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Frontier Communications® is a Fiber, Copper and Fixed-Wireless network provider that offers services in 25 states. Frontier offers customers unlimited tech support, a dependable connection for a monthly prices that’s been called the best value in Internet services. Visit its website to find out if its services are available in your state.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    I signed in for a promotion (everything was done over the phone) they had, when my first bill arrived I had bunch of additional charges, including equipment I never received, I filed a complain with 3 different people, paid the amount agreed as per promotion, today my service was disconnected, still waiting for supervisor/manager to call me back... after 7 days.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    I'm sure everyone reading these reviews have had their share of poor customer experiences with all sorts of companies, me included. However, this is by far the worst experience I've ever had. Do not consider doing business with this company in any way shape or form. I had telephone service with this company for over 2 years at a second home. Went up and found out that the line was dead so I called and asked how long it had been out. Unfortunately they can't tell which is understandable but the only reason I had the line in was to have it hooked up to a system that notified me if the temperature in the home ever dropped below a certain temperature. When I found out that the telephone service could be out and I would never know it, it defeated the purpose of the line so I cancelled the service. The agent cancelled my service and told me what I needed to pay to get my remaining balance to zero which I did.

    The following month I got a bill for close to $90. I called to ask what it was and they said they had scheduled a tech to come out but since they didn't send a tech because I cancelled service, the charge should not be there. They said they couldn't do anything about it right then and I wouldn't be receiving any more bills. Next month I got another bill, called in again and they said the same thing again, don't worry about it. It has to work its way through the process.

    Next month same thing again. Now threatening to send to collections. I got supervisors involved, promised me that the bill was not valid and that there were notes all in the system and that it wouldn't get sent to collections. Now four months later I get a notice of collections in the mail from an outside collections company. Call back again and now they say it is out of their hands and in collections. Customer service supervisor now will not do anything to help get this resolved. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    Have had billing issues for months with this company. Filed FCC complaint. Frontier responded and advised FCC they would issue a $400.79 credit over 2 month period and we agreed to a billing rate over a 12 month period with no contract. Yesterday was service was suspended for past due balance. The credit has never been applied which would have brought my account current. Spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone with 3 different reps in 3 different departments. Not one could or would assist me. There are no notes in the file indicating that the $400.79 credit is due on my account.

    I phoned the rep that handled the FCC complaint on 8/8 and on 8/20. I have received no response. Frontier is unethical, lies to the FCC, very poor customer service and just a very poor company to do business with. Today I will file a complaint with our AG here in California and have kept the original FCC filing open. My poor neighbor who is 82 and disabled is being treated horribly. They have sent her 10 bills with different amounts, sent her to collection, and now say she has a balance from 2016.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & Setup

    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    They didn't show up for the install even after 5 auto calls to remind me. Should have reminded themselves. No discount, waived fee, nothing. Even worse, they tore up my street and did not bury the cable for me or any of my neighbors, it's been well over a month at this point.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    I got Frontier cable/internet for my house. I specifically asked about early cancellation fee, which they reassured me that there was none. The service worked for one week then stopped. I must have called 20 times. Scheduled technician never came out. I canceled service and they charged me with $200 for early termination.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    Where to start... Over the past 5 or 6 yrs we've been with this company (previously Verizon) I've had to contact them over various issues, last year it was over the box inside our home, they wouldn't speak to me without my husband's permission because he's the one on the account; after this my husband added me, so most recently I had to notify them about a damaged remote control and once again they said they couldn't help me because I wasn't on the account; my husband added me again. And this past week I had to contact them regarding a damaged cable outside our home, they refused to talk to me once more stating I wasn't on the account, on top of that they made us waste about an hour of our time troubleshooting "just in case" even though we had told them it was the outside cable another cable company had damaged outside.

    When they finally set up the technician to come assess the damage, no one showed up or called. I wasted a whole day waiting for them because they don't give you a precise time of arrival and when I called to see if they were coming they wouldn't tell me because "I wasn't on the account". I asked to speak to a supervisor and she was just as rude if not ruder than her employee. I hate this company's customer service. You would think that for the money you pay (over $175) per month, they would train their employees better... We're seriously considering switching to another provider.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    They always ask me for ID every time I call them, and offer to give me a discount. Every time a discount is confirmed, and the bill arrives, I see no discount. When you call for assistance, the customer service is horrible and they give you different stories, and charge you extra on your bills. They offer false upgrades and promotions. They offered me a free upgrade for my internet, but my bill came higher than ever. I do not understand why they would lie about this, and why they would ask for my ID and offer discounts every time I call for help. When I ask a supervisor for assistance, because I know they record our calls, they refuse and avoid to check recordings to check my claims. You can argue with them for 3+ hours, and get no results. I would not recommend this company to anyone, they rip off their customers and do not care for us one bit.

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & App

    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    First, you won't get the $30/month rate they advertise. Their website gave me that plan as an option, but their CSR over the phone said it was "not available in your area." Second, they charge you for equipment rental even if you don't use their equipment. I have my own modem and router but they're still charging me for using theirs. They also gouged me with a 9.99 "equipment delivery and handling fee" for the equipment they neither delivered nor handled. Much like the airlines, they charge you a lower up front cost and then get their money back with hidden charges and fees. Buyer beware.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2018

    We had a complete bundle with Frontier (voice, TV, Internet) with Frontier and their predecessor Verizon for over a decade. On June 13th, 2018 (the last day of my cycle), Frontier had an equipment failure with the box outside my house. I alerted their customer service that day and was told it would be 7 days before they could address it. However I was not contacted by Frontier until the 22nd that a serve person would come the next day (Sat, June 23rd).

    Now my wife and I are both virtual employees so this created a lot of issues for us both, including potential loss of income. So we had no choice but to see if a competitor could fill the gap quicker (Spectrum had us up and running on the second day). However, because we wanted to port our number, Spectrum couldn't give the order to Frontier until Monday, June 18th. Despite the fact that I never had another second of service from Frontier after the 13th, Frontier contends that I owe them another full cycle since the actual termination for the number port was the 18th. They have also hit me for an early termination fee (I was one month short of that commitment so I don't contest that). However, I feel that they should not have billed me for another cycle since they knew of their issue on the last day of the prior cycle. Their customer service people contend they are in the right and so I intend to contest this with their legal department.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2018

    I own a restaurant and we have had no internet or phone for 5 days. I opened ticket and they have not picked it up yet. They told me they don't have the manpower to handle requests when the service is down. It’s the 5th day of outage and still waiting... Please think about before getting into Frontier service if you have a small business even if they gave you a free line.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018

    Been with them for a little over a year and they are giving me internet speeds that are very close to dial up. I've contacted them multiple times and have been told that they are doing upgrades. Well that's what they been telling the customers here for the last six years and nothing has happened. Outdated systems and piss poor customer service. Over the worst company I've dealt with in my life.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    We have had an immense amount of trouble with Frontier Communications. First, we will spend at least 30 minutes on hold. Once we finally reach an actual person, we will be told, "Oh, that's not us, that's the internet provider," When we get through holding for the internet providers, we will be told, "Oh no, that's the T.V. service. Since Verizon and Dish came together with Frontier Communications, it's been a nightmare. For the first 3-4 months, our bill would be incorrect, and it would take a ridiculous amount of time to get corrected. We have finally switched services even though we will be paying more with the new providers. We just received two boxes to send back our equipment, and neither box actually fits Frontier's equipment. I feel like if they don't care about their equipment, why should I? These providers are not at all worth the possibly cheaper services.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    This company has the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. They are rude, not helpful, and give you different information every time you call. When we set up service in our new house it took longer than buying the house!!! I wish they weren't the only option where I live. Worst company ever!!!

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    Installation & SetupPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    Horrible company, installation was a day late with no explanation why, 4 hours lost work because I had to go home early to meet the installation tech that never showed. Next appointment he showed up 4 hours later than promised, so wasted a whole Saturday sitting home waiting for the tech to arrive and finally do the install. The plan was at $80 per month with free TV box and modem, but when I got the bill they are charging me $135 a month! And when I contacted them to cancel, they are charging $220 fee to terminate the service! Stay away from those thieves!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    I experienced similar experiences as many here with Frontier. Please know the ONLY way to get them to fix a problem is to contact your state AG's office, and the Federal Trade Commission. If they don't respond they may have a state or Federal investigation opened on their company, especially if there are a number of complaints. In our state Frontier was so bad that the AG's office had a special hotline to deal with all the complaints. I urge everyone to do this as it is the only way Frontier will straighten up their mess.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    For the record, my experience with Frontier is by far the worst customer service I have EVER received. For the second time I took an afternoon off of work to accommodate a 4 hour installation window for a Frontier Technician to install internet. For the second time the technician not only didn't show up at all but no one called or attempted to reschedule the appointment. When I called on Friday to find out if they were coming - I was understandably annoyed and frustrated. Frontier customer service offered very little in the way of apology and absolutely NOTHING in the way of remedy other than me taking another day off work for an appointment they may or may not show up for. I would like to say that I put my order in a month ago and I waited patiently for the dates provided for install and through no fault of mine Frontier did not deliver but I now have to wait another 2 weeks for another appointment.

    Remedy I asked for: Either set a window that has a start of 330pm on a weekday or Saturday. I was told that was simply not possible and that I would to set another window appt as if Frontier hadn't screwed up the last two appointments already. I spent over an hour - mostly on hold - for a question that should have been very simple to work out. I feel like Frontier doesn't give a seconds thought to their customers or to providing any kind of cooperation to get service installed. If there were any other reasonable option for service I would go there instead but there isn't. As of now I have an appointment AGAIN for 8/24 at 8 am. I give you the opportunity to correct the wrong that has been done and work out an install date that can be accomplished sooner and within the parameters of 3:30 pm or after on a weekday or on a Saturday.

    The latest reply from Frontier is that there is now a freeze on installs because the techs are just too busy to keep their appointments. I work for a customer service business and I can tell you that we do not ever treat clients this way - if we screw up we pay overtime or whatever it takes to accommodate our clients and correct mistakes. I asked for a manager's name and the customer service tech put me on hold for a very long time which I can only assume was an attempt to get me to hang up and give up. He never actually gave me anyone's name but promised an email from his boss - to date no email has been received. No phone call has been received. I seriously doubt anyone will contact me. My overall experience is that I was put on hold because I was upset and left there. I didn't yell or swear - I simply requested the service I was promised. Actively seeking mobile hotspot or any other service beside Frontier.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupSales & MarketingPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2018

    I have used various internet providers and to say Frontier is the shadiest of the bunch is an understatement. First of all, my sales rep straight up lied to me. $40 a month for 150 Mbps internet, no router fee (because I use my own) and no installation fee, sounded amazing when I was paying $60 a month for 50 Mbps at the time. Sadly none of the promises panned out, but that's not the worst part. Initially I was set up with an installation appointment on a Saturday afternoon. Great, couldn't wait for faster internet. But on that day, no one came, no phone calls either. I called Frontier frustrated and confused because I just wasted a perfect Saturday waiting at home, and they told me they had technical difficulty reaching the technician, but they set me up with another installation the next Saturday. So a week later, I sat in my home bored out of my mind for 5 hours, again, nobody showed up, no phone call, and same excuse.

    This went on for a third and a fourth time, and finally someone showed up to my door 5 hours after the appointment time, tried but couldn't finish the installation so he said he'd come back next business day to finish, and put me on a temporary solution to connect to internet. Great, finally after a month I have internet ---not. He never came back to finish his work, the next appointment is again, no-show; two days after the missed appointment, some technician showed up unexpectedly, couldn't figure out what to do, and left. At this point my internet had stopped working, the Frontier technical support has no idea what to do, whatever they installed was not in their database and their next available technician is next week. That's when I decided that it is not worth the hassle to save a few bucks and went back to Spectrum --- a Spectrum technician came the next day (a Sunday), on time and got my internet working in an hour.

    And just I thought I'm finally free from the terrible service of Frontier, they sent me a bill of $83.39. $40 for monthly service, $25 for installation (the first of 3 installment) and a slap on the face, $5 router fee, plus tax and "equipment transportation fee". On my 6 figure income this is but a trivial amount of money and I was tempted to just pay and get over it, but every time I see the bill I was reminded of this terrible experience they put me through, the disappointment and frustration, so once again I picked up the phone to dispute the charges, and sure enough, they have no record of "free installation" or any of the complaints I've made.

    Well played, Frontier, but I have not yet begun to fight. Your consistent failure and lies have invoked the wrath of a petty individual with nothing better to do. For the $83.39 you wrongfully charged me, I will make it my mission in life to write negative reviews, complain, downvote, dislike until I see you fall, and I pray to God for that day to come.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2018

    I see I am one of the many clients that have fraudulent charges on their account. I have contacted FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS on more than (2) occasions now to inform them that I am being billed for service at a location that I no longer live at & that my services were paid IN FULL before I moved on June 9th,2018. I am being billed now & illegally threatened of legal action against me for services 6/7/9/18-7/9/18. The threat is that they will report to credit agencies to ruin my impeccable well earned good credit. Can someone let me know if any class action suits are pending with FRONTIER as I would like to take part.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2018

    Tried to get a replacement remote for really old one that no longer functions properly - only cable company I know that charges - and it's a whopping $20 - for replacement remote. This took 45 minutes of my day as I was transferred from Customer Service to Technical Support and back again and then was hung up on. It's my mother's service, but if it were mine, I would CANCEL immediately!! She's been a customer for years who pays on time, but clearly customer loyalty doesn't matter to Frontier.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2018

    Advice to anyone considering doing business with Frontier Communications: Take thousands of dollars and tear them into small pieces. Throw the pieces into a busy intersection and lie down on them. This would be less painful than dealing with this company! To say Frontier Communications is the absolute worst company that we have ever dealt with is an understatement. There is not a word in the English language or any language for that matter that can accurately state what a disaster this company is.

    The number of issues we have had with losing our phone service are far too many to list. Apparently, Frontier thinks so too. When I tried to obtain a list of service tickets we’ve had with them, they were only able to provide 3 – a laughable number considering we’ve had that many in last 2 weeks alone! There is not even a record of the 5 days we had NO PHONES. 5 DAYS! To give a detailed account of each interaction I have had would not only be too long for anyone to read, it would also be impossible to believe. I would be happy to provide examples if requested such as my conversation this morning with their technical support department when our call was dropped while being told there were not an issue to report. At least that’s what I’m told I was being explained since I couldn’t hear anything through all of the static. They considered this a closed ticket.

    Let me explain what that means to a small business like ours. 5 days without phones means 2,430 calls that we would have normally handled were missed. 2,430! There are an average of over 400 calls that go in and out of our office a day. 400 calls that are not only our livelihood, but 400 customer commitments to do our job. You don’t become a top 50 State Farm agent (out of 18, 000) by breaking commitments. That kind of success is based on providing customer service and benefits not found elsewhere – something our customers rely on. Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to deal with a company like Frontier that prevents us from doing our job because they don’t know how to do theirs? It is inexcusable.

    The incompetence that I have experienced in most all interactions is astonishing. Like clockwork, I know the wrong tech will be sent out each and every time no matter how much I emphasize the type of system we have; there will be an issue with forwarding calls and require 3-4 calls. Every time. To pay over $1000 a month for the worst phone and customer service on the planet is absurd. To learn that not only you are paying for all of the times we were without service (including the 5 full days!) we have also been overbilled more than $5,500 for the past 2 years. Which is less than the $6000 Frontier plans to charge us for terminating our services! I have provided documents dating back to 2016 to have this corrected. The last response I had was August 1, 2018 stating it was being looked at. That makes it 2 years and a week.

    I sincerely feel pity for the field employees of Frontier. Frontier’s executives should be ashamed to burden their employees with have to face their customers. The last tech we had was mortified at how his own call center partners were not only talking to him, but to me as the customer. This letter is not intended to correct what cannot be fixed, or to express expectations for a resolution. The only expectations I have from Frontier is that we will not have working phones at some point between now and August 21st when Spectrum installs our new phone lines. I am simply informing those that currently have Frontier or are considering Frontier that you are better off throwing away your money while getting hit by car.

