.S. geographic areas covered we would highly recommended this company.
I pay over $200/month for mine and my kids' phones and rarely ever have 4g/LTE no matter where I am. I barely have 3g and live less than 10 minutes from the C Spire store. Year after year the internet service on my phone has gotten worse and worse. Every time I have had complaints, it's never their service. They suggest it is foliage, my phone or my roof. They know they have the monopoly in South Mississippi so instead of using the millions of dollars they make off of us towards building new cell towers, they are obviously wasting it to pad their pockets. The warranties are a joke, the service is pathetic and they will NOT do better until something is done about it by someone other than their customers.
This company takes full advantage of the fact that they offer the only cell and internet services that work in some parts of Mississippi. In some areas, there is no competition that their customers can turn to, so they offer the absolute worst customer service. I had been struggling to find a service that worked in my area, after moving to rural coastal Mississippi. After trying all the name brand people (including Verizon and T-Mobile), none of which worked, I decided to take the plunge and try C-Spire.
When I signed up, I explained my situation, and asked about the hotspot they were selling me, as the solution to my internet problem. I was told by the sales person that he had never had anyone complain about connectivity with the hotspot. But that I could return it if I did have problems. Unfortunately, he did not stress the fact, that I only had a 4 week window to return it in.
I set it all up, had sporadic internet service only, which I decided was better than none. It was only one month later, when I had to do my tax returns online, that I found out just how bad that service was. I had not had to work online with the hotspot until then, so I did not know that I could not connect to Turbo Tax, or other types of websites, for extended periods, because the connection was just too bad.
I immediately went to the store I'd used, and told them that I'd had no way of knowing that I was not going to be able to connect to do online work until I'd had to do my taxes, and I was told that was just too bad, I should have done my taxes earlier within the 30 day return window. And that I was still going to have to pay the remaining $110 balance on the hotspot. I took the issue to the supervisor at the customer service number, and got the same response. When I had tried Verizon at the beginning of the year, and found out that they also did not work at all here at my location, I was refunded everything. They waived the fees because there was no connectivity, taking responsibility for that fact themselves. THAT is good customer service.
First and foremost, your customer service reps who assisted me were wonderful and did their job to the best of their ability, BUT you as a company are the opposite of what you claim to be. You are not for your customers, you are for yourself, and anyway that you can squeeze more money out of someone, you will take. What I am asking for does not seem like it should be so hard to do but apparently it is. The sad part is that this is not even the first time that you have failed to do something that you are perfectly capable of doing. I let the first one go as that one I could see as just a policy to drive sales of devices and although I did not find it appropriate or fair, capitalism is our economy. HOWEVER, the loopholes that you have in your policy to charge the military and have no accommodations for the men and women serving our country to protect us is just dirty!
If that is the way you want to run a business then fine – to each their own – but don’t lie and say you are for the customer, and don’t hide your policies. Not to mention all your other screw up and false promises. It is bad enough when your “policies” treat regular consumers like crap but when you are doing it to our military, I can’t just let that go. You do not offer a way to suspend their services (ie, the calling, texting and data – you know the services that don’t work where they are deployed) and keep their device WITHOUT charging them a lump sum of the device! The only options you have for suspension are:
- NOT AN OPTION! - Suspend the line, only hold the number for a year and return the device (which does waive the EFT – remaining device payments).o Problem 1 - most deployments can last up to 3 years or even longer in certain cases.
o Problem 2 – cannot keep the device unless you pay the total remaining balance in a lump sum payment.
- NOT AN OPTION! - Retain the device and continue making device payments and reduce the line’s cellular service plan to the lowest option (ie, $25).
o Problem 1 – you have to keep paying for actual cell services that you cannot use to be able to keep your number.
- NOT AN OPTION! - Deactivate the line, lose the number and return the device (which does waive the EFT – remaining device payments), no early cancellation fees.
o Problem 1 – cannot keep the number.
o Problem 2 – cannot keep the device unless you pay the total remaining balance in a lump sum payment.
All I am asking for is to suspend that line (ie, stop all cellular services), hold that number until the end of the deployment, and keep the device while still making the monthly installment payments! I am not asking for anything free! Since I am expressing myself, my other recent issues with your ability to provide the services you claim to have are as follows
- Claims to have reliable service but does not, not even in larger city areas (ie, greater Jackson, MS area) so I am not complaining about poor service in remote wooded areas.- Boosts about having eSim capabilities but will not allow you to use it unless you buy the you buy the eSim/dual Sim compatible phone from them.
- You cut off my service with no warning even though I was not 30 days past due – your excuse was that I went over my credit limit, which by the way I didn’t even know I had, or what the limit was, or that I could go over it, or that if I did go over then my account would disconnected until I made a payment to bring the balance back below the limit.
Why did you not inform me of these policies when I was in the store purchasing those items? I didn’t put those items on my future bill for no reason, I did it because that was going to allow me to pay for them one the next paycheck. But because I did not have all the facts, my service was disconnected, and I was forced to pay an overdraft fee as I could not wait that 36 hours (without phone service) that it would have taken for me to get paid. That was not due to impatience, it was due to the fact that my clients use that number to reach me in case of emergencies.- Your service practically stopped working for hours with no warning or even an explanation, even though you claim to have redundancies and contingency for those scenarios.
- You make so many claims, promises and guarantees but you do not honor nowhere near enough of them, consumers understand that mistakes happen and that there are no true guarantees in this world, all we want is fairness and honesty. Why do you have such a hard time with that?
