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Reviewed Sept. 1, 2017
Frontier Communications took over my area two years ago from Verizon. As soon as the handover was done my internet and phone took a dump. Prior to the switch I was always able to stream movies and my son was able to play video games online. On numerous documented dates and some I have emails confirming more issues that were complained about than Frontier acknowledges. I was left with no phone several times and the internet was only able to be accessed via hard wiring. I resorted to upgrading my cell phone service with AT&T (mind you I'd switch to them but Frontier monopolizes my area) and made my phone a hotspot for wifi usage. I was told on numerous occasions it's because I have walls in my home, ridiculous excuse if I was asked. My homes walls are dry wall and my Home is 1500 square foot. So I had working wifi through Fios before Frontier but my after.
I was paying over $125 a month, was able to bring that down to over $100 a month for a phone that works randomly and internet 100/100 that only works if you plug directly in the router. Tech comes out does some work on the outside box, two days later I phone, wifi again is horrible. Call to schedule another tech to come out, tech tries to replace my Verizon router to the Frontier quantum, horrible signal so switched back to Verizon router, I decide I don't want their junky equipment. Two days later no phone and wifi is horrid. Call again, tech comes out and first cannot find problem, then comes back and says equipment was installed backward and the problem is fixed. Few days later same issues. Another tech comes out and spends a few hours trouble shooting outside lines and box, finds the box is melted, something caught fire, replaces it.
Phone is now fixed, wifi is the same horrific signal it's been unless you use it between 1-5am, what a joke. Speed tests give me 2/5 when I pay for 100/100, yet that's hardware guaranteed only. Might as well have dial up and American online. So today tech comes out and can magically fix my issues, there's a catch... we need 3 of these things to get what I want and another if I want my other kids room to be able to access the wifi, at $70 a pop the problem will be fixed. Oh and I failed to mention driver only had 2. They improve the wifi but why should I have to pay for something to be fixed by a company that has on. Unwrought occasions tried to fix? Well I call customer service, surprisingly they won't just give me the equipment that solves their trouble ticket at my home. Then they have the audacity to refund me for 8 days of use at a whopping $11.
Further I'm asked if there's other service available to me in my area because they don't recommend losing customers but another service might give me a better wifi signal. "No, remember my home has walls (sarcasm) no wifi will be able to penetrate the force! I would switch but you've monopolized my area" I tell him. Maybe after dealing with this and writing this I should see what AT&T has to offer with a personal hot spot and extra data. I'm sure it will be better and less than Frontier. Steer clear of Frontier
Reviewed Sept. 1, 2017
We were never informed that our service provider changed to Frontier Communications. We've been double billed a few times, customer service agents are rude when you can even get a hold of anyone. The service is out daily for several hours at a time and they offer no compensation or refund for the lack of service.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2017
We were contacted by Frontier in 2014 to bundle high speed internet, landline and Dish and save money. After agreeing to this service we saved less than $5 a month. The internet service was very slow at best. When contacted Frontier could not help at all. Three years later we contacted HughesNet directly and signed up for Gen5 to be installed.
When we told Frontier they said we have to pay an EARLY WITHDRAWAL FEE of $400.00. This was after more than 3 years. What they do is AUTOMATICALLY roll over the service and EWF every two years!!! In other words if you EVER leave the bundle you have to pay $400.00!!! It is a ETERNAL WITHDRAWAL FEE!!! They are a TOTAL RIPOFF company. This company NEEDS TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS FOREVER!!! The management said basically we are out of luck and join the ranks of the VICTIMS!! Very angry!!!
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2017
After requesting a whole day of leave to wait the installation, they never showed up and neither call me to explain what happened. After I called they apologized and told me they will come tomorrow and they don't have a time to arrive... What kind of Business are these guys managing. Very poor customer help on the phone too.
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2017
I cancelled Frontier because my internet seldom worked, and when it did, the upload and download speeds were both around 1 mbps, when I should have been getting at least 3 mbps. After cancelling, I was lied to about the final bill. I was hung up on, and I was even told by one guy that he could not access my account. After getting off the phone with him, I immediately called back, and the person who answered was able to access my account. These guys do not care about their customers, are dishonest, and in my area, the internet service is garbage. I spent hours on the phone with them, and the primary reason for this review is to highlight Frontier's dishonesty.
Reviewed Aug. 29, 2017
While planning for a move we shopped around for the best deal on cable/satellite services. We came across the Frontier's triple play offer and gave them a call. I should have known right away that there would be issues when what the rep spoke about did not line up with the online ad. After a very painful installation process, for which I should write another review, I just received my 1st bill. I have over $80 dollars in service fees and taxes add to it. I understand, but do not agree with the taxes. The taxes were mentioned when I was ordering, but the over $50 dollars in fees were not. When I called to speak to someone about them, I was told that this was standard and that there was nothing that could be done about it. I have canceled my service and will be going back to DirecTV.
Reviewed Aug. 29, 2017
We are now on day 10 of having no internet, and I am now 17 phone calls in to their "customer service" department. I am constantly getting the run around from this place. Technician was originally scheduled to be out on Friday, the 25th. I called to confirm THAT DAY 3 times with their customer service and each time was told "it's scheduled for today", making sure they had my contact information. I get home at 5:00 p.m. to an orange sticker ON THE GROUND in front of my front door with the "Sorry we missed you". Not once did the technician call, nor did he knock on the door/ring the bell because someone WAS home. I called right away and was put on hold while they contacted dispatch to send him right back out.
I was assured that they were coming back out that night. 8:00 p.m., nothing. Yet another call to Frontier, to be told, "Yes, it's still scheduled", sure. 11:00 p.m. and I called again only to find out that the ticket had now been put into a "completed" status, yet no one completed anything! So, they had to create another ticket. I check online to verify they did in fact create another ticket the next day and lo and behold they have my contact information down as "999-999-9999"! I called and spoke to a supervisor this time and, yet again, had to explain my situation (I am to the point now where I just tell them to put me on hold while they read the notes). He said it was put on "expedited" service but scheduled for the 29th.
Well, here we are at the 29th and nothing yet. We switched from Xfinity because of rising prices, however the extra $100 per month that we were spending is looking quite good right now! Oh, and our tv channels went out on Sunday! Odd it took a week for that to happen. Frontier is terrible. We have only had the service since the end of December - eight months. No one seems to know what is happening. When you call in, you should NOT have to explain yourself over and over and over again. I think I'm calling XFinity today...
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2017
When cancelling our services at the end of the month which was also the end of our contract we were still billed and money taken out of our bank acct. I was told by two agents that it would be refunded, never was. Spoke to someone else who said "You used the service for 3 days of billing cycle so you will be billed for entire month."
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2017
I was forced to switch to Frontier from Verizon a little more than a year ago. Ever since, my internet drops at least 3 times daily and is very slow. I have called, emailed, online chat etc with their service department since the beginning about the issue. First I was told to be patient. Then they have sent someone to my house 2-4 times for a service call. Nothing has improved. Their new reason is that I live in a high demand area.
It's the same area that I had with Verizon, no other changes except Frontier Communications. With Verizon, it would get slow, but nothing like it has been with Frontier. I reduced my payment amount (10-15$ per month) to reflect my reduction in Internet service since they don't feel the need to provide me with something for which I pay. They said that I need to call every time it goes down... Really?! Daily! I don't have time to go through the hoops of troubleshooting for an hour or more with them daily. Because I live in a rural area, no other Internet provider is available. When is this situation going to be fixed? I am not able to submit attachments because the service is down to .67 mps, not even 1 mps when I pay for 3. I will have to send attachments at a later date.

Reviewed Aug. 25, 2017
Updated on 11/06/2019: In 8/17 I contacted Frontier Communications to inquire about a deal for new customers at $80.00/month for 24 months. After 15 phone calls and Verifying with the call rep that I would be paying $80.00/month and no more I finally placed the order. My 1st bill came in what equated to $96.44/month. I called and complained and was told the Rep was not correct in telling me that. I suggested better training be done. I then agreed to $96.44/month for 24 months and again was told I would pay no more. During the 2 yrs my cost rose 3-4 time up to $112 (Approx). I called each time my rate increased and was actually told by 1 Customer Service Rep when I complained about another un-warranted increase and I quote "Frontier can do whatever they want to do" and I was expected to pay.
On 8/17/19 of the 25 month a bill was sent for more the double my monthly total. On Wed. 8/21/19 I received the bill and on 8/23/19 @ 4:55pm (48 hours after receiving the bill) I called and cancelled the service. After canceling I was transferred to a 2nd rep to dispute the charges and request an updated bill reflecting what I actually owed. I was told that 1) once Frontier bills for the month the consumer pays for the month. They do not issue prorated bills. I explained I do not pay for services I do not use. The Rep then stated I would receive a call within 30 days.
Never received a call, only a new bill $20.00 higher. I have all the above info documented with names of reps I spoke to and their employee ID #'s. Frontier has sent my compliant to a Collection service with misleading info stating I did not cancel service until 9/15/19 I would advise anyone thinking of using Frontier for any service to get "Agreements in writing or better yet if you can, go elsewhere".
Original review: On 7/24/17 I decided to call Frontier re: TV and Internet after 20 years with Comcast. It's been 1 month today since I started this "Journey". I always keep notes of my conversations, so what you see below is all verifiable. Have Spoken to 23 CSR Reps and or Managers. 1-5 entered my name incorrectly and when I corrected it the next Rep spoken to needed to fix it again. (All had my name as "**" when it is "**" spelled out for each of them".) 6 including 2 mgrs promised to call me back and never did. The last one (#22 of 23) took my phone # "In case we get disconnected". Within 2 mins the phone disconnected and I did not receive a callback.
It wasn't until the 16th rep I spoke to that I was able to place an order. Why? As mentioned above My name spelled incorrectly, 10 calls of stating my address as "**" and no one could figure out in their system that Unit M34 was the same as Apt M34. So I place the order and the "Deal" was TV/Internet for $80.00/month for 24 months including free HBO. I asked the rep "Is that my final cost?" she states "1st month $122.00 next 23 month $80.00". I ask again "That's it, no other hidden charges"? She states "YES" So I enter the order.
The Installation Tech shows up in the first half of the 4 hour window and is out in 1 1/2 hours. Great service! Took me 3 day and 2 reps to get my "Free HBO". Frustrating! Fast forward 2 weeks, Received my First bill for 25% more than quoted. With charges for "Shipping my router to the Tech", Video, Regional sports fee... None of this was mentioned or agreed to by me.
I was warned about this. Horrible Customer Service and Incorrect billing. From who? My Son who worked for Frontier for a short while and 3, yes 3 Installation Techs I ran into and asked questions about Frontier. So far other than a 15 min inconvenience of disrupted service I'm fairly happy with TV/Internet but wonder if it was all worth it or what other problems will I have to deal with in the future...
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2017
This is another company needs to go away. Keeps you on phone for hours only to mess things up worst than before you call. Service is the worst. After hook up system shut down then called customer service. Keep me on phone over three hours and at end of third hour got superior manager and that person hit a few buttons and after 10 seconds system was on. Why did I have to wait 3 hours. They don't empower staff. Then this agent that could not turn system on sold me some extra features but made up prices that were too good to be true. They were. Two hours on phone this time I was told it was taken care of. But then same stuff at same price. Then another 3 hours to fix again not fix.
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2017
Ongoing connection issues! Clearly with all the one star results! I live in a remote area and Frontier blocks new competitors so I pay $62 a month for a whopping 3g with no alternative! I have had a broken wire between my house and their server and it's going to take another week to get a tech out here to fix it! I work from home and losing money! Do you think they are going to credit me to 2 months I've already paid! Doubt it! Attorney general! Please take action to protect us from this cheaply run forced service. Lets have competition!
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2017
DO NOT get Frontier. Worst company, horrible customer service, overpriced, thieves, charge for internet speed you never get, will not refund my credit for 3 months. I paid them on time every month, or should I say overpaid, now I have to wait for a refund... REALLY?!? Steer clear of this company, do yourself a favor. They should be SHUT DOWN!
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2017
Day 1 - Install; husband attended, came home to no paperwork, no work order, no instructions on account access - nothing. Day 2 - Can't download apps like they said we should be able to - 2 hours and 3 people later, they give a service ticket with an 8 hour window. Day 3 - Husband would like some extra channels, call goes through fairly quickly and they sign me up only extra $10. Don't tell me that it takes 24 hours, so find that out after 2nd call. Day 4 - Gave me the extra channels. Removed movie channel that was originally part of the package - after 3 minutes in phone queue now in an unresponsive chat queue. I don't know if they are brain dead or what, but basically have ensured they have lost a customer before the customer even got started.
Updated review: Aug. 25, 2017
I called two days later and calmly worked my way up to a supervisor, asking they credit the last 10 days of that billing cycle. They agreed --- it was only 38.80, and I hung up feeling better about Frontier!
Original Review: Aug. 21, 2017
Horrible reception both phone and internet for years in the mountains. Then, when I called to close a perfect paying account I had for 19 years, I was told I didn't sign up for an opt out that allowed you to close account in the middle of a billing cycle... So tell me, how do they justify that? Unbelievable and obnoxious customer service policy. I have never written any company a bad review before today.
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2017
I call Frontier on 8/12/17 and told them my internet was down. They told me that we had an outage in the area. So I said ok since it was raining so bad. They tried to reboot it and work with me but it would not come up. I call the next day and they stated my area wouldn't be up until Monday. Call back on Monday and got the run around again. Call again and got to speak with a young lady and asked did I want a new router or send the tech out. I said new router. The light would not even come on for internet. I just had tech out last month due to power failure. Still today I do not have an router. Keep getting sent around to different people. Spoke with Sophia a supervisor on Saturday. Promise to call back. Never did. Spoke with Greg today another supervisor and stated I would not get my router until 8/23/17. Very rude and unconcern. They are trying to save cost and sent it as a 3 day delivery when told was going to sent next day delivery.
Updated review: Sept. 3, 2017
Thank you, Lianne, for resolving my issues. Lianne has been very responsive and helpful and we have decided to continue our service with Frontier.
Original Review: Aug. 20, 2017
Products Ordered: FiOS TV Standard Whole - Home DVR, FiOS 50/50, FiOS Custom Essential. Products Removed: HD Set Top Box, HD Set Top Box, FiOS Internet 25/25 Mb, FiOS TV Extreme HD. Before this session goes any further, I am NOT going to waste another HOUR of my time. I have been on several chat sessions for the past month and get a different answer every time. This is my issue that I have been dealing with for at least a month now.
Changed service trying to save money. Was told that since I had an outdated Verizon plan, I would have to be changed to a Frontier plan. A contract was needed but I was told by Shakina, I believe her name was, that there would be no termination fee. I asked her several times. I was told the change would take affect August 10, 2017. I would be receiving boxes to return the old equipment and would receive one DVR in place of the two old set top boxes. August 10 came, no new box but I received the boxes to return the old ones. So here we go, chat again, and I was told by another person it would be 7-10 days from August 10 to receive the DVR.
Here we are 7-10 days later and still no box. So here we go again, chat again yesterday, and I was told by John **, that the DVR was not ordered and I would have a termination fee. Meanwhile, I am still being charged my old plan fees and have less channels based upon what changed to, again trying to save money. It is funny that John **, who was actually very helpful, was able to find the amount that I was quoted for the revised plan that I requested on July 21 but there was no record of the chat of there being no termination fee.
I have already filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and sent a message to the Office of the President at Frontier. I was told there was no email address that I could send my complaint to. I want everything recorded. My next step is to contact a local TV station with consumer advocates and then social media. I am tired of dealing with this nonsense and want to terminate my service, but I am stuck at the moment because I cannot return the old boxes because I have no DVR to replace them with. And in order to switch to another provider, I have to get this issue with the termination fee resolved. This is the worst company I have ever dealt with.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2017
I am a Frontier customer ONLY because there are no other options in our area. I have lived in my current home for over 3 years and my phone lines are constantly going out. Within the last month they have went out 3 times. The most recent outage has been since August 11th. The outages are not only my phone lines but everyone in the area. When you contact customer service you either get a very rude representative or a representative who has no clue what they are doing. My parents recently went without a phone for over 2 months because customer service was not documenting the calls for repairs.
The technicians they send to this area are not any better. If they do make any repairs it is only "patch work". They will tell you they know exactly what the problem is–in our case–a line that is exposed and goes out when it gets wet. They have been giving the same excuse for years. The amount of money that Frontier brings in by overcharging their customers should be more than enough to repair any phone lines that are damaged. It is beyond frustrating to constantly have to request to have your phone lines repaired only to have them go out again a week later.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2017
For months now I've been having the same problem. Internet constantly cuts out every night and for my first call they said they fixed it by simply "sending signals" to my router. The problem came back the next day. I call again a week later they told me they "sent more signals" to fix it, and they also dispatched a technician to check the problem. He goes around the house sticking things into holes and he says to me that there isn't a problem, and that whenever there is a problem, just check the ONT. The problem came back the next night. I gave up. I suffered the same thing every night, and this night my internet was cut off for a whole two hours. I couldn't take this anymore and I called them up, and asked them to fix my problem and explained what I saw on the ONT. "Sure thing, just unplug your router and let us send some signals." I don't know if that's just another way to "turn it on and off again." But it isn't working.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2017
I moved here at the end of July 2017, and started service Aug 2 based on the recommendation of my apartment villa management. I am from Canada and I was not familiar with services in Florida, so I went with their recommendation. Wish I read the reviews first. Wow. I will recommend to my management company not to recommend Frontier any further based on my experience thus far and I will show them this review page. Since starting service with Frontier, I have never had access to the channels I have been paying for. I have spoken to at least 5 different service reps so far. All agree I should have these channels.
First time I contacted them was via internet chat. The support person asked me to disconnect my main source, and after I hadn't had any response from the tech for 10 min of waiting, I realized it was because he disconnected us over the internet by asking me to unplug the source (I have internet and cable with Frontier). Should he not have understood this? No call from him to try to reconnect. Just one problem out of the way for him, I guess. Next, I used the phone to call customer service. After over an hour trying more diagnostics without any results, she started a ticket and said I would have a tech visit 3 days later. I planned a day at home (very difficult) and no tech. I waited for a call. Nothing.
I called back again, and explained the issue... Again. This person said they couldn't make contact with me. I'm not sure how since they were able to repeat my phone number back to me. I had no calls and no voicemails. Well, we moved on and instead of starting a new ticket, this person made me go through another round of diagnostics. Eventually, he said they were doing a "major reboot" so I would need to wait 15-20 mins, check the result and callback if it worked.
I knew it wouldn't work, I've been through all of this. I was not pleased he hung up with me and expected ME to callback again and wait on hold AGAIN, and explain my situation AGAIN. I was correct, the reboot, did nothing, still no solution, still not getting the tech out like I requested. This should have been a 2-min phone call. This contact ultimately took 3 hours! Apparently their time (sending out a tech) is far more important than my time - the hours they made me wait and call and want to slam my head against a wall.
I pull it together, and call again. I'm on hold for much longer this time. Finally get through to someone and explain it all again. I give her the original ticket number and she said it was nowhere to be found in the system (so how is it the last person said they couldn't get through to me? I think it was never in the system to begin with because I couldn't find it from my account page either before this whole mess). Then she transfers me to the tech again, which was a 45 min wait. Once service rep finally gets through, she didn't respond to the tech quick enough, and the tech hangs up. Now my service rep is upset too with her own people. She transfers me again, but this time, she leaves me to fend for myself (not waiting on the line with me).
So AGAIN on hold. Finally get through. He needs me to start from the beginning - including account number. Are you kidding me? Once we get that out of the way, I explain AGAIN my situation and I just need him to send out a technician. I told him I've done diagnostics 4 times at this point, and I'm not doing it again. I was clear. He asks a few questions and then starts asking me to try things with my cable box. I asked what he was doing - I wanted a technician like I was promised 5 days ago at this point. He said, "Oh you just want a technician?" (!!!!Argh!!!!) YES! That is what I just asked for when we started talking. So he takes the liberty of scheduling me on any random day not asking about my schedule (we've already established they do not care about the customer's time), and said tech would be at my house between 9-5? What?
When they sold me my box, they had no problem setting up half day blocks. The guy on the phone says that's not what's available. They're full days. And they don't do weekends. I asked how someone with a day job gets help, and get "I have no idea" as a response. So now, I AGAIN have to plan an entire day to sit at home waiting. It's unreal. Stay away stay away stay away!
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2017
I contacted Frontier because the only other provider in my area is Comcast and they are notoriously expensive and difficult to deal with. Frontier promised me cheap service with 1.6M download speeds. That isn't great but I was looking to save money so I went ahead and signed up for it ditching Comcast. I quickly discovered that I had made a huge mistake. Their service was unreliable and the best download speed I ever experienced was 0.9 M. I called up Frontier to check to see if there was anything they could do to improve service. They sent a guy out who looked at my installation and said that I was too far from the switch so that this was the best service I could hope for. I said thanks for the help. A month later I discovered that they had billed me $85 for this "service" call.
When I called to complain I was told that the charge was being reversed but at the end of the month I discovered that it was still there and they had tacked on a late payment charge. Meanwhile the service had become even less reliable and was going out every time we had a hard rain. It also required the modem to be reset daily. At long last I gave up and cancelled the service after just 4 months. And Frontier's help is so incompetent they couldn't even do that correctly. At the end of the month I got a regular bill and found out that they hadn't really cancelled my service and were still billing me. I was furious and had to spend another hour on the phone arguing to get the service cancelled retroactively and get the charges eliminated.
Finally they got my service terminated. But the fun was not yet over. As a parting gift they charged me another $90 for "installation fees". They said those had originally been waved but now had to be added in since I hadn't maintained my service long enough. Seriously this is not only the worst utility I have ever dealt with but the worst company period. They offer a terrible product, consistently lie to you and have criminally incompetent service personnel. If I could give them negative stars on a review I would.
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2017
So as a loyal customer for three years of paying my Frontier bill and never being late. I have made some calls to Frontier in these three years, and if you call them they make it as hard as possible to get a hold of a representative with the machine saying "What your phone number is? What is your issue?" etc. But that is normal these days, so I cant complain about that. Then you wait on the line forever to get a hold of a rep. The wait is because they have barely any reps so the wait is so long and then you just hang up and forget about the call. So now you finally get on the line with a representative, and they ask for your phone number! Why did the machine just ask me that?