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    Customer ServiceStaffReliability

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2018

    Internet had severe lag and would go out periodically. 1st technician ended the lengthy call without resolution. 2nd call into technical support. I was on the phone for over an hour while they troubleshooted, at the end of the call they determined it was a faulty router and they would send a replacement and it would arrive in one day. 8 days later I had not received the replacement router.

    3rd call (today) to technical support - held 10 min. then on the phone with a technician that wanted to troubleshoot all over again... for those additional 10 min. I told her that I didn't. This had already been completed for over an hour and on two occasions, that I was just calling to follow up on why the router had not been sent yet. She ignored my question and proceeded to troubleshoot...this went on back and forth for the 10 minutes even after I asked to escalate the call. She asked me another question and I told her that I wasn't answering any more questions until she escalates the call.

    I held for some time for the person to whom the call was escalated. He told me that the router was not sent because after they reviewed what the technician wrote - they decided it was not the router. No one called me to tell me they were not sending the router, No one called me to further discuss what another solution could be. They just ignored the issue, just like they ignored me when I asked to escalate the call.

    When I asked him what are the possible solutions, he didn't have an answer and decided to schedule a technician to come to my location. He also commented that the 2nd technician didn't make hardly any notes as to all the troubleshooting that was completed during that 1+ conversation and the person never even wrote a ticket about the call! Not resolution oriented, ignored me, careless and negligent about their "note taking" during technical assistance. We'll see see how the appointment goes with the technician at the residence - if they can discover the problem and correct it.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2018

    I would like to start with the hold time on the phone to speak to a live person with either company is horrific! I even tried to press the button for new accounts which was answered right away! Until I told them I wanted to speak to a supervisor then was transferred back into oblivion! I have been disputing a bill since May! I have called several times and still has not been corrected. I have been lied to, stating my balance was cleared for all the times I called and asked to straighten things out.

    I was told that it was the other company's fault. (Even though they send the one bill from both companies but you have to call and speak to each one separately.) I even had Frontier speaking to DISH while I was holding on the other line! I love the creative billing too! You have your Basic Charges. Your Non Basic Charges. DISH Network. Toll/Other. What is that supposed to be! So I made my last call to let them know I was sending all this information to the BBB, I did not realize there was already a mountain of complaints. I just want the consumer to be aware. Thank you. :)

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2018

    It seems to be an odd thing to have to complain about but back in June I called to pay the account for an elderly member and after having paid it I failed to receive the receipt. Two months later after disputing on his credit report Frontier is saying the balance is still owed but then retracted and said it was odd that I called back for the receipt from the payment. I resist all urge at sarcasm here. It took hours on the phone and multiple managers to get them to pull the call recordings to verify the payment made, the verification code, and see where they misapplied the money to. This will take days. The lack of company responsibility to adequately problem solve is appalling. This should have been much simpler, less time consuming and done with the integrity of a cognitively capable adult trained to problem solve efficiently. A fifth grader could have done better reasoning skills than what was presented today. Level up Frontier.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2018

    Over the last three years, we have experienced ongoing service outages w/ Frontier, w/ the service rarely working at the advertised speeds. We have called tech support multiple times to resolve these problems and communicate the problems around service outages, why the second router Frontier has provided having to be constantly rebooted (as in 3-5 times a week), all to no avail. The service goes down randomly w/ no explanation (it will completely crash a dozen times a day and then come back on after an outage that can last 30 seconds to 15 minutes). We have had Frontier techs out to the house multiple times, all to no avail.

    The service is not stable, and does not perform according to what Frontier advertises. Over 11 days ago (7/29) we experienced an outage, and as of today (8/7) we still do not have service. We were told Tuesday Frontier would have a technician out to service this on Wednesday (8/1), the same on Tuesday August 7th, but after multiple phone calls no one showed up and no one bothered to call us w/ an update, leaving us w/o internet and lost work time waiting for someone to show up. I have spent hours on the phone w/ Frontier's customer service since the outage, they have committed multiple times to call me with an update and have NEVER called or texted to update.

    We work from home, and this has had significant negative impact on our ability to get work done. Frontier's customer service has been unwilling or unable to escalate this situation. They are selling a service that is not delivering the speeds it promises, the service is not stable and continues to crash, and their customer service is both making inaccurate commitments as to dates and is not bothering to call or text me - as they promised to - with updates.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2018

    I was a 4 year customer, starting with Verizon. I had a DVD go bad. They sent a new one, (I returned the old one) promised me a credit for the two weeks, but then the credit was denied because of poor records, even though it showed they sent me new equipment. No chance to appeal or talk to a supervisor. So I decided to discontinue service, now they owe me credit for the balance of the month and they have sent me a bill for the next month. What a racket... No wonder they are in financial trouble. I planned to start up again in January, but no way. Customer retention seem to be a low priority. I have received a notice to return my equipment, even though Anthony who stopped service said it was used equipment and not to return it. I was promised another bill if I keep it. They will get it when I get my credit. Dug in.

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    Installation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2018

    We live in a semi-rural area and our internet service has always been terrible; frequently goes out, so very sloooow and downloads are torture. We, along with many neighboring households, have complained and asked if anything could be done to increase our speed. We've been told that we could have faster internet immediately if a new switch was installed. Management refuses to install a new switch. Why? Unfortunately where we live Frontier is our only choice for internet. Not hard to see why they won't install a new switch. They have us and they know it. So frustrating and completely unacceptable.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2018

    July 2nd, 2018 I was driving on Hwy #776 Englewood Fl. I had a Frontier repair truck driving terrible. He was no more than 6-7 foot off my bumper. I was driving 54 mph in a 45 mph zone. He was blinking his lights moving his hands to get over. There was another car right to my right. As I passed that car the service truck passed me on the right and fingered me. I don't think you want me or anyone else to perceive your company with this sort of actions. It was approx. 10:50 AM. Caught up to him at the traffic light. Snapped a picture. I would think maybe he needed a safe driving class or hard speaking to but next time I see this I will head right to the police dept. and show the picture of the truck involved.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2018

    This is the worst I repeat worst customer service I have ever had. It took me 3 months to try and get my internet set up from the time I first called to me cancel them. I never got to use the service. I don’t even know how the service is. The first appointment the guy never showed up. The next appointment a week later the guy showed up and left sayings nothing. I had to call them to find out I couldn’t get what I sign up for. Then a week later a guy came and turned something on without coming into my house. Had to call again to get the equipment. Was told it was being mailed today. Never got it so called again and it was mailed regular mail. Would have to wait another week.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2018

    My mother, who is in her 90s, got her Frontier bill yesterday, with an increase of $29, saying it was for some HD something. She has no HD channels. She was upset, and called into customer service, waiting for over an hour. The customer rep said that her credit had expired. No notice, no warning, nothing in the bill indicating why the bill was increased. The rep said she found a package for her. Mom had told her she wanted sports channels, cable news channels, shopping, cooking, game show. Within about 15 minutes, Mom only had shopping and local channels. She called back to the rep, who said to call back by 11 p.m., got a different rep who said she'd have to wait 24 hours now. I had an elderly woman crying to me late last night.

    I posted it on their Facebook page, was told to contact them via PM, so I did. It's been piecemeal communications - I need her account number or birthdate. I was told I had her birthdate wrong. Uh, no, you clowns must have it wrong. This was while I tried to work at my job today (which I couldn't monitor personal email and do a good job with my work, something they're not familiar with). She's still very upset. I guess the only plus is that they've not turned off her phone - yet. Supposedly this dingdong with their social media accounts is going to fix it. I have my doubts. I have DirecTV, and other than weather interruptions, I've not encountered crap like this with them. When I've had problems, I can go to their forums or chat immediately with a tech who helps. I keep telling Mom to switch, but her only choice really is Comcast, who she says is just as bad.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2018

    This company is the worst at communication amongst its own staff even though it claims to be a "Communications" company. Never in my life had I had to battle so hard to have a bill explained and reassured multiple times that it had been scuttled. It wasn't until my 6th phone call and numerous promises that my bill had been settled that I finally received a Collections notice from a collections agency that I finally succumbed and paid the bill to avoid it going on my Credit report. This company is full of complacent liars and absolutely terrible customer service as well as promised service being provided.

    I acquired service from Frontier for basic DSL Internet, but instead was signed up for bundled service even after I repeatedly refused the bundle package. Once service had been connected I checked my internet speed and it was extremely under what was promised for the speed I was purchasing. After speaking with a technician I was notified that the company was unable to provide with the speed that I had been paying for due lack of infrastructure in my area. I understood and rightfully declined further service after 24 hours of having service provided. I called Customer Service to cancel the service due to the lack of ability to serve me and my needs that I had purchased. I was assured that I would not be billed for the 48 hours of service and that service would be cut immediately.

    The following week I received a bill that I was promised wouldn't be charged. I called Customer service another 6 times to scuttle the bill and each time I was assured by the Representative that the account had been closed and no bill would be seen. Well that was a huge lie to my face, and after continuous complaints and pleading to speak with Management I was told that I had to pay it or it would be sent to collections.

    The Customer service agent was named Dillon and he told me per his Supervisor named Matt ** that I had to pay it as it is not in Frontier's interest to take care of their customers, and it is against their policy to remove accounts. I will be sure to report them to the BBB, and will continuously encourage other potential customers to avoid ever doing business with Frontier Communications!

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    Reviewed July 31, 2018

    I wanted to disconnect landline and increase speed. Did so happily on Friday and gave them a positive review when survey came. Saturday. My son finds out our internet wasn't increased to the amount they said they'd provide and I was paying for. Leave a message for the consultant no answer. Monday, leave a message, no answer. Call another rep. after 10 minutes, get disconnected. I gave my phone number, they don't give their's if you're downgrading. Call another rep. Ask for their number (won't give theirs), can't give me the service I used to have because I was grandfathered in. We're talking now a difference of $10/month.

    Why pay for 50/50 speed from a business day ago when I'm not even getting 10? Ask for a supervisor. Disconnected. They don't call back. Call again and explain everything, I'm sent right to "retention" and that guy can't do anything. I'm like you need to train your salespeople better --so they mention frontier can't guarantee the speed unless it's hardwired vs wifi- and then trap you into a higher contract.

    Also, the poor guy in retention had me on the phone for 47 minutes trying to rebundle me to get me back to the $10/month I was paying 1 business day ago. AND he couldn't find a way. All this time, my son was on with SPECTRUM. They could offer me 100/100 and hardwire computer (we'd relocate), plus same channels, and DODGER games. Frontier lost a customer over $10/month and their mishandling/--but they don't care. I'm sure it's the company policy and not the people.

    BUT, get this-- when I had the positive experience on Friday, I was given the survey to complete. When, I had the bad experience yesterday, I was never given the survey to complete. So, Frontier misguides its people, because they're only issuing the survey to those they select. Hopefully better treatment from Spectrum. We shall see.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2018

    I signed up for them because I was told that they owned the phone number I needed for my business. I found out later that they lied to me. I signed up for a 2 year contract. When it was up I switched to someone else. A month later I received a $3600 bill from Frontier. When I inquired I was told that because I did not send them a notice that I was canceling the account it automatically renewed and that I owed a $3000 early termination fee. I could not pay it so I was told that in order to not pay the fee I had to resign up for Frontier and pay all the fees like I was a new business customer which was around $600. If that was not enough, I was still getting $3000 bills for 3 or 4 months and I had to call and spend hours on the phone explaining each and every time.

    Now I just tried to pay my bill online and the site is down. I called them and was told that I could pay over the phone but that there was a $3.50 fee. I told them that it was not my fault that their site was down and that I needed to pay it or I would be late. Did not matter to them. Either I pay it over the phone or incur a late fee. There were many more issue but I don't have time to get into it. These people are the rudest I've ever came across. BUYER BEWARE.

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    Reviewed July 30, 2018

    Maybe I just missed it but it would be nice to be able to post a Google review rather than here. More visibility. But either way these are more of a tool to vent rather than having any expectations that something will change. I just opened my second account with Frontier. I won't go into details because it is irrelevant. But when I called to begin service I was given an install date that was about 14 days out. Pretty much everything I do requires me having an internet connection and I also work from home so this was a big deal. But I dealt with it. On the day of the installation I had been given an appointment time frame of 9 am to 1 pm. I know this simply meant the technician could be at my home any time during that time frame. However, at about 12:58 pm he called saying he was going to be 45 min to an hour late. So I waited and waited. Just before 3 pm he knocked on my door. He was nice enough but offered no apology whatsoever for being late.

    The "installation" consisted of plugging my router into the wall and then making a 5 min phone call to turn the internet and phone service on. All together the technician was at my home for about 15 min and about 10 min of that was just small talk. When I got my bill about a week later I was happy to see that they did not charge an installation fee as promised but they did charge a $3 VoIP Administrative Fee and a $10 Equipment Delivery and Handling Fee. The Equipment Delivery and Handling Fee was for the technician to transport the router to my home.

    I chatted with a Frontier rep later about this and their explanation was that they were basically passing along their shipping charge to the customer. I didn't ask about the VoIP fee but my guess is that it was basically the phone call the technician made to his home office in order to have the service turned on. I tried to state my case as to how these kind of fees are unfair to the customer and at the very least new customers should be made aware of the fees prior to signing up for service. But all I got was an "I'm sorry" but it was obvious the rep didn't care. I realize these sorts of practices aren't new and are ubiquitous but it doesn't make it right. But this is what happens when there is little competition in a particular market, especially in telecoms.

    Updated on 08/03/2018: I was hoping I could update my review or edit it in some way but I did not see an option for that so I am writing another review. I have now deducted another star. The reason for this is I received a response from a Frontier representative via this website asking me to email them directly at **. They wanted my account info which raised an alarm. In an attempt to summarize my interaction I never could get the Frontier rep to satisfactorily confirm they were a Frontier employee but I took a chance and offered my account number. I expressed skepticism to the rep as to how they would be able to resolve anything but I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    The final response from the rep (after some email exchanges) basically reiterated everything I had already covered in my initial review and repeated everything I already knew. I speculate that the representative from Frontier is tasked with combing through negative online reviews and then giving the impression they are resolving customer complaints without actually doing anything. I imagine that is one of the reasons the rep asked that I email them directly rather than handling the issue publicly.

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    Avruhem increased rating by 2 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Avruhem increased their star rating.

    Reviewed July 30, 2018

    This company is one piece of fraud. It’s been 3 months. I’m waiting for a tech to come out every 2 days. They give me a new date and when I call in one rep do not know what to do. It’s sounds like they all are their first day on their job there. I hope we get this company closed down ASAP. We need normal providers like Optimum, Verizon. Let’s hope that the state will close them down.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2018

    My neighbor almost 80 years old has been without her phone service for almost two weeks, I have lent her my cell phone as she cannot get out of her house and worried about an emergency. I have called Frontier every day and she has called with my cell phone. All we get is run around, they tell us someone will be there at a certain time and no one shows up or the supervisor will call you back and no one calls. This is the worst service. All we get is a runaround. Please can you get her phone to work. So fed up with this company.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2018

    My current bill showed a late charge of $2.50 added. The due date won’t be until August 17, I called on July 26 to remove it. The representative was so rude and wouldn’t remove that $2.50. I have never encountered any utilities company like this. If I could give lower than 1 star I would.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2018

    DO NOT SIGN UP with this company. A month ago we had a couple of outside salesman knock on our door offering Frontier services. It was the worst decision made. The salesmen were very nice and friendly and assured us that we would love their service and if for any reason we unsatisfied we can cancel with no cancellation fee as long as we cancel within 30 days of installation and we would only be billed for the days we had the service for (Biggest lie ever). The technician arrive the following week to install the service, left halfway without saying a word, came back a few hours later to finish the installation and left again without a word which annoyed my husband. This was the start to an awful experience.

    The internet service was slow, the TV froze halfway between shows, and then when you pick up the house phone to call someone you heard someone else on the line. We didn't care for the service and didn't want to deal hassle so we decided to cancel before the 30 days were up. When we called to cancel the CSR said that they have NO 30 day trial period and that we would have to pay for the cancellation fee and they don't offer pro-rated service so we would have to pay for the entire month even though we used the service for 15 days.