Slightly unrelated but I wanted to make sure that I address every issue that has bothered me enough to write this. Your Fiber Internet: I understand it is new and will have some problems in the early stages but seriously, be open about the problems! Let consumer know about the router you install as it does not have the ability to provide the speeds you claim to be able to produce. You try to make justifications for it by saying that you have to use an CAT6 ethernet LAN connection using a motherboard and network driver capable of producing gigabit speeds however that is only true because you provided the weakest gigabit compatible router you could. This would not be that big of an issue if you did not brag as much about the speed as a justification for your high prices, then charge an extra monthly fee to “rent” the router. Anything to make a little extra money, huh.
Don’t forget the part about not informing new customers that the installation process is 3 visits, or that the free part of the installation only includes one connection and each additional one is $99 but none of your other connections will be usable without paying more money to C Spire. To anyone who actually took the time to read this, I hope it made you think, whether it was about your business practices, or about the company you work, think hard.
My husband and I have had issues with our phone data service since the last storm caused an outage. The area where we live doesn’t offer internet so we use our phone internet for important matters. We contact C Spire 05/05 and they submitted a ticket as the steps they provided for us didn’t fix anything. 05/06 they contact us back and requested screenshots of a Speedtest. We texted it back to them and they came back and said it was due to the metal roof on our house. Informed them that we no longer lived at that address and that when we did live there, our service was wonderful. Told us to then go to the store and update our Sims cards and that would fix everything.
We went same day extremely hopeful and while in C Spire, the service worked wonderfully on my husband’s phone and was somewhat slow on my phone, though better than what it had been. As soon as we got to our car, the speeds started to drop and by the time we got on the highway they had dropped. My husband’s speeds on his phone went from 23 mbps on download to .8 mbps. Mine had gone from 6 mbps to .2 mbps. We contacted customer service once more and they reopened the ticket with our new address to check the cell tower out there and I informed her that it was an issue everywhere, even in town. She informed me that she’s not sure what it may be as the sims card update should have fixed it. I don’t see why we’re paying for unlimited LTE when we don’t even get to use it. I’m about to the point of switching carriers.
My family and I have been on this service since it was Cellular South. Everything has been great up until the last year and a half if I recall. Where we used to be able to use our phones to update weather apps while away from home, we can't anymore. I have personally seen my iPhone have FULL SERVICE bars and performed a speed test and only get .06 Mbps download speed and a upload test fail. When I first got my current phone, I was able to get about 75 Mbps download and had no issues loading weather pages or other apps.
I have had coworkers switch from C Spire after 5 months only after they made calls to the Better Business Bureau and nothing is still done to correct their issue. The voice service only gives me trouble every once in a while. The data is the issue and I believe it's because they lost about 75% of their data coverage when they dropped the Verizon tower relay program they were on. So basically, everyone I know is having the same issues, but, they still want you to pay for something that you cant use on their data side.
I paid for unlimited data and in two days they say I was over my limit. One of them days wouldn't nobody at my house until after three o'clock so how can we use unlimited data like that. It was just a complete waste of money. Then when you call in they always have an excuse for the reason they messing up. After this I'm going back to ATT where I can use my data wayyy longer than two days. A waste of money I tell you.
We had C Spire years ago and don’t remember service being this bad. We decided to switch our 4 accounts from Verizon back to C Spire. Worst mistake ever. The internet download time and upload time is sooooo slow. Many many dead zones. It’s rumored they use to bing from Verizon towers but now they use sprint towers and that is why the service is bad. This is going to bite them in the??? When it’s it’s time to renew and the majority of their customers go elsewhere. As soon as Verizon offers a plan for us to switch to them. We will no longer have C Spire.
In Starkville, we are fortunate to have super fast cable internet. Have never had a problem with their service and have had C Spire since it first started here. When I do call the company, there is a real English-speaking person on the line and I don't have to wait 30 minutes before someone answers. Last summer my husband was critically ill. I stopped in West Point on the way back to the Tupelo hospital and the manager there could not have been more helpful. He realized that I was in a hurry, fixed my phone in about 5 minutes, and I was on my way. I was a former AT&T customer and I will never again put up with their poor service.
With them 15 years. My wife’s phone quit. I was told cheapest would be over $400. I got the same plan with ** $55 a month cheaper and a phone for only $100. I had paid my C Spire bill 2 days prior and was told I’d get a refund. A lie, they actually sent me a bill. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. So disrespectful after 15 years!!!
We pay high prices for phones and for the plans to have internet on our phones yet for months now the internet doesn’t work. It is so bad that I can’t even connect to C Spire! Basically we are being ripped off and paying for something we can’t use. Everyone I know is with C Spire and everyone is having the same problem with the internet. This has been going on since November 2018.
First off C Spire needs to be put out of business because their service is straight garbage. It should be against the law for service to be that bad. Don’t even get me started with not being able to use internet while on the phone???
Customer since 2008. Average bill 500 bucks a month 8 devices online. Bought replacement phone. Took home and set up. Noticed a crack in screen. Took back for replacement. Was denied. C Spire SUCKS BIG TIME. Talked to 3 reps and all three said, "I am deeply sorry but policy is in place." So cracked phone for life.
C Spire will not work outside of Mississippi however C Spire still charges you and bills you when you are out of their calling network. I called C Spire for my 83 year old mother in law who is visiting my home in Alabama. Ask to suspend her service due to no service here. They said ok, but just got a notice phone has been disconnected and a bill of $121 for no payment. Do not use C Spire.
C Spire Wireless (formerly Cellular South) Company Information
- Company Name:
- Cellular South
- Website:
- www.cspire.com
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