The computer is asking you for your phone number just is to make it as hard as possible to get a hold of a representative, and then they just hope for you to hang up the phone and not get a hold of a representative. You ask the agent your question then they say, "Let me put you on hold as I get this information for you!" What? Two things, first of all, I just waited on hold forever to get you on the phone, and you don't even know how to assist me with me with this issue, so you have to look up how to help me with my problem. So first thing the reps are not even trained to assist you with your problem. That is absurd these reps don't even know how to help you first of all.
Second of all, you have to wait on hold even longer for the rep to figure out how to help you with your problem. Next the rep instructs you on how to fix your problem and if you make a mistake the rep is as rude as possible. A rep is supposed to be patient and to help you resolve your problem but at this company they just assume you already know how to fix your problem and just get mad at you for making mistakes! That is just ridiculous!
Now they finally fix the problem and I say, "Thanks for your help. Bye." And then the rep says, "No no no just wait". I say, "Ok". Then I get a reply saying. "Oh we would like to offer you a big discount on an internet plan or a tv plan". I say, "No. Thank you" very politely but then the rep says, "But this is a great deal you are just really missing out!" I say, "No" then I finally get to hang up with these terrible reps. So that is my terrible experience with Frontier Communications. The worst customer service team I have spoken to in my lives. If I could I would give them no stars but Consumer Affairs requires me to at least put one star for this company. If I were you I would try your very best to stay away from Frontier in the future. I hope you enjoyed this review!
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2017
Don't know where to begin and bore everyone with my 14hr Journey with this company. If you want service and results it's NOT with this company. Was transferred to them during the conversion with Verizon and a nightmare ever since. Was just trying to renew my contract which was easy after an hour phone call. Then it all began, service was totally cancelled. They deleted my account and spent 14hrs of my life that I will never get back trying to get service to my home that was there just a couple days ago.
Supervisor after supervisor and the best they could do was 20 days to have someone come out and install a new box because someone in the office didn't do their job correctly. Lastly, transferred to the retention department not sure why it's called that as they offered no solutions or other options. I have found another provider and they will be out tomorrow and will be able to have my service back.
Like all the other reviews that are going unnoticed by this company, hopefully it will help those looking for service in the future to avoid the displeasure in this company going forward. As most of us in the business world know 1 bad customer will generate hundreds of lost or potential customers. Guess that doesn't concern this company cause they just inherited millions from the recent change, but eventually and hopefully soon they will realize the customer is important.
UPDATE ON 10/18/2017: I have ended my service with Frontier as they mismanaged my account and weren't able to get my service back up for several weeks. After speaking to all different levels of supervisors and the retention department to end my contract. I find that months later I'm being billed for service I never had and the notes in the system say nothing about my experience except that the rates went up and I didn't agree to them. This is so wrong and feel that before others get stuck with this company that cares nothing about the customer, and only about the money. I'm not wasting any further time contacting them, and if someone from this company can please reach to me to rectify the situation that would be greatly appreciated.
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2017
Internet modem died 8/10/17. Impossible to have a new modem sent via overnight service. Had to wait til 8/14 to reconnect. Big problem for those who work from home and depend on the internet to do business. Finally got internet back on 8/14, and landline disappears. Literally. Phone says no line. Landline phone is needed here as we have a family member who has implanted medical device. Information from this device needs to be reported to specialist physician and can only be done through landline. Called for repair. No service available til 8/18. Really sorry you need this for medical reasons, but no service til 8/18. NOT ACCEPTABLE! Unfortunately, they don't care.
They DO care however, if you can't rattle off account number. Need to "prove" you are who you say you are. Not only did I spend hours on hold, I had to keep convincing people that I am who I say I am. Very frustrating. Unfortunately, we are in a rural area, and have NO CHOICE in landline carriers. I wonder about the state of the infrastructure here, that it takes 4 days to get a technician out. The largest "big city" within 20 miles has a population just over 8000. I don't think the cows here are using landlines, so why the delay?? Don't bother asking, no one knows... or cares...
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2017
I am a notoriously late payer, let's establish that about me. Frontier, who purchased Verizon Fios some years ago, is a WORSE OFFENDER/RE-CONNECTOR!!! When Verizon had this company, at least they had the knowledge and technology to reconnect my service within 1-2 hours of payment after disconnect. Not Frontier! They must not have acquired that technology from Verizon! They are like, "Um, it will turn on automatically within 1-24 hours, but someone higher up needs to approve it first." Really??? Wow, welcome to the 19th century, Frontier. Worst customer service of any company (other than Rain Forest Cafe) I have ever dealt with.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2017
So on 8/12 I called because my husband couldn't log on to his internet. So I thought it was his phone. It wasn't. So I called Frontier so spoke with a guy named James **. He screwed up and switched info so now my phone won't let me play movies through Chromecast. My husband can't use his internet and my daughter can't play her games. I've spent wasteless amount and energy and now they want to add and add more fees because I'm disconnecting. I wouldn't be disconnecting if they wouldn't have ** service. I've been with them almost 2 yrs since the beginning. It's been one thing after the other like come on they think by credit me that makes it ok. Why should I pay and pay for something I can't use. They don't care about their customers only their company from what the executive said to me 8/14.
Reviewed Aug. 12, 2017
I been with Verizon for over a year and had a promotional package. Then I moved to a new location and requested to transfer my services which they assure that will be grandfathered. First month after I moved my bill went up by $120, I called and they said that they did a mistake and added you as a new customer. The said they will fix the issue and I have to pay my original old bill amount.
Next month I saw that unpaid balance plus new high bill again. Called again spend hours and they promised it is resolved. 3rd month bill amount went to over $ 550 cause they keep adding it. And this time when I called they said we cannot do anything you cannot have the old promotional price and you have to pay all these extra charges. They supervisor said I agree it was Frontier mistake but we cannot do anything about it and you have to pay it and keep paying high bill. Worst customer support ever and con company in charging their customers over. I am not only switching to any other service but will also never recommend Frontier for anyone.
Reviewed Aug. 12, 2017
I just wanted you to know that your customer service is in the toilet!! This is in addition to our last communication regarding bad service; bad equipment shipped without quality control checking your set top boxes and now is your customer service or lack of, to help us rectify the data signal and issues with the OTN. Called your phone number and waited 45 minutes before someone answered and while explaining the problem at our end the call reverted back to the beginning and no one returned our call. Could not get through on the phone, therefore, tried to get online with live chat to get help regarding our set top boxes not working. Our next option was to get online and connect to your live chat.
After waiting for from 7:54 pm to 9:10 pm with the online live chat we were connected with (Zachary) but we were not able to figure out why all of a sudden our service was acting up due to his lack of response and even try to call us back. Next option was to try the phone number again and finally, my wife Terry was able to get very limited help after going through everything all over again including swapping out set top boxes and still could not get the set top boxes to communicate with the server. Total waste of 7 hours of grueling and frustrating time on the phone, the customer service representative wanted to initiate a service call and set it up for a service technician to come out one week out on 8/16/2017 with ticket number **. As far as we are concerned you need help in training the right people in customer service department, therefore, we are discontinuing our cable, internet and phone services at $215.87 per month.
Reviewed Aug. 11, 2017
On July 25th we called Frontier to negotiate our bill as we were at the end of our contract that we had started with Verizon. (Frontier bought out the Verizon service in our area.) We negotiated a deal that was a better price for 2 years and included HBO. A week later we received a letter in the mail saying they had tried to reach us by phone but couldn't so they were going to cancel our service order. When we called back today, they stated that the original quote we received was not authorized and that is why they canceled it.
We were customers of Verizon for 6 years without any issues. In the past year with Frontier it has been poor customer service and frequent outages. When we called the first time we were still under the "Verizon" contract, so we technically were eligible to receive a "new client" offer. But since they canceled this deal, we are now considered current customers and it is not available to us anymore.
Reviewed Aug. 11, 2017
I called 3 months ago because our rate was high for 3 services (about $250). The person on the phone told me he could get me a great rate, it was good that I called. He also said I'd upgrade to Frontier equipment when I had Verizon equipment. My new bill was supposed to be $170 and I'd have upgraded equipment. The next month when my bill came, it was $347. I called and spoke to a woman who said the original man did not put my deal in correctly, and that she'd fix it. All the credits would come in to make up for the overcharge $347, and my new bill would be $168. I just received my next month bill, and some credits did come in, but I was still charged $320 for my next charge period. The balance I owed was approximately $170.
I called and told another woman that my bill was supposed to be $168, not $320. And that for this month, since I already paid $347, that basically my bill should be $0, because for the last 2 months, It should have been $170 and $168 which is roughly $340, which is the amount I paid in full when this whole fiasco started. She said all my credits are still "in dispute" and should be reflected on the next month's bill. However, my auto pay was still going to pull out the amount of this month's bill, which was the balance shown (about $168).
I said, I should be paying $0 this month since I paid $347 two months ago which is about 2 months of $170 and $168. And she said she knows, that everything is fixed now, but that because I'm in auto pay, that it will still pull out what the bill says, even though the bill is incorrect and I have these pending credits. So I stopped Auto Pay, and told her to put in the notes that I am not paying any money until this gets resolved, because actually, Frontier owes me money for overcharging me (and pulling out through Auto-Pay) the $347 from 2 months ago. Ridiculous that they can't offer instant credit and fix my bill on the spot. That once a bill has been generated, nothing gets fixed until the following month. We will see what happens next month! If this continues to be a circus then I will cancel my account.
Reviewed Aug. 11, 2017
I have been battling with Frontier Communications for the past two months regarding the way they handle their online bill pay. For example, I will make a bill payment through Frontier's website on the day the bill is due (before 5:00pm) and Frontier will post date my payment for 3 DAYS LATER... this way, they get to charge me over 9.00 for an additional late fee! I pay 95% of my bills online and NEVER experienced this before. I hate that this company has a monopoly as a cable provider in our area. This is the worst company I have ever had to deal with in my life! When I speak with their customer service department, it doesn't even phase them that they have an "F" rating on the BBB website (96% negative reviews). I would never recommend this company to anyone.
I made a payment to the Frontier bill pay website yesterday on August 7, 2017. When I visited the website today, it's showing that the payment is pending and scheduled for August 9, 2017. There is no reason why a payment through the Frontier bill pay website should take 3 days to POST. If I make a payment on the due date, it should POST on the due date. I pay most of my bills online and NONE of them play this UNETHICAL game with their customers! Frontier Communications is the only company that makes the bogus claim of posting my online payment 3 days later so they can charge me an exorbitant late fee. THEY NEED TO CHANGE THIS POLICY. Their billing system is sneaky, underhanded and unprofessional.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2017
I cannot get a signal. When I do it is spotty. The customer service and tech support cannot help me. I will be paying more for satellite service even though my data usage is scarce just because they are honest about their service.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2017
Dealing with this company is a complete nightmare. Cannot get basic phone service and the customer service is absolutely horrible. Bunch of liars. Avoid this company like the plague or sign up at your own risk. Not recommended...
Updated on 08/24/2017: Frontier Communications is the worst, most incompetent company on the face of the earth. I have been trying for 3 weeks just to get a simple dial tone back on my landline phone and those idiots can't even get that right. When they schedule a tech visit on a certain date the field guy never shows up after I take time off work to be home waiting. I call them to ask "where is the tech person at?? He's not here like you stated between the time that was scheduled." Their response: "Oh it's actually for tomorrow. Sorry". A pack of filthy GD ** liars.
Reviewed Aug. 8, 2017
I called Frontier's customer service on Friday August 4th..to ask what my past due bill is. The 1st rep transferred me to their collections department, stating that it was showing my service was disconnected in 2015. I spoke with the collections department, the young lady found my actual account, and advised me that my balance due was 115.00. I went to Walmart and added the money to my card. I called back to pay it, and was advised the amount was 117.13. I was upset, but went back to Walmart, and paid same day pymt through 3rd party.
I call back to give the receipt number, and am told by yet another rep that I owe 142.00, so I call the automated system pay 25.00 and call in the receipt just to be told that they could not accept a called in receipt. I went all weekend with no service, call today and am told it could be Wednesday before the payment post... Called back 20 mins ago to find out the pymt is posted, customer service is closed and my account is still off. I truly am disgusted with this company, as of 09/15/17... I am switching to Spectrum!
Reviewed Aug. 7, 2017
They closed out my ticket and I didn't ask them to do this and hung up on me. I work from home and they are the worst in customer service I have ever seen, and they have charged me for months for a dual line and no dual line.
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2017
I was a loyal Frontier customer for close to 3 years. I always paid my bill. I live way out in the country and Frontier is the absolute only internet provider here. I can't use satellite internet because I upload a video to YouTube every 24 hours and Netflix is my only source of TV, so something like 10 gb a month would not work from a satellite company would not work. Frontier was the only source of unlimited internet. On July 23rd there was a lightning strike in my area. It burned up the modem. I called Frontier and was told a new modem would be sent by UPS. I waited and waited. Nothing. I called back and found out whoever I had talked to lied and never put in the order. This new person promised it would be sent... again, nothing. I went through being lied to 4 times! Finally a modem was delivered after I had to threaten to cancel my service. However, big surprise, I still had no internet.
I called a 5th time and the woman did some kind of test and said it came up as, "loss of signal." She set up an appointment for August 3rd for a Frontier technician to come to my house. He did show up on the 3rd and he looked at some things and replaced some things in the box on the side of my house. It still wouldn't work, so then he stood in my kitchen and said, "There are no good ports to switch your line to. Call and cancel your service. Frontier only cares about Florida, California and Texas."
So I had no choice, that's what I had to do, because Frontier does not care about or want their customers. It's about a half mile of underground line that needs to be replaced to fix the problem and they absolutely refuse. This really ** us over because we can't get anybody else out in the country for Internet and we can't spend 11 hours a day in Subway trying to upload our daily video to YouTube because public wifi here is very slow. So we have had to shut down our YouTube channel, which is very devastating to us and our subscribers. I was a long time loyal customer and they just threw me in the dirt and walked away! I can't believe they did that! Avoid Frontier Communications like your life depends on it!
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2017
Have complained incessantly about paying for 24 download speed and consider myself lucky if I get half that from time to time. Keep getting the same answer that they think justifies the situation. Well, when a great number of people are accessing the Internet at the same time speeds will reflect this. If this is true, then Frontier needs to put in place more, or better equipment to deal with this problem. It is their problem after all. But they don't consider this a problem, they simply charge a rate for 24 down load speed and only provide half at best. Tech told me after complaining about get on 10 while paying for 24, that I could lower my bill by paying for only the 10 down load speed. This is the way they deal with their problems of poor service.
I am now unable to call tech support. After answering that the problem I am having and stating that it is from my phone number they simply disconnect the line. Last known time I was on with tech I asked to speak to supervisor, I waited 30 minutes before I gave up. No contact since. I live in a ** state that allows companies like frontier to have a monopoly on our internet service. I cannot get service from anyone else. Thanks to the great state of WV, SCREWING ITS CITIZENS AND TAKING KICKBACKS, FROM FRONTIER FOR THEIR MONOPOLIZING CONTRACTS.
Updated review: Nov. 29, 2017
Although Frontier hasn't had fiber cable brought out of town yet, they somehow got the download speed up to 3 mbps download and 1 mbps upload during peak traffic time, and 5.5 mbps down and 1 mbps upload at 3 in the morning. I commend them on the improvement. They lowered my monthly bill rate for several months while they were working on the problem, and I wish to thank all who were involved with fixing the problem.
Original Review: Aug. 3, 2017
Signed up with Frontier Internet almost 3 years ago when they offered DSL internet without having to get their phone service along with it. Download speeds were livable up until 6 months ago, (3.0 mbps) We had the buried drop to our house replaced, which upped our download speed to 5.2mbps. Have called repair several times and am told that there are 10 1.5mbps lines feeding a control box, which probably has 45 customers working out of it, with more added all the time, 10 times 1.5mbps equals 15mbps, divided by 45 customers equals 0.33.3mbps download speed. Currently, I get 3.0mbps at four in the morning and from 10 AM till 11:30 at night it will slow down to 0.03mbps. I suspect a customer or 2 is running a website in their home, but no way to prove it. Am thinking of switching back to Hughes internet, as even after being ** for going over their limit, it would still be faster than 0.02mbps.
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2017
I closed out my internet account with Frontier in Feb/Mar 2017 due to the fact when I transferred service, I was told there would be no early disconnect fee and I would be able to keep my promotional pricing. They lied! I then cancelled two accounts with them. One account I had a credit, and the another account they said I owed. When I called to get clarification, I was told by 3 different reps: "Wait for the final bill." I wait and two months later I am being sent to collections. I called them at least 6 times, was hung up on twice. When I finally got a hold of a competent rep, they looked at the account, agreed with me, changed up the bill and the final balance is what it should have been. I paid it over the phone; Frontier accepted the payment; I closed out the account then followed up with the collection agency.
They said I still owed the original balance but would email Frontier to research my account. Fraud! Their rep cleared my account; I paid it; that should be the end of the story. Aug 13 my account will go into collections and while I was told I would be contacted on the outcome of my complaint, I still had to make the call. I will pay the said amount so I don't go into collections, but this fight is not over!
Updated review: Aug. 7, 2017
This problem has been resolved, Frontier has straightened out the problems of overcharging; and the account that I had with them has been cleared, with no balance due as of August 4, 2017. I received a phone call from "Sara" with Frontier's Office of the President advising me that all has been cleared.
Original Review: Aug. 2, 2017
August 2, 2017 - I cancelled Frontier's services on May 22, 2017, The same day Time Warner (Spectrum) was installed. No instruction was received from Frontier about sending their equipment; so I called them & they sent instructions and a box to return them. So I returned the equipment on July 10th. I was charged for June, then for July, when I saw on my Discover Card these two charges, I called Discover, they started a Dispute, and said they would contact Frontier, but Frontier never responded back to Discover. The June & July bills were reversed, and Discover blocked them so no further charges would be accepted as the billing was on Auto Pay. Then at the end of July I receive by direct mail a bill for $141.06 for the month of August. $141.06. I have contacted their office of the President, of which I received a polite reply to help me.
The lady "Sara" after checking through my paperwork via Email, said she had verified that I was correct in my complaint of all the overcharges, but she was required to send it to another office person to review it. Then if it was agreed (or similar words), the overcharge would be reversed. She asked me what was the phone number that I had called to cancel their service, but I am not sure which number, I had asked the lady I talked to for confirmation number, and she said that was not needed, then I asked her name, with no response the phone was disconnected. I am going to send another Email to "Sara." My last response was on July 31st. I found a phone (one of many). Perhaps it is the one and send it to her.
My last message with Frontier was on July 31st. I have had numerous calls with different people regarding this, at the beginning, I was told by several that I had credit refunds due; then the reverse. Finally was directed to a department in care returns, etc. I talked to a "Chris," who verified I would receive credit refunds back to my Discover Card with 3 to 5 days, it didn't happen. For all the harassment and pressure I have received from Frontier, I will never suggest to anyone to use their "services."
Reviewed July 31, 2017
A technician came to my house today at 10:30 am in order to upgrade my internet speed. He told me that he was not able to upgrade it, which was fine. I had not yet started my work day (I work from home and depend on having internet access to do my work), but as soon as the technician left at 11:00 am, I started my work day. I noticed the internet was out (not a modem issue), so I called to have the issue resolved. After being disconnected from my call with Frontier several times, three to be exact (I have great phone reception, it was not an issue on my end), and waiting for them to call me back (which they only did once, I had to call them back and start over the other times), I was told by a tech support agent that the disruption was caused by the upgrade that never happened, and that they changed my account ID in anticipation of the upgrade, which is why my internet is out.
After explaining that I work from home and I depend on having internet to do so, he told me that I had to wait one week for a technician to come out and fix the issue that they created, and that I would have no internet until that time. I told him that was unacceptable and that I need to speak with a supervisor. I finally got to talk to a supervisor who was much more helpful than the tech agents. After explaining the situation to him, he told me that employees always tell the customer that upgrades may cause disruptions; I said I was absolutely not informed of this, and if I had been, I would not have chosen to upgrade my speed. He told me that a technician would be here tomorrow between 10:00 am and 11:00 am.
That means I lose more than a full day's work and spent hours on the phone with Frontier talking with people who could care less all because they did not inform me of possible internet disruptions due to upgrading my service, and then tried to make me wait a full week without internet. We'll see what happens tomorrow, but I may just cancel my service with this company.
Reviewed July 28, 2017
I just opened internet service from Frontier last month. To avoid any subscribe errors, I called customer service to ensure I get correct internet service I was looking for. Internet was connected okay but the very first bill that I received wasn't sent to my correct billing address, and then the monthly bill was overcharged to regular top service rate instead of a lower speed rate with promotion discount. After I spent over 3 hours call to speak with customer service department, the rate was corrected but my internet has been cut off. It took me another 2 hours over the phone with tech support trying to reboot the system and no luck. Finally, I was told that a tech will be dispatched. One day was over and no tech showed up to fix the issue. I called again and a female rep was rude without any apology and told me that that is the way Frontier serves in California. Very disappointed service!!!
Reviewed July 27, 2017
On July 13th I called Frontier to inquire about switching my cable service. After speaking with the sales rep I decided to make the switch. I wanted a complete bundle package of cable-internet-phone and was quoted a price for what I selected. I wanted to keep my same phone number and was told that it would take 5 working days to bring my phone number over. We setup a date of July 20th to have my service installed. I was told that I installer would be there around 8:00 am. On July 20th around 10:00 am the installer had not come and I called Frontier to find out why. I was told that they would be there between 8 am and noon time. The sales rep I spoke with told me that she would check with dispatcher to see where on the list I was and put me on hold. Well she never came back and I got disconnected.
At 12:30 pm they still had not come so I called again and this time I was told that my appointment was for not until July 27th. No I told them that was wrong and the person earlier verified my July 20th appointment. I told them that I would not have made an appointment for July 27th for I already had other appointments on that day. They probably just decided to change me and didn't bother to call me. We then changed my appointment to July 26th between 1 pm and 5 pm. On July 26th I decided to call Frontier just to confirm my appointment. I was told that I didn't have an appointment on that day but my appointment was still for July 27th.
At that point I asked to speak with a supervisor. I explained the whole situation to her and told her what are you going to do for me to keep me as a potential customer for all the trouble that I am going through. I was told that she would credit me certain things. I said ok. I then asked her to let's verify what cable services I ordered. When we got done she quoted me the cost of 159.00. I told her that I was quoted a cost of 143.99. She said no that is not correct. Well after we argued somewhat I decided to cancel my order. I did tell her one thing and that was she needs to train all her sale reps because every time that I spoke with someone different they give me different answers. I will stay with Spectrum.