    I told the representative that, that was not the information that was provided to me by the outside salesmen. I call the salesman and explained the situation to him and he said the CSR that by law we have a 30 day trial period with no cancellation fee in the state of California. Long story short I am stuck having to pay for unused service and the cancellation fee. There should be a class action suit against this company.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2018

    I took the time to create an account and do this review because I really feel this company has caused me so much frustration over the years and I need to vent. The only reason I am with them is lack of competition in my area. Hidden fees and complicated bills that take days on the phone to figure out. Customer support is horrible!!! Soooo frustrating. You get transferred so many times and disconnect with no callback. Customer service usually takes me several hours to days to resolve problems. If you can use a cell phone, do it and stay away from Frontier. There is feel better.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2018

    From the beginning of Frontier installing our new service we were promised a price to pay monthly and every month they would raise the price. We were in touch with the President of the company via email who tried to make it right but then again they were raising the price and emails to President went nowhere. We were informed that we do not have a contract with them so when a year passed and they raised the price once again we switched and now are charging us for cancelling. The customer service is terrible. They don't even know what was going on. The actual picture on the TV would freeze and go out often. Stay clear of this company!

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    Reviewed July 25, 2018

    Be aware of this company marketing scam. They promised me a very good service for a reasonable price. After I verbally agreed to subscribe, they told me they would charge me a $ 75 for installation. They also told me this was a no contract service agreement and I could cancel anytime. They told me even the installation fee would be refunded if I decide to cancel within 60 days. The installation technician came and after he finished he made me sign on the screen of a tablet. You just sign with your finger with no chance to read the agreement. He told me I was agreeing with his work installing and explaining everything. I'm writing this a little over a month since installation. I'm tired of calling to complain and be put on hold for a long time. I hung up after 15 minutes on hold.

    The service is nonexisting, to say the least. Completely unreliable, the signal goes on and off every few minutes. At the beginning I thought it was due to the weather but it happened even when weather was good with no rain or wind. I called several times and they promised to fix it. Finally I was told a service technician would come home to check everything. I set up an electronic money transfer with my bank (Citibank) and the day the service was supposed to come I got a call saying the visit of the service was cancelled because my account was also cancelled for no payment. I check with Citibank to see if there was a problem with the payment but they say the payment went through normally. I called today to cancel my service and they said they going to enforce the agreement with a penalty plus fines and disconnection fees. PLEASE DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT USE FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2018

    Called Monday, July 23rd to attempt to obtain technical help. Service guy from Dallas was polite and quite helpful and had tons of patience. When it was decided that I needed a service tech to come to my home, I was told that a service tech would not be able to come until August 1st. That is 9 days before I would receive service. I find that totally unacceptable. I am getting very close to calling Spectrum.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2018

    Frontier took an unauthorized payment from my bank account. I did not have a balance with Frontier when this payment was taken. This unauthorized payment caused more than a Hundred dollar in bank fees that I am responsible for due to no fault of my own. Customer Service only response was, "We're sorry." They processed a duplicate payment, doing nothing to even remotely fixing the situation. I am a disabled grandmother living on a fixed income and this illegal and unauthorized payment caused a Great Hardship. I have had to go without proper food, unable to purchase my medications because the funds I had for those things was taken in overdraft charges that was the direct result of unauthorized and illegal processing of payments when I owed NO BALANCE TO FRONTIER. BUYER BEWARE!!!

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    Reviewed July 24, 2018

    I've never seen a company completely comprised of liars and incompetent idiots. What an absolute horror of a company! I had Dish service earlier in my life, for ten years. No problem. I was a happy camper. A few months ago, I once again became a customer. It's been a nightmare. Everyone, from the sales people to the customer service reps, have been liars and just pathetic excuses for human beings. STAY AWAY! There have to be better options out there. I am so frustrated and shocked that this company is still in business. May they all rot in hell for the way they treat the customers. Run in the opposite direction!

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    Theresa increased rating by 2 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Theresa increased their star rating on Aug. 3, 2018.

    Updated review: Aug. 3, 2018

    Just wanted to write a follow up on my review of July 20th. I was contacted by 2 representatives from Frontier. They were very apologetic and seemed to sincerely want to rectify the issue. Since I had already switched my service to Spectrum, they offered to reimburse me for the three weeks I was without service due to failure on their part. I appreciate very much them reaching out to me to get the facts in my situation, how I wish I had been given that attention 6 weeks ago! I am hopeful that they can drill down to the multiple layers of dysfunction on their end so no one else has to deal with this.

    Original Review: July 24, 2018

    The WORST customer service and follow up I have ever seen. We moved on June 23rd RIGHT UP THE STREET, Requested transfer of service on our new home and whoever took the call did not check to see if prior resident was a Frontier customer, which would have required a "New home" install. I spent three days at my home waiting for a technician to come with a SCHEDULED appointment and they never showed. One day I spent 3 hours on the phone trying the escalate the situation, to no avail. We went 2 and a half weeks with no TV or internet. Finally called Spectrum and had service the next day. My aunt and uncle just moved into an independent living facility. It took 2 weeks to get service, and guess what?? One day they had no TV- found out their connection was given to another resident and they won't get service until 2 weeks from now!! If I could give them minus stars I would!!

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    Reviewed July 24, 2018

    I called Frontier on about July 17 to cancel my TV and landline service effective on July 30 and keep internet only. What did they do? By 9:30 on the 18th they disconnected 'everything'. No internet, TV or landline. It took 2 hrs 17 min on the phone to get it back on in 4-6 hours. The phone & TV were still not on. Then, another phone call of over an hour, to this day (July 23) no one can call in on the landline. Not sure about the TV, as I am not using it.

    Then, this morning my internet went out. They got it going again, after about 45 min. It is the battery thing attached to the wall. Then, it went out again tonight. After nearly another hour on the phone they got it working. I told the technician I want a new one, because I have gone through this numerous times in the past. He said I need to speak with customer service and transferred me. CS said I need to speak with the technician and transferred me (guess where - to the beginning where I have to select English or Spanish). Why can't we have an option for internet, other than the big companies that are so incompetent. Please help the people - Frontier should pay us for the hours we set on hold for them to fix (patch) their problems over and over.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2018

    Frontier Communications has the worst service of all. In our area of the mountains there is no one else to use. As soon as competition shows up Frontier will step up their game but hopefully people will dump them and never go back. If Frontier wants to have a large customer base maybe they should think about satisfying the ones they have now. We are thinking of getting our own tower or just using Verizon but is it worth it? Hopefully cable comes soon.

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    Reviewed July 21, 2018

    If I could rate lower, I would. I have never been so displeased with an internet provider as I have been with Frontier. They advertise high speed internet, but 24 mb for $64/month is NOT cutting it. My internet keeps freezing, and almost every day I have to reboot the modem. You would think DSL would be a bit more reliable, but guess again. They don't seem to be in any hurry to address any of the core issues, so I won't be going back to them again.

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    Bill increased rating by 2 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Bill increased their star rating.

    Reviewed July 20, 2018

    First, let me say as a stockholder in this company that recently went through a -22 to 1 stock split and dealing with them on a customer level I can see why they are in a downward spiral. They don't know what customer service is after they get you as a customer. In June of 2017, I was so fed up with my internet service I decided to upgrade my speed as at peak times I was going down to less than 1 Mbps. Nonpeak times I would get about 8 Mbps. After Frontier switched trunks and worked on my system multiple times my speed would still drop to 1 Mbps at peak times. I decided to upgrade to a new service they offered at 24 Mbps. I have been with Verizon then Frontier since 1999 and have upgraded my service a couple of times over the years. During a couple of upgrades, my router had to be changed to allow for a faster speed.

    At no time in the past have I ever paid for a router when doing an upgrade to a faster speed. In June 2017 I went online and found the new service offered at 24 Mbps. I had to enter my street address to see if it was available in my neighborhood and at that time took a screenshot of the offer. The offer clearly states the router is Free for Life! Move to July 2018 and all of the sudden I start getting billed $9.99 a month for the router. At the same time I did my upgrade order, my neighbor upgraded as well and the same thing happened to him - we were both shocked because when we did our orders with customer service there was never anything said about the $9.99 router fee after a year. We both called customer service and were told that it says on our bills that the router was free for the first year then there would be a $9.99 charge per month.

    My bill only says the word "term" 6/17 to 6/18 and shows the $0.00 charge for the router - that’s it! I made multiple calls to customer service telling them I have it in writing that the router was supposed to be free for life and their responses are, “We never offered a free router” or “We never offered the service” I have in California and many other excuses - all that are lies. Keep in mind to obtain the screenshots I have included I had to put in my complete address to see if it was available in my neighborhood!

    After many hours of phone calls to customer service to supervisors, they refuse to remove the router charge. If you do a Google search on Frontier Communication you will see I am not alone. They have all kinds of ways to steal money from their customers. They have to be the worst company on the planet I have ever dealt with by far. So if you do be careful, document everything and get as much proof as possible because after they get a commitment from you everything changes!

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    Reviewed July 20, 2018

    I made the first call with Frontier at June 28th to place a new order. I chose them because my new leasing office told me they are the most popular one. Talked to their sales for 1 hour to get a $75/month 150M internet only. And it counted new customer discount! After talked to my friends I felt like being cheated so cancel my order and purchase another one $40 month. They needed me to fill a form and send to them. I sent it out on July 2nd and called them and was told they will call me back in 72 hours. I waited until July 6th and called them then they said I need to pay a $45 deposit (Yes, I called them myself. If I just wait it would be forever!). Then scheduled installation service on July 9th noon.

    Time came to July 9th 1 pm. Nobody called me or came in. I called them and they said they've changed me to self installation and will send me their router which will arrive on July 12th. On 12th nothing came in. Called them and was told it will definitely came in on Friday (13th). Friday there was still nothing. Called again on 14th morning and the first agent said it was delivered on 12th. I was mad and want to cancel my order then he just hang me up! Called again then the second lady finally figured it out that my router had never been shipped! She transferred me to sales department to cancel my order. The guy said he's so sorry and he had talked to his supervisor that will give me first month for free as credit. Threaten me that if I insist to cancel I need to pay $75 breaking out fee. He also guaranteed me the router will arrive on 16th.

    On 16th, without any surprise, nothing came in. I canceled my order and their sales has no idea about my deposit. After discuss with co workers he said it will come back to my account after several days. Checked with them again yesterday 19th. This lady told me I won't get my deposit back and I have to pay my first month bill because I BROKE THE CONTRACT that didn't use their service for a year! I asked, "Why you didn't tell me on the day I cancel my order?" She said she doesn't know. She can't help. That's it and hang me up! I wasted over 6 hours on phone and 3 weeks to get my network. They never delivered me their service and charge me for $100! They should pay me for their fault! Don't do anything with them. Every time you call them they will tell you different stories. They are the worst company I've ever seen! STAY AWAY from Frontier Communications!

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    Reviewed July 19, 2018

    Frontier survives by having bottom barrel prices, but in today's market that pretty much guarantees a rock bottom service. That is very much what you receive with frontier. I was a loyal customer for over a year. Always paid my bill in advance and then when I started having issues I contacted customer support. The first guy I talked to did his job, that is he verbally walked me in circles and said a technician would be available in a full weeks time. Meaning I would be without service for at least a week. Of course that is unacceptable so I politely asked to speak with a supervisor.

    So I remained on hold and was eventually told that the supervisor REFUSED TO SPEAK WITH ME. I could not believe it! After that I'll admit I stopped being polite and threatened to cancel my service. So of course then the supervisor eventually gets on the line and was completely uncaring and unhelpful. So I told him to connect me to the retention department who put forth no effort into actually retaining me (They must be used to losing customers in exactly this fashion) and I disconnected my service on the spot. 0/10 please do not give these people your money. They make Comcast look good.

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    Reviewed July 19, 2018

    Our phone went out Sunday night. We are seniors in a CELL DEAD ZONE! Called Frontier Monday, said they would be out Wednesday. The 18th. If we didn't take that appt. could not be here till the 26th. Supposed to come between 8AM and 5PM. At 5:30 no one had come. Had to use computer chat, waited a half hour, was told he wouldn't start a call after 5PM, if he wasn't here. OK, surprise showed up at 6:30PM. OK, couldn't find the problem, went down the road, came back at 7:30PM. Still couldn't find the problem. Said he would return first thing today. Called today, they said dispatch couldn't give me a more definite time.

    SO waiting another day, without service. Have to go 2.5 miles down the road for cell service. As Seniors this is unacceptable, should we have an emergency. Had Frontier for years, but changed to cable as it was less expensive. When we switched to Frontier, service out the next day. The installer had left the box open and we had a storm > no phone! Decided to return to Frontier as we had a lot of cable/phone outages. Since they have downsized awful service. Am thinking of returning to cable!

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    Reviewed July 19, 2018

    I had Frontier for over 2 years when my Apartment Complex basically made us turn to Spectrum. I cancelled my Frontier and returned the equipment via UPS on 4/9/18 in the boxes that were mailed to me from Frontier. The lady at the UPS store told me to keep the tracking label because "it's Frontier". In June I received a statement from a Collection Agency for $1,372.00 for unreturned equipment. I immediately contacted Frontier with the confirmation from UPS that the equipment had been returned and signed for. Also questioning the Billing statement from the Collection Agency for $1,372.00. Frontier told me they actually owed me $126.00 credit. So now this report is on my Credit Report and after speaking with Frontier again yesterday they cannot help me and I would need to contact the Collection Agency and dispute the matter. This has been a complete nightmare. Never again Frontier!!! This is why you will be out of business soon.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2018

    We have had service lose more than 40 times in a month. When called this time, as always 30-50 minutes on phone, yep it is not connected! Big surprise! The tech was very friendly, very courteous, however we have a service date of August 10, today is July 18. For more than fifty bucks a month why the hell isn't there more providers available in this area? Perfect for Frontier. No service costs no competition, sucks for consumers.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2018

    Prior to switching to Frontier I called to get quotes, all sounded great, so I switched. HUGE MISTAKE. From day one of installation it was horrible. I was assured all 3 tvs would be up and running, internet working and phone active, BEFORE the tech left. The tech wouldn't have anything to do with 2 tvs as he was told they don't have boxes to be attached and the work order says one tv. He was not very nice about it either. I was in a tither knowing he was leaving and 2 tvs were not working. I never checked the phone. My landline phone was connected to a call system for my mother who is handicapped, so it had to be working, it wasn't!!

    I immediately called and reported this and I felt like they didn't care about my situation. It would be 5 days before someone could come out. Why did it only take a day for you to be willing to come out to install new service, but it takes 5 days for you to fix services you didn't complete. The next day I had no internet service! It took almost 3 weeks for someone to come back and bury the cable wires, which resulted in not being able to cut the grass in that area.

    Ok the first bill came, OMG it was nothing that was quoted to me, so I call. I'm given a crazy story that it's a partial bill for this month and a full bill for that month. WHATEVER, I paid the bill. The next bill, way off!! Frontier quotes you a price to reel you in and then bills you a higher amount. What kind of business is this? I fought with this company for 6 1/2 months and couldn't deal with it anymore, so I cancelled, then they have the nerve to bill me for a full month of service. UNBELIEVABLE - ANYONE READING THIS SAVE YOURSELF AGGRAVATION AND $$$. DON'T GO TO FRONTIER. Sincerely wish you the best if you do, be prepared to pay more than you were quoted.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2018

    Absolutely ridiculous that it takes over 2 weeks just for your employees to come and set up the internet. After we have to reschedule two weeks later because no one informed us that someone 18 or over has to be at our place they then don't even show up at the time they were scheduled to and so we call and apparently there was some "misunderstanding" and now we have to wait another day. At this point we really just don't want Frontier internet but we have already waited too long. We are really close to just calling and canceling everything. If you're interested in getting Frontier internet I guarantee you you will be highly dissatisfied and will regret it based on my family's experience and other reviews I have read.

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    Roberta increased rating by 2 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Roberta increased their star rating on Aug. 7, 2018.

    Updated review: Aug. 7, 2018

    Thank you Lianne for emailing me and resolving this dispute. It is now resolved and my money has been refunded back.