Reviewed July 26, 2017
I cannot get Frontier Communications to change my programming after 3 phone calls over three months. On hold with Frontier Communications as I type, the representative cannot tell me what is bundled in FiOS Custom Essentials for $68.99 a month -- unknown! I have asked three times to remove FiOS Digital Voice Unlimited Package for $44.99 a month. We have 4 AT&T cell phone lines, and travel all the time. We just want phone hooked up with long distance enabled for emergencies ~ $12 a month. This is just the latest issues.
Frontier Communications has totaled up about $1,000.00 in fraudulent charges, and they will never even answer my claim. These companies avoid the law by refusing to give you a non-PO address to prove you sent a legal "statement of claim". This is their scam; you cannot prove the delivery per a FedEx. There is nothing you can do per expense of an attorney, and they put me on hold for hours until I give up. Great business model = scammers.
Reviewed July 26, 2017
I was trying to find an internet service to replace Charter because of their horrible system. But I am glad I tried to contact Frontier via chat first since I found out that not only their services is so slow, their customer service is also horrible. The agent named Hayden was very condescending because I didn't notice the word "max" when he told me their speed is 7 mbps. I asked if there was something faster and he replies with "No, Otherwise I wouldn't have said max." I said that it was rude when I asked because I didn't see the word max and he started calling me lame, I need to get a hobby, etc. etc. This is supposed to be a person offering the best foot so I will move my business to theirs. If their sales agent is treating potential customers like that, what more people whose business are already with Frontier.
Reviewed July 25, 2017
I have the unfortunate need to use Frontier and no other options where I live. I can't see how they are still in business! I had them out THREE times in a month due to disconnection issues and very slow internet. Every time I sat on the phone turning my router off and on 10 times before they would say they had to send someone out. And EVERY time it was a week or more for a tech! This meant no internet and when you live 10miles up in the hills, this is my source of everything including making wifi calls since my phone has no signal and doing my school work for my master's program!
I never heard from or saw the techs, no follow up calls. And they only gave me a partial refund after being told the issues I had were going on for months! Now, I have to do some firmware update and it's locked me out of nearly everything and I've been on hold for tech support for 30 minutes after the chat tech couldn't do ANYTHING! I completely and utterly LOATH Frontier internet. They are horrible and if you ever have any options for other service then go with them!! THEY ARE HORRIBLE!!
Reviewed July 25, 2017
I THINK IT IS UNFAIR THAT I HAVE TO GIVE THEM AT LEAST A 1 ON RATING. THEY DONT DESERVE IT!! This company needs to be destroyed and barred from providing service to anyone!!! The idiots that answer the phone are ridiculous and cannot provide any honest answers. They do not assist with anything... How can this company afford to pay call centers of people that do not know what they are talking about???
My complex has a contract with them so we cannot get any other service. I have chosen to not have any services. Now if I want to use the internet I hotspot my phone. It sucks but I would rather have slow internet than to have internet with this company! DO NOT GET SERVICE WITH THIS COMPANY!!! You will regret it if you do!!! They will not even get you a supervisor on the line if you ask for one... They get scared of their job and either hang up or transfer you back to the automated attendant... Frontier will not get anymore of my money!!
Reviewed July 24, 2017
My bill recently increased due to an of the promotional period. OK, I accept this. Despite the mailed correspondence stating that I could "save my rate", customer service stated I did not "qualify". I am being billed for FiOS, but why I am paying for "fiber optic" connectivity, when there are no fiber optic lines in my area? How does that work; paying for something you are not getting? Furthermore, the quality of service is terrible. When my communications were through Verizon, I had no issues, however since Frontier took over, the quality of service has diminished significantly. I've called Tech support and customer service without success to my issues. They have either stated they have no record of my issues or they say it's a "usage and availability issue". What does that even mean? I would NEVER recommend this provider. If you can avoid them, do so.
Reviewed July 22, 2017
We have been a long time customer of Verizon Fios. Had no problems. Ever since Frontier has taken over we have had nothing but problems with lack of communication between customer service reps. Our internet connection has been down twice for no reason. It takes a tech at 5 days to come out. It seems like they don't care about their customers only about making money.
Reviewed July 22, 2017
I just started with Frontier Communications. What a mistake, you call for help and it is if you were asking for top secret information. I have yet to get an answer to a question that I could use. It's best to just hang up and try to work it out yourself. It has been nothing but a mess with billing and trying to get the wifi to work. I would like to use a bunch of four letter words to describe what I think of Frontier. Spectrum is willing to buy them out and it looks like an option at this point. Customer service should close up shop. If anyone is considering using or changing to Frontier be careful, you are in for a bunch of headaches. Don't even ask about a problem with Wifi, It looks like Frontier is joining the change to a world system, no respect, no integrity, just don't care.
Reviewed July 21, 2017
This company is by far the worst I have ever worked with. Their customer service employees are not trained properly, their bills are filled with errors and double billing. They close accounts with zero correspondence, transfer balances through accounts, and cannot unwind the chaos they create. After countless hours on the phone with a number of different customer service reps, and continuously being "disconnected" after an hour or so on each call, they still were unable to solve the tangled mess, and there was not a single supervisor available to discuss this ANY of the times we called.
After being told we would have to wait 3 weeks to get our account reconciled, they turned off our internet service. They would not turn it back on even though they knew they were not able to provide us with an accurate amount payable, and we had initiated all correspondence trying to settle our bill. I wish there was the option to give a zero!! Be smart - do what our business did not do... Check the Better Business Bureau, and you will see that Frontier scores a solid "F".
Reviewed July 21, 2017
I called and ordered a new service on 7/11. I was given the slot of 8-12 today, 7/21 because everything else was taken. I didn't mind. Today is 7/21 and I have been waiting, not daring to go anywhere, not even to the backyard. At 11:20 when no tech showed up, I called Frontier and asked about my order. The answer was that the tech who has my order is finishing a job right now and will call me when he's heading to my place today. Do Frontier employees think their customers are stupid doing nothing just waiting for them. If the tech shows up at my door at 12 PM (if that, he may come later), he will not be done before perhaps 2 or 3 PM. MY WHOLE DAY IS RUINED, vs. a planned half day. This is not acceptable. That's why I give you one star. You need to start planning 2-hour windows.
Reviewed July 20, 2017
Most dishonest company. Product was returned, they acknowledged that they received the product but I never received my $145 refund. They raised their rate from one month to another by 60%. I paid. I disconnected their service and switched to Comcast.
Reviewed July 19, 2017
Prior Verizon customer suffering under hostage of Frontier and haven't received a correct bill since the unannounced takeover. Dropped TV and Phone but continue to receive phone and video billing and taxes on my bill. Call monthly, speak with a long cast of apparently incompetent supervisors who all promise to fix the issues. Stay away from Frontier if you can avoid them in your market!
Reviewed July 19, 2017
I had simple internet service for six years with Frontier in Illinois. Although the service was more reliable than its predecessor (Verizon), it was consistently subpar (below 2.5 Mbps download speed and below .50 Mbps upload). I lived with that, despite spotty customer service and the inability to get a reply to complaints via email. So when I moved, I thought I'd finally be rid of this damn albatross. Unfortunately, no. When I disconnected the service, Frontier charged a $9.99 "Residential Broadband Processing Fee." So in addition to being bad at their basic jobs providing internet service they're also shameless fee gougers. Congratulations Frontier. Superior work.
Updated review: Aug. 17, 2017
Okay folks... I gave Frontier a one star rating due to their supervisor canceling my Amazon Gift Card. Thanks to Lianne at Frontier they issued me my Amazon Card. I will admit I was skeptical once I elevated this issue, but they did come through. I really love the upload and download speed of their internet service and now feel compelled to change my rating. Cheers!
Original Review: July 17, 2017
Switched from Spectrum to Frontier and was promised an Amazon Gift card for $400.00 if I upgraded to the triple bundle, which I reluctantly did. I was told that I had to have the service for 3 months before they would send me the gift card. It's now 7 months later and they said they won't be able to get me the Amazon card. Recorded the call and the supervisor said it was their fault but-NO CARD FOR YOU!
Reviewed July 17, 2017
After hours of calls over several months, a Frontier "retention specialist" made an agreement for a base price to keep us as customers. We had been with FIOS for years before Frontier took over. After that, every month, the bill was messed up, hundreds of dollars in additional fees. Every month spent hours on the phone getting them to adjust and honor their agreed price. Six months later, they sent a huge bill again. When we called, they first lied and said they had no record of the agreement. Another hour later, they admitted they had the agreement. Then they simply said they had no intention of honoring the agreement anyway. No excuse, no reason, just that they didn't want to do so. The supervisor confirmed. So did her supervisor. They just laughed about it, as if they couldn't care less (they couldn't).
It sounds as if I'm making this up, but I'm not. They actually just said they no longer employed that agent and so they didn't have to honor any of her arrangements with customers. That's breach of contract, of course, but Frontier couldn't care less. They're a mega-company and a near monopoly, after grabbing the old Fios contracts. We're changing to XFINITY, which is a hassle, and we're asking Governor Scott of Florida to look into revoking their permits in the State (hold your breath for that one). Stay FAR, FAR away from this company. They promise, cheat, lie, and admit they lied without blushing, all the while cheating you out of hundreds of dollars. Amazing.
Reviewed July 16, 2017
I have had issues with this company ever since they took it from Verizon... always overcharging my bills... late fees when there weren't supposed to be... but what was the last straw was when I finally decided to kick them to the curb and go Spectrum for business. So I called spectrum and everything was running smoothly I had a date already set up for the Port Out to happen but then Frontier goes and disconnects my phone line without even letting the new provider know and I had to call back to them to let them know to put the line back on until the Port Out date actually happens.
So now it's been a week since my first call and every single day they keep telling me that they will reconnect my line the day that I call and nothing actually happens. Their customer service is completely incompetent and lack of knowledge in their own system and communication is beyond dumb. They themselves don't know how to reach the right department.. keeping me on hold for 45 mins or more... and not resolving the issue at all. They are a bunch of imbeciles.
Reviewed July 16, 2017
Situation: My wife called 01/08/2017 to request a cancellation on my service after several years of service with Verizon Fios and over one (1) year with Frontier. Our request was to have service discontinued before new cycle started around 02/01/2017. Nathan, the agent attending the call, instead, cancelled the account the same day without our consent. We found out a few days later upon returning from a short trip out of state. We called Frontier on 01/11/2017 and spoke to Donna, only to find out the service was disconnected per Nathan's request. Donna recommended to wait for bill which would show a prorated amount. Nothing was noted in the account as far of any of our requests. We received a bill by the end of January and decided to call back Frontier. Spoke to Paige whom was not helpful, hence, we requested to speak to a supervisor.
She stated that supervisor by the name Rosa was busy at that time but Rosa had addressed our concern requesting full credit. However, once again, nothing was noted in the account. She basically denied our right to escalate the call at that point in order to obtain resolution. We received a collection letter once again and decided to call back. Spoke to Denise on 03/26/2017, whom was very helpful and recommended to speak with sales department, and acknowledged that she submitted a request to prorate amount in statement since we only received service from 01/03/2017 to 01/08/2017. Denise confirmed all the records for request to disconnect service and that workers Paige and supervisor Rosa had done nothing but brush us off one more time.
It is now 4/6/2017, and one more collection letter arrives in the mail for a full balance of $270.19. It appears that either Denise did not submit the request for revision of the balance, or it was not addressed by Frontier collections department. We called one more time and spoke to agent Lamar, whom directed the call to Collections Department 1-888-567-4739. At 4:28 p.m., my wife speaks with Jim whom again stated that we would receive a statement with prorated amount, now from 01/03/2017 to 01/11/2017. This did not happen. Again, as usual practice in Frontier Communications, they once again gave us the runaround as a way to get rid of our call. They brushed us off.
It is the end of June 2017 and we received a collection letter dated 06/27/2017, once again, asking for full payment. We called Frontier 07/14/2017 and spoke with agent by the name Renee, whom stated she was unable to see any contacts addressing our concerns for disconnected account as done by Nathan on 01/08/2017, or anything for prorating balance to receive credit. We requested to escalate the call to find resolution. Call was escalated to a supervisor by the name Sherone. Sherone clearly stated that she would annotate in the account the request for credit in the amount of $195.27 out of $270.19, basically leaving us with a balance of about $70, however, she stated the request would need approval. She assured that we would call us back on 07/15/2017 at 4:00 p.m.(PT). We did not receive a call, hence, decided to call back this horrible company one more time.
This time, we called Frontier 07/15/2017 at 4:25 p.m. (PT), and spoke to Kayla. Kayla, reviewed the account and confirmed that request for prorated amount/credit is in pending per Sherone's request made 07/14/2017. Kayla acknowledged that many people have been in our account, however, there is no record of agent Paige or her supervisor Rosa ever making a request to review the collection as previously informed on 02/11/2017. Kayla did not identify either any annotations for a call back on 07/15/2017 as promised by supervisor Sherone. Kayla apologized and stated she would annotate in the account our concerns, and promised to escalate the request to expedite the account review for prorated balance/credit from 01/03/2017 to 01/11/2017.
Kayla went one step further, and promised to call back for follow up at least once per week to give us an update, stating that hopefully this time, it would take less than a week to resolve the issue. I am giving Frontier one last opportunity to resolve this matter and I will patiently wait until the end of business day 07/20/2017 to receive updates. If no updates received by then, I will proceed accordingly since our credit has been affected by this obnoxious, irresponsible, and lack of accountability communications company.
Reviewed July 15, 2017
I was checking on my mom's Internet service and when I logged into her account, it said she was paying $19.99 for an Ultimate Security Bundle. When I looked at prior bills, I noticed she did have a Frontier Identity Security Bundle that was $9.99. (There was a $5 credit). Someone might have convinced her to add that when she signed up. But no one spoke to her about upgrading it to an Ultimate Security Bundle. I had them look into it and they had no record of a call. I spoke to a supervisor, and they said there was no record of her calling, and someone actually did do that without her permission, and they should not have done that. It was flagged for investigation.
I had to ask to be credited for the past month's extra charges, which they did do after I asked. But this is fraud - they admitted it. And I would not have caught it if I had not decided to log into the account to try to diagnose the internet speed issues we were having. She would have just been paying an extra $15/month without knowing why. At least they fixed it.
Reviewed July 15, 2017
I absolutely will never tell anyone or recommend anyone to use Frontier's services. Their service sucks. WiFi is so slow it barely works and me and my family aren't able to enjoy and have movie nights or anything. I wouldn't wish this aggravation on anyone not even my enemy. Whoever reads this do me and yourself a favor STAY CLEAR from this horrible service. They don't deserve your money nor time invested... so disgusting.
Reviewed July 14, 2017
The guy was awesome. BUT... He got me all set up and told me someone would be out on Thursday with the two Quantum boxes so I can have outdoor wireless. No one showed. That prompted another live chat the next day. Spent 1 1/2 hours on chat and got disconnected before I got anything done. I called today. I also go through two people a tech and a customer and spend an hour on the phone. On my account it showed I had a order and it was closed on the 13th which is the day someone was supposed to be out (who closes a ticket when nothing was done). Well neither of the ladies found a order.
The CS placed an order for the new boxes today. She was showing I had the boxes already. I kept telling her what I currently had in my home 2 different times and what the ticket showed I was supposed to get. I hate dealing with these people. When Frontier took over for Verizon service got 3 times worse. The only choices we have in my area is Frontier and Time Warner. Time Warner does not offer the FIOS internet. But I probably would not be any better off with Time Warner. So pissed. Can't people follow through and complete their job. People have gotten so lazy... I so wish I had copied my live chats. I have in the past. MY BAD.
Reviewed July 14, 2017
Last December a Frontier rep knocked on our door with an offer that looked too good to refuse. We were on Spectrum at the time and the service was OK but like everyone we are always looking to cut costs so he signed us up for this killer package. Blazing fast WiFi, free DVR, free HBO, no early termination fee plus a $400 Amazon gift card after 4 months. Wow. What not to love about this one...! We the first storm clouds started with the installation date. The guy never showed up at the appointed time and no one called. My wife spent the entire day waiting in vain. Called the up the next day - profuse apologies etc. New installation date, this guy shows, speedy install, everything looks good. It took me about a week to realize that it was impossible to call in on the new landline phone line. I could call out but incoming calls were met with a "this line is no longer in service" message.
Spent the next month with tech support. Got to know them so well I felt like part of the team. In the meantime the TV signal started to do wacky things. The picture would just freeze (of course this always happened during the climax of the shows). Two more service tech visits resulted in the picture problem being resolved but the phone line got worse. Now we lost the outgoing line. In frustration I called them to drop the phone line service. What was the point of having it? And after all I would save a little. Right?? BIG MISTAKE. The next bill I got from FRONTIER had my monthly charges go from $127 to $290. By dropping the line my bundled package disappeared and now I was at A La Carte Premium prices. Called FRONTIER and found a very sympathetic rep who said she would make everything right again. She put the bundle back together again, even gave me some credit for the lost phone service.
The tech department even managed to get 1/2 my phone service back (the outgoing part). The way I saw it big deal. I would only have gotten a lot of telemarketing call coming in anyways. The only bummer is that $400 free AMAZON gift card got kicked down the road by three months. FLASH FORWARD. It's now three months. I check my email and YES TA DA. There is that link from FRONTIER with the code for that free $400 gift card. But then I read the fine print and I see red. Here is the fine print: "Your Amazon.com Gift Card can be redeemed towards millions of items at www.amazon.com. You will need the gift card claim code below.
With your new Internet service, you have agreed to a two-year term and $400 pro-rated early termination fee on your internet service. This fee will be automatically charged if you cancel your internet service prior to the two-year expiration. If you should have any questions regarding your Frontier products or services, please call customer service at 800-921-8101. Thank you for choosing Frontier Communications."
Now if you remember I said the original contract I had with them clearly stated "NO EARLY TERMINATION FEE". This has been a very rocky ride with a company that clearly is pushing the ethical boundaries of marketing their product. Yes I just cashed in my gift card on Amazon and I'm about to cancel my service and no doubt they will stiff me with a $400 cancellation fee and yes I will take them to small claims court as I believe countless other disgruntled consumers have and Yes I should have done my due diligence back in December and GOOGLED "Frontier service complaints" which would have taken me to this website of 3,308 unhappy Frontier customers. (FYI - For each one of us who bothers to file a review there are about 100 unhappy customers who never bother to complain.) So if you are a new potential customer for FRONTIER and just checking them out - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Reviewed July 13, 2017
I don't understand why the sales representatives from Frontier Communications behave in such a bad manner, the sales representative folks asked me and asked tons of questions and told me to take Frontier and they checked my house address and said they don't have. Later they called me and again after a week and told me that they are going to provide the connection and gave me some options and then I said "let me think", as my existing provider is ok and no problem with them. The sales representative just hung the phone. I was under the dark side, why these crooks behave in such a manner and I didn't ask them the service and why they call and make me upset. Moreover those folks talk like they are in demand - Rubbish. Never entertain these crooks. Please.
Reviewed July 12, 2017
Service has been a NIGHTMARE! I had a problem right after they purchased the company and they sent out a repair guy. I explained that - when working - my service was intermittent. He informed me that, while Frontier bought Verizon, they did NOT purchase the digital programming, and that it should straighten out "in a few months." I was later billed $89 for the service call, despite paying for maintenance insurance every month. The rep told me that I failed to pay it - only on that particular month. When I told her I had proof, she suddenly found it.
It's been a year now and my service is no better than it was initially. I have internet TV, so it is interrupted constantly due to this disruption in service. I pay for 24 hour access but have never had it. When you call with a complaint, they want you to up your speed (more $). Why would I pay for a faster speed when this one doesn't work!? I am on a fixed income, and the local cable company requires an installation fee up front, but I am definitely dumping Frontier.
Updated on 10/10/2017: I filed complaint in August 2017. I was contacted by the company (via generic email) and responded immediately. Since then, I have received no further contact and no attempt to resolve the issues. This is the WORST company I've ever dealt with. They won't last long with the way they treat their customers.
Reviewed July 11, 2017
Initially when I set up service they sent me a bill. I use my bank to pay all my bills. They sent in the amount and I thought nothing of it... Until I received a late notice from Frontier. I wasn't sure what had happened. I thought maybe the amount didn't get sent in so I resent them a 2nd payment. Same thing. I call Frontier to straighten it out. They assure me everything is taken care of. I tell them to write all of our discussion notes on my account. They confirm they are starting a payment investigation to find out what happened to the money. "Great" I think.
Fast forward a month later I get a notice that they will shut off everything if I don't send them payment. I'm confused now because I know I sent the payment in but I'm getting this crazy notice saying I'm delinquent so I send in a THIRD PAYMENT! They claim nothing was received. Contact the bank and they verify that ALL 3 PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN CASHED BY FRONTIER! I call Frontier and get a rep. I'm pissed. They said this was taken care of so I immediate escalate and ask for a supervisor. The rep informs me that I just need to go thru a stupid 200 step process that I ALREADY went thru with their previous incompetent idiot working the phone who DIDN'T WRITE ANY NOTES! NOTHING!
Rep tells me to hold on. Rep comes back on asking for dates of payments when I inform rep she has no clue that previous rep did the same thing that's why I'm escalating to a supervisor who may know what's going on. She puts me on hold a second time. Comes back again and informs me that she can't escalate to a supervisor until I give her the dates. This is utter nonsense. I inform her that she does not require anything other than to forward my request and get me a supervisor. She hangs up on me!
I call back and get another rep. Explain the situation that just happened. Magically, this rep is able to get me a supervisor in 2 minutes! I explain all this to a supervisor and he apologizes for the rep. Then proceeds to ask if I remember the name of the person I spoke to 1 month ago. IS THIS GUY INSANE??? How many of you remember the name of the rep for your phone or cable or gas from one month ago? And a better question: why isn't the rep name on the NOTES the rep was supposedly entering into my account on my behalf??? I inform him of this and he tells me we could get this process moving if I could just remember details (the same ones I shouldn't be expected to remember since they should all be written down anyway!!!).
He ends up blaming me for not remembering stuff that no sane person would care to remember since it should all be in the account notes. He eventually tells me to contact my bank to get proof of payment. I get proof of payment and call back. I get another rep who tells me she's so concerned and they'll take care of it (Just like last time! LOL.). I ask her to find a supervisor to let them know that I'm getting delinquent notices and to pause all activity until they find my money! She says she can't do that? WHAT??? And the worst part is: her reasons CHANGE FOR EVERY EXCUSE I EXPOSE!!!!