    Original Review: July 18, 2018

    I called and requested Frontier Internet service. I was charged a $35 deposit after Frontier confirmed they provided Internet service in Downey, CA. They came to my residence and were unable to install Internet. I called and requested a refund of my $35. They said it would be refunded automatically. It never happened. I have been calling for over a month and every time I call they claim they are unable to find my account. The customer service representatives are awful and rude. To this day, they have not refunded my deposit.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 17, 2018

    IF I could give this company a 0 Star I would. We had our flight cancelled at the last minute due to a time out for the pilot and crew after 3 delays beforehand. They did NOTHING to help us get to our destination. They could care less that we were stuck in the airport because they had no more flights going out. We had to re ticket at a REAL AIRLINES SOUTHWEST and we were actually treated like humans after running thru the airport to catch the last flight out. When we had our return flight we sat in row one where we could hear the Stewards all night talking about the other Stewards in the rear of the plane. They gossiped so much that they FORGOT TO DO SERVICE!! So we all flew 4.5hrs with no water or a snack and when the passengers asked for some water the Stewards made remarks about the passengers as if they were bothering them.

    A passenger said, "These seats are so uncomfortable." His reply was, "I didn't make the seats. We are the leaders in the industry and this plane is only a year old." Here is a suggestion try cleaning your year old plane. It was DIRTY. Stop gossiping and pay mind to the passengers who pay your salary instead of arguing with them have some compassion... They even were helping each other with how to manipulate the time clock so they could get the company for more hours. WOW this was so bad I hope Frontier contacts me so I could go into detail...OR MAYBE THEY WON'T CARE!!! Spread the word. This is NOT an airlines you want to fly!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 16, 2018

    Never overpay Frontier a penny. It will take 90 days to get your money back. Think of all the interest they are earning. Every time you call they will tell you something different. I think the government should look into this. And the service is the very bad both customer or equipment.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed July 16, 2018

    I am a physician with healthcare service in Plano, Texas, Frontier Communications has monopolized our area, we had internet shortage & our phone lines are completely cut off for 3 days, going on 4 days, Frontier calls it "OUTAGE". Our billing department cannot operate, multiple complaints have been made by our Practice Manager. We were told they are still in the "discovery mode" after 72 days into this, patient phone calls are not coming in, creating a public nuisance & affecting revenue loss for the company!!! & my husband who is also a physician was on Frontier's President line for many hours trying to get this mess solved, taking time off from clinical work, & our practice manager has been trying to get this solved for 3 days!!!

    Their customer service is pathetic! I hope City of Plano gets a message, & puts a stop to this company renewing their contract for this massive area! This company is not capable of operating for a large scale! I am pretty sure we are not the only ones experiencing this!! Service is pathetic causing public hazard & liability!

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2018

    This is why I'll never use Frontier again and why I'd recommend people to look elsewhere. They don't offer reasonable prices. They make it seem that way starting out, but ALWAYS raise your monthly rate a substantial amount ($10-$30) either every 6 months or every year. They always claim you were on a "special limited time promotion that expired". Why not just give customers one good reasonable, affordable flat rate ("promotion" free) that doesn't repetitively increase over time? That would save you thousands of phone calls from concerned customers per month Frontier. Hello.

    They lie. They've told me numerous times that specific account changes I needed would occur, and soon to find out they did nothing. In addition, they don't tell you about certain charges or fees you're receiving for changes you may need over time. They just slap charges on your bill without telling you upfront. Devious.

    They hang up on you. Multiple times when I wanted to downgrade or disconnect service, I was transferred over several times, put on hold, and then hung up on, without receiving a callback. This is Frontier's way of trying to keep your business and money without making it easy for you to do what you need when it's something that reduces their revenue.

    Extreme wait times. I've never had to wait longer for any other company. Whenever I need to speak with someone in customer service, it is almost guaranteed I'll be waiting for a 1/2 hour or longer to get a human being on the phone. If you get transferred, you'll wait another 20-30 minutes. It's like hello Frontier, either revamp your business practice, or hire more customer service agents to prevent angry customers. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SCAMMED OR TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE BBB, BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU. They handle big corporations like Frontier.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed July 13, 2018

    Frontier Communications has the worst customer service. Was told one installation date and no one ever showed up. Then instead of sending someone to install they just made a new installation date. They had no problem taking my money off of my debit card when they were supposed to but, can't show up to install. And the people "in charge" will not speak to you about any customer service issues. Horrible company.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & SpeedOnline & App

    Reviewed July 13, 2018

    I ordered internet and cable services from Frontier on July second. When I spoke to the sales rep I was given an install date of July 8th from 1-5. I got a confirmation email and all was good. I sent in my lease to prove I did not owe money and I thought all was good. When I tried to search my order number on their website nothing came up. So I called and asked why, I was told that I needed to schedule my install appointment. Confused I told them I had the confirmation. They told me I had to wait until the 9th from 8-12 for install, however I said numerous times that date would not work and I wanted to keep my original appointment. I was laughed at and hung up on (July 3rd). Turns out that appointment on the 9th was scheduled anyways. I called again, talked to some supervisors who eventually agreed to keep my original appointment of July 8th. All was good again.

    I went online and did an online chat and asked to make sure it was set for the 8th, it was and they confirmed it for me. I saved that chat as a PDF. I got a call on the 5th and they confirmed the appointment on the 8th again. On July 8th I rushed home to wait for that 4 hour window. No one came. I called and after an hour and a half I was told no one was coming, they couldn't get anyone out there at that time. I was also told that my appointment had been rescheduled until July 9th from 1-5. I was never told of this change, I had very important work meetings on the 9th out of state. I was so mad! I was told it was just a miscommunication and that no one actually does installs on Sundays so no one was ever going to show up for my original appointment. Why would they make that appointment then? Why would it be confirmed multiple times.

    I asked for an email address to send my confirmation email and the chat pdf I have and I was told they do not have any emails. I have the proof of their major mess up but they refuse to look at it. Each time I called it took hours to get any answers. I wasted time waiting for them only for them to not show up, then wasted a total of 7 hours on the phone with them throughout the week leading up to the install.

    I had to have a family member drive over an hour to wait at my house for the install on the 9th because according to them that was the only day they could do and it was my mistake. I had to pay for her gas and food for waiting. I lost hours at work being on the phone with them as well as leaving early on the 9th to relieve my family member from waiting. I was treated terribly and no one was willing to actually help. Why would someone change my appointment without even telling me? Why make an appointment and then give 0 effort to keep it? I expect to get a few months free or some sort of monthly discount for my troubles.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 12, 2018

    My internet started frequently disconnecting near the end of June. I was initially told they would be out to fix it in 8 days when I live 30 minutes away from their office in Sylva. That was over a week ago. They keep saying they will come out the next business day but never do. They will call to make sure I’m here but then they don’t show up. I am almost glad I am disabled because I would have been fired where I taking time off to resolve this issue but instead I live on a fixed income and am now forced to look for a different provider for my internet. With all my eggs in Frontier's basket, I now have to wait 90 days to receive my money back before I can begin to get service.

    Frontier said they will not charge me for the time I’ve Been without internet but they only credit your account for the first missed tech appointment. Essentially they don’t have to come out ever, my past 3 weeks is only worth 25 dollars to them. Now they are saying that I have to pay a $35.99 fee to disconnect when I signed up for a month to month plan because I wanted to try them out and they said they would send me a 100 dollar visa gift card for signing up. They sent it to the wrong address and are now saying there is nothing they can do about it. If you are thinking about using Frontier, don’t.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 12, 2018

    Gave 1 star only because it is required in order to post a review. Do not sign up with Frontier!!! We had service with them for a total of 8 days and were billed for the entire month. During the 8 days of service there were multiple problems and major issues which led us to cancel the entire package with them altogether, one of the many issues was that they gave us a new phone #, when the request was made to transfer our current phone # to the account. I received a bill for the entire month of service the same day I called to cancel. We only had them for 8 days! When I called about the bill I was told to wait until the 3rd billing cycle and the credit would be reflected on that 3rd bill showing only the 8 days. I was told this by 3 different reps each time I called. After the 3rd billing cycle I received the same bill for the entire months' charges.

    When I called back the last time I was told that the account would go to collections because their policy is to never prorate bills regardless of the issue and how long we had service. I mailed in a check for the amount of the 8 days I had service with them along with a detailed letter of my experience and the issues I had. In turn I received another letter stating the account would go to collections if the remaining balance was not paid. I have spent numerous hours on the phone with this company dealing with issues and trying to clear up this bill.

    Currently, I have been told that I need to file a formal dispute of the charges which I have now done. Supposedly I will get a reply within 3 business days. We will see about that. TV reception was bad, the screen kept freezing, internet was super slow, the wrong phone # was transferred, their customer service was terrible and I was told incorrect information every time I called. Moral of the story, Frontier is a terrible company! Stay away.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 11, 2018

    They are the worst. They are completely inept and incompetent and they seem to defraud their customers at each chance they get. Calling customer support, you feel like you are being had. The wait times are off the charts, and when you do talk to a person, they usually have no idea what you are saying and take the first opportunity to transfer you to someone else. BUT they do not communicate among themselves, so with each person you start over from scratch. At one time I was on the phone with a "technical support" guy, who talked about detailed technical problems, then transferred me over to someone who had no information of the technical problems. Am I supposed to do your job for you? The list goes on.

    The promotion that was guaranteed to us was never delivered. We are being charged more than they said, and they have the nerve to tell us that we "verbally agreed" to their bogus charges. No we did not. I tried adding a simple package to get an additional channel - ended up being sold two packages that they promised had the one channel I was looking for. Not true. I hate to be so negative but I really feel like crimes are being committed at this company.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 11, 2018

    My business is now on day 17 of no internet or phone, they told me today it's going to be another few weeks. I have had to pay for another internet service for a month, while I wait. They have sent guys out 3x to fix, knowing that they can't fix it (a car ran into the box), because they "want to make [me] feel like they are working on it." They are wasting my time, waiting for them, while also wasting the tech & other customers time, because they want to "make an appearance." Knowing now it is going to take about 2 months or more to repair, I am switching providers. They are known for holding your phone number until the Federal limit of 90 days. This company is total **.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 11, 2018

    We signed up for upgraded high speed Internet. Serviceman arrived unscheduled seemed to know what he was doing but six hours later he left without checking to make sure that the router and cable service was functioning. No way to contact him as he never left his card. Collectively my husband and I spent 8 hours on hold and behind desks trying to reboot and register the Frontier router all to no avail. Supervisors useless! Prepared to dump all the equipment in the alley. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY - BOGUS FRAUDS! WE pay over $300 a month for terrible service! Channels change on their own think it’s a kick back to tv stations!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 10, 2018

    I contacted Frontier to increase my internet speed from 50/50 to 100/100. They stated that they would need to send out a tech to replace the old router because it can't handle the speed. NEVER mentioned any charge for this service. On 7/10/18, I received an email regarding my auto-pay and noticed that there was a added charge of approx. $75 for this. Again, NEVER mentioned any charge. Ultimately, the tech arrived and never changed the router because he said it was the newer version. Then he went in to my backyard and said he would have to replace the outside box due to it being an older model. NEVER mentioned any charge for this. I contacted Frontier customer service and they said I had to pay it regardless on 7/10/18 and then spoke to the retention department and was able to get them to remove the charge. I've had nothing but terrible service from this company and will be moving right away. Beware!

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed July 10, 2018

    We talked and agreed to a two yr contract with a rep from Frontier Thursday July 6th and at that time the rep told us that he would be sending a copy of the contract immediately before the scheduled installation the next week. We called today Tuesday July 10th because we never received anything only to find that the price he quoted was not correct and that they cannot send us a copy of the contract until after the installation. Committing to a two yr contract and nothing to show what we agreed to is unacceptable. Also now they are telling us that we need a landline to complete the installation - very disappointed. We cancelled the installation. We have always not heard good things about this company - and now we believe it. So very disappointed.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 10, 2018

    I work in customer service and am absolutely appalled by the lack of service availability from Frontier. I frequently lose service and must be tortured by numerous hour long conversations with customer service. I am placed on hold continually for 15 minutes at a time while the technician attempts to reach other departments. This is far worst than any overseas customer service and I would prefer speaking to someone in India. Between Tech support, opened trouble tickets that can't be modified, workers having to text other departments... it is like the worst nightmare of FUBAR that anyone can imagine. They charge for services they do not provide. I am on the phone now and this is a grand total of 5 hours and 10 minutes so far in attempt to resolve an outage. I receive medical consults over Skype for a serious diagnosis and am often unable to receive such. Choose any company other than them if available or do without.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 10, 2018

    On July 9th, 2018 I waited for Frontier to come install service at my home, with the window time of 12-5 PM. They never showed up and never called. When I tried to call customer service I could not get through to them. The following day I called to find out what happened to them. I found out they went to the wrong address and tried to contact me with a wrong phone number. I had given them the correct address and contact number. I just cannot believe that they are that confused!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 9, 2018

    I do not have to contact Frontier often but when I do, my experiences have been the poorest of poor. 90% of the times I have had to ask for help, I get a terrible attitude and a clear message that the person on the other end is not interested in helping. I have lost count how many times I have either been placed back in the queue or hung up on altogether. I feel Frontier has an extremely bad culture within and speaking for myself, I feel it almost every time I have to call in which. Today I was treated the same way again. It left such a bad taste that I googled to review on Frontier as it's the only way I know to hopefully get someone's attention.

    Frontier should start fresh and offer training as if the employees have no prior experience. I ended up speaking with Amanda who clearly saw the mess the prior person had made of my account. Unfortunately I did not get the prior person's name. I ended up speaking to Amanda and she was great and had to work very hard to clean up the mess the prior person made. If Frontier had mostly Amanda's, this review would never have been done. The service at Frontier, more often than not, is not remotely acceptable and definitely does not deserve my hard earned money. I will be looking for other service immediately. My time on the phone exceeded an hour and a half to make two simple changes. WOW...

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 9, 2018

    I was grandfathered into being a Frontier customer when Verizon sold the cable company portion. That was over 2 years ago and I have never been contacted by Frontier unless it was to pay a bill, they can never find my account or know how I am, despite receiving my monthly payments. I tried to resolve billing upon moving and transferring to AT&T but that was a disaster also. The billing person was extremely rude and short, couldn't find my account and gave out someone else's personally identifying information, with me then hung on me when I asked to be transferred to someone who could help.

    Every time I have called it's a different experience, but usually negative. I still haven't received the boxes that will allow me to mail back the equipment I had rented. So I assume I am paying for not returning the equipment. They actually billed me an additional month ($160) of service after I had moved out. Now I have to try and get that money back to. They're exhausting to deal with. Glad to be free of them. I do not recommend this service simply because of the customer service. They are clearly saving money in this department, but sadly, could be so much better and more successful.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 9, 2018

    I have to relocate nearly every year due to work. This summer I contacted Frontier Communications about a local special on Internet service they were offering where I'll be stationed through summer 2019. From the very start, it was frustrating trying to set up service with them. The on-phone sign-up process is lengthy, requiring a lot of personal information. I tried FOUR separate times from my old residence (excellent internet & phone service), but Frontier agents kept placing me on hold, after which I was invariably disconnected. One got so far as to set up my account with my PIN number, but, of course, at the last moment she had to put me on hold to attend to some matter. I was disconnected.

    After many, many frustrating, time-wasting attempts to set up service with Frontier, I finally got an install date at my new place. They missed the first date--never showed up and never called me. So I called them AGAIN. Another marathon run-around experience. They promised me their servicemen would stop by the following Friday. Friday came and went. No servicemen. No installation kit (promised me in the mail). So I called their local competitor & established service with them. Within 3 days someone from the competing company was out at my place to set up my internet service. I confirmed with Frontier (another painfully lengthy call series) my account was closed WITH NO CHARGES TO ME.

    A month later, I got a bill from Frontier. Again, I had to spend an entire morning trying to contact them, getting through, finally, but then getting disconnected. Finally, an agent promised me my account was closed and that it would take a few weeks for "the system to purge your account information." She promised that my account wasn't "overdue" and that I wasn't going to be reported to a credit bureau.

    Another month later (yesterday), I got A SECOND BILL from Frontier, with another month's charges on it. I spent the entire morning today, from 8 AM CST to just a few minutes ago, waiting to get through to a Frontier agent. The first agent I got through to (11:15 AM) said he was "just technical support," and he tried to get through to customer service. Surprise, surprise. He couldn't. So he "scheduled a call-back after confirming my number. He told me he could see the longest wait time was 19 minutes and then GAVE ME THE CORRECT CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER to call to resolve the issue.