First she tells me she can't find a supervisor who can do that. I inform her she's working at a company that controls my account and OF COURSE there is a person who can do it. She just has to find him/her. She then changes her excuse to say that she knows her boss won't do what I'm asking. I tell her then go over her head and find another supervisor who will. She then changes the excuse TWO MORE TIMES. So let's recap. I just want a supervisor to step in and find MY MONEY THEY STOLE and then to not penalize me while the process is going on to find out what they did with my money. She gives me FOUR DIFFERENT EXCUSES and then in the end she says she'll get the supervisor. WHAT??!!
THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!! They are utterly incompetent morons who don't know their jobs or are poorly trained about what to do with customers. I suspect the latter. It's a culture of incompetence because as we all know these companies don't allow rivals to come in and compete. They pretty much have a monopoly on the services. I only have Comcast to choose from and they're not much better.
If Google Fiber comes in, I will drop Frontier (former Fios) in a heartbeat just to get good customer service!! Lack of competition in the market is making these types of companies lazy, apathetic, and dishonest! They guys are the absolute WORST because they lie, they're incompetent, they blame the customer for the problems they caused, they're not accountable to their mistakes, their reps don't know proper protocols, they're rude and hang up on you, etc. The list goes on!
Reviewed July 11, 2017
I am a small business owner, and I just start my business 4 months ago. I was shopping with other companies before made a decision. When I called them everything was looking good. They offer me: 2 lines on phone and internet 50/50 for $104 for the first year and $135 for the 2nd year. Installation should be $60. So I decide go with Frontier. Wrong!! Huge Mistake!! Since 1st bill they never give me the $104 deal... first bill $352... 2nd bill $173... 3rd bill $116... 4th bill $169... every single month I have to call to try... just try to get a discount, because never they honored the original price $104 for 2 lines plus internet 50/50. Now I am waiting for a call from them... if don't get a real discount I will be canceled this contract because they don't honored what they promised. Do not use this company!!! They are not honest!!! Stayed away from Frontier!!! Believe me!!!
Reviewed July 10, 2017
BUYER BEWARE: Horrible, Slow, Expensive Service. May 2017 Download speed .62 - that's POINT-62. Upload speed .35. June 1, 2017 download speed .41. Upload speed .30, and I'm told that's the best I can expect. Up until two years ago, the service was "ok". They keep taking on customers without improving infrastructure. Account "Managers" only patronize. No solutions. But guess what? Every month they take my $60 without fail. And I'd better not be late.
Reviewed July 10, 2017
Might as well wait up for the Great Pumpkin to show. Unfortunately, live in an area where Frontier is the only DSL provider available. Had okay service from them the last year, as we were close to a college campus, but after a move (7 miles from previous address, and previous owners had service from Frontier), we can't get service hooked up. We have made three appointments now, with an all-day window (8-5), and on all three days, nobody showed up or called. Calls to the only available customer number get a "Gee, we're sorry, let's reschedule." Absolutely no assistance whatsoever.
I may have to live with using my phone's mobile hotspot for internet forever. Such a shame, because it was nice not having to sign a contract, and they were easy enough to deal with as just an isp (no phone or TV). Sadly, will have to cancel my account and live without service, since they can't seem to be bothered to hook up service unless it's within two miles of the campus.
Reviewed July 9, 2017
Frontier is the worst company I have ever been subjected to in all my 50 years of life. After being transferred and hung up on several times, I was finally able to order a landline. The date was set for the technician to come install and I was told they would be there between 8 am and 5 pm. 9 hours is a ridiculously long time to wait but I really needed the landline so I did. They didn't show up. Nor did they call. Keeping my anger and shock of their incompetence to myself, I called to schedule another time to have a technician come install. Same thing happened. I make over $100 a hour. I think I should be able to sue them for my time. If you aren't forced to use this company like I am, don't go near them! Sadly, they are my only option for a landline.
Reviewed July 8, 2017
I received a pamphlet in the mail stating that I can sign up for TV, internet and telephone (triple play bundle) for $60 a month for 6 months. Then from month 7, through month 24, the price goes to $90 a month. I called in and signed up for the $60 offer and on June 27, I had the system installed. I got a bill for $272. I called and talked to Alberta ** at billing/retention dept. She promised to fix the problem. She issued a credit of $38 and $99 and that the credit would take effect in 48 hrs. The $38 took effect immediately and brought the total bill to $234 instead of $272 but I never saw the $99 credit. I then chatted with Vincent on the 4th of July and he admitted that I signed up for $60 and that he would issue another $52 credit to bring it down to $83 ($234-$99-$52) instead of $234. I checked the online account again on July 7, and still showed a balance of $234.
I called in and spent 1:26 minutes on the phone with Qora ** and she made a lot of promises but couldn't fix anything. After realizing that I was getting nowhere I decided to close this account. I wrote a letter to the CEO Steven Crosby at officeofthepresident@ftr.com, explaining the RIPOFF I received from these THIEVES. I seriously doubt he would bother to have one of his cronies answer it. I will not pay $234, I will only pay what I signed up for from June 27, to July 10, which will be the disconnect day. I have everything in writing of what I signed up for and there is a recorded conversation also. I have a credit rating of over 800 and I hope they try to ruin my credit so I can have a good payday. Stay away from this incompetent company.
Reviewed July 7, 2017
Frontier is the most unreliable internet service provider I have ever worked with. The internet is constantly down and it takes 5 days to get a tech out to fix it. To add insult to injury contacting the support for Frontier gets you no results but gives them an chance to push offers of products to you rather than fix the issue you contacted them about. They claim a "up time" in the 80% range, that is pure fantasy... as I write this review 30% is a wildly optimistic number for them. Needless to say most of Frontiers customers have no other provider to choose from. If you are fortunate enough to have a choice other than Frontier you should take it and consider yourself lucky to have avoided the worthless offering from Frontier.
Reviewed July 7, 2017
This is the worst company for internet I have ever seen. Have had them for several years now and it get slower all the time. I am down to download speed .42 and upload speed .16 and they tell me that is as fast as it is going to get for my area but a few years ago I had hi speed internet but because they took on more customers I am slower. A new customer just got Frontier is running at 40 but I can't get even 1. The customer service wasn't worried about me or how long I have been with them that didn't mean a thing to them that I have been a good customer for all these years. I am going to take action real soon and say goodbye to their internet. Why pay for something that doesn't work.
Reviewed July 6, 2017
"Reasonably" satisfied (internet fairly reliable; needed reboot ~ 3 times/yr; price high) with Verizon FiOS in SoCal. Then Frontier bought Verizon service area in So Cal. Last month was time to renew contract. As "loyal" customer was offered: 75/75 instead of 50/50 internet FIOS (previous contract) and phone for the same price as before (getting 50/50 and phone). First bill came, found out that: 1. We were in a 24 month contract with only a "rebate" for the 1st 12 months. 2. "Personal security bundle" that we didn't ask for was on the bill at $15/month. 3. Under speedtest, we were still getting 50/50!
The new contract would have been $20/mth more for the first 12 months and then $50/mth more for the next 12 months. Definitely "not the same". Just called Frontier again. Based on "retention agent", hopefully this is straightened out; (based on this hope, this rates the 2 stars), if not, one star. FCC should require written confirmation of ISP contracts that have been done verbally by service agents.
Reviewed July 5, 2017
In late May 2017 I discussed with Frontier Communications getting service for my residence in Sarasota. The house had previous Verizon service and it was already wired with FIOS cable… over the phone, multiple times, as well as in person at your Sarasota 34236, 1701 Ringling Blvd store. In all cases, and I have it well documented, I was quoted a Triple Service (internet, TV and phone) for $ 90 plus $ 40 for the four (4) tv top boxes plus $ 10 for the Quantum feature. A total of $ 140 plus "about" 15% taxes and fees, for a total months 1-6 of $ 160-165 or so. That amount was supposed to increase by $ 25 on the "base of $90" for a sub-total of $ 165 plus taxes of about $25, for a total of about $ 180-185.
The package was supposed to include internet at 100/100, TV Ultimate including all premium channels, and a phone line. No modem/router was included because I have my own. Furthermore my notes clearly state that there will be No installation charge, no contract required, and consequently no termination charges of any kind if I decide for any reason to terminate the service at any time during the 24 month (such as moving away, death, health, etc.).
I requested a "confirming email or a print out (at the store)", but was unable to get either. I was promised an email, but it was never sent. Additional calls to Frontier Customer Service were unsuccessful in getting any proof of what type of service and charges I was going to get. And every call a different person had different numbers and quotes. Totally unacceptable. To my surprise I received my first/second month bill today in the amount of $ 729.18. That is irrational. Included were items such as $80 for installation, $ 17.99 for STARZ/ENCORE, $40 for a two year Wi-Fi Router and many other unidentifiable charges. A very convoluted and confusing bill. I called today your customer service but was unable to have them adjust most of the charges so the total, regardless of how you do your billing and accounting, would be about $ 160-165 for the first 6 months, and about $ 180-185 for months 7-24.
Reviewed July 4, 2017
I am a family business owner taking care of my family and trying to survive in these hard days and am working alone in this business. I called Frontier to have their service in the businesses and bad mistake. From first phone call and till now it is not solved. It took from me less than 2 months to cancel them and switch briefly: Dishonest business operators gave a rate and get another. No communications internally telling me whenever I called which happened daily that we don't have no info about the account. Untrained and professional sales and staff in general employees supervisors etc. Billing is the worst in the country and I believe in the world. Installations technicians rude and they know how bad Frontier. They were complaining to us.
Frontier services phone and internet are bad slow internet. I say dial up is better. Telephone not up to needs to keep up your business and service out. The best thing they say "Oh we have to find someone to take care of your situation." But after weekend imagine they tell that for business. And what about loss of business? They don't care.
Send emails. No answer until someone there remember to check on it and the best "Oh sorry for your difficulties with Frontier." Cancellation fee about 2300$. Do you think any one will pay for service don't get or never get? Worst company to handle problems and complaints. I say it to all. Am not gonna pay Frontier and don't do my mistake. Stay away from Frontier. They are very bad company, do not deal with them.
Reviewed July 4, 2017
I have had Verizon Fios since 2009 and it was recently switched to Frontier. After my divorce, I moved and took a 6-month lease opening a new account. Everything was fine but when my lease was up I moved again and asked Frontier to transfer my service to my new home about 5 miles away. I was given a date for installation and of course, no one showed up. I called and finally found out that they had to switch my service to a new hub or office or something so installation was delayed (would have been nice for a call to let me know that). Finally, installation was done and the installer was awesome as they always have been.
Everything was great until I received my first bill and it had gone from $179 per month to $340 per month. WTH. I called and was told "Sorry there is nothing we can do." I called Spectrum Communications and had basically the same service installed the next day costing me $115 per month. I waited a week to make sure everything was going to be ok and have had no problems so I called today to have service canceled. I still don't understand how they can double my bill without some sort of warning first.
Reviewed July 4, 2017
I'm currently in a 30 day trial period with Frontier for an ISP, TV and phone bundle! On Friday, July 7th, 2017 I will terminate my service with Frontier because they're inept, not truthful and basically promise the sky and not produce anything. Their sales dept is a huge joke and their field technicians are totally inept. Stay away from these people for your own good. I will NEVER do business with this company ever again. I'm thrilled to know what I know about Frontier within their 30 day trial period. It wouldn't surprise me if they were bought out by a reputable competitor like Comcast/Xfinity the company I'm switching to. I predict Frontier will fold and very soon too.
Reviewed July 3, 2017
I have been a Verizon customer over +10 years before Frontier take over. Service automatically switched which was fine. Bill kept getting higher & higher, paid my bill, they cashed it but for some reason they didn't apply it to my bill. Said they never received it. Printed off my bank statement, sent it to them "Oh, ok we'll take care of that right away." A month later still not fixed. So I cancelled my service and now being hit with an early termination fee??? WTH never signed a contract with them, but they said if we verbally agreed to have their service that constitutes an agreement. Now they say I owe $600+, well good luck with that. I'll pay my last remaining regular bill and that's it... What a sorry company...
Reviewed July 3, 2017
Frontier is just horrible. You are lucky if you can watch a video above 300 pixels. In the winter, it doesn't work for weeks. All the snow clogs up the dish. In my tiny town of 250 people, Frontier is the only company you can choose from. Many times when anyone calls them, there's nobody on the other end. Many people have problems with Frontier in the south. I think it's worse in the north because like I said earlier, all the snow clogs up the dish, and I can barely get it out. It's not like I can switch to something better. It's the only company available in my entire county.
Reviewed July 2, 2017
Verizon sold my local long distance to Frontier in 2016. Around Jan. 2017, I noticed that I had been billed for an Interlata and Intralata carrier change, although I had never ordered any changes (for over 15 years). [I had Primus Communications as my interlata and intralata carrier since 2002, Verizon had always maintained this until Frontier took over.] After that, I noticed I could no longer make any more long distance calls or local toll calls using Primus, it said that "I need a long distance access code."
Since January 2017 I have been calling Frontier to ask why my long distance PIC code has never been restored since January. Each time, I am told that the PIC code 0555 was indeed restored, per the frontier supervisor who maintains everything has been done correctly on their end to restore my service. No service as of July 2017. Each time I ask for Technical Repair service to come out, they tell me that, "You have no long distance service, and the 0555 PIC code was never restored at all" and that I need to talk to customer service. The same story repeats when I call customer service stating that I still have no long distance service restored and that I requested 0555 PIC, they claim that all is working fine, and then I am transferred back to Technical Support.
The two departments NEVER stay on the line at one time to hear that each side is contradicting the other with opposing info. It is very frustrating and I will do everything to cancel my service with Frontier, which is the WORST company ever!!! I will never recommend anyone to go with their service, it is beyond being bad. They are LIARS!
Reviewed July 2, 2017
These folks are the worst of the worst. It seems most of the folks failed working at the postal service so they got referred to Frontier as a last resort. Seriously - I would pay more than my current 28% in federal taxes (and yes - I actually pay payroll taxes from working) happily vs. having to use this monopoly where I live. I am so angry with Verizon for selling FIOS to this bozo company (I apologize to Bozo and any other clowns). I'm going to package both my wireless and home TV with AT&T (through DirecTV) next week if possible. I would rather meet interesting people at the DMV waiting to get a new license than call and talk with these people.
My issues started when a Standard Def box just slowly stopped working. Then I came to see on my bill I was paying for all HD boxes so I requested an HD to replace the SD box. Frontier sent me THREE SD vs. one HD box. I had to go through the 1.5 hour startup process to learn the box was SD vs. HD. So another few days and another new box (HD) so another 1.5 hours. The picture on the new box started freezing and not working correctly. After a month I called them back and this time they had to send a technician. So he shows up three days earlier than the appointment in a non-Frontier van. It took me a while to really trust the guy but after a couple of hours he did a bunch of different things and as a last resort replaced the box I wanted replaced. Guess what - it worked! Wow - that is great.
A few weeks later I went to use my media room but the box was not getting a single. I call my friends at Frontier - they can get a signal to the box (since my contractor buddy arriving early did such as a great job.) The real benefit now is the phone technician disabled one of my two other functioning TVs so now I'm down to one. I was told they would arrive on July 2nd but now it's the 3rd when I called back.) I'm less than confident anyone from Frontier will arrive because they just don't give a rip. So tomorrow I'm headed to the AT&T store to start a transition I really don't want but can't stand another call to Frontier. I'm done. The sad part is I'm stuck with the Frontier monopoly for high speed. Will see how that goes. I'm the last one in my neighborhood to shift off Frontier.
Reviewed July 2, 2017
Dated, old business practices, bait/switch customer service - That has been my experience with Frontier lately! I was a happy Verizon customer for years; then my account was switched to Frontier (not my choice). From early on there was issues with internet connections, buzzing sounds on the phone line. I was on the phone with their lame tech support, for days on end. Not only they didn't fix my problem, I winded up fixing it on my own; so much for your pro tech skills! Their service agents, the first ones you get when you first call, are always nice and helpful, but they'll make promises that upper management will ignore.
"Upper management" lacks the ability to communicate with people on a people level. They talk down to you and say things like "oh, we're so sorry that you feel that way!" No one like to hear that! AND I don't need your phoney pity, I just need you to be truthful and stop jerking me around with you circular logic!! And get your sticky fingers out of my pocket book!! What's with charging me late fees when you weren't supposed to charge me but refund me the difference that you owe me!
Don't tell me that your "system" does not allow you to remove the late fees. If your system puts in the fees, it can as well remove them; all it takes is YOUR input, for it to do so. Stop making up stupid excuses why you work the way you do. As consumers, we're not interested in hearing words like "unfortunately". We have choices and don't have to submit to your inflexibility. There are other companies out there that treat people better than you. Work on your clients retention skills!!!
Reviewed July 1, 2017
My TV, internet, and cable does not work since Tuesday. Called Frontier about the issues. Rep set up a ticket for someone to come out Thursday from 8 am to 12 pm. I called frontier Wednesday to confirm time. They advise someone was not coming come out until July 3rd. I was told my appointment was set for that date. I advise I was told Thursday. I was very upset.
I went to frontier Facebook and wrote about the issue. Someone from frontier Facebook replied. The issue was then escalated to an account manager from frontier, who advise when manpower is available. My definition of an escalation is to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Their definition of escalation is when we have the manpower. Every time you call to speak with a supervisor, “I would have to call you back” or wait for at least 20 to 45 minutes extra to get help. Everyone in the company has a different excuses to provide about manpower is very behind. No one in that company is on one cord.
Reviewed June 30, 2017
I had signed up for phone and WiFi service and the WiFi was compromised, while the phone service was cut twice. There was a crank call before and then I was laughed at by an operator. They said I had to wait 48 hours for service personnel. I was not delinquent with payment. My bank was charged twice for 140.90, then told they would refund half the charge. Instead they billed me another 99.61 and left a credit of 41.92 on account with no service, after telling me I was born 10 years prior to my actual birthday date. They are not rascals, they are thieves. They have stolen from God and Hell is their destiny.
Reviewed June 30, 2017
When looking for a Internet service I talked with several companies. Frontier guaranteed me it was 19.99 a month for Internet no other charges. When I receive my bill I had extra charges for equipment they claim they mailed to me. They told me they would write it off. The next bill came doubled. I cancel the services and still receiving bills when I don't have any service. I spoke with other people who had Frontier. There has always been a billing problem and a communication problem and their service was terrible.
Reviewed June 30, 2017
6/23/17 - Contacted Frontier to see if their gateways were replaceable by anything off the shelf as ours is 10+ years old and power cycles itself randomly. They said, "Yes any cable modem will do, by the way we can upgrade your internet service to double the speed for about 50$ less per month." I thought, great let's do that. So I opted into it. The person on the other end of the phone said "everything will be activated on 6/27/17.” I said great, thank you.
6/27/17 - I am at work. A technician starts pounding on the door and wakes my wife and baby... tech leaves a note that they were here to install new stuff (I didn't order any new hardware). 6/28/17 - Tech comes again and again startles my wife and baby. This time he began work and ultimately left our home without service. I contacted Frontier in regards to these items and scheduled a tech for 7/8/17 to install upgraded stuff for the new internet access. After dealing with Frontier tech support who was quite helpful. It was determined that they didn't know what was going on.
6/29/17 - I contacted Frontier to get some answers to pressing questions... Is it common practice to come onto someone else's property without permission or letting them know... effectively trespassing? Is it standard practice for your field technicians to leave someone without service and just leave? I gave Frontier an ultimatum, either you get me cable and internet service back or you "send me a self addressed and prepaid shipping box so I can ship you all your garbage equipment back and go get Cox Communications back in my house." They replied with their generic "ohh we're so sorry spiel". I got tech support to create a repair ticket and send a tech next day.
6/30/17 - It was found by the tech, who again showed up and did work unannounced that the issue was fixed. I asked what the problem was and he chuckled and said it's fixed. I said again more firmly what was the problem, was a wire disconnected, he chuckled again and said yeah. So now I'm furious that their sub-par "technicians" would leave a job site in that way. I manage a group of field service techs for a plastics equipment company and if I let my techs do that both me and my techs would be out of a job.
Reviewed June 29, 2017
I have been a customer with Verizon Fios since they came into my area in California. I was a happy customer and never had any problems. Then Frontier stepped in. Several billing issues and service issues occurred. Then in November of 2016 someone entered a "cancel tv service" order on my account. I continued to watch TV until May of 2017 when one day, I just lost all programming. I called Frontier and explained that my tv was just fine the previous night and now it wasn't working. They proceeded to tell me that I haven't had any service with them since November (even though I repeatedly told them I have been watching tv and paying my bill every month). They got me back up and running. Then I got my bill. It was prorated for the past month and the following month. It also had new activation fees attached and they were treating me like a new account!
After hours on the phone explaining I was not a new customer, I got fed up and wanted to cancel my service and leave. They told me was in a new contract which started in May and I would have to pay the early termination fee of $219! This is nothing but a big theft of my money! I never entered into a new contract, I never left the old contract. Of course my internet and phone bundle are still in place and have been for years. When questioned about the cancellation order, Frontier told me they don't know who authorized it, nor were there any notes from the employee. They couldn't even tell who actually entered the order and they refused to cancel any of my fees.
I am leaving Frontier! I will never ever say anything decent about Frontier. I filed a complaint with the FCC and I hope someday that somebody takes this company to task with the full force of the law. They are unethical in their practices and certainly don't care about their customers! Run away, do not subscribe to Frontier! Use RabbitEars first if you need tv that bad.
Reviewed June 29, 2017
My account was cancelled, per my request, on May 26th. The request to cancel my account was submitted several weeks prior, and prior to my next billing date. On the next billing date, however, I was charged for an entire month's services, despite owing only for a partial month. I contacted customer service the day the full month's bill was withdrawn from my account, and after speaking to customer service, was told that they would reverse the charge to my account. This was on June 13th.
On June 24th, I had still not received my credit to my account, and I again contacted customer service. The representative said she would reach out to the original rep and get back to me on June 26th. Today is June 29th and I still do not have my credit, nor do I even have a response from the second rep I spoke with. This company fraudulently charged my account for a month they knew I would not be using, and now are refusing to refund my money, per the agreement of the rep I spoke with. I have transcripts of the online chat conversations with the representatives.