    At 12:45 PM I called Frontier AGAIN, using the number the above agent had given me. In the middle of explaining to the new customer service agent why I was calling, HE PUT ME ON HOLD without warning. He just didn't want to deal with me or the billing issue. Now it seems like my account is 60-days past due and this may affect my credit rating. But do I have any power to correct this without spending gobs of money for a private attorney? No. If I were 60-days late paying an internet bill, would I still have access to service indefinitely? No. It's time for consumers to (informally) unionize so we have a collective voice with these unethical, unprofessional, uncaring providers who monopolize markets, slashing competition that's vital to nurturing ethical practice.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 9, 2018

    I've had horrible customer service from Frontier. Ever since Verizon sold out to Frontier - the actual service and customer help over the phone has been horrible. I'm trying to cancel my service and drop down to just internet and they are giving me the run around - transfers to retention and every time someone picks up they ask why am I canceling - once they know it's a done deal - that I've already switched to another provider - they become rude and say I have to transfer again...

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed July 9, 2018

    I have internet service at a campground. The first 2 years I had a promotional rate which was fine. Then my bill kept increasing yearly. Come to find out I was sold Frontier Max which is the highest speed of DSL. Due to the old equipment that service is unavailable. I have been overpaying all along. Mind you the service has been spotty. The first 2 years it has worked fine. After that I have had to have service all the time. If there was any other service available I would be the first one to sign up. Not a great way to run a business.

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed July 8, 2018

    I'm writing this on my father's behalf. Was originally told by Frontier to call "AOL" regarding email issues. Was given an 844 number. They took control of his PC and said illegal activity from China was passing thru his network. They said they'd fix it etc no problem. And then demanded $300. We declined and contacted Frontier again, only to be told that 844 number wasn't the number they had on file for AOL and they don't know why we were given an incorrect number. Turns out Frontier's tech Ibrahim tried to scam my father. And has probably already scammed others already by forwarding users to this phony AOL support number and gaining control of people's PCs and demanding a ridiculous amount of money to "fix" the evil Chinese hackers that supposedly are taking over their network. Like they told us. Now to me that sounds extremely illegal.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 7, 2018

    Back in February 2018 I called customer service and cancelled my service. I was told I was only a few days away from being eligible for cancelation without any penalties. Since I had paid 1 month ahead, I was promised that I will receive my refund within 6 weeks and package to return their equipment. Fast forward, I receive a new invoice in the mail. I called them and I was told to ignore the invoice because it was a timing issue and I will still get my refund.

    Two months later, I get a collector debt company letter to collect this money on their behalf. After several calls, I kept getting conflicting information and was told that I was being charged early termination fee. What is the point of having customer service who do not give you right information and do not even store historical information. As someone already posted here, "Do not believe Frontier Communications customer service no matter what they "promise". Their promises are as empty as Al Capone's vault.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 7, 2018

    Calling doesn’t seem to do any good. They put you on hold then come back with excuses. Promised to fix it or call you back then they never do. Seven phone calls have been made. Waiting for service repair 7 days. No one ever set a date for the person to show up. I would’ve given the zero stars except you don’t have a spot for zero stars.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 7, 2018

    This on behalf of my sister living in Victorville, CA, she is disabled and lives on a fixed income, when it come to technology she trusts the service provider when they tell her something. THEY LIED and keep overcharging her on everything they provide. They are charging her for VOIP phone service (that is Voice over IP), which is Ethernet (RJ 45 connector) or her internet connection. It is in fact RJ 11 or commonly referred to as copper wire. Her phone is a normal phone (which could not work as a VOIP phone), this is the first step before I contact an attorney to file fraud charges against Frontier, to give them the chance to correct this.

    She is on a fixed income and they seem to feel the need to increase her charges even when she was to have a 2 year locked in price. It took months to get the phone to work, it took almost a month to get the TV to work, they still expected to get paid a premium rate for inferior service. And for your information, I work in the IT field and deal with VOIP phones, internet access and any hardware that is required. (The power went out once, router was down but Edison was able to call the landline because the land has its own power on the four wires that comprise it.) Can you guess how angry I feel knowing how my sister and niece are being treated.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed July 7, 2018

    My father switched to Frontier from Verizon. It has been nothing but a nightmare. He was quoted one price (according to flyer), and they have never charged him the correct price from the beginning. This has been since Nov. We have spent countless hours trying to straighten this out to no avail. Stay away from this company. Horrible customer service. One time you call and think everything is resolved and then you get another bill and find nothing was changed. Former Verizon workers who now work for this company concur service is bad.

    They do bait and switch. Supposed to pay $80 plus taxes. Now up to $155. Their reasoning is Dish is carrier. My dad thought he was getting Fios. Today they informed me that wasn't available. Guess it says in small print somewhere they can switch and I was informed Dish can charge what they want. Robbery. Don't advertise if you can't deliver. We've asked for recorded message stating facts, and they have yet to provide it for our review. They are cheating senior citizens!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 6, 2018

    Verizon use to be my home phone service and the only reason I have a phone service is for my alarm system. When Frontier took it over I called to have caller ID added so that I could block incoming calls that were junk. Frontier said I was locked into the old Verizon plan and could not change it. After one hour of talking to them they finally said they could put caller ID for $30 more a month. That is a crazy amount to add caller ID. I am going to be forced to drop my home phone that they charge me $45 a month for and go to a wireless phone system which I did not want to do. Frontier does not care about their customers and is the worst service I have ever had.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 6, 2018

    I was just on the phone with one of Frontier's rep about a problem that has been going on for at least 3 weeks with our internet service. This rep refused to help and told me I was talking down to her and then hung up on me. Frontier has a problem here in the Franklin, NC area and refuses to do anything about it. This rep told I should get a faster service. They only offer one speed here in the Franklin area. Where we are located Frontier is the only service we can get for phone and internet. Being retired and on a fixed income we just can't afford to get the over the air services form other internet providers. All we are asking here in the Franklin area is that Frontier provide the service that we are paying for in both the phone and internet service.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 5, 2018

    My landline is so old it hums almost constantly, and usually goes out after a hard rain. Water gets in somewhere. Last week a nice man came out and told me he couldn't fix it because he couldn't find it. Also, I have a problem with their caller ID that no one can figure out. I get caller ID just fine through my old 2.4 ghz phone, but whenever I get a new phone with call block I get no caller ID. However, I can take a new call-blocking phone over to my mother's house with a different landline provider and the caller ID works just fine. To me, that proves it's not the fault of the phone, it's some kind of problem in the phone line. I will never understand it and Frontier is so backwards they can't figure it out. We are testing a Straight Talk device that is $15.00 a month, and the new phones work with caller ID over Straight Talk, and there is no hum. We are going to try to have our number ported to Straight Talk. I wonder how badly this will go...

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPriceReliability

    Reviewed July 4, 2018

    Have been a solid customer with GTE, Verizon and now it's Frontier Communications at the same location after 34 years. Originally, all there was to have was telephone. Then came the internet and once GTE finally offered it, have had phone plus internet ever since 1998. Never going to other providers. Internet was $30 a month then came DSL, $34 a month then came fiber optics. When it came out under Verizon, the cost was huge and way expensive. Stayed with the DSL 7.0 service for years until one day, Verizon had sent mailings and made phone calls to move to FIOS. Told them it was too expensive. After 3 years of offers, one girl with Verizon made me an offer to have FIOS and phone for the same price I was already paying and that the price would be "for life" as I told her none of their introductory pricing is going to impress me in 12 months.

    So, she explained all, I wrote it down and got connected in 3 weeks. Been pleased with the FIOS service, reliable, always on etc. Then comes Verizon making a sale to Frontier Communications. Long story short, I haven't changed a thing and the cost is now twice what Verizon guaranteed. Made a few calls and was told none of the agreements Verizon made were absorbed by Frontier. I figured that was mostly B.S. but no one would assist with the prices they now charge. Happy with the reliable service, hate all the robo calls from telemarketing and the internet is the finest except for the cost of it. Our speeds were upgraded at no cost not long ago so now we're 75/75 mbps and is more speed than we can use.

    Some of our city has Fios and some of it didn't get it when they were connecting Fios for the first time in our area. Do you think anything has changed since that time? No, it hasn't and those folks within our city are still on DSL because Frontier won't finish completing their Fios installation for the rest of the city. After all these years with "technology" changes, better speeds, better everything etc. you would think the benefits of lower cost to do business would make it to the customer. No, instead, they pocket the gains and keep the monthly fees as they were decades ago. Folks need to change, technology improves over time and this also means the cost to provide service gets lower and lower each year yet people are sold on the fact that things cost more and more year by year. Guess again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 3, 2018

    If you tell me someone is coming Thursday to fix my internet. Come Thursday, NOT Friday! And don't tell a customer they don't need to be home for the fix when the tech says they do need to get into your home. And another thing, it shouldn't take an hour on the telephone every time I call about slow and disconnecting internet. Finally fed up with this and signed up with another provider for my internet and phone service. Good riddance Frontier! Can't believe they have the word communication in their name.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2018

    Frontier sent the final bill to our geographic address instead of our mailing address after we moved out. We never received the bill. Months later I was contacted by a collection agency and responded by calling Frontier and paying the bill and asking them to remove the delinquent data from the credit reporting agencies. They took the payment and admit they sent the bill to the wrong address (even emailed me the copy of the bill) but will not remove the delinquent credit data. I have filed disputes with the credit agencies but they need Frontier feedback and Frontier will not help.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 2, 2018

    First I would want to say that since I got the service my internet keep breaking down. Always had to get a tech out to come fix. Next my bill was always jumping up and when we called and complained. They said they would give us a fixed rate but always ended paying higher and have to call again to complain and when we finally called to disconnect they still charged us for two months worth for a internet that wasn’t even working the whole time. So don’t waste your time and money on this company because you will be very disappointed.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2018

    I Ordered for Frontier connection on April 6th through online website and as they mentioned that they don't have high speed, I cancelled and also updated them that I cancelled my Order request that's placed. And on June 25th 2018 I was surprised to receive collection notice from Credit Protection Association L.P. asking me to pay 110.69 dollars. I immediately called Frontier and they said "our system shows you never had any connection setup". But I have to follow some process of requesting to raise a Fraud report with Police department. Why should I have to invest my time off the work, spend my Gas to drive to the Frontier office and Police department when I don't owe payment to Frontier. This is big fraud.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 2, 2018

    I called on 6/6 and requested that our fax line ** at 53 Riverside Drive be moved to a detached building we are converting to an office. I was given a service date of 6/18 between 1-5. We didn't receive the day before reminder call nor did we hear from the tech on the 18th. I checked the computer at 4:00 and it showed the work order was in progress. I called around 5:15 and spoke with Matthew who told me the tech was still coming. I called back at 5:55 and spoke with Cinda who said, “The reminder call didn't go through because of an error on your end”. She did not know why the tech didn't show or call and gave me a new date of the 29th.

    The next morning I tried to get a better date and was given 6/28. I found out during this call that the work order address was totally wrong and my email address was also wrong. I must have given them my email address 5 times during these calls and they couldn't get it right. We did not get a reminder call on the 27th and at 4:34 on the 28th your tech left me a cell phone message that he had moved the line at 53 Riverwalk Dr.! He said if I needed jack work done on the inside I would have to call it in! I called customer service immediately and was told that the phone number associated with the fax line was totally wrong as well as the address. I have no idea where they got the address (Riverwalk) or the phone number they had associated with our fax line. Jennifer gave us a new date of 7/10!

    We have been trying for over a month to get a simple job done and it's been nothing but a comedy of errors on the part of Frontier. But it's no laughing matter to me. Your company is absolutely the worst I've ever dealt with, without exception! It's no wonder your score is so low. You stink! And this isn't the only issue I've had. Your company has screwed up every time I've ever needed help. You're useless. Shame on you! Totally disgusted!

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    Courtney increased rating by 2 stars.
    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceReliability
    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Courtney increased their star rating on July 11, 2018.

    Updated review: July 11, 2018

    While I was very frustrated with the initial service I was getting from Frontier, I recently had a good experience with one of the techs who came out to fix a repeated issue (this was the third time we had to have a ticket for someone to fix an issue in a short period of time). While I was very frustrated, the tech was supportive and kind. He knew what he was doing and ended up fixing (I hope) the issue. My internet does go out every now and then which isn't the best, but at this point we're just grateful to have something working. If we can make it past five days without any problems, I'll be a lot happier. Customer service was understanding and gave credit on the bill for not having service. So, even though initial experience was awful, I'm giving my experience with the tech a few additional stars. We'll see what the future holds, but hopefully won't have any more major issues.

    Original Review: July 1, 2018

    I've had Frontier Internet "service" for a total of 11 days. I've only had internet for 5 of those days, and each time it's something different that's wrong. The woman on the phone could not explain what exactly the problem was, so instead I have to wait an additional 8 days for a tech to come out and try to fix it. That'll mean I've had service for only 5 out of 19 total days. Frontier reliability is awful, and no matter what good reviews you see online, trust me when I say not to give Frontier the benefit of the doubt. That's what I did, and they're screwing me over. I can't trust their service and am looking to spend a lot of money to get out of my contract and try another internet service. Don't put yourself through the stress and frustration that you'll get with Frontier. It isn't worth your time.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 29, 2018

    I cancelled service in the middle of March, paying all bills off. When I told Frontier that my account seemed still open, they told me that would be cancelled after that cycle, of course saying me not to worry. When I saw after 10 days some new bill due for new paying cycle starting from April 4 I contacted Frontier, and they told me to disregard the amount because I paid all bills off. Now they sent this to collector debt company to collect this money on their behalf. Do not believe Frontier Communications customer service no matter what they "promise". This is called stealing money!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 25, 2018

    I think Fraud is a good word for Frontier - I have high speed service, 35 Meg up and down. They have been charging me $90.91 per month for years. But, the service is sold for $40 per month. Flat out fraudulent. Customer service is a joke. There is no way they actually try to help you. Just find double speak to keep your bill high and screw you in the end. This company started good, now it's just a big cash sucking entity that doesn't give a crap about anything or anyone.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed June 24, 2018

    I am not using the Frontier service and have called many times to close my account. The rep informs me that my account has been closed but the company continues to bill me. I am not using their service. Attempted to close my account online. Frontier does not provide a valid mechanism to customers to close the account. Instead of providing a link to close the account, the company loops me back to calling. It is a catch 22 to keep billing me and others. It is clearly a scam. I have not used the service (installed in camper that is closed since November 2017). The company continues to bill me. I need a rebate of all the unfair charges I had to pay since November 2017 and I need the company to close my account for phone and internet and to close my account clean without any past due amounts either. Thank you Consumer Services. Please contact me if you need account information. Thank you.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed June 23, 2018

    I have worked in big business for over 16 years and this company has the worst customer service I have ever experienced. Everyone is only concerned with their own stats and no one sees the big picture and how their actions affect the organization or the customer. Everything is designed to screw over the customers and make the organization more profitable. When I first signed up they charged an activation fee and installation fees ($158) that should not have been charged. I spoke with 13 customer service reps who all said the charges should be credited and promised that the credit would be issued next month by the "credit dept" because they couldn't issue hard credits. The credits were never issued and when I called they said the credits were denied by the credit dept for no known reason.

    It took me 4 months to get my credits issued and I had to escalate several times. Most people would have given up and that is what they count on to make unjust additional profits. They offer promotions such as no contract and then when you want to cancel they mention a small detail that allows them to charge cancellation fees, (and don't try to cancel on demand, no. They will only suspend your service and make you pay up until the end of your cycle while you're not using it), they offer promotions for one price then hit you up with fees that almost double your bill, customer service is horrible and no one knows what the other is doing, this company is on its way out. If you have ANY other option for cable service in your area PLEASE consider someone else and do not give this company a chance. They are losing customers at an exponential rate. Once you are locked in their grasp they will make it hard and very costly for you to leave. You will regret it.

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    Reviewed June 22, 2018

    Three days without internet. Of course our internet is not much faster than 56k on DSL. They said they are running fiber, when, next year? This company robs people of their money, cause they have no choice. We should kick this company out and get a decent one in.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 21, 2018

    CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT NEEDED!!! **Full disclosure** I have been a Frontier customer for over a decade now, by force, not choice. There is no other provider available in the area. For years now, I have been paying for 24 hour access to the internet and I'm lucky to receive 12-14 hours per day because their service continuously drops throughout the day and night. I have called and complained countless times now. A serviceman has been out countless times now and each time they tell me there is nothing they can do other than give me a new modem.

    I've asked multiple times for a refund for the service that I paid for and am not receiving, and they scoff at the idea... one lady even laughed like it was the most absurd thing she had ever heard. This seems like the perfect candidate for a class action lawsuit. You have MILLIONS of customers that pay for a service they are not receiving ""ON A REGULAR BASIS"" and the company refuses to refund our money for the services that they did not provide.

    And this has been going on for many years now. Plus, it's easily provable through their own records... the customer service rep can see how many times per day your internet goes down because their system tracks it. They always seem so shocked when they tell me, "Oh yeah, I can see your internet has dropped more than 1000 times in the last week. That's not good." Millions of customers x 1/3 *or more* of their bill x 12 months x 10 years= One heck of a lawsuit. Somebody needs to do something about this. This is simple and blatant theft of consumers money on a seriously large scale.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed June 21, 2018

    We have Frontier Vantage high speed internet. From the very beginning, the internet service has either not worked or is very inconsistent. Customer service is horrible - worse than any other company I have dealt with. They are rude and interrupt constantly. I've called many times and rarely get any help. I was told before I signed up that the wireless box was free of charge. Not true. I was also told that my price was guaranteed to not change for two years. I just found out that not only am I now paying monthly for the box, the price will double after one year. So much for their guarantee that my price would not increase for two years. They get you under a 2-year contract, so I guess they think they don't have to be concerned with customer service or customer satisfaction because they got your money for two years. Had I known beforehand, I would never have chosen Frontier.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaffReliability

    Reviewed June 21, 2018

    The customer services is awful, including the reliability of the technicians. I have had a very bad experience. I had to pay $123.50 for a service I never had, just because the tech said that the internet service was installed, which never happened! He lied. All my calls to the customer services were unsatisfactory. I made around 9 calls, and they never gave me a solution. In the cancellation department the representative hung up the phone. Very annoying when I tried to explain my problem to him. I can only add that I am very disappointed to have had this terrible experience. They do not deserve a single star.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 21, 2018

    Horrible disgusting service. I've been trying to get internet for 3 weeks at my house and been told three different times no one can locate my order after my deposit was taken off of my card. Frontier Communications need to be shut down. Horrible customer service, horrible company.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed June 21, 2018

    I’m at a loss of what to do anymore. Your company has by far the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I will steer anyone away from your services because of what I have had to deal with regarding Frontier. I have used your services since 2016, I moved in November of 2017 and that’s where everything went wrong. I called to switch my services over to my new apartment and instead, I had another account added in my name but for my new address. So I was being charged for two accounts, unaware of the new account, I was still paying on just one. I dealt with late fees and being overcharged. I’ve called at least on 4 other occasions on the same problem just to find that there was yet ANOTHER account in my name.

    I want to know what sort of employees you have working for you that they cannot figure out how to solve this simple problem. It is now June and I currently do not have WiFi so I go to check and they STILL have not removed the account with the overcharges and late fees so I could only assume this would be why. I just made a payment on June 8th for this month. I want to speak with someone higher up, and tell them to fix the problem and to just completely wipe my charges on any accounts in my name and remove my services completely. I’m frustrated and disappointed that your company is so unprofessional and doesn’t know what they’re doing.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 20, 2018

    I have lived where I am for 26 years and I have been forced to have Frontier for internet and telephone service because there are no other providers. We basically have paid for years for service we don't receive. Our phone and internet are out all the time, not only ours but our neighbors, it's like if I have phone and internet someone close by me doesn't. I am on chat right now because I have been paying for the Ultimate package up to 45 Mbps and I have been receiving 10.1 Mbps my upload is 0.7.

    Anyway this is my 5th chat. 4 phone calls tech here 4 times and I still can't get refunded for what I've paid and haven't received. I believe they know they have us. No other company I know of can get by with charging for what you don't receive and for us we use internet for our TV too so we pay for Netflix and Hulu and don't have them either when the internet is out. When they do this it would be like going into Walmart and buying a 20 oz bottle of pop and the cashier pours half out. When you pay for something you should get it.

    I understand the ad says up to 45 Mbps but 10.1 is not even close. They also have a cheaper package that says up to 12 Mbps. Even their own techs say they cant get the high speed here but they keep charging for it. On the chat just now the lady told me she can refund me $10.00 for my months of paying. I asked what the price difference was on the cheaper package she said $5.00. She lied. It was $10.00 per month. They advertise it everywhere. They are sending out a tech again to get the speed up. And I can start all over again. This should be illegal, but what can you do when they have nobody to compete with. AS I said earlier this has been years with the phone and internet.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 20, 2018

    I am very dissatisfied with Frontier Communications... I feel like cheated. Had service from January 2018 to May 24 2018 with the payment of $1.242 dollars for one TV box; internet and 2 home phone lines. I am just wondering why this company is not sued. Why people still have service from this company. There is no supervisor for this company who can give you solutions. Poor customer services and they are liars. Think twice before getting service from Frontier.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 19, 2018

    After canceling service 4 days into a billing cycle, they want to charge me for the entire month. After 6 months and 12 calls, there has been no resolution and not one customer service rep has helped or done what they would promise me they would do. Their staff is rude, unhelpful and cannot solve problems. Do not use this company.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 18, 2018

    Called to terminate my Internet service because I'm moving. Frontier was unwilling to prorate my service even though I'll only be using Internet for 6 of the 30 days in the billing cycle! That's pretty much stealing and I'm extremely disappointed in the fact that they don't have any flexibility to make things right for a loyal customer of 3.5 years. Shame! 1st star: agent and supervisor I spoke to were professional and apologetic, but that doesn't help me because I still have to pay for a service that I'm not using. 2nd star: FiOS worked well for 3+ years with minimum downtime.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 18, 2018

    Worst service ever!! Do not make my mistake and think they can give you a ** that worth anything. Worst customer service ever, they will let you hang on the phone for hours until either you get tired or they just hang up on you, same on the chat, they hang up on you. They will tell you lies, waste your time waiting for a tech to come over, then come up with lies saying the tech called and you didn't answer. If I could put zero stars... agrr.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed June 18, 2018

    Not only do we get the slowest speed when we pay for the fastest speed, we have to reset our box about 50 times a day to get it to work. I lost my job because I work from home and can’t work without internet. Now we are locked in a contract we can’t get out of for service we can’t use.

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    Staff

    Reviewed June 16, 2018

    Placed an order for a wireless cable box around May 23rd. It is now June 15th and I've been sent the wrong box not once, but 3 TIMES!! Asked to speak to a supervisor and never got that Far of course. I don't understand how incompetent the service staff is, and how difficult it is to send a WIRELESS box. I now have 2 cable boxes sitting here waiting for shipping labels so that I can return them, and charges on my bill for the boxes that were sent to me and still waiting on my WIRELESS box. Somebody tell Comcast to start servicing the Southern Fairfield county area ASAP.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 16, 2018

    This is absolutely the worst customer service. Constant transfers, blatant lies, unnecessary charges, and the list goes on. Tried to cancel account and they waited another 30 days so they can get another month's billing!!! I have never been so disgusted. They don't deserve even a star, in fact a negative star would be more appropriate.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed June 15, 2018

    I would give then 0 stars if I could. I signed up online for a new account to switch from Spectrum. Signed up for a 2 yr contract and paid a 40.00 deposit. My service was installed and had service for about a month or so. Apparently I owed them money from like year ago that I had no knowledge of and they suspended my service. I tried to pay them several times to reinstate my service and they charged my card 4 times and no one gave me a confirmation #. When I addressed them about the situation and spoke with 2 supervisors they were very rude and unprofessional they did not listen at all. I told them they charged my card 4 times. Then they're saying they cannot find the transactions. They give me a fax # to fax in bank statements proving I paid and the fax # doesn't work. I called again and someone gave me an email address. Still not resolved. Listen Frontier if I owed you money why would you even install my service.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed June 13, 2018

    I cannot recommend strongly enough buyer beware if you use their automatic payment system! As their prices inch up and up, the service seems to just sink into decline. My credit card company issued me a new card because they indicated it might have been in a batch of compromised cards. Anyway, since I was on auto pay, I called Frontier proactively to tell them of the new card number. Somehow they billed BOTH cards (on 3/30 and 4/1), despite my saying the old card should not be used, and got away with it.

    Come to find out they make their bills so far in advance they have an excuse to not have current information. They do not give refunds. So when I discontinued my service totally on 5/16, they had already billed me on 5/10 for service thru June 9, despite payment not yet due. No matter how you talk to them, their agents can't help change this huge company into being fair. Their automatic payment process is an unforgiving beast on the prowl. Buyer beware! I will never recommend them to anyone for anything.

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    Customer ServicePriceEase of Use

    Reviewed June 13, 2018

    We have been with Comcast for a long time and we're paying too much. One day a couple of folks came door to door representing Frontier, their price was half what we had been paying, should have asked more questions. However, we told them that we make calls to UK and what TV channels we like to watch... "No problem" we were told, "You will have everything you do now." BIG FAT LIE!!! Also, apparently, in three weeks we have a $200 telephone bill! What's wrong with that picture? Also, can't get TV shows like BEIN, past episodes of anything, difficult to navigate any TV programs or channels. Back to Comcast and out with Frontier, what a waste of time and more fool us for being so gullible and not taking the time to research before signing on the bottom line.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 12, 2018

    Absolutely incompetency at its highest level. How is the company in business!!! If I could give zero stars, I would. First of all they do not honor their contracts and they will overcharge at every opportunity. When they overcharged my account for 3 consecutive bills, I disconnected their service from my home, they charged me double my monthly bill on the final bill!!! Go figure. Their customer service told me not pay for 3 months because it takes that long for their balances to correct themselves (what a lot of nonsense). Following the 3 months, they send a collections notice. I paid them the amount, But I will never ever go to Frontier ever! Their customer service department will give you the run around until you tire yourself out. Be warned, do not do business with these morons.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 11, 2018

    I have had Frontier Digital Phone and Broadband Service for many years. The speed for Broadband has ranged from slow (1.2Mbs) to OK (5.2Mbs) so I have made do with the poor Broadband service. Recently the service is consistently much slower than 5.2Mbs (now ranges as fast as 2.6Mbs) so I cannot justify continuing with the service for their "Broadband Max" which costs $34.99/month... I'd like to get some of my money back from Frontier. Is this possible... I feel cheated for many months now...

    Updated on 06/21/2018: Broadband Max Service - At my request, Frontier dispatched a tech...to my earlier complaint about slow IP speed, but he did not come between noon and 4:00PM as I had requested; Perhaps Frontier believes that coming earlier than scheduled somehow enhances customer service? Tech called at 8:44AM and said he'd arrive in "45 minutes" which he did... Seemed to know not of my request that he come after noon. He seemed knowledgeable and forthright, replaced Frontier modem, after he pronounced it faulty. Checked IP speed at 2:30 PM and found 2Mbps, still unacceptable and certainly not as I contracted to get from Frontier, and not what I was paying for. Have tried to recheck my IP speed six times since this morning's service call, and find my IP service "cannot locate website" or connect with any IP speed check, including Frontier's site. So attaboys are not in order. Wonder what my next Frontier surprise could possibly be...

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed June 8, 2018

    This review should not have any stars! I have tried repeatedly to get resolution to my problem of increasing bills, every month it has progressively increased. It started at $145.** and over a six month period had increased to $188.**. Their excuse was that It was no longer in a contract. I have auto pay and noticed the increase and when I called the man said he would take care of it and going forward my bill would be $135.** (a little cheaper than I had before). I agreed but after the first bill it started increasing again! After 8 attempts (being cut off, put on endless hold, given another number to call, etc.) I finally got to speak to a manager Chris ID# ** OMG! I AM STILL IN SHOCK!!!

    It's very obvious that their managers have no idea what customer service is, he told me that it’s the way the company works. THIS MAN ACTUALLY YELLED AT ME and said his shift had ended and there was no one to talk so I could call back tomorrow. I want to speak to someone higher up but he said he didn’t know of anyone above him who could help me but I could try to “Google a name or number” but for me to keep in mind nothing could be done about my bills… WHAT???

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 8, 2018

    I am very dissatisfied with Frontier internet service. We do not get the strength we pay for. We had a scheduled appointment for Saturday. Today is Friday and I passed them leaving my house. I immediately called and they said everything is fine. I explained I just saw them and missed them. I said we were scheduled for Saturday and she said basically, "Well, I see why you would think that but they came today, we will have to get you Monday." Completely unprofessional in my opinion. No apologies and rude women on the phone. I'm so sick of paying extra for a service that does not work and rude customer service.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 7, 2018

    I cancelled my Frontier account as I was having to reset my equipment regularly as they never gave me new DVR/receivers when they took over Verizon. I asked for new receiver, sent but it didn't work. After numerous calls and waiting, we finally got a guy to come out and install a new receiver. He didn't show up after 8 hrs of waiting. I called Spectrum and liked their pricing and plan, all new equipment and service would be ready. Cancelled Frontier as of January 19 as Spectrum was installing theirs on Jan 16. I had to pay Frontier $172.23 for February which was unfair and send my equipment back, which I did on January 25th from UPS in Lake Forest, CA.

    I am now getting billed for unreturned equipment. I've called monthly to resolve and in the end they say they did receive the equipment and I will have a $0 balance on the next bill. I am not able to get an email, confirmation number, speak to manager. Just first names of the representative I speak to. I am at my wits end with this company. I'm a 68 year old woman, going in for my 3rd major surgery on July 11th. I feel this company is preying on senior citizens taking advantage. No one can send me an email stating that the matter is taken care and you can't find a person to discuss face to face.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupContract & TermsStaffEase of Use

    Reviewed June 7, 2018

    Just wanted to describe my experience with Frontier Communications, hope this will save someone else from the trouble. I moved to California on June 2017, opted to signup with Frontier because I was using Verizon in my previous apartment at Boston. Phone agent with whom I spoke with proposed a bundle of TV+FIOS 50/50, with no contract (month on month) and I choose to go with that.

    Fun starts with installation itself, technician who came to install router and TV was not able to configure it. I had to contact customer service again and different agent could fix the problem finally, after multiple calls. Next I noticed issue with my account/bill, they had given me a 2 year contract (6/22/17 - 6/21/19) for the bundle and not the month on month which was promised to me.

    I tried to contact customer service multiple times via chat and phone, nobody could resolve my issues and had to finally gave up on it. Since I was not using TV service much, opted to cancel it on Feb 2018, which was successful after multiple calls and complaints and continued to use FIOS 50/50. Last month, I noticed $100 penalty added to my account for not returning broadband equipment but they failed to notice that I'm still using it and they are charging me $5 as monthly rent. Along with this some great guy opted to change the contract to 2/28/18 - 2/27/20 from 6/22/17 - 6/21/19 without taking my approval.

    Contacting their customer service till this time has been a real pain. They keep me on hold for hours, if I call them call will be transferred to different departments and finally get disconnected. If I try chat support then they keep on hold stating technical issues and will disconnect the chat. I really don't know what needs to be done at this time. Writing this review so someone else can be saved from this mental torture.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 7, 2018

    We dropped Frontier 2 years ago because of lousy/non-existent internet service. Sadly, my elderly in-laws remained with Frontier and are now faced with a complete breakdown in their phone, internet and TV service. As I write, they've been without service for 4 days. Frontier originally said the service failure was a widespread problem, yet they couldn't offer an estimate when it would be resolved. I left my cell phone number to be notified when service was restored. I never got a call back.