Reviewed June 29, 2017
Since Frontier took over Verizon, I have had nothing but trouble with my internet service. I have had the techs out here, and they don't even seem to know what they're doing. I have to reboot my phone and internet 10 times a day. And I'm sick of it, I would never ever recommend Frontier to anyone!
Reviewed June 28, 2017
I called about a deal they had and paid for the service. It wasn't until I called and complained about the sorry service I was getting that I was told that I could not get the internet speed that the deal offered in my area. So this being a week later I cancelled the service and was told that my deposit would be refunded. I called about my refund several times until a month later when I was told that I had to wait three months and the bill will drop to zero and I'd get my refund back. Well today I get a letter saying my bill was sent to collections and I'm not getting a refund. Guess I'll let my lawyer talk to them from now on.
Reviewed June 28, 2017
When I first called to set up my home service I was very direct that 90% of what I do is watch Netflix or WWE network on tv. So she hooked me up with the unlimited plan, then set up my installation date (so they knew my address). That date rolls around, I took a day off work to be here. Waited all day cause they can't narrow a time down beyond noon to 5pm. Well 445pm shows up and still no one has come or called. So call number two. "Oh let me check. He should be almost there..." Ok. 510pm callback... Different person. "You're not set up for a tech install. Your router should arrive in the mail in a day or two." OK so I am being charged already. Was told I would get a credit cause of the first customer service lady's screw up and now service was turned on to the house but unusable due to no router.
So router comes. Two days later. I hook it up, do it all correct. Try to stream something. No go, show is constantly stopping to buffer. To the point it took 2.5 hours to watch a 42min show. Called a few days later. Got told "Restart your router." OK I do that. Nothing changes. Call again about a week later. They check the settings and make some changes. Ok, wait and see and nope zero change. Waited a put up with it for about a month. Still paying the bill and mind you I still have yet to revive the credit for all the cap before it was even hooked up. Call again. They spend 45 min on phone hooking up to my router wirelessly. And change this and that and restart it two different times. Once again NOTHING CHANGED!!
I call back again. And get told "You don't have enough service mbps for streaming. And we don't offer anything higher in your area." I have only 1 mbps coming into my house and you need at least 2 for streaming. So now after calling for 3 plus months getting 15 plus agents. Still haven't revived any credit. I am locked into a contract that is totally worthless to me. And they just say we are working on it. Come to find out they have been working on it for two plus years. I completely hate Frontier and their customer service is the worst I have ever come into contact with. Their service is awful and prices are too high for what you get or what you actually don't get.
Reviewed June 28, 2017
I ordered the basic $19.99 a month internet because I knew we didn't get good speeds in my area. I told the customer service rep I didn't want anything extra several times even when she tried to push more on me. I got my bill and it was almost $70. When I called they refused to fix it and said I would have to pay the balance before they can change anything on my service. Also tried to tell me that deal wasn't available in my area. Although their service online offers it for my zip code. They say you can have so many devices on it at one time and that is false. This is the worst company I have ever dealt with. They're crooks. I do not have their service now and they are still billing me. They also offer you a free gift card if you do a 2 year contract but never send the gift card.
Reviewed June 27, 2017
Run Forrest RUN! Pathetic and pitiful and the list goes on! Had issue with billing since April 2017 and still as of today 6/27 the right hand has NO CLUE what the left is doing! I have novels of papers and notes and chats and phone calls. Every time you get someone they give different answer and you can never get the last person you spoke to. I have left voice surveys and got one call and then I WAS CALLING THEM!
I would not refer a dead dog (sorry I am animal lover) ok dead FLEA to them... It's the worst and they DO NOT CARE PERIOD! Too many hands in the fire. You believe them and then NOT FIXED and it goes on and on the merry-go-round! I am changing companies and if it is not good service I'll just get antenna and FORGET ABOUT IT!! They should be ashamed how they treat people! I will share my story to anyone and EVERYONE. BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE! To top it off I am a senior citizen and it's not so easy to understand all the mumbo jumbo these days... But this old lady ain't STUPID! Outta there and never to return!
Reviewed June 27, 2017
Possibly the worst internet provider to ever exist on this earth. The stuff they get away with is absolutely unbelievable. The internet speed and reliability is total garbage. It's so slow to the point where it is unusable and just so frustrating. At least once a week the internet here at home crashes for hours on end. They also charge us like we get speeds of over 50 mbps when in reality it is less than 1. Save your money and time. Frontier is absolutely awful. NOT impressed...
Reviewed June 26, 2017
I became a Frontier customer 7 months ago because I moved. From the day I received my first bill I've had nothing but trouble. Each month I am over-charged and have to call in for credits. Each time I call, I'm informed the issue has been resolved. I finally reached a supervisor (Penny), that gave me 6 months of HBO for free due to all the trouble, and of COURSE I'm being billed for that too! I have her direct number and still have to call each month for resolution. Last month, the company double billed the HBO because it was credited back! Turns out most of the time I'm speaking to someone in a 3rd party call center.
Last month Penny was unavailable and I ended up with another supervisor. Kimberly swore she was a frontier employee and that's where her paycheck comes from. Kimberly informs me she can see what Penny tried to do, however I keep getting billed because she "wasn't allowed to do that" and she was canceling my HBO promotion or I would have to pay for it!! Talk about poor customer service. I should haven't have to call in to have my bill fixed every single month for the past 7 months! Sometimes I have to make multiple calls and I'm on the phone for hours! I want out of my contract so I can switch to a company that knows what they are doing, but they want $400 for me to cancel! Thinking about calling the local news here to see what can be done about all this.
Reviewed June 26, 2017
FRONTIER IS HORRIBLE... Charging PEOPLE FOR SERVICES AND SPEED NOT RECEIVED. For over 20 years I have used Frontier as this is the only service for the rural area of WVA. I have complained many many times... The techs say that Frontier has no interest in investing into the state and is just collecting cash from the customers. They are frustrated with the company as much as the customers are. To say that Frontier is an honorable company is not a true statement. I have paid for over 10 years at 50.00 a month for "high-speed DSL" until I was advised that I WAS BEING LIED TO. So-called Frontier.
Sure enough an honest rep said I had never received the 20 Mbps, lowered my bill to lowest point of 6 Mbps. Well actually I only get less than 1 Mbps. called Frontier and was told: "Actually you are receiving 3 Mbps dear..." Liars!!!! Stay away from Frontier Services... They do NOT have the interest of the customer at the center of their business. Ripoff company.
Reviewed June 25, 2017
Called Frontier about no TV and internet service two days ago. Was told that there was an outage in the area. Called several times thereafter and received same response. Finally I called and asked when the service will be restored. The answer was shortly. I asked them to define shortly and I said that there has been no service for two days. Then I asked for the supervisor. Lo and behold the supervisor discovered there was no problem and said that they can fix it from their end, if not they will have a technician come over. Obviously it didn't work but they promised to send a technician 4 days later. So I told them they pulled a classic job on me, wasted an hour with and knew full well that they were fabricating a story. Unbelievable???
Reviewed June 24, 2017
I had 2 accounts with Frontier - both with POTS and DSL. Reliability was not what I call of the highest caliber. We had an outage about once every other month and it took them 3-4 days to repair. Sometimes the problem was local and sometimes regional. They could not provide a speed higher than 3 up and 1.5 down. It was not painfully slow, but too slow for my business. As our POS and credit card transactions grew, speed and reliability became a bigger issue. Hard to accept credit card transactions when you have no internet. I called numerous times seeking higher speeds, but to no avail. Of course, when I moved over to a new provider I got whacked with early termination fees of $914 and $680 respectively.
They do not care how long you have been a customer (10 years) and do not care they had gotten paid every month on time (autopay). They do not care about investing in better technology to provide better service. What you see is what you get when you sign up, so don't expect a higher speed later. AT&T is troublesome at times, but at least they listen to you and they do try to look for solutions. Frontier cares less about their customers and they are proud of it. Look for alternatives before you sign up with this outfit. It is the last place on earth I will ever do with business with again.
Reviewed June 23, 2017
I would like to warn anyone to never sign up for Frontier cable, internet and wifi. Their product as well as customer service is absolutely disastrous. I got signed up to Frontier by the landlord of the house I am renting and it has been a nightmare since. The service was terrible, their reaction time to fix it very long and customer service on the phone unresponsive and unhelpful. It then took me hours on the phone with them to get my service cancelled. After which they continued to charge me through auto payment. Once I realized I have spend more than 7 hours on the phone with them to get reimbursed, which they finally agreed to. To then only reimburse for half what was agreed.
After more time on the phone with clueless customer service people and way too much time on hold the explanation was that the decision and amount to reimbursed was denied by the accounting department, who you can't speak to but you can fax (it is 2017!!!) a complaint to. This is not worth my time or aggravation but their whole customer service system is set up to discourage you to get any service in the first place. Worst I have ever dealt with for a product/service that never worked right in the first place.
Reviewed June 23, 2017
Frontier Communications does not have any tier 3 support people in the local areas including Connecticut. They purchased the regional area from ATT who has local support people available to help the technicians both in the field and in the central offices. Having a "support" group only available on the phone for the techs is useless. The person in Texas cannot possibly see the issues and in most cases is just trying to get them off the phone quick. Frontier needs to hire a few of the ATT local people who can work to improve the level of service or they will continue to go downhill.
The real cost of business is doing things that keep customers not lose them. Adding a few people will help. When I have internet issues in my business ATT sent a Tier 3 person with the technician and the issue was resolved in 2 hours. This saved me a lot of potential lost business from customers not being able to get to my servers. I can imagine the frustration customers have by not being able to use their home internet to get to business like mine. Wake up Frontier!!! Get a local tier 3 support group.
Reviewed June 23, 2017
Have called every month for the last 5 months. My bill increases every month when they quote me a price that is about 75.00 lower than the bill. No one seems to able to do the same price cuts. Just don't even know why they give me a confirmation number and no one know how I got the quote or who I talked to. Last time they gave me the quote and told me it would be lower and had to call back because they took off my caller id and call waiting and the customer service rep said had no idea who gave me that quote and my bill is back up the 75.00. Guess they don't want me to be a customer anymore.
Reviewed June 22, 2017
5 months ago I switched my internet service and home phone from Charter Spectrum to Frontier Communications. Rates quoted before taxes sounded like my monthly bill would be cheaper than Charter so I signed up for a 2 year contract. What Frontier Communications customer service failed to disclose was that Frontier is a regulated company and subject to more Federal Taxes than Charter. I soon realized that the Federal Taxes added over $14 per month to my bill. I'm now stuck in a 2 year contract with Frontier paying more than I was paying Charter for what amounts to slower internet service, (6.9 mbps vs 60 mbps). I feel Frontier customer service should disclose the fact that you will be paying more per month in Federal Taxes than a cable company because the common consumer wouldn't know that.
Reviewed June 21, 2017
I was being Verizon customer over +10 years before Frontier take over then got very bad service from Frontier communication. Frontier communication it is the very horrible company always want to ripping people off. I never have the DSL router or getting one from Verizon which I getting credit back from Verizon every month. But after Frontier communication take over it is still charge me every month for something that I don't have. Finally without any notice from Frontier communication about my contract and start charge me 2x the normal bill.
I remove the service and call in Frontier communication to get the total amount and send in the right amount, and after my account being close 3 months later and send me another bill showing I still need to pay .52 cents for my final bill. What is the total amount mean from the Frontier communication? What wrong with Frontier Communication customer service? Did they ready not able to get customer service are educate enough to understand meaning of the final bill? I will never sign up for any type of Frontier Communication again. This company don't have the reputation of being good company and hire a lots of con artist to be in charge of this company.
Reviewed June 21, 2017
I have had Frontier for just under a year. It is currently the only wireless internet provider in my area. If you are thinking about purchasing their services, DO NOT DO IT. From DAY ONE whenever I have had to call their customer service line, or use their live online chat option with a customer service representative I have had nothing but problems. I have been told misinformation or outright lied to. I started keeping a log and copying conversations. I AM SURPRISED THIS COMPANY IS STILL ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THIS DAY AND AGE OF QUALITY TECH SERVICES. I wish I had alternatives in my area because I would switch in a heartbeat.
Updated review: July 22, 2017
So...about two weeks after I posted about our ongoing Frontier billing issues I got an email from a Frontier social media customer service rep offering to help. Surprised and suspicious, but optimistic, I emailed our account number to Lianne. She quickly responded that she had found and fixed the problem, issued credits to lower our account balance and made the bill all good. It was all true. Bill looks good. Adjustments made. Credits issued. All good. But the real test my friends will be NEXT month. Are the changes a one time bandaid like before, or actual ongoing account fixes? Time will tell. In the meantime I am cautiously optimistic. Frontier certainly SEEMS to be working to improve. A good thing for them and for us. I am upgrading my rating to four stars pending next month's bill. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Original Review: June 21, 2017
Ours was among the many Southern California Verizon Fios accounts sold to Frontier in 2015. In late 2016, we received in the mail a Frontier ad for new customers to pay $60/mo. for the same phone/internet/TV bundle that was costing me $210/mo. for phone / 50/50 internet / Ultimate HD TV w/ NO HBO and one DVR.
I called Frontier March/2017 and they offered to reduce my monthly service fee to $138.99 if I added HBO (!) and kept other service the same. HBO started. I liked it. Next bill came, still $210/mo. I have had to call every month starting in March 2017 (April, May June) to get my bill adjusted. Just today I talked to, supposedly, a supervisor who acknowledged the lower rate we were supposed to be paying, acknowledged the billing error, again, and promised to fix it and to call me personally if it did not get fixed. I am an optimist. I'm sure NOW the billing problems w/ Frontier are over. This reeks of dishonest business practice. As soon as there is a viable alternative I am leaving Frontier. I suggest you do not enter into a service agreement with Frontier if you have a choice. Good luck. You have been warned.
Reviewed June 21, 2017
We live in the country and they are our only option for internet (DSL) service. They are horrible. The service goes down constantly and when you call tech support they can never give you a straight answer. If you have the option between Frontier and another provider I highly recommend you take the alternative.
Reviewed June 21, 2017
When first call to get service, the sale representative said that for the internet speed 150 Mbps upload and download that I wanted would only cost me monthly approximately around $90 with and free router. Then I have two tech show up different day to install service which was done 2 day before. Service call to the house that I didn't call in for and that technician told me that I was get a great deal for the service speed and he advise me to call in to check the price cause he never heard of it. Come to find out they mix up my last name and open up 2 account under my SSN with two different last name. Call them numerous time to have it fix and to ask for how much is my monthly. No one can tell one. Then they threatened to cancel my account because they couldn't verify my credit due to their mix up. I got tire of going back and forth trying to fix my main issue and find out what is my total cost for month I cancel them.
A few weeks later after I cancel my account I get a bill for $178.04 for roughly 10 day of internet usage which is double what I was told around $90. At first they try to make me pay for the full amount. So I keep try calling numerous time to get this fix. Got them to give me a credit to cut it in half then call in trying to pay over the phone and one of the representative give me an addition $40 credit. So I pay what was owe left over the phone. Come to find out month later they send another bill for $40 still owe. Call them, talk one rep. She told me that she can see the note for $40 credit but said it was denied. Ask to talks to supervisors or manager. She told me they in the meeting and refuse to transfer.
Ask then to speak to someone else and she then transfer back out prompt menu. Got someone else. Have her look at my account and said they don't see any note regarding credit of $40 but 10 min earlier talk to a different person and she said there was. So I ask to talk to supervisors manager. She said wait and hang me up. I have no words that can describe the level of service with Frontier. Every time talking to someone either get the runaround or lie to and no one can tell you the truth. I'm pretty sure this is a scam that sale rep from Frontier to get people sign up. I bet it not only me but to other so if anyone get scam please speak up.
Reviewed June 20, 2017
I thought that Verizon was bad, but Frontier is the worst. :( I lose Internet constantly. I teach online, and so I end up having to tether my smart phone to my laptop. Last month I paid $60 in phone data overage fees because I couldn't get my home Frontier Internet to work. I've chatted with Frontier four times in the last month and the issue is never resolved.
On June 17th I was told that a technician would come to my home today (June 20th) between 10 and 5. I asked if I needed to be here and was told that I did. I was told that the tech would call my cell phone when she or he arrived. I took a day off to stay home and wait. Of course no one showed. I chatted again with Frontier and was told that the tech had fixed the problem. I said that the Internet is still going off and on. I was told that that's the only information available.
I am so so so angry. Angry at having to use (and pay for!) my phone data in order to access the Internet. Angry because the best (!) Frontier can do to compensate is to give me six dollars (!) off of my bill. Angry because I sat here all day waiting for an apparently invisible tech. Angry because this has been going on for YEARS! Frontier is the only provider available in my dumb town--otherwise there is NO WAY that I would be a Frontier customer.
Reviewed June 20, 2017
Worst experience ever!!! When my husband and I went to Frontier local service stop to create an account, the agent told us they do have a promotion on only internet plan which is $55 inclusive per month and we chose the promotion plan that he suggested us. After over a month we received a bill which is over $200 and by the time we received the bill the time has already passed the due day. I thought the reason of the higher bill must be because of the installation fee so I didn't contact them to figure that out but then the second bill that I got was $116 inclusive which is still $50 difference than we had quoted. I called them to see if there is any mistake that they might make, the REP told me that by the time I joined this plan the promotion had already been expired!! So if the promotion didn't exist anymore by the time I created an account why did that agent recommend this promotion plan to us???
And after over an hour negotiation I ended up with the plan $70 plus tax per month only for internet and not the high speed one!! I was actually very upset of what happened to my bill but every time when I thought I still have $500 value Amazon gift card is coming soon I feel better. But the Amazon gift card offered in the same promotion will also not be coming to me as promised. The customer service agent yesterday said that because I didn't pay my first bill on time. I didn't even receive the bill letter on time and it was overcharged and they will not send it. The fine print says you have to pay the first 30 days bill in full (that means even if it is over $100 more than what you signed up for). Please investigate this fraudulent company. If anyone is interested in filing a joint lawsuit, I am in.
Reviewed June 19, 2017
I ordered internet service only from this company. They scheduled an install. After I waited all day I called at least 5 times, and guess what I got 5 different answers why the technician hadn't showed up. After all of that I had to wait 2 days. That was Saturday. They said my install was Monday. I waited. The tech didn't show up I called once again. The rep said the order was on hold and there was no date set. Once again I had to reschedule for the next day. My problem with this company is they have so many bad reviews and they aren't even trying to correct the problem. The reps are totally clueless and they all have a different answer. I had Verizon and never had this problem. This company took over and created so many problems. Their customer service is horrible. They all need training on the same procedures of the company. In the end I had to wait 4 days. I had no choice.
Reviewed June 19, 2017
I loved Verizon, but Frontier is a whole different story as follows: I am at my wit's end, and I have NO idea where to turn. I am so fed up with Frontier Communications that I am losing my temper and so extremely irate at a situation that I did everything any "consumer" could do but am totally getting taken advantage of, a victim of someone else's negligence! I pray that perhaps someone might be able to help, guide me to the right people to help me get a resolution to this situation, as follows...
On March 21, 2017, I contacted Spectrum Cable to install their cable services in my home set on Monday, March 27th. That very same day, Spectrum attempted to get my phone number to transport over when they came in that Monday. Their confirmation #: **. Once Spectrum completed my cable service installation, I immediately took my Frontier cable equipment back to their local store at: 6102 14th Street West, Bradenton, FL 34207 (Bayshore Gardens). Ph: (941) 727-4948, upon where I told the sales rep, **, I wanted my account closed! He had taken in my equipment and issued me an Equipment Return Receipt and proceeded to inform me that this receipt would indeed confirm the cancellation of my services with them, and immediately cancelled my service since turning in my equipment.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to me, 3 wks later after I moved on April 15th, I was informed by my former landlord that his stepdaughter (Nichole **) could not hook up her Frontier phone service as mine was still connected, upon my shock! For which I did immediately by going to the local office at Bayshore Gardens. The Frontier service person with whom Nichole spoke with told her to tell me I NEEDED to call Frontier and tell them to release my phone, which I told them when I went in to speak with them. They in turn however, tried to blame Spectrum so I spoke with them, and I was informed that it would take 7 - 10 days to get the number transported after Frontier released my phone number. I informed them I had spoken to Frontier who claimed they were taking care of it.
Also I had already received a Frontier bill, which the Frontier rep also told me not to worry, the equipment return receipt was enough to prove my termination of services with them, and even told me I might even get one more bill, to just ignore it! So after the first period of still not having my phone service released by Frontier, confirmed by Spectrum, I had to go them two more times asking them to release my phone number. Both times documented by Spectrum with the following confirmation #'s: April 21st: **, then again on April 26th: **. Frontier claims they only received the notice on April 26th, when as noted above, Spectrum already tried getting my number from them on March 21st! After I finally got my number released to get connected by Spectrum on May 1st, and thought everything was cleared up once again, I had yet received another bill, which I ignored per the Frontier service person.
Then I received on June 6th that if I did not pay my bill, they were turning it over to collections. I immediately went to the Bayshore office Tuesday, June 13th to get this cleared up, but was informed the manager, **, who was at the Sarasota office, he wouldn't be at the Bayshore location until Friday and he was the only person to approve any credit adjustments. It was still before noon so I drove down to talk with him. He called me back Wed, June 14th mid-morning, telling me he could not give me any credit adjustment.
When I returned home I called the Frontier 800# and that individual tried to tell me that there was no freeze order (when in fact it was a Frontier rep who told Nichole I had to call them to get my phone number released!), they never received an order (good Lord I terminated my service order with them and was told that my proof for my service cancellation was the equipment return receipt), and they never received the order until the April 26th date. Is that not deception or what?
I then re-called Spectrum back and spoke to a manager, ** who gave me all three confirmation numbers of them trying to obtain my phone number from Frontier. Upon searching into my account for a while, she informed me that the port had issues, but wasn't sure of the details. She has put in a uniform ticket to try to figure out why? And gave me all three confirmation numbers discussed above. As I was reading off to her the charges Frontier was trying to stick to me for $267.48. She replied to me how that was an awful HIGH amount to charge for just phone service, explaining to me that the bill should not even be that high when I didn't even have the equipment to use the cable/internet service none-the-less, and tells me that they are possibly lying to me! Plus the fact she finds it even more fishy that it has taken way over a month (charged for TWO months phone service I did not have), so long to get a number transported! Why is that?
After a confrontation with the Frontier crew at Bayshore, telling me I had to wait to speak with the manager, being totally unhelpful, I returned home and tried calling the Frontier 800# listed on my June 6th notice. I had spoken to a service rep Lisa, who initially also told me pretty much the same thing as what ** told me and was not going to issue any credit for anything! Then after informing her how it was a really high amount to charge for just phone service since I had turned my equipment in and terminated my service, did she then tell me she could credit me for the cable and internet, but not the phone. I proceeded to talk yet to another manager, who still refused to acknowledge that I was able to prove Spectrum did try to obtain my phone number three times, yet they had been holding it up not allowing Spectrum to port it over. She also refused to note the confirmation numbers I was given by Spectrum.
They were only allotting me a credit of $159.98, thus still charging me something around $107.50 + taxes, which means (since my service with Frontier, initially with Verizon), I was being charged for TWO months of phone service that I NEVER had since I turned in my equipment and their NEGLIGENCE in making sure they released my phone when Spectrum initially tried to get it from the initial date on March 21st! None of which is my fault. I had done everything a consumer could do on my behalf to get this to happen smoothly and trying to fix the issues as they came up with nothing getting resolved!
I should NOT have to pay for their negligence, and I need your help to correct this error that is of no fault of mine! And report Frontier for what I feel is purposeful, deceitful business practices! I REALLY need help! Attachments are included for proof of what I'm claiming above, though maybe you won't want that part. If anyone is able to help me in any way, please, please email me at: **. I will release phone number when needed. Otherwise, please pray for direction and the Lord's justice in this matter.
Reviewed June 19, 2017
I called Frontier at the number listed on their website, **. I talked to Nicole. We selected the best plan for me, gave me an order number and set the date for the technician to come to my home on Friday, June 23, between 1 and 5. I also requested to keep my old phone number. She put me on a "brief hold" on 25 minutes to connect me with the person that would get that completed. Raphael had a beautiful Spanish accent; however, we had problems understanding each other. He tried to transfer me to someone that could help but he transferred me to an automated line used to pay bills. I was disconnected from the call when I could not give her my account number. I had been on the phone for 1 hour, 16 minutes with this call; most of it was being placed on extended hold.
I called back and this call lasted 56 minutes and nothing was accomplished. I talked to Brian and explained what happened during the first call. He was very nice, very apologetic, Brian found my order number and realized I wanted to keep my old phone number and placed me on a 22-minute hold to get me to Maria. Maria could not understand English at all. After having problems with my birthday and social security number, she transferred me to Kari. This was just a 15-minute hold. Kari was very apologetic and outraged that all this has happened to me. She gave me a new order number but could not do anything until Maria closed down my file in her computer.
I could call back on Saturday and get this done but she would call me on Monday to see what happened and she what she could help with. I didn't have time to call Frontier on Saturday and I have not heard from Kari. Two hours and 15 minutes, 62 minutes of this time being on brief hold. Over an hour on hold and nothing accomplished. I'm going to be surprised if Frontier survives their customer service.
Reviewed June 19, 2017
I was Verizon's customer before I got switched to Frontier. They increased my rates without even notifying me and also the services got worse. First point I would like to address is that I never received any letter in mail or anything that what my bill is going to be. After calling Verizon and asking them that why I am not receiving any bill in the mail and they notified me that they sold some part of the services to Frontier.
I was getting overcharged on my bill. Usually my monthly bill was $34.99 every month. After calling Frontier they told me that I will be paying the same amount which I thought is fine. Then in my monthly bill I was getting charged 89.99 which is three times than what I pay. I called their customer service and they told me that I can set as a new customer and I could get that rate. So I did that without any choice and then I received my bill in the mail where they charged $80 for new user. ALSO they never activated the account and they canceled my old number which was a huge problem for me. I have never experienced this bad of service from any company in my life. If I could give them negative stars I will. The customer service is the worse. They are so rude to their customer when you have questions about account. I have recorded the calls and I am planning on taking a legal action against them.
Reviewed June 13, 2017
Run as fast as you can! Once I reached the 9 hour mark in one month being on the phone with them, I gave up!!! Won't connect me because past tenant had unpaid bill. They wouldn't tell me how much it was (confidential) but asked for MY CC # , only THEN would they connect me!!! OMG... I am amazed this company is still in business! From what I've read and researched, they may not be for long. I could bore you with all the details but I know your time is more valuable than Frontier will EVER believe it is. There are other options... Explore them!!!
Reviewed June 13, 2017
I was a (somewhat) happy Verizon FIOS customer until Frontier took over the account in April 2016. Every. Single. Month. I had to call in to have them credit my account with the credits that were due under my contract with Verizon. In January 2017, I was making my monthly 30 minute call to have the credit added to my account when the customer service rep told me he could permanently 'fix' the problem so I wouldn't have to call in every month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd heard that one repeatedly for 8 months! "No," he insisted, "leave it with me."
January 29th we woke up to no Frontier services at all, no internet, phone or TV. I called in and they told me our service had been discontinued. No further explanation was available. I guess the Rep was true to his word - he DID permanently fix the problem. We had to enter into a new, more expensive contract before service could be resumed and were without any Frontier services for 9 days while they tried to expedite 'installation' - everything was already there in our house - all they had to do was switch it on. 9 days. Idiots.
Today, June 13th, I noticed that the landline was not working so called in. Our service had been removed on May 25th (we don't really use the landline - it's only there to bring down the bundle price - so hadn't noticed) and as a result, we no longer had the qualifying bundle and our service was now $70 more expensive! They told me that I had not responded to their letters regarding 911 service so the phone service had been discontinued. I am absolutely certain that I did not receive any such letter and if it was so important why was there no notice on my bill? You know... the bill that I ALWAYS pay early?
You know by now what the resolution was.... yep, enter into a new, and more expensive, 2 year contract costing $27 a month more. Nope, no way, not happening. Eventually, by downgrading our internet speed from 100mbps to 75mbps (makes no practical difference to me) and them 'helping us out' with a one year $50 a month account credit, we got back to more or less what our previous bill was. But I get to fight them again in a year when the credit runs out.
To be honest, this smells like a scam. Frontier just cancels your account and tells you they can't re-activate the service they just bumped you out of thereby forcing you into a more expensive 'renewal' for 2 additional years. Not cool. If not a shady business practice then it's just sheer incompetence. Neither is a good outcome. I wish the Florida Attorney General would open an investigation into them because something doesn't seem right. This is the last time I will let this happen. Next time they can go pound sand.
Reviewed June 13, 2017
The internet is terrible. Consistently operates at two or less bars. Split the demand to two DSL lines at double my cost and still operates at two or less bars. Call center is beyond frustrating due to being inaudible. Yes, can't hear the company being paid to offer audible phone services! Being rural, we are their mercy and forced to run our business with this poor service. I am told it is the best they can do. Pretty POOR. There has to be a better way. If you have any other options, avoid Frontier services. You will be so much better off.
Reviewed June 13, 2017
Lost our phone and internet because of a wind storm. I called Frontier the next morning and got a repair ticket number. The following day I get a message on my cell phone stating that the ticket was closed because the problem was fixed. I got home and found out that I still did not have phone or internet. I called them back and was given another repair ticket. Several days later the same thing happened again. As of today I am now on my 4th repair ticket and they told me that it could be at least another week before they could get anyone in the area to fix it. It has been almost three weeks already.
Reviewed June 13, 2017
Frontier has been a complete nightmare every since I called the very first time trying to set up service. The only reason I had to stoop down to them is because no other provider could service my area. I had no choice. I think I called about 5 different times trying to set up an account in which I always either got hung up on being on hold for about an hour, or I never received a response. They are trying to charge me for 2 accounts that were under the same name for the same service, at the same address! Why on earth would I set up 2 accounts for the same service at the same address?! I believe that's called theft on their end because I only had 1 modem and paid my bills on time every month. How can you charge me twice?!! I actually had to cancel that account because the internet always went out and I could never work! And it's funny because the account I actually had, I received a refund once I closed it.
This second account is supposedly delinquent and they have even put it on my credit!! They are ridiculous! Apparently one of the times I tried setting up account they pushed the order through without acknowledging me about in which that was created in Oct 2016. I never received a email confirmation, nothing in the mail, so I decided to finally call back to ask them what happened and that I never received anything and all they did was create a new account. This was in Dec 2016 and that order actually went through. 5 months later after I canceled my actual account, I find out that they were billing the first account set up in Oct and apparently were trying to contact me for payment. Their story doesn't make any sense due to the simple fact that all the contact information is correct on both accounts and I spoke to them several times about my actual account that I had, so why wouldn't you notify me of the second account?
So my actual account I had, which I closed because the internet never worked so I was done, has a zero balance and I received refund. But this second account was delinquent! They make no sense! They put that second account on my freaking credit and I'm currently going through a process getting it off which has been a complete nightmare! I'm currently speaking with their corporate office trying to get this resolved, and they are even idiots!! This entire business is a complete joke! Do not give yourself the stress they cause!! They need to be stopped!!!
Reviewed June 10, 2017
I cancelled my Verizon account 2 years ago then when Frontier took over Verizon, they started reactivating my account and taking money from my credit card without my knowledge! I never had Frontier and I never used their service! I have Spectrum! Then when I noticed that they are taking money from my account, I called them. They said it was a mistake but they never reimbursed me and they continued charging my credit card! Their customer service is useless. After multiple calls they finally cancelled the account but they still continued charging me until May 2017. I just paid them because it cost me more money fighting them and it is not worth the stress.
Reviewed June 10, 2017
Frontier is the worst. Every month I have to take at least an hour and a half to call to have my bill adjusted. I believe that if you are provided the same service every month, your bill should be the same. I believe that if it is not there is something illegal going on. Each person that you speak with has a different answer. I have encountered very rude representatives. There are serious concerns with this company and their billing.
Reviewed June 10, 2017
Not an honest company. Everyone you talk to will tell you something different. Service is awful always going out and it's very slow. Service techs will make changes to your computers leading to thousands of virus which results in unusable computer until you either replace it or wipe it clean and start over. To terminate services I was billed over $3000. I even asked if I would have fees or charges and they said I would not. I now have a lawsuit pending. Don't choose this company. You'll be sorry you did.
Reviewed June 10, 2017
I would not give them 1 star, if I did not have to in order to file this report! In Nov. 2016 I received a mailer promotion for "No Annual Contract Fios TV, Voice, & 75/75 Internet for $79.99 per month for 24 months + $400 Amazon gift card" that would be emailed 60-90 days after installation. I ordered the promo & was told that the total would be $114 plus tax/month for my services & Cable boxes combined. I got a confirmation # & installation date set.
After receiving the bill, it was over a $100 higher than what was quoted. I called to address the issue, & was told there was never a promo for $79.99 & my account was not set up for that. I knew I had saved it; so I told them I would not pay for what I did not sign up for, & I would call back when I found it. Before I could call back a few days later, my service was disconnected. I called & told them I had proof of the promo that was sent to me, & asked where I needed to send it so they could fix my bills. He said there was no one to send it to. He said he could not make adjustments to my account unless I paid the original balance to get it turned back on. I refused. After 2 hours, he "adjusted" the account & said he would take my payment & future bills would be adjusted as well.
Well, future adjustments did not happen. I refused to pay again. No resolve again. Services are terminated again. I spoke to someone for 52 minutes reexplaining the promo I signed up for, giving dates/times/names for previous calls I have already made. She acknowledged the promo does exist (different story than the first Rep) but said the promos only last for 1 month & then go up. I told her, "I am looking at the flyer Frontier sent me that clearly says it is for 24 months." She starts quoting my services & attempts to persuade me that I am getting a lot & should be grateful to pay over $200 for them. When I reminded her again of what I signed up for & that with equipment it should not be over $114, she ignored me, says she can't fix anything, & tries to tell me I have to pay the overcharged balance again to get service.
I asked for a supervisor; she said, "He will tell you the same thing." I asked for a supervisor again; she said, “He is not available." When I asked her to go back and look at the previous credits to my account for overbilling, she claimed she did not see them. After my blood pressure spiked, I asked for her badge # & name. She gave it. I also informed her that I would be recording the remainder of our conversation. She then became very defensive. I asked her if she saw any record of my account being set up with the $79.99 promo. She started quoting "bundle codes" and telling me I had a "Q4." I asked again, if whatever bundle they signed me up for was for $79.99.
After she spent a considerable amount of time babbling & deflecting the question, she reluctantly said no. Then I asked her again if she saw the credit to my account for overbilling? She suddenly could see it now, but noted she was not able to access notes on why I received a credit. She said only a supervisor could do that. I said again, “Then put one on the phone." She refused again, and said, "If you do not have any further questions, I will have to hang up.” I repeated, "I do. You are refusing to answer them or transfer me to anyone who can.”
She threatened to hang up if I continued to "speak to her this way." I reminded her that I am not cursing or threatening anyone, & that I am entitled to answers about charges & credits as a customer who is being fraudulently billed. She said, "I can't help you with anything else; I can tell you about other Frontier products." I said, "I want a copy of all of my bills from the installation date to present.” She rambled something else defensively that did not make any sense... So I repeated myself, & said I am entitled to them. She said they would be sent out "probably" the next day & would take 3-5 business days. Let's see if I receive them?
Oh, and the Amazon gift card offered in the same promotion will also not be coming to me as promised. The customer service agent today said that because I refused to pay the overcharged bill until they fixed it, which was after the due date, they will not send it. The fine print says you have to pay the first 30 days bill in full (that means even if it is over $100 more than what you signed up for). She again refused to admit that overbilling was the cause of delayed payment. Please investigate this fraudulent company, & if anyone is interested in filing a joint lawsuit, I am in. I will be calling my attorney tomorrow.
Reviewed June 10, 2017
Every single day I have buffering on a TV show or movie or it completely shuts down. Tired of constantly rebooting and then does it again. Really? Get your act together. That's why Comcast can take advantage of people and charge so much because at least it's consistent internet connection. Never ever had this problem with Comcast.
Updated review: June 22, 2017
I was contacted by Lianne from Frontier who assisted with resolving my issue. Thanks to Lianne my issue was resolved within 24 hours and I am very appreciative what was accomplished in a short amount of time. This serves as my follow up review along with increased star rating based on level of customer service received during the resolution process. My hope is to remain a satisfied customer going forward.
Original Review: June 10, 2017
This has got to be the worst service provider in America. The customer service reps, supervisors and third party marketing sales people are some of the undeniably idiots on the planet. Frontier does not follow through on their pricing. Frontier makes promises of pricing and services that they do not abide by. My one dozen calls over the last 30 days average +60 minutes to speak to someone who says "I can help you", "I will call you back", "We will get your home phone service turned on"... yada, yada yada. This is NOT FAKE NEWS!!! ** Frontier.
Reviewed June 9, 2017
Unknown to me, when upgrading phone and internet plans I was charged $32 in change fees and extra services were added. I was told my new bill would be $109 but instead I got a bill for $134. Supervisor Hal was NO help and explained that $17 of the charges was recapturing plan credits that has expired 2 months ago. I had to call 4 times to get to a supervisor. Frontier Communications stinks.
Updated on 07/08/2017: Well, 10 phone calls, 2 emails, 3 reports to ConsumerAffairs and... almost. Still awaiting credits for excessive charges. FINALLY got the unwanted "phone co. msg" system sorta turned off. No more blinking phones but still an indicator that there is one unanswered msg. I guess that is the best 10 people can do. Good thing I'm retired. Gives me lots of time to interrupt my day, wait on hold and get mediocre service. Frontier Communications STINKS.
Updated review: June 22, 2017
Cheers
Roger Behrens
Original Review: June 9, 2017
March 2017 signed on for a bundled service with Frontier at my cabin in Murphy NC. The bundle was internet by Frontier and Dish TV which Frontier arranged as well as process payments to Dish when my payments to Frontier were made. The internet service was an introductory offer at $19.99 per month for year 1 then $32 a month for year 2. Dish service was the flex pack at $62 per month.
Not a single month have I been invoiced correctly, now 5 invoices later, any credit that was promised has not been applied. First month was billed wrong rate on internet piece, called customer service, was told there was not an intro rate of $19.99, call escalated up 3 levels, same answer, call transferred to sales, then told yes on intro rate, but the Dish service would need to be unbundled, and going forward Dish would invoice me as well.
Next month, invoiced by Dish at correct rate, Frontier invoices again with internet at the wrong rate and for the Dish piece. Call customer service, told don't worry they will credit coverage on internet piece, and when their payment goes to Dish, I will get a credit from Dish AND that now the invoicing has to be bundled again.
Next month, invoiced from Dish and Frontier, no credit on Dish invoice. Frontier invoices for internet at wrong rate and Dish service as well as showing a past due balance for the items I was to receive a credit. Call customer service, told don't worry, they will rectify the credit and the service needs to be unbundled going forward and the wrong rate on the internet will be corrected. The rep also reads back to me the prior month's call recap, saying I was told the wrong info on bundling of Dish.
Next month, Dish invoice no credit and Frontier invoice again with wrong rate on internet and Dish side is invoiced and past due amount doubles as credits have not been applied. It is baffling how inconsistent the answers are on what the service is I have signed on for, also I have requested a confirmation of my service package on each call, as yet have not received that. Today will call Frontiers customer service to repeat the prior calls knowing nothing will change. Frustrated by the consumer does not have an office they can go to for working with a representative in person, that the call centers have folks with nothing but canned answers and the consumer has overdue balances that will result in service disruption and/or collection.
Reviewed June 8, 2017
Frontier is the absolute worst company!! Horrible customer service or lack thereof, the worst phone, internet, TV service by far. DO NOT USE FRONTIER! STAY AWAY FROM FRONTIER!! Frontier scams people, steals people's money, commits fraud. We had no phone service for almost 2 months but Frontier wanted to charge for service they did not provide, they wanted to make us wait over 1 month to send tech out to fix. Discontinued service with Frontier and now they are taking 4 months to issue refund check and all they can say is "That's our policy".
They refuse to provide anything in writing stating or explaining what their refund policy is and just expect one to take their word for it over the phone. Meanwhile they collect interest on my money while holding on to it for 4 months. I now have spectrum service and have received much better service overall. Again, STAY AWAY FROM FRONTIER, DO NOT USE FRONTIER FOR ANY SERVICES!!! I am forced to give 1 star to submit this review but they deserve 0 ZERO stars.
Reviewed June 8, 2017
Updated on 03/12/2019: This is the second (and final) review of Frontier Communications. My first "review" produced a response from the company, and a very helpful person was able to manually change the bill for about six months. Unfortunately, she seems to be gone, and they're once again trying to gouge me for a ridiculous monthly charge. First, for the two+ years we've had this service, there hasn't been a single bill that's been correct. They've charged me for a digital phone EVERY month, even though I canceled it over a year ago (I don't use it, ever). The pricing that they've been giving me has apparently expired, and while I was told that the (already too high) $120/month would remain intact, the current bill is now $237. This is for average internet speeds, a lower-tier selection of HD channels, and the minimum DVR recording capabilities (and the phone I don't use).
After calling several very unhelpful reps, I was transferred to someone in "retention" who quoted me the existing $120 rate. After several MORE calls, the best any of their reps could quote was in the neighborhood of $179 a month, with a one year contract. I would NEVER sign a contract with this company, for any reason. Apparently they either don't train these reps at all, or they all work under different systems, because if you call three reps, you'll get three different pricing schemes. Plus, the aforementioned phone service was kept active because the first several reps said that would give me a better price, while the one today (Eric) said that's not the case. Train these people, and get the story straight.
Unless I hear from someone who can fix this, this service is going to be canceled, and I will begrudgingly add minimal Xfinity service, DirecTV Now, and stream virtually everything through the Roku. These cable companies are bandits. They're ill-equipped to deal with pricing with any kind of consistency, and are in fact the reason so many people are "cutting the cable." Awful billing services, horrible vendor to deal with, and the one star (above) is a stretch. The only good news to come out of all this is that I'll never have to deal with Frontier Communications again.
Updated on 06/14/2017: Received a late notice on last month's bill, which was paid on 5/31 and hadn't yet been credited to our account. This included a "shutoff notice" on 6/18, if it wasn't paid. Spoke with Sasha on 6/14, explained the chain of events, incorrect billing, customer service reps who consistently lied about what they had quoted, and was told that our bill would be $121.98 a month plus taxes... which included the $22/month DVR rental fee that was quoted to me as FREE when we originally signed up for the service in February. He insisted that they never include this device for free, but my notes when I signed up for the service say otherwise. And it's not something I could or would make up.
An article in our local Venice, Florida paper today, reports that "hordes" of Floridians have had similar experiences, since Frontier bought Verizon. Legal proceedings are being taken against them, as well as lots of complaints like mine. This is an awful company to deal with. Their service is marginal, prices are high, but it's the billing and the way the reps deal with the customers that's simply terrible. Again, I spent 20 years in telecom management in the Silicon Valley, and dealt with literally every telecom supplier in the world. Frontier has quickly become a low ebb benchmark.
Original Review: I signed up for Frontier Internet, phone and TV services just prior to moving to Florida from Oregon, in late February of 2017. The current bundle special was $79.99 a month, for these services. I remember specifically questioning her about the pricing, as their "Internet and TV only" bundle was actually $5 more. I was told that they like to bundle all three, and discount them accordingly to entice you. The sales rep also proactively told me that the DVR (normally $22 a month) would be free for the first 12 months, and HBO was free for 6 months.
When we received the first month's bill for $142, I called the billing department and spent an hour getting the runaround. They ended up removing the DVR rental charge, and telling me that the taxes and a $10 shipping charge for the modem, made up the rest of the charges. The following month, I added ONE CHANNEL to my service (NBC Sports), which I was told would be an additional $6 a month. When the bill arrived for over $150, I once again found myself on the phone for over an hour with yet another billing rep named Andrew. He informed me that the original offer that I signed up for expired the day after I signed up for it, and that they reconfigured my services accordingly, after I added the channel. After an hour on the phone, he figured out a way to get me a whole "sports package" for only an additional $10/a month. He said the bill would be 121.98 a month, including taxes. I agreed to this.
Next bill arrived for $162.34, prompting me to spend an hour and 12 minutes on the phone with Sarah, who figured out where their errors occurred, assured me that all the overages would be fixed, and that my bill going forward should run $125.94, again... including taxes. Taxes are important, as the several people I dealt with yesterday insisted that their reps NEVER say that the bills include taxes, and that the two reps referenced above specifically noted that they didn't say that. This is incorrect. I couldn't make it up, and wouldn't write it down. Had they quoted $125 plus $37 in taxes, I would have cut the service off immediately.