    Today, we phoned again only to be told the service failure was just at my in-laws' home and it will be another 4 days before they can even send a technician. How can these people even stay in business? We're in a large metropolitan area (L.A.) with other options and yet we're going to be without service for 8 days!!! Ever since Frontier took over Verizon's landline/Fios network, it's been a disaster. They are not putting the needed resources into maintaining the network. "Customer service" is nowhere to be found at Frontier. It seems they're just trying to squeeze every penny out of customers without providing a reasonable level of service.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    My phone line was down for 2 days. Call to report the problem. First they make you punch in the number before someone answer. Then they ask you the same question. address, email, pin, name, etc. Then they transfer me to someone else. Same question, again, and again, 7 times different person. It took them 3 hours to forward the line to cell phone. If I have choice I would not recommend to anyone. They have the worst system.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    If you have a problem with your service...you have to call between 9a and 5p. Most people get off work in the evening so you are plain out of luck getting your service back on that night. Even though someone does answer the phone no one after 5p has the authority to turn your service back on. The TV guide is awful as is the on demand. For a communications company they are extremely behind the times.

    Have been unhappy since leaving Comcast. If you are late on your payment the next day they shut down everything including the internet and even though you immediately pay online (in the evening) they will not turn your service back on until you call the next day. At least with Comcast they won't let you order movies and then you are like, "Oh dang I forgot to pay the bill." You pay and then get your service back immediately. I would rather pay a little more for excellent customer service and people authorized to help you than be out of service. Not that I am continuously late paying my bills but it does happen occasionally. Do not recommend this company.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    They shipped my modem 1.5 weeks late. Service did not work. I made an appointment for a tech to come fix it and he called on wrong day of appointment when I was at work. Turns out after they had me sign a contract that the service in my area does not even work, They have no upgrade. I had to spend a couple week on the phone getting a 0 balance since I never received working service. Then a couple weeks later I received a letter stating they were going to turn me into collections for an unpaid balance. Even though I did not owe this and my account was supposed to be 0 having never had working service, I paid it because I was worried that with their incompetence they would ding my credit. I called to pay the bill. It cost an extra 4.99 to pay by phone and had to go through 3 people just to pay their scam charges.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    We signed up for Frontier internet service when we moved into our new house. It took several visits for the technician to figure out how to get it set up and we still did not get the full 26 MB per second that we were promised. I let that go because we live in a rural area and the internet was fast enough for what we needed. Then in May our internet went out during a small storm one Sunday. After several hours and 3 weeks without service we finally had enough. It went from a common outage, to needing to check the lines inside the house, then back to a larger outage. I was never contacted or kept up to date about anything so I had to call 2-3 times per week to get updates.

    They are such a large company that it took forever to get to a person and then once I did they were of no help. I am currently on day 31 without internet and have canceled and gone with another company. They did credit me the month owed and $50 for two missed technician appointments but that was not nearly enough for the amount of time it was out. I finally started getting direct contact from their company after we put in a complaint to the BBB, but by that time it was too late and I was through with them. That customer service after the BBB complaint was the type of service we should have gotten at the beginning and never did. I would never recommend Frontier to anybody and would suggest looking into other options before signing up with them.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    Yesterday They installed the cable and internet service in my house! The internet never worked, every time we tried to watch a movie it stayed loading, the internet signal did not reach my room! I call today cs to fix this problem and they let me waiting on the phone forever! When someone answer the phone I told them that I want to cancel my services and they told me that I need to pay 285$ for early cancellation fee!!! Wtf. I request to speak with a supervisor and the cs represents told me that her supervisor can’t help me with the cancellation fee!!! Is the worst company ever... 285$ for less than 24 hours of service (really bad service).

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    Reviewed June 6, 2018

    NO INTERNET SERVICE!!! As of June 5th 2018... there has been no Internet Service for 5 days and Frontier is unable to explain why other than saying that their service is being updated. THEY ARE UNABLE TO FIX THEIR OWN SYSTEM and have no time frame for when service will be online again. THEIR COMPUTERS HAVE BEEN DOWN. Frontier has not been able to process payments and you will be asked to call back another day... Really a major failure.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2018

    I moved from the house at which I had been receiving internet service and called in to delete my account and cancel service. I was assured it would be discontinued in two days after the call. A month later, I find out that I've not only been charged for another month of service, but none of the disconnects I'd ordered had actually taken place. Took 2-3 hours on the phone and very slow going through the customer service website to cancel payments and disconnect service, and I'm not even sure I'm going to be refunded for the month I was under the impression the service had been canceled. A complete failure of all related equipment would have been more helpful than their tech support.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2018

    I had not had many problems with Frontier until this past March. A door to door rep from Frontier came and offered us 75/75 internet only for $30.00 per month. We were only paying $50.00 for 50/50 service and had no problems and no contract. Ever since it's been downhill. They came to "install" new equipment and charged us $85.00 which the rep NEVER once mentioned. I refused to pay it. They told me to pay the bill and they would credit the account which basically never happened.

    Long story short, they created 2 accounts for me so the payment was never getting credited. So I was getting varying bills with varying amounts. I called to have it fixed and they canceled one of the accounts but that canceled my whole service and now we are without internet. The earliest "install" date is over a week from now. They will do NOTHING to help or fix the situation. I asked for a supervisor and they refused. I will be canceling and calling Spectrum tonight. I doubt they are better because in my opinion ALL internet/cable service providers SUCK. They know you have very little choice so they try and screw you over as much as they possibly can. Run, don't walk away from Frontier!

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    Reviewed June 4, 2018

    I have been a customer for over a decade. In that entire time, your service has been horrid. I have had to call multiple times, and nearly each time, you have failed to assist me in any way. There have been performance issues non-stop that entire time. Your customer service department is a joke - there is NO service, and apparently you don’t even understand what a service provider actually should be doing. Literally, EVERY call I have with you is a nightmare.

    I have purchased the best available speed package for the location I live and it’s ridiculously slow (a.k.a. 2004 speeds 1.5-3 Mbps). We cannot stream movies effectively, my VPN connection from work often disconnects, and the service drops repeatedly. I’ve had to put up with this because there were no options, until today. I secured better service from a local company that actually cares. So, today, I wanted to break up, only to find that you are going to charge ME $100 “Early Termination Fee”, in addition to the $9.99 “Disconnect” fee (that literally is a touch of a button).

    When I contested that, you claimed that it’s a reasonable fee, and that there’s no way to override. When I suggested that the service has been so horrible, it’s ludicrous for me to be paying a FEE to get rid of it. You said that my decision to live in the country with horrible internet was really the crux of the matter. It didn’t have anything to do with Frontier’s lack of infrastructure upgrades, their lack of technically skilled support staff, or the COMPLETE lack of general customer service. Ya… It was MY fault that I live in the country.

    So Frontier, you can take my $109.99 to GET RID OF YOUR CRAPPY SERVICE. Nice business model you have going on. Marcus **, from the Connecticut Call Center (#509726), you should have chosen to waive the fee. After suffering for over 10 years with your abominable service, I deserved a break. I hope a few people read and share my story and steer clear of this awful company. Safe yourself!

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    Reviewed June 4, 2018

    Gave Frontier 1 star because less than 1 was not listed. Since my father died and I switched account to mom's name all hell has broken loose. I have been overbilled, double billed and billed for a phone I cancelled months ago. Customer service is a joke. Have spent hours on hold, have been hung up on, gotten a different answer from each of the reps I have spoken to but to no avail. I still get bills for a nonexistent phone at an old address. Run away. This company sucks. Isn't deregulation grand free reign to scam and bait and switch.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2018

    Learned from Comcast a residence cannot have two(2) accounts. Was yanked to Frontier Communications. The installation went well until the person doing the installation told me I would have a new address. I changed my address with all I had business dealings with and then learned the address given to me was a neighbor across the street. What a fiasco.

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    Reviewed June 3, 2018

    I've had two bad experiences with Frontier. When they took over for Verizon, our fee shot up and the service was worse. I chocked that up to taking on more than they could handle. Two years later and still dissatisfied with the service, I called Spectrum to switch over and set up a install date for two weeks out. The next day, my Frontier service was not working.

    After multiple calls and transfers within their "Customer Service" and tech support, I was told everything from "My service was working", "It will be up in an hour", "I hadn't paid my bill" (I had), "There was a working order out to cancel my service for 2 weeks out" (Why does that matter?!?! It shouldn't be canceled until then!!), and "I had to wait for another 3 days to be connected". It has been 2 days without service and I am still without cable (and phone). It is very clear that because they know I am leaving them, they care even less about me than when I was a paying customer. I'll never deal with Frontier again!

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    Reviewed June 2, 2018

    I called to change services. The person told me of another option and that it would actually save me $90.00 per month and upgrade my internet speed as well. Sounded like a deal. It has been a nightmare since. The month after the changes my bill increased by $120+ a month instead of going down. I called and their words, not mine, that I was a victim of Slamming and Cramming. I was getting every movie channel there is and called every 2 weeks, escalated, but no one would stop the madness.

    After a complaint through the FCC, we finally got someone from Executive Office. The best she could come up with was, "I must have misunderstood her" speaking to the savings per month I was expecting vs the changes that were actually made. Absolutely worthless! We have had to pay 5 months worth of overbilling. Hundreds of dollars! They should not be allowed to get away with this type of behavior especially when they have their own vernacular about this type of behavior!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2018

    This company is THE ABSOLUTE WORST!!! 3 times they have stood me up! Over 12 HOURS I have waited for them, and STILL I have yet to have a tech come to my house. No call, NOTHING! If there were ANY other service provider in my area, I would change in a heartbeat.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2018

    Since 3/30/18 when I contacted Frontier to obtain internet only service, I've experienced numerous problems with reps and rescheduled install dates. Finally, on 4/17/18, a tech came to install service. Subsequently, I learned during the install was that the company could only provide me with a meager 6Mbps of service (not what they advertised). And, the company still wanted to charge me $34.99/month (not the $30/month advertised amount for 25 Mbps of service). To date (5/31/18) I've had numerous conversations with reps to correct the billing amount for a meager 6Mpbs of service, yet Frontier has not provided me with any customer service to correct this problem to my satisfaction.

    I even wrote to the Office of the President of Frontier but still did not receive a satisfactory resolution to the unreasonable billing issue for a meager 6Mbps. I will not/would never recommend Frontier Communications to anyone. As far as I'm concerned, they are the worst provider second to COMCAST. The fact is, we consumers don't any have a real choice when it comes to internet, TV, etc., because there are only a few companies that offer services in any given area (I've done the research and it isn't favorable for consumers).

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    Reviewed May 31, 2018

    69 disconnects in the past 24 hours. That's JUST the most recent sampling. I've made nearly 100 calls in the past 2 years regarding their service. I've jumped through every hoop they've asked. Yet the tickets are closed as solved and the issue never is. Having over 35 years of network experience, I know the issue is downstream. Yet, EVERY call is met with the same diagnostic procedure, the same technician visiting the property, the same diagnosis (ie nothing is wrong with the wiring), and the problem NEVER getting solved. They love to pass the buck and blame the problem on the customer, but it's merely masking their incompetent service.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2018

    We moved to a subdivision on October '17 and made arrangements for Frontier to install internet. 1 day before they were do so, they cancelled the appointment telling us that there are no more ports. The potential for more customers in our area is enough to justify an expansion, as they only have about 1/3 of the homes serviced, but they refuse. They do not take names for a waiting list and new neighbors moved in across the street and immediately received internet service. As someone who has been calling and waiting for 7 months, we should have been able to get our service first.

    We are unable to operate our business. My husband is unable to connect to his job in another city. Our kids cannot do and submit their school work. Their lack of customer service whenever we are trying to resolve this issue is frustrating and if we had any other option AT ALL, we would stay as far away from Frontier as possible, but we don't. They listen to our request, concerns, frustrations and then tell us they will check into it and call back but not one time has any of their people who said they would call back actually called us back.

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    Reviewed May 30, 2018

    This is beyond doubt the worst service I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. There are too many instances to list individually. Among them, disrupted service, very poor speeds (usually 2 Mbps), extremely poor customer service (being hung up on, blatantly lied to, switched from one person to another because no one had an answer, and having my service turned off for no apparent reason.) It took them a week to figure out they had turned it off. I highly suggest that everyone on here turn this company in to BBB! I had to resort to that 3 times just to get a matter resolved.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2018

    I was a customer of Frontier for over 30 years (yes 30!), and this past January switched over to a new provider. The first surprise it that they attempted to charge me a $100 disconnect fee, explaining that it was due to a 'promotional period'. The fact that they even attempted to charge this is pathetic, but after a few days that got resolved. The next issue never did get resolved... In the midst of switching to my new provider, I lost internet service (DSL) for close to a week. Frontier suggested the quickest way to enable that back was to assign a new #, so I went along with it. This was supposed to happen overnight, but never did, then the weekend, and the net, it was a few days before it even was available. All the while the 'bugs' were worked out and I was operational with the new provider. I called Frontier back (after having the 'new#' for about 8-10 days) and had the account closed.

    The 'fun' began when I got another bill from Frontier, for a FULL month of usage, and early termination fees, etc. Needless to say I called Frontier (back in January) to dispute this. In the midst of my many phone calls (literally 8-10 pages of notes from my calls) I get a letter from Frontier that the bill has been turned over to collections. Seriously? I've been a customer for over 30 years, never once missed a bill,... and I'm in collections? So now they tell me I must deal with a collections service. I call the collections service, explain the situation, they say I should discuss with Frontier. I call Frontier and one person tells me this should have been closed a long time ago, so they refile the dispute. Yet another says, "We can't do anything, you need to talk to collections." I have been calling them at least once/twice a week since January, it is almost June!

    You cannot imagine the level of frustration, I am literally at my wit's end with Frontier and am at a point where I may be forced to pay for services I never used just to make this go away. I absolutely will NEVER do business with them again. This is absolutely THE worst I have ever dealt with any company. They literally do NOT care about the customer, I'm sorry but I have never experienced anything like this before.

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    Reviewed May 28, 2018

    Beware of Frontier. After being a customer of nearly 5 years I moved and needed to cancel my service. My house sold on a cash offer so closing was just over a week after offer. I contacted Frontier via online chat with "Lord **" on March 26, 2018 to cancel service effective March 28, 2018. I was told that I needed to pay for service through 4-20-18. After much back and forth and my standing firm that I WOULD NOT pay for services I didn't use he gave me an "order number" with the disconnection date of March 28, 2018 as I had requested. He mentioned that they have a 60 day period to close accounts and that I may still receive invoices. That whole process took over an hour.

    May 28, 2018 - still getting bills. Used the online chat again with "Ann **". She tells me my account is still active. I give her the "order number" from the original cancellation and she tells me all she can do is cancel the account effective June 20, 2018. I instantly ended this online chat and called customer service. Speak with customer service rep on the phone. She seems baffled by the whole phone call but gives me another "order number" and tells me she has processed the cancellation with the effective date of March 28, 2018 as I had originally requested. I confirmed with her that I would not receive any more bills and she said I would not.

    Never have I ever dealt with a company that is out to rip off their customers to the level that Frontier does. Several things came to mind during this process. Their claims that they can't close an account for almost a month are ludicrous. As one of only two cable providers in my area there was a good chance that the new owner of my home would have signed up for service and likely Frontier would have been charging two customers at the same time for service at the same home. Secondly, I would have to assume that if a bill wasn't paid they would be able to shut off service and close an account in less than a month so why such a delay for a person that is a good customer and needs to close their account because they no longer own the home.

    They also asked if I wanted to move my service. If I had moved my service they would not have double billed me for having service at the old home until April 20, 2018 and at the new home effective immediately upon my move. This once again shows that they are out to rip off the consumer by insisting they can't close accounts on the dates requested. On top of that the blatant disregard of the chat customer service the second time around was appalling. To tell me that I would have to be responsible to pay for services for nearly three months after I canceled is nearly criminal. There needs to be some recourse for consumers when dealing with horrific companies like Frontier.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2018

    About a year ago, 2 technicians from Frontier broke my office's ceiling while installing the telephone and internet services. As of today, Frontier never repaired the damage. On top of that, their service has been completely sucks with dropped calls and bad internet signals. In the past 6 months, I tried to transfer my telephone # from Frontier to another provider but they categorically refused. Last week, they shut off my telephone number and caused my agency to lose $10000 in sales. I already have 2 people who want to file a class action lawsuit against Frontier but need 3 more. If you are interested in this lawsuit, please email me your contact info. **. Let's take action now. Thank you.