The current bill arrived with a $279.27 balance due, prompting another 90 minutes with their incompetent billing reps, yesterday. The bill included the previous month's bill, which hadn't yet been recorded (although it showed as having been received), as well as a NEW $7 late charge, even though the bill wasn't due for another 3 weeks. It also included the $22/month DVR rental, which was originally quoted as free/included. The first rep (Michael) informed me that my base bill should be $135 PLUS taxes, which is WAY off of the initial $89.99 I was quoted for the one additional channel. He also reiterated that the reps never include taxes in the pricing, which I'll again say flat out, is a lie on their part. Yes they do. Twice.
I was then sent to Michelle, who was somewhere between unprofessional and obnoxious. She informed me that my base price would be what Michael quoted, taxes are never quoted, and went on to say that my initial contract had me signing up for $111 a month in services, plus taxes. Obviously this is again wrong, and can be verified on their website. The bundle prices vary monthly, but they're still pretty much the same. I guarantee there was no $111 bundle special when I signed up. Michelle was the worst person I've dealt with so far within the company.
I spent 20 years in global telecom management in the Silicon Valley, which required me to deal with large telecom companies all over the world. Frontier has the unique honor of being the single most incompetent, dishonest company I've ever experienced. They overbill consistently, charge for things they tell you are included, misquote pricing, and totally lie about whether the prices include taxes. I want the bills corrected, for them to be consistent, and for the company management to know that their reps are dishonest and generally incompetent.
Reviewed June 8, 2017
I am extremely upset about the service I have received from Frontier, such a bad experience! I was given false information, mislead, and renewed a contract without my authorization! I was expecting a call back from a manager today, and guess what, no one called!! I had an account with Verizon, 3 services: TV, internet, and phone for about 97.00 per month. The service transitioned to Frontier, in March my bill went up, apparently a discount I had expired, so it went up to 99 and then 103.00 in April. I called Frontier and was informed the discount had expired, but was told by a lady that she was going to add another discount and my bill was going to be about 80+ dollars. So I called back and spoke with another lady, and she said the previous lady had not done anything so SHE was going to do something else, and fix it. Call was disconnected so I called back (this was in April).
So this time a GUY answered, he asked me if I was using my phone. I said, no. So he offered me a "better deal", he told me he was going to take off the phone service, and leave the the TV and internet for 68.98, and he credited the account for that month. Yesterday, I sign in to pay my bill for "68.98" and it turns out the bill was 284.00 dollars! So I called and get connected with a supervisor Jacky, whom by the way didn't apologize once! And told me that the 68.98 was just not true, that she could offer those 2 services for 110.00 dollars per month. I cannot get my three services back for the price I had.
He lied to me, mislead me causing for me to renew my contract, and now I have to pay more, all because he wanted a "good survey". I contacted them again today, and they offered to lower my current bill to about $115.00, which is still higher than 68.99 price I was quoted, or even for the three services I used to have. And if I decide to cancel the services, I have to pay cancellation fee for 2 yr contract because it was renewed last month.
Reviewed June 7, 2017
Discontinued service April 6, 2017. Paid closing amount as requested by Mr. **, supervisor, of $137.91. Have received 3 bills saying that I owe them $197.35. Called finance and they said that I would probably receive 2 more bills until their computers finally caught up to the fact that I had quit their service. Reason for quitting was each month's bill was different with increases of $20.00 or more without explanation even during a phone call. I have paperwork, dates, time of conversation verifying what is typed here. None of this mattered when calling them 6/6/2017, and talking to a customer service rep. for 1-1/2 hours by the name of Tyler, badge #**.
Further, on 5/6, 2017, I received a bill for $157.84, 1 month after cancellation with added charges of $93.54 bringing the total to the $197.35 above mentioned. All in all, their billing process is a 1 and the information they give to try and explain their bookkeeping is misleading on one hand and false on the other. Thank you for your time.
Reviewed June 7, 2017
I just don't understand. Over Feb and March I had 26 calls to 411 called that showed up on my bill. These were called that WERE NOT made from anyone in my home and some of the calls were from the middle of the night and the middle of the day when no one would be home. I called multiple times over the course of a few months and have gotten the runaround and finally they said they would credit these charges in the subsequent bills. Come 2 months later and I have not seen any credit. I call again and they have no record of the credits or investigation. WHAT THE HECK??? What kind of company is this? And how can they still be in business??? I'm beyond furious. To top it off, there was a problem with my line that I had a work order in for and that was fixed. Isn't that enough to show that there is something faulty going on with my line???
Reviewed June 5, 2017
Beware!!!! These guys are a complete rip off. I am still kicking myself in the ass. I was put in a contract without my knowledge, and the promotions last for a short time (six months) which I was also not notified about. Do not go with Frontier unless you want to get ripped off like me. I had no idea I was being put on a two year contract which is illegal.
Reviewed June 4, 2017
Back in January my wife and I were looking to get landline phone service for our house, because it's more reliable than internet phone service in our rural location. Frontier seemed to be the main option for our location, so we got in contact with them. After several phone calls, being put on hold, disconnected, and hours of time, we finally got a hold of someone. The person we spoke to quoted us a price for 80 bucks a month for TV, phone, and high speed internet. Okay, that sounded great, we were ready to hop on board, but needed to get in contact with them later to finalize service.
Various attempts to call back and lots more time, each person we talked to could never find our information, but was willing to help us set something up. This time we were quoted slightly above 100 bucks a month and a $400 Amazon gift card, not what we expected but okay, we need a land line. Once again same issue, nothing ever got set up, so we call again, can't find our information, and are quoted a higher price at about 115 and an Amazon gift of 200. Ugh, well if that's what it is and we need it, okay.
A couple days later Dish comes out and sets up their stuff, BUT nothing is ever set up with Frontier. We call again and it is the same issue; they can't find our information. This time it's still about 115, but no high speed internet (due to our location now) and no Amazon gift card. At that point, we decide if we can't have high-speed internet then it does us good to have their service. From there our communication stopped with Frontier back in January. BUT this last week we got a letter from them, with the incorrect address, saying we owe them 400 bucks for past due balance! For what? We have never had service with Frontier and we have been paying Dish directly, as we would have anyway. The only reason this piece of mail made it to us was because the postman recognized our name and put it in our box.
We called them this morning and were shuffled around from person to person and department to department. Now they can magically find our account (that they could never find before), and one says we owe only 32 dollars. "For what? We never have had service with you." We're then sent to another department that's not in. We call again; this time to be told our account is in Collections, so we have to call someone else. But the number is different from what was sent in this letter that doesn't explain anything but a past due amount. But for what service?
We then told them: "We have internet service through Spectrum; that we have had them for years now." (But would've cancelled if we got Frontier). "Our TV is paid through Dish. And our LandLine is the Southern CA Telephone company, since we couldn't get Frontier to get their act together." The lady then tells us; "Well you need to contact your current provider to figure out what this bill is about." "For what!" They are not the ones billing us 400 hundred bucks for service that was never provided; Frontier is. "Well you need to call Collections because it's out of our hands now, but they're only open Monday through Friday."
What a headache Frontier has been, and we have never had any service with them. A nightmare of a company that's trying to get money for nothing provided, and is now trying to ruin our credit. How can this company still be in existence with this kind of reputation and big-business pushiness, and nobody from the company can give a straight answer?
Reviewed June 3, 2017
My first bill was over $300.00 and I had signed up for a $79.00 plan. I spent hours on the phone and chatting with Reps. They couldn't do anything to help me. I finally contacted corporate in Florida, the office of the division president, and got a call from a senior manager. Bruce helped me correct my bill and within a couple of weeks all of the corrections were in place. Thank you! I'm sorry that everyone involved had to spend so much time on my billing issues. It was a huge PIA, but it was eventually rectified. I'm happy now. They saved a customer. Corporate made everything right but it took time and I know that the manager I worked with put in a lot of extra work just to correct my account. In the end it was worth the effort.
Reviewed June 3, 2017
This is the 3rd time that this is happened. It takes a week to fix down service. When you call, you're hung up on. I spent over 2 hours on the phone on a Saturday to be hung up on. They don't help you at all when they're on the phone. I want a refund of my monthly payment. It's absolutely disgraceful to hang up on customers who pay for your service. Not only that, but you pay much more than what they tell you that you will. Worst ran company in America.
Reviewed June 2, 2017
We have a Burger King in Danbury (CT). Frontier is our service provider for phone and internet. Internet is very slow. Many times our credit cards don't work due to slow internet, camera connection is not possible. We kept complaining with Frontier for over a year - no resolution; they will not allow us to leave and go to another carrier as they want 3000+ for contract termination. They are a scam.
Reviewed June 1, 2017
I subscribed to Frontier Communications Internet, telephone and TV service in March 2017. I was quoted the price of $89.99 + tax for the package, with price guarantee for two years. My first bill came at $216 and the next one for $146. The company does not provide any written contract and the advertised price is not honored once you sign up. This company's marketing is fraudulent. Would recommend to stay away from it if you have other options.
Reviewed May 30, 2017
Well, anyone in my community knows this. Verizon (who sucks, and decided they weren't making profits here) gave up this territory to Frontier Communications (who sucks like a Hoover vacuum - and not even within the Hoover's Administration abilities). So they gave it up to the bottom feeder in the industry, Frontier Communications. Which, is both ironic and sad, because it communicates like it is in the frontier - of 1860. Sorry "Frontier", but we've moved beyond teletype and Morse code. I could care less about a landline. I use a cell phone on Verizon (which sucks, but that is what my University gives me). All I want is internet speeds to today's standards - reasonable up and down speeds. I'm not asking for gigabyte service - just a nice predictable 10X10mbps system would suffice.
Since the switch to FC, my uploads have consistently been about 0.2mbps up, and less than 5 mbps down. I have had multiple visits by FC to check on wire connections, my modem, and "issues" at their nearby exchange facility (moving from old two-wire copper lines, to maybe something adequate someday?? - they seem confused).
The last tech here said he could not find a reason why I should not be connecting at a faster rate, which should be "up to" 10mbps X 10mbps. Don't you love the corporate language their lawyers wrote in "up to", which means "We only have to provide service above 0.0000000001mbps - that is "service", and you can't ask for guarantees - hell, at 0.000000000001mbps, well, we still provided service." I will expect them to not give a rat's hind-quarters until we all dump them in this town, and drive the 45 minutes to the nearest Starbucks to upload a file. PLEASE, some cable-able communications company rescue us. We would pay twice the amount for decent service (maybe a lot more).
BTW, an aside. This is a tight community, and the last tech out to me had worked for Verizon, and inherited the job with the switch to FC (tempted here to change what the "F" stands for). He hates his job now, and is contemplating moving his family to a non-FC community. Hey Frontier Communications, put that in your corporate pipe, and choke on it. Guess DirecTV internet is the only choice now, but problematical, given all the trees around here (not to mention snow, which cuts my feed from them with an inch of snow on the dish). Hey FC, get your freaking act together! Or not. Shareholders will dump you as your customers dump you.
Reviewed May 29, 2017
I have been a Frontier Communications Internet service customer for 2 1/2 years. In this location there are few choices for internet service. At the start the service was good. It did not live up to the 6Mbps claims but it was close. In the last 18 months it has dropped off, now averaging about 1Mbps. I have called customer service and made to feel like it is my fault. I have tried all of the suggested fixes, no help. As soon as I can I will drop Frontier and never do business with them again.
Reviewed May 28, 2017
For nearly two years, Frontier has been double billing our account. We would call, report the issue, they would "fix" it and then we would be double billed again... month after month. Finally, a tech rep figured out they had set up two accounts under our name. They apologized, said they would issue a credit of 111.69 and "fix" the issue by deleting one of the double accounts. Instead, they canceled all premium services and internet security and still billed us as if we had two accounts and no credit processed. We called again but had to start all over as the credit was never issued and the individuals that promised to fix the various problems (whose names, dates and confirmation numbers we have) could not be reached and some of the confirmations numbers we were given could not be found in their system!!!
My wife spent countless hours pleading with them only to be hung up on or "disconnected" whenever the issues became too cumbersome to be handled by them. There is zero confidence in any of the representations they make. We have been assured countless times that everything is "taken care of" only to discover the problems have only increased. Frontier should not be allowed to conduct business in this manner. There needs to be some regulatory oversight or management overhaul. I gave them one star only but they don't even deserve that.
Consumers are advised to stay clear and avoid the heartache and frustration, not to mention overcharges, we have had to endure. Our misfortune is that at the present time, due to our also having Dish Network for foreign language channels, we cannot change from Frontier to another cable TV provider without re-wiring cable lines in the house which require an electrician to perform the service at a cost. We may be having to make that choice very soon.
Reviewed May 27, 2017
For years my phone and internet were serviced by Verizon and I was happy with them. Ever since Frontier took over, however, I have had no end of problems. First I kept losing my internet connection all the time. Finally, it stopped working altogether. When I called, after a long time on the phone (they take forever to figure out your issue) they told me I had an old modem and they were going to send me a new one. It took about a week. The new modem worked fine, but when I got the bill, I saw they were charging me $10 a month extra, which they had never mentioned on the phone.
I called to complain, and the customer service rep told me I had an old system with my phone and internet and he could give me a better package for cheaper. It sounded good, but he said they had to come to my apartment to hook up the new internet. He gave me an appointment on a Wednesday, but I said I couldn't do it Wed. so he changed it to Thursday. On that Tuesday, I got a voice mail saying I had an appointment on Wednesday. I called Wed. morning and said it was wrong. So they rescheduled me for two weeks later!
Later that day I realized I had no internet connection. I called and spent hours on the phone while they were trying to figure out what was wrong. The phone connection was interrupted and they never called back. When I called again, I got of course another person who took very long again. It went on for the better part of the afternoon, until they finally told me it was because they thought they were going to set up the new connection so they had disconnected me and couldn't reconnect me. So the conclusion was that I had no internet service for 2 weeks.
When they finally came, they set up the new internet, working outside the building for several hours and finally it was working fine. Meanwhile they were also changing my phone service. The guy on the phone told me I would get, among other things, caller ID, long distance service and voice mail. I said I didn't want voice mail since I had an answering machine. He said "OK, I will take it off." However, I had no caller ID, no long distance, and did have voice mail, which answered the phone at the same time as my answering machine, and the phone would then hang up. No one could leave me a message. It took a whole week to fix this. I was calling every day and every day they would tell me it would be solved the next day.
When that was finally fixed, the internet was again not working. I called customer service and they told me it was a problem with the DSL and they would have to send someone to fix it. They gave me what they said was a "morning appointment" from 8 am to 12 noon almost a week later! So again no internet for a week! At 11:50 the guy had not shown up, so I called and they told me, "No, this is an all-day appointment, from 8 to 5. So I waited all day and the technician never showed up." When I called again to complain, they told me "He will call you tomorrow to set up another appointment." By then I was fed up and decided to go with another company for my internet.
Today, I have no phone! I called and was told after a while that there was "an error on the phone line," whatever that means and that "it is a very complicated matter," so they have to send a technician. The appointment is for June 1st. So now, I have no phone connection for almost a week! I am so fed up with Frontier. I have never come across such incompetence! Besides, their customer service is terrible. the people who answer the phone are very nice and polite, but they have absolutely no authority or competence to do anything to resolve your issues. Every time you call you talk to a different person, who tells you a different story. You can never talk to a supervisor or anyone in charge. I see that there have been countless complaints about them, but they don't seem to be improving their services.
Reviewed May 26, 2017
Since Frontier took over, I have had dropped signal/no signal issues. A few weeks ago, it was really bad, and here I was on the phone again with tech service. I was told I was paying 22.49 a month for 1mbps (!!!!). I was advised to upgrade. A tech would not be available until May 25th (3 weeks are you kidding?). Well, looking at their ads for new customers, I called. The lady said for $2 more, I was upgraded to 6mbps for 2 years than regular price. I responded to their survey and a couple days later, a tech came out. He switched my line with the line next door (empty house), I was only getting 3mbps so he bumped it up to 5. He didn't have time to look for the real problem. He had to pick his kid up, and left. This was May 19th. And every night since then, between 8-10pm my internet is OUT. Red light. Until around 4am or so (the latest I've been up waiting for a signal).
Today, I get a bill for 68. I chatted online with someone, who said I was being charged 44.98+9.99 for internet protection, I never asked for. I decided to call. Customer service admitted the lady who quoted me LIED. They would remove the 9.99 on the next bill. The best they could give me was 34.98 a month. NOT the 24.49 the lady said I would be paying for 2 yrs. He also told me I was being charged 1 month for the 1mbps and 1 month for the upgrade + the 9.99, bringing it to 68.
After reading complaints on here and on the BBB website, I wonder why is nothing being done about this company? Why aren't the Attorney General's in other states doing what they did in West VA? I am willing to pay what I was originally quoted. But 68? No way. Worried about my credit report after reading these reviews. I asked the young man one more time, "is this the best you can do for me?" He said yes. I told him, "I'm done" and switching to a new provider. I have a new provider setting up next week.
Reviewed May 26, 2017
I have been having periodic problems with Frontier internet for quite some time. About a year ago, my service was out for almost a week. When the tech got there he tried to tell me that everything was fine on their end, but I already had two techs from another internet provider tell me that they could not get a signal from the provider. The tech then called in, had the person on the other end do some programming and, voila, problem solved. I have been having periodic problems again, called in several times, and have been told the problem is not on their end, but it is always back on by the time I am off the phone. I have been giving reasons like, the modem was plugged in the wrong jack, and that by calling in I somehow restored the connection on the line (mind you I called on a cell phone, so my call was in no way connected to the internet service), and I am using the wrong modem.
Most recently, although service was restored, they said they were sending a tech out, and they gave me a ticket number. I received a charge for $84 on my bill for a service charge. They said since they didn’t find a problem on their end, it was my problem and I was responsible for the charge, and refused to credit me. Three huge problems with this; they never found a problem on my end when they came out for the same thing before, in fact, it was determined that the problem was on their end, no one saw a tech anywhere near my home, and finally by the time they came out the internet was working again, so of course they didn’t find a problem on their end. That doesn’t mean that the problem is on my end. All I want is a credit for a service charge, but they refuse. I started with just be dissatisfied, and tried to give them a chance to make it right. All they managed to do was make me start looking for a new provider.
Reviewed May 26, 2017
My bills for years with Verizon, were $139 for bundling and premium channels, but in Dec 2016, I received a bill for $162.25, apparently my contract had ended, for the upcoming months. I called Frontier to cancel my services, but instead kept the internet and basic cable; I was quoted $74.97 per month for the change, and was told I would be re-billed with the changes. Four days later I called back since I received NO bill, and was told the price would be $95.97 instead, and to go ahead and pay the previous bill of $162.65, and it would be prorated to the next month; so I paid it.
For the next 1.5 months the billing spiked to $209, then $307, and a final $372. I then called Customer service, and they gave me all kinds of excuses, over the next 2 months, so I started LIVE CHATTING, so I could save the conversations. Eventually they corrected the account, and the $162.65 would cover Jan-Feb, and I wouldn't be billed until Mar 2017. "I'm guessing the billing Dept. and these CS monkeys don't talk!". I received a bill days later for $191.97. Now the bottom line is, this POS company says one thing and does another. Money is not the issue, but rather I should not pay for a service I did not receive, nor owe.
I should not have had a bill for $80.97, until March 2017 for the upcoming month, but was billed for $191.97 for previous unexplained charges. So as you can see, this FRONTIER Communications overcharges, even after correcting the acct. If I had crappy credit, they wouldn't see a penny of this bogus charge. I will pay the bogus charge to keep a good credit standing. I have all documentation in hard copy, as proof of this bogus charge.
Reviewed May 26, 2017
Terrible wait times, they do not follow through on what they promise. They lock you in and then you're stuck with terrible service.
Reviewed May 26, 2017
I received an e-mail promotion in big letters "TRAVEL THIS WEEKEND WITH THIS MEMORIAL DAY DEAL! Take 20% OFF WITH PROMO CODE SAVE20. BOOK NOW. Buy by May 26, 2017 - Fly May 27 - June 1, 2017. Discount shown is for domestic, nonstop travel on specific days in select markets. Seats are limited. Restrictions apply." In the terms and conditions in very small font is where they specify the following blackout date applies: May 29, 2017. What is interesting is that they promote a Memorial Day Special, but the day they promote is a Blackout date.
Reviewed May 25, 2017
The worst service and company - Frontier. I was Verizon before. After they change it is a nightmare. Past due a day they cut you service and when you paid you need to wait for 2 to 3 business day to have service and you call sorry you are on collection. I spoke with her. I did my payment. I can give confirmation. She said, "Sorry you have to wait 2 business day." WTF I did my payment. I need service back. Hello no manager and end the call. No ethic professional. So sad that company eat people money and no good service and every month more money. At beginning was $79.00 for service now $114.99. Really ConsumerAffairs investigate. They stealing people money.
Reviewed May 24, 2017
So, I went to order new service from Frontier, with TV, phone and Internet. A Frontier agent worked up the whole package and I was quoted $75.00 a month. After hanging up, I talked to my wife and she decided to nix the land line, so I called them back to remove that from the order. The agent I got then told me that the order cannot be changed. So, I asked if I could cancel the order, and was told "no". I called them on THIS insanity, and they finally caved in and canceled the order, but told me I'd have to call back the next day to order again. I did that, made a new order, for the same TV and Internet, without the land phone. At the end, they quoted me $135.00 a month, $60.00 a month MORE without the phone! I was shocked and asked for a supervisor.
My agent said he checked with the supervisor, and that is the best they could do. I demanded to talk directly to the supervisor. After some time, he came on the line. He apologized for the confusion, said that his agent made a mistake, and that he could do it for $83.99 for the first six months and $106.50 for thereafter. I, reluctantly, agreed to the increase.
A month later, I get my first bill for $153.71, which is $69.11 higher than the supervisor's new quote! I call them back, again, and get another supervisor. They look over the account and tell me that the other supervisor made another mistake, and that they will fix it. Then she tells me that my bill is now $94.99 a month for the first six months and $119.50 thereafter. She, again, apologizes, this time for the supervisor who made a mistake, fixing the mistake of the agent before him.
Who knows what the next bill will be, since each person I talk to quotes me a higher fee than the last one, and the bill that comes has nothing to do what what they say! This is the worst company and experience I have had with sales people, and Frontier WILL NOT get my business in the future. They also lied to me about other costs, like my cable card, router and installation, and there is even more insanity to this story, but that's enough for now. Frontier is a terrible company to deal with.
Reviewed May 24, 2017
Notification of Fios transitioning to Frontier was a surprise. Our city was the testing site for fiber optic cable. We waited to see what would happen. Transition excuses, purchased movies disappeared. Customer Service was not well versed. Our programming package had X amount of channels. Many were not visible. We decided to switch service and notified Frontier May 2015. Received a letter that all accounts need to be caught up by June 2015. We were caught up and we terminated services so we didn't have to worry.
Called and asked what to do with 3 receivers and one internet router. No help. Received a bill for over $2500 for services. When we called they claimed our service was disconnected in October and we owed. Someone did not do their job on the Frontier side. I will not pay for what I didn't use. I am sure it's easy to find a report of access via signal to verify. To this day I still have 3 receivers and Internet router. The transition was not prepared and practiced for. They winged it as they went and we are seeing the damages.
Reviewed May 23, 2017
My neighbor and I in Fort Worth switched from Charter to Frontier about two months ago. Service has been a lot better and much cheaper. Technician stated that a lot of the early problems stemmed from the fact that a lot of the new equipment and services that Frontier brought in, at times was not compatible with the old Verizon equipment. We had new equipment installed and so far the service is working perfect.
Reviewed May 23, 2017
I signed up for internet service. Frontier could not provide service to my area and still expected me to pay the bill. When I returned the equipment because they didn't service the area they tried to bully me into paying the bill then reported it to Equifax and now Equifax and Frontier refuse to correct my credit report. Please not Frontier. Promised service in an area they can not provide service in.
Reviewed May 23, 2017
I have been a customer for 25 years, always paid my bills on time- no issues until I switched phone companies last month. I spoke with Rick at Frontier who told me I would get a lower final bill calculated for the reduced time I was enrolled. Instead, I got billed a 200 dollar early termination fee that I was totally unaware of, I do not see it on my bill. I had asked about that and was told I would pay less, not more. It is an underhanded, dirt bag thing to do to a loyal customer. Frontier can rest assured I will NEVER use their services again.
Reviewed May 23, 2017
Six days ago my broadband DSL went out again. I called for tech help and after explaining once again what the problem was, a ticket was put in and I was told that someone would be out that day to fix it. That never happened, I called again and was told that the reason my DSL was out was because "Somewhere in West Virginia there were storms" and that's why my DSL was out. Like I would believe something so stupid.
I called a couple more times over the next couple of days and got numerous reasons and time frames for my service to be fixed. The only reason they didn't give me was alien abduction of my router! I never saw a repairman, never even seen a truck within miles of my house but I was told there were a couple trucks sitting on a service road to a corn field about 15 miles away. I guess they were setting up phone service for Children of the corn and that's why they couldn't fix mine. I ended up going into the phone company billing office, getting a new router (to replace my one that was 13 years old) and fixing my DSL problem myself! This company is worthless, tech service never turns in tickets for dispatch and if they do, no one ever shows up to fix anything.
Reviewed May 23, 2017
My 2-year contract is up with Frontier in July since our contract transferred from Verizon to Frontier. I called to see what their new promotional prices were, and the first time I called I was quoted $108+tax for Triple Play. I didn't want to decide right then, and the person said the prices fluctuate so that price may not be available again. I told her that if the prices went up when, and if, I called back, I would be done with Frontier. I did call back about 5-7 days later and was quoted a different price... $84+tax for the Triple Play!!! I was like great. This phone call took place on May 4th, and the tech guy just came and installed 2 new set top boxes and upped our internet speed to 100/100 on Friday, May 19th.
I looked online and saw that my pricing was still at $178 even though the new billing was to take effect on the 19th. When I called I was told that my pricing was now $124!!! I was like, NOPE, it should be $84! Run around after run around, so I finally said that I wanted to know what to do to get out of my contract and NOT be charged since they were doing a bait and switch on me. I was told I would be charged the early termination fee. I had to get off the phone so I called back about a half hour later. A new person told me that no, I was not under contract so there would be no early termination fee. He also tried to get me down to the $84 I was quoted, but couldn't do it.
I am now waiting on their Escalation Dept. to call me to see where we go from here. If Frontier can't give me the $84 quote (and yes I had the person's name and badge number that quoted me that) then I will walk. I guess Frontier has so much money rolling in and so many happy customers that they won't mind losing me. It is amazing that each person you talk to will give you a different answer to the same question. HORRIBLE.
Reviewed May 22, 2017
I called Frontier to upgrade our internet service on a April 3, 2017. The Customer Service was friendly and told me they could provide an upgrade from 3 Mbps to 90 Mbps for a new monthly bill of 105.83 (phone and internet). An appointment was made for Thursday, April 6. No one showed up, no one called. I called at 4:30, was told someone was coming, no one showed up by 7. I called again and was told to call on the morning of April 7. I called and an appointment was made for Monday the 10th of April. No one called, no one showed up. I called and was promised a return call by end of day. No one called, I called and was on the phone for 90 minutes to be told it would be done by Friday the 14th. It was not, I called 3 times on Monday the 17th of April and was promised a return call, no one ever called. I called on Wed the 19th of April, and was told that the order was in Engineering and to call back mid to late May.
I called on May 17, talked to Tom in Tennessee who told me that I needed a new order for 40 Mbps because that was all I could get. It would cost 95.60 per month (phone and internet). We completed the order, install was scheduled for Friday the 19th of May. On Thursday the 18th I got a call asking if they could do the install that afternoon, no one called, no one showed up. When I called it showed the appointment canceled. They remade the appointment for Friday the 19th, no one called, no one showed up. I called and someone filled out an escalation ticket on Friday the 19th. I got an automated call on Sunday May 21 saying they would do the install on Monday the 22nd.
At 9 on Monday morning I received a call from the tech informing me I could not get internet any faster than 14 Mbps and he would complete that install if I agreed. He could not tell me what it would cost. He completed the install this morning. I called to find out what it would cost and they could not tell me until this afternoon. When I called they informed me that 14 Mbps would be 103.00 per month. When I replied that it was unacceptable they hung up on me. I called back, got a supervisor and was disconnected, and received no return call.
So to date I have called them 22 times, spent approximately 12 hours on the phone, spent 2 days (4 1/2 days) waiting for them to get 15% of the internet speed they originally sold me for 99% of the cost. The customer service reps are nice but basically useless because Frontier's system is totally useless. I used to think bankrupt and gone Circuit City had the worst customer service... no more. Frontier jumped ahead of every other company for the absolute worst customer service ever. Original order number # ** (90 Mbps), second order number ** (40 Mbps).
Reviewed May 22, 2017
If I could give no stars... I WOULD. Worst customer service ever. Forget about getting that Amazon gift card they promise you because they will give you the run around forever until you just give up on it. Also called to order a modem and they told me it would be overnighted and should get it the next day just to call the next day for a status and be told that they don't overnight modems to anyone and I wouldn't get it for a week. So therefore I will go a week without service and was lied to numerous times. I have also been told five different dates on when I should get this gift card they promised me and yet still haven't seen it. PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON THIS TERRIBLE COMPANY!!! Oh and the internet is crap as well! About as fast as a turtle.
Reviewed May 22, 2017
Do not do business with this company!! I used them for internet service from 2016 until I canceled in May 2017. It was a horrible experience just trying to cancel. I had their fastest service but when we switched to Sling and Roku to get rid of satellite bills, it couldn't keep up (Not my fault). I would never recommend this company to anyone. Horrible customer service!
Reviewed May 22, 2017
Shuts off at random times. Disconnects for no reason. And forget trying to watch anything live EVER. The wifi services have to be reset every hour. I wish I could give this 0 stars. Their TV doesn't work and their Frontier app (that I had to switch to because the TV wasn't working) (talk about unnecessary hassle) is **. Don't get this provider. The minute I stop paying for my son's summer camp I'm switching to my old d*mn provider. Lesson learned read reviews beforehand and don't try to cut corners by being cheap. Get things at a reasonable price, not too cheap and not too expensive.
Reviewed May 21, 2017
Most of the time internet is very slow. I pay 44$ per month and often I can't even stream videos. This is very frustrating. Very dissatisfied with the service. I am seriously planning to switch the connection.
Reviewed May 21, 2017
It started about 5 months ago when the internet really kind of stopped working all that well. We've had this for several years. So I came home from college and I was fed up with the fact that I couldn't get on the internet to do school work so what I did was I called Frontier and I got the runaround, and they did the whole unplug and replug it back in. They said that the modem wasn't working and they just put in order for the Friday after I got a hold of them, and just told me that if they were going to be here between 12 and 5 and that I could call in at 12 to see when I actually get serviced.
So that Friday I called in at 12. I had to get off work and I called in only to find out that they had canceled my ticket and that there was nothing wrong with my internet service other than a common problem. I won't ran a speed test and told them that there was a problem, and that they needed someone over because they did not notify me that they canceled my ticket. They gave me the runaround and I have talked to 4 different people. Fed up and I call my mother who's the account holder figuring she could get a little further than I could and she somehow got them to agree after she was passed to four different people. They gave us a new ticket for Monday which again I then had to call off work because I have the most flexible job.
To my surprise the next day which was Saturday they showed up without notifying me at all. I was getting ready for work and I had to say I'd be an hour late because they just shut up when the technician went to fix the problem. He said that the wires were all mixed up where the phone lines and then or not came into the house. This is a problem that they could have fixed last time that they were at the house which was three months ago and now put it off by giving us a new modem. The fact that I had to talk to a total of 12 different people and three supervisors not included in the 12 people is a little ridiculous, and the fact that I had the runaround is not acceptable. I would not go with this company ever again if I had any other choice.
Reviewed May 21, 2017
This company lies and charges what they want, usually extremely expensive! Been a customer since Verizon sellout!!! Service is terrible, customers and technical! Looking to get out. I am a disabled vet and live on fixed income. They said all my promotions were done and now have to pay 217 a month. Have been paying under 100 a month. Can't afford 217 but they say nothing can be done to help me anymore. Wtf crooks!!!
Reviewed May 20, 2017
I called Frontier on 2/11/17 to cancel. I felt I was paying too much for horrible service. I received a bill and go on "chat" chatting with Nia she wrote that I would be getting my final bill and refund in the mail. I received a bill for $20! So I went on "chat" again and chatted with Desiree. She was of no help so I asked for a phone number (I was trying to avoid calling). When I called I spoke with Vicky, I told my situation. She say, "Oh ya I see we owe you $22. $2 per day for 11 days. Let me put in the request." She continues to say, "Oh wow looks like you have 3 other pending. Sorry, but you need to call tomorrow to check on status. Collection dept is now closed." I said ok.
I called 3/18/17 (I figured I give them a day to figure it out). When I called I spoke with Jamil. He said he saw the issue and he was going to request a "credit". I said that won't work. I paid 1/31/17 which I was told by a rep paid for all of February. He said, "Ok. Looks like your account never had issues. Unfortunately you need to call back and contact collections. They are the only one that can help."
May 20, 2017 (today). I spoke with a rep. Didn't bother to get a name anymore. I asked for collections right away. They transferred me to collections. Now I'm told the Frontier bill I paid 1/31/17 was for January 10-February 10. (Remember I was told that they charge forward not backward). I said, "When I cancelled on 2/11 you said you couldn't disconnect until 2/17. So now, I was told 59.99-39.99= 20 (thanks captain obvious) and that why I owed $20. I said, "So you're saying I owe you from 2/10- 3/02 when on the 17th I cancelled. You charged me on 59.99, the charge didn't go through." I told them, "You shouldn't have charged me again. My bill was paid and I should get a refund."
So lastly I was transferred to Joe. Title billing & order supervisor. So I went the scenario with him. He said yes I owe $20. I said, "I don't understand why when I paid for all of February & cancelled on Feb 11, but you couldn't come to disconnect until 2/17/17." He said, "Ok. I credited you the 7 days so now you owe $6." I said, "So the seven people before you has incorrect data and you're the only one who has the right one?" He said correct. Summary: 5 reps tried to get me $20 credit. 1 supervisor Joe said I owe $6 and he was the only one with the correct information. So according to their records I owe $6... really???!!!! I had horrible internet at home which is why I canceled, but now I realize internet isn't the only horrible thing going on with Frontier. (Disgusted)
Reviewed May 18, 2017
When talking to these people on the phone, they will hang up on you if they don't want to deal with you. They will keep you on the line for a while, like they are doing something, and then you get disconnect. Why would someone calling in for help just hang up. So it is them. I had this issue a couple of years ago and now it is still happening. It must be a protocol with them. When you call back to get the same person, you can not!
I had one very rude customer service rep that stated there were over 500 hundred of them and how could he know who is who... Odd that they cant look up the persons name or even see it in my account who was working with me for the last 45 minutes. They will quote you a price but they state they can not send that out in writing so, when you get your bill, it is NOT what they quoted you. This practice has been going on for years now with Frontier Communications. Sorry I had to give them even one star.
Reviewed May 18, 2017
Set up service between 8 and 12... No show... No call. Call to Frontier at 2:30, spoke to technician, who said, "I will be there in 5-10 minutes." An hour and a half later, no show, no call. Talking to customer service now. They have no idea what is going on... TERRIBLE customer service.
Reviewed May 17, 2017
It has been two months since we called Frontier Communications to transfer the service to our new address, and six weeks since the first technician showed up to discover that we needed a fiber-optic line run to our house from the street, and we still have no service and no idea how much longer the process will continue to take.
In the meantime several other technicians from at least two different departments showed up to complete the job but decided that they could not because the gas company had not marked the location of the gas line. That is the story they have been telling me over the past six weeks every time I called (and went through the long process to find our order) -- that the gas company was holding them up and there was nothing they could do but to wait. So what is their solution to the stalemate? They suggested that I should "reach out" to the gas company, which, sure enough, told me that they needed to coordinate with Frontier Communications. Then today during another telephone call, they suddenly discovered that since my son called in the transfer order on my behalf, they could no longer discuss anything with me.
This whole fiasco tells me that their operation is totally disorganized and none of the individual I spoke to, from service representatives to supervisors, has any interest in finding solutions to the issues on hand. Interestingly, they do not seem to care at all whether we remain their customer or take our business elsewhere. Well, guess what? Neither do we.
Reviewed May 17, 2017
I was the first Verizon FIOS customer in our neighborhood many years ago, and told many of my neighbors about the speed and quality of the service. We had discussed cutting the cable bill, as it had gotten out of control cost-wise, and we are now retired. Then, Frontier came along. We got a quote on the phone of $54.00 per month for a year for just high speed internet. When we called to get rid of the cable and phone, we were told there was no way anyone ever quoted us $54 per month, and it would be $69.95 for the first year, and would be higher after that. So - we told them to come get their equipment out of our house, and cut everything off. They spoke to me as though I were a prisoner, and didn't really mean that. I assured them that they would receive no more funds from us, and they finally terminated all of the services. Sadly, all of the equipment is still here, so I'm returning it to one of their stores.
Now, I see an ad for $40.00 per month for Frontier internet for six months, and then an increase after that, but still far less that they quoted us - long-time customers. How can this be legal? Why doesn't Consumer Affairs look into this? We will never consider using Frontier in the future. They employ liars, and treat their customers like servants.
Reviewed May 17, 2017
Overpriced, slow DSL Internet service. Constantly being dropped/losing connection. Took 3 different technicians to locate last problem with cable running through trees after I pointed them in the right direction.
Reviewed May 17, 2017
I responded to mail-in offer by Frontier Communications for a FIOS Business service, which clearly stated in writing that the installation is free and that the all inclusive price is good for 1 year. The first bill arrived a couple of days after the line activation. To my amazement, it listed the $149.99 installation fee, a charge for the next month of service and an info that effective May 15, a Business High Speed Internet Fee of $1.99 will be added to my account! I called a customer service and after 38 min service call (the operator was putting me on hold each time I ask a question) I found out that my dispute will be reviewed, it will take 2-3 weeks but in the meantime I have to pay the bill in full. She also explained that if my dispute is resolved in my favor, my account will be credited $149.99, which means I will be paying for 7 months of service in advance! What a way to make the customers happy!
Reviewed May 16, 2017
I've had Frontier internet service since Feb 2015. The first 10 months were wonderful but from there it has been downhill. Internet goes out several times a day. I've called numerous times. I've been called a liar, told the problem doesn't exist. I've been told to download an app at the cost of $200 that MIGHT fix the problem.... Also been told that if its the modem they will replace it at a cost of $150. Well I posted the problem on social media... They asked me to PM them. Promised to send a tech out today and install a new modem. Tech didnt show. Yet when I called they said the work order was complete and they would add the $150 to my next bill. It went downhill from there. To the point I have now filed a complaint with the FCC and hired an attorney.
Reviewed May 16, 2017
I had Frontier when it was Verizon and although it was pretty expensive I had no problem with account or technical stuff until after they became Frontier. It all started with me asking to have them remove HBO. That caused a series of extraordinary acts of incompetence involving billing, service and tech. I went through periods of not having phone service and internet while they worked on trying to fix their messes. Every time someone did something it messed it up worse. It was truly unbelievable how many things went wrong. I finally canceled them, but then things still went wrong. I had Spectrum for a month before I realized they had not canceled me when they were supposed to. Someone went ahead and canceled and said it was effective from the date requested a month ago so that was fine.
Then they started sending me boxes filled with new equipment instead of the return mailers. Not just once but twice! I now have 4 DVRs, 7 set top boxes and 1 router to return! It reminds me of the time earlier this year when they kept sending me the wrong equipment over and over and over. I had to keep mailing back their mistakes. There is something seriously wrong with their equipment mailing department or their orders department. I have spent so much time dealing with their issues. I have spent hours on the phone and in chat online. I have saved every chat and it is crazy to see what they say they are going to do and how different it is from what actually happens. How can any company say they are providing a reasonable service if they cannot get even small things right?
Reviewed May 16, 2017
Right after Frontier took over from Verizon, my account was somehow changed from one account to two. One I have access to and the second I do not. I have repeatedly tried to rectify this error without success. I have been disconnected without a return call more times than I can count. Why ask for a return phone number, if you're not going to use it! Our phone service is terrible and our internet service intermittent at best. We constantly have to reset our router. If there is a worse customer service operation than Frontier, I have not experienced it. They are without question the worst customer service company I have ever dealt with. They should be ashamed!
Reviewed May 16, 2017
Frontier took over Verizon April 2016 in my city. I requested paper billing, I prefer to pay a bill that comes in the mail... Today, May 15, 2017, I received a Past due notice, 132.20 *basic, 27.82 non-basic charges, 33.42 toll/other, 111.24 directory/non-reg charges, total due on past due bill is $304.68, past due date 05/03/17, final due date 05/18/17.
I spoke one earlier, and on 05/03/17 I charged to my CC $401.34 past due and current charges. Today I called to get clarification about what was going on, and the customer service person kept asking me for the account number. I said it is not on this past due notice. She said, "For Security purposes I cannot give you any information." This went on for about 5 minutes, then I asked to speak to a supervisor. She said one would call me. Well she called me back and said, "Oh, you have a call back number so I can speak to you?" She already had my call back number.
I voiced my concern about being billed as illustrated above. I ask for a print out of my history, charges, and what I paid. She said she could not do that. That conversation went round and round for 5 minutes... I asked her to tell me month by month what I was billed and what I paid. She could not even do that... She would go along, then go back and forth, jump from one month to another then three more then back. So I ended the call. This is the worst phone service I have ever had.
Reviewed May 15, 2017
Called to request business INTERNET service -- no phone, no high-speeds, just enough to check email and play music. I was told "our lowest business package is $60/month, and it includes free phone service. Installation is waived with a 1-year agreement". I agreed. One month later I receive a bill for $315. When you call to ask one simple question, you get switched to various departments with those authorities and cross your finger they don't disconnected on you after waiting on hold for 45 minutes. Finally had the service fixed (the rep on the phone enrolled me in the highest, most expensive plan, over $100/month). Now, 2 months later, they are running a promo for $35/month for THE EXACT same service/speed I have. They refused to adjust the pricing. End of story. They don't care about service or keeping people long-term.
Reviewed May 15, 2017
Frontier's DSL speed, equipment, and technical support is horrible. I have tried for 2 years to have connectivity issues resolved and have been stood up, LIED to (according to their own field techs), treated like an idiot (have a degrees in engineering and computer science), ripped off, and completely ignored. Appointments are regularly changed or just a "no show". According to several field techs, customer service lies about conditions regularly to pass the issues on to them. Almost everyone I have come in contact with have treated me like I'm clueless when it comes to anything internet related.
There were $40 in worthless features that took me over a year to remove (who charges $2.95 for NOT having a Frontier home phone line). I was told several times it was an internal line issue and it's not covered under my package although I have printed out the bill several times and shown the techs, who then shake their heads in confusion over the matter. Unfortunately, I have heard the same from several people in the area who use Frontier. Well why not just drop Frontier??? Well internet availability here is either Frontier or Satellite and Frontier takes total advantage over this fact.
Reviewed May 14, 2017
I ordered Frontier and then canceled 1 day later. They said do not worry there would be no bill. The following is the transaction I had with them and then they gave me a bad mark on my credit. I write this to all and beware of this company's flagrant deceptive practices. Do not get service from Frontier Communications at all. They will screw you. In the end I had to pay even though they said I did not have to. They even gave me a negative mark on my credit.
History: Frontier Communications billing issue. Frontier Communications never sent equipment needed for DSL internet. I called a month later and canceled service. On 10/18 I talked to Savanna. She said account was immediately discontinued and disconnect confirmation number #**. Savanna said I would receive confirmation. I waited for the statement to come in the mail. 10/24: Talked to Teresa about not receiving a zero (0) balance confirmation. She said I would receive a statement showing a zero (0) balance soon. I waited for the statement to come in the mail.
11/27 @ 7:22 am: received a statement showing payment due of 149.66. I called and talked to Darrel. Darrel said the account was zeroed and I should not receive bill. He said he fixed it in their computer system. He said a statement and email would go out showing zero balance and to disregard the bill. Email was never received. I waited for the statement to come in the mail.
12/22 @ 1 pm called Frontier and talked to Keisha regarding a bill I received stating I would be sent to collections if the bill was not paid. Keisha confirmed that the account should be zeroed. @1:06 pm Keisha said she will call collections to make sure the account has not been transferred to their department. @1:10 pm Keisha asked to put me on hard hold so she could get the account resolved. Account will not go to collections. @1:22 pm Keisha said she would email me a zero statement. @ 1:29 pm. Keisha said she will contact me in 45 minutes. ID **. Never received a callback.
Called Frontier billing @ approx