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    Reviewed May 24, 2018

    I am moving, and I called to have my cable shut off today, but then decided to keep it for an extra month. There was a note on the account stating to leave it on until 6/24. I woke up this morning and my cable was shut off 5/24. I called and was told there was nothing they could do, I asked to talk to a manager. As a result of my call, nothing was done, and they would not be able to do anything. I could however open a new account under a contract, and have my cable turned back on whenever they feel like it. I am livid and would NEVER get them or recommend them to anyone, unless they feel like a screw job.

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    After a positive interaction with Frontier Communications, Jeremy increased their star rating on June 1, 2018.

    Updated review: June 1, 2018

    A representative contacted me and was able to resolve this issue for me. I appreciated the gesture.

    Original Review: May 24, 2018

    On February 19th I ordered internet service from Frontier based on the online quote that I would receive a range of 3.1 to 7M download speed. I received my modem and a technician came to install the DSL line about a week to 10 days after my order date. Upon installation the technician indicated that the max speed I could get was 1.5M download. Not happy with the speed and especially with the fact that I got lied to when I made my decision based on fake numbers on the online quote, I decided to cancel my Frontier internet service and go with a competitor around March 11. I used Frontier service for less than a week because it was pretty much unusable as a modern internet service.

    Upon cancelling I was told I would still have to pay for the entire month of service. When I objected that the speed I was quoted was not the one I was getting and that I was cancelling promptly I was told that it was the way it is and Frontier does not prorate, even when they are wrong. I decided to make a complaint with the CEO's office hoping for someone to hear me out as I was willing to pay the pro-rated price for the service I 'used' before cancelling, as it was Frontier's fault that the speed I was getting was not the one I was quoted. I talked to Rick ** over at corporate who provided me the same inexistent customer service, saying that it was the way it is and lying again by saying that Frontier does not guarantee any speed and it could be as low as 1M speed...

    I am beyond outraged that a company and an executive customer service representative would deny their wrongdoings, blaming it on the customer and not be willing to concede anything. I honestly feel like I do not owe Frontier Communications anything with the poor service I received and the unusable connection speed, however I am willing to pay the pro-rated amount for the time my internet service was active with them as I am a man of my word. It does not seem like Frontier or any of their employees are willing to play ball though.

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    Reviewed May 24, 2018

    It took them a month to install because the person doing the work doesn't have equipment and no tech communicates their findings or work completed. They give you a random code as a pin and sometimes when I call I can use my phone number or birth date and sometimes I can't be found. Now, the due date changes every single month and when I speak to them about it, they swear it's fixed. If I could give them a ZERO stars I would. You might pay a tiny bit more for a competitor and it's worth every cent!

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    Reviewed May 23, 2018

    I set up my internet and TV package on May 2nd, and had a tech out on May 9th for installation. The tech mentioned the line at my apartment complex had been cut and a new one had to be installed, so he couldn't follow through with installation, instead a team had to come out and get the line set up again, completely understandable. Fast forward 2 weeks and I still haven't heard anything about a new line being set up for my internet and I call in. After about an hour of being on the phone and explaining how I had a tech out weeks ago and nothing moved forward since, they told me at some point a line had been installed and they could now send out a tech to try installation again.

    An appointment was set up without even asking my availability, the service member merely went back on the line and said "Ok, you have an appointment tomorrow between 1-5 PM." I thought this was pretty ridiculous since I now had to ask for time off from my full-time job with less than 24 hr notice, but I figured I need my services ASAP so why not. Move forward to today, the day of my appointment, I'm sitting in my apartment from 1-5 PM just like they said. No one shows up. I called customer service to see what was going on, and they said the tech said I was listed as "NOA" no access available. So, no one knocked on my door, no one even decided to give me a call. I instead wasted half a work day waiting around for nothing.

    The service member then said she could schedule a tech to be out there tomorrow from 8- 12 PM, so basically, just take another day off for no reason because our tech couldn't bother to show up to your initial appointment. Needless to say, I cancelled my service request altogether. I was trying to switch from Spectrum because of prices, but it seems like I dodged a bullet and 2 years of B.S. Unless you work from home or just stay at home all day, don't bother getting Frontier, they will waste your PTO and time.

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    Reviewed May 23, 2018

    Waited all day. Had an appointment, to change over. Was suppose to be here 8 am-12. Called at 12:30 and said was on the way. Never showed up or called. Wasted an entire day waiting! Will never give these clowns any business!

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    Reviewed May 23, 2018

    It was a sad day when I signed on with Frontier Communications! I only wanted Internet access, but representative told me if I signed up for phone service as well, at only $5/month, I would not have to pay the $75 install fee. That, after 30 days, I could drop the phone and it would not cost me anything. Later, another rep told me there is no installation fee, but if I canceled the land phone, I would have to pay for Frontier's anti virus. I hung up. Since February, 2018 I've been trying to get the phone number changed because all I get are telemarketer calls in voicemail.

    For several months now, can't access voicemail, and today once again tried to get number changed. Deana in customer service assigned a new number this morning and told me it would be ready in an hour. Six hours later and another hold for going on an hour and a half now, I am told the first work order did not go thru because the number she gave me was assigned to someone else. Do they do ANY training at all at Frontier? Now I am told the new number won't go into effect until June 4th!?! Why is this company in business!?! Sucks!?! Think CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

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    Reviewed May 23, 2018

    Possibly the worst customer service I have dealt with ever. They are charging us for two cable services for the same month and refuse to discuss reconciling the cost to actual services provided. Supervisors are impossible to speak to. We have spent hours on the phone trying to correct issues with the service and then the bill comes in for double the amount. I could go on forever but as my wife says, less is more.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2018

    I called Frontier today to discuss overcharges, I was on hold for 16 minutes, then the employee hung up on me! I called back, on hold for 24 minutes before getting a real person, we were disconnected again!! I called a third time, spoke with someone from Dish, he was helpful and polite. He transferred me to Frontier and stayed on the line until the employee heard the problem. I gave up trying to have him take off the overages. I asked him to remove services I did not use, he just kept trying to upsell me, I told him I wanted my bill to be lower not $25 more! 26 minutes later I hung up. I hate Frontier, every time I call I have a similar experience. I will be canceling my service with them. I have two accounts and have been a loyal customer for over 30 years! I told the employee that, he didn’t care...

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    Reviewed May 21, 2018

    So, I would like to preface this by saying, in late 2015, I switched from Brighthouse (Time Warner Cable) to Verizon Fios, and as soon as I did, they were bought by Frontier. From the start I was promised a $400.00 gift card for switching to Verizon by Verizon. I was told this would take 4-6 weeks to receive (which is normal). I was told by Verizon, "We’re giving you this for switching, but we are going to charge you $99.00 for installation." So, it’s still worth the incentive to switch ($300 to the positive column) so I said ok. I scheduled my installation and was told the installer should arrive between “X” time and “X” time, which I thought was normal. I took off work the day of installation, I am sitting at home waiting and the appointment time comes and goes with no word from installer.

    An hour past the install time, I call to find out what’s up, and the person in customer service indicates they see the date and time of install as what was given to me, but for some reason the local office canceled it and rescheduled it for another day and time and had not informed me. I thought, I will give a pass, crap happens, and it must have just been an oversight. They install my equipment on the next date provided and I thought all was well. This scheduling error should have been my first indication of what was to come. 6 weeks goes by, and no gift card for switching has come to my home. 8 weeks goes by and no gift card. I call in and thought I called the wrong number, they answered the helpline I was provided as Frontier Fios.

    They state, "We have bought out Verizon Fios, but we intend to keep the promises that Verizon Fios made. We will have to credit your bill to make it right. We will do $100 for three months, you won’t see it in your next bill but the one after, it will happen, although it will be the following billing cycle." I thought OK, this is something I have done for a customer when I was working for another telecommunication company. So, I thought it was settled. Wrong, I didn’t get that credit in the billing cycle they stated, so I called in once again. They said they could not see what had happened and were sorry I was misinformed. I internally lost it. I was so angry. Rather than yell at the person who got my phone call, I told them I would call back in a few minutes to speak with a supervisor.

    I am here to tell you, speaking with a supervisor did absolutely no good. I asked, "Well, can’t you look back at the changes that were made to my account or the voice recordings when I called in?" The supervisor told me, that was for their training purposes for their quality control, not to verify what a customer has been told. This of course added flame to the fire. I told the person to hold for a moment and spoke with my wife, whom stated cancel it all, the supervisor overheard her then changed quickly to, "What can we do to keep you as a customer?" I told the supervisor to make good what I was told, and we would stay. So, supervisor stated she was going to give me a credit, not a $100 credit but it would work out to be more than that in the end.

    What she didn’t tell me is that the new promotion they were offering was less than what I was currently paying, and she changed my services around to the lowest rate and signed me up for a new contract. I don’t do contracts, I pay more for my services usually by doing this, but am not locked down to rules of these communication companies. My account is set up to autopay, so I didn’t know this supervisor just pulled a fast one on me. I lived in the contract unknowingly until the renewal came up. When I received a rate increase, I called in to find out what was going on. To my surprise, the customer service rep told me my new contract rate was going to go up. This was the first news that I was placed into a contract with contract pricing without my permission.

    I told this person what had happened previously, and she replied, "I see where you changed your package to get a lower rate", to which I replied, "I changed nothing, never agreed to it, I don’t do contracts." This person seemed empathetic and said, "I will give you “xyz” discount to make up for it." She did this, and life moved forward with Frontier Fios with no contract. I thought to myself, "From now on do your homework first and do it through the chat feature so there will be a transcript of the conversation." So, one month ago on April 30th, 2018 I contacted Frontier Fios via chat to see about saving a few dollars possibly by downgrading from a triple play (three services) to a double play (two services). When I initially looked into downgrading. I started by comparing Frontier’s pricing to other providers. The prices were close, so I decided to move forward to see if I could do this without being charged any fees.

    The agent I spoke with on chat stated this could be done, then proceeded to telling me what things would cost and, trying to sell me additional products (which is what agents are trained to do). I told him no, I wasn’t interested in anything additional since I am trying to cut back on costs. So, he said, "No problem, we can do this, but you will have to pay a one-time fee of $10 for the router." I told him absolutely not, I already have the router, why would I pay for something that I already have and pay rent on each month? He stated, "No problem I will take it off." I asked the rep several times within the chat to verify no additional fees, and asked if bill would be less, to which he stated that the price would be lower with no hidden fees.

    He indicated there would be no additional fees associated with the change, I asked repetitively, "Are you sure, and that there will be no change other than drop the phone service," to which he replied, "No change to anything other than drop the phone, and bill will be less." I thought all was good, and would receive my bill, and it would be the price the agent gave me. It wasn’t lower, it was higher. I was floored by the price difference. I dropped a service, and it cost more than before. I called in, waited for a customer service rep and explained the case this time with the chat transcript and confirmation # of chat. The very helpful (not exaggerating here) young lady I spoke with stated she could see everything that I had told her, could see the chat transcript, and would be back in a second. She came back a couple times over a few minutes and said, "I’m still working on it." I told her OK, take her time.

    She comes back, and I can tell you she did not want to tell me the bad news. My bill was higher because I was being charged $124.97 install charge. Yep you read that right, I was being charged an install charge for equipment I have in my home, that wasn’t brought out that wasn’t picked up. The same equipment I have had since the very first (rescheduled-late) installation. The charge is for the installation of products that I already had. I told her that was unacceptable, she still very politely told me that her supervisor stated that the fees were legitimate since I never paid an initial install fee (that was paid). I knew I would need to speak with her supervisor at this point, so I told this nice young lady, I am not killing the messenger (figuratively), I don’t want to be impolite to her, if her supervisor was available I needed to speak to them. She told me hold on one second, and her supervisor picked up. So here is where it gets craziest.

    The supervisor asks me what the problem is, I start to explain the situation, to which she interrupts me mid-sentence to tell me she’s looked over the notes and the charges are valid. She apologizes for the error that the person made in cost, and did not notify me of installation charges, but the fees are correct. I tell her that’s not acceptable, I don’t get three words out before she interrupts me again, at which point I tell her, "Please stop interrupting me," and I will tell her what I want to happen. She states, "I have not interrupted you," as I try to speak again. I tell her, "Ma’am, please let me apologize ahead of time, maybe since I may speak slower than you, or pause for more than a millisecond when speaking, so that my words are chosen wisely rather than having to repeat myself." To this she interrupts me again and tells me, "I thought we were having a conversation."

    I told her, "Please don’t interrupt me again until I am through, in a conversation it typically has a sender (the person speaking) and a receiver (the person that is being spoken to), that is typical normal conversation." To which she rudely states, "Ok go ahead." I tell her I do not accept the additional charges outside what was discussed in the chat transcript that she stated she had a copy of. I tell her I would like to speak with her supervisor then waited for her response. After three to five seconds she rudely states, "Can I speak now?" She states her supervisor does not take calls. She states I have the option to pay the charges or not. I then ask her for her operator ID which she gives **, which may or may not be correct. I ask her again, why I would pay for an installation of services I already have and have already paid for once. I didn’t mis-quote a price, a Frontier employee made the mistake, not me.

    She at this point asked me when I paid my initial install fee, to which I told her, "Wait one second and I could find it." Less than 30 seconds later she asks, have I found it? I told her, "Bear with me, I do have it somewhere on my computer on one of my backup drives." She waits approximately 15 seconds more, then states, "I have your whole history." I said, "You have prior to Frontier?" She states, "No, I can go back 3-6 months." I tell her once again, I paid Verizon Fios for install, and was rolled over into Frontier Fios when Frontier bought Verizon. I told her, "Bear with me a few seconds and I can find it." She then states, "I am going to credit you the install fee if you can tell me when your install date was." I told her once again, "Wait and I will find it." She then states, "Does “x” 2015 sound, right?" I tell her I thought it was 2016, but that may be correct, I could verify this for her if she could wait for me to find it.

    She gives another 15 or so seconds then says (rudely), "I will credit the account, but you must promise to pay your bill on time in full." First, I was again floored by the belittlement. I have only paid less than the payment when told by Frontier to pay a different amount (at the very beginning where they promised to credit me the $300 difference), second, I realize she had all this information she’s asking me for prior to asking me anything, hoping that I don’t have it, so she can just say I didn’t pay it initially with Verizon. I at this point can completely see the picture and what’s happening. She then rudely asks, "Will this satisfy you?" I tell her yes, and she says, "I am going to place you back with your original customer service rep."

    The nice young lady that I spoke with picks the line back up and tells me, "It’s been approved to take the install fee off." I tell her, "Thank you so much, I would also like to add that you have been very professional, please continue to maintain that attitude." Do not use her supervisor as an example of what to do, that the supervisor was very unprofessional. She stated she would take this advice and asked if I had any other questions. I told her I would like to know her supervisor's, supervisor's name (the supervisor's boss), to which she did not know. I told her have a good afternoon, she said, "You do the same."

    I am 46 years old, I am intelligent and don't need to be belittled by anyone, I give respect no matter the case, and expect it in return. I don’t fly off half-cocked. I am not rude with anyone, until they are over the top rude to me. I understand more than most people do when calling into a call center with problems or questions, because I was in outbound sales for another telecommunication company. I chose Verizon Fios because they have a fiber network that is installed all the way up to the house. No other provider in my area provides this. If there was another option for fiber I would absolutely switch after all this nonsense with Frontier.

    I am pretty certain at this point that I won’t get the credit. I am certain if I don’t, I will cancel the TV service and stream all my other content through them until another provider has fiber all the way to the house in my area. Then I will dump them for their competitor. I would like to say it’s shameful the way this company operates. Customers are the backbone of every business. Frontier either hires uncaring, uneducated idiots, or they really only care about their bottom line. Frontier call center employees and customer service chat folks will say anything to make the sale and get paid, they make up things, they say absolutely what they think you want to hear.

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    Reviewed May 21, 2018

    NEVER use Frontier! I work from home and make my living online. I've been without service for 2 weeks. This the 2nd time this has happened, in less than a month. Horrible company! Very poorly operated. I lost my job because of Frontier and they didn't care at all.

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    Frontier Communications Company Information

    Company Name:
    Frontier Communications
    Company Type:
    Public
    Ticker Symbol:
    FTR
    Year Founded:
    1927
    Formerly Named:
    Citizens Communications Company
    Address:
    401 Merritt 7
    City:
    Norwalk
    State/Province:
    CT
    Postal Code:
    06851
    Country:
    United States
    Website:
    frontier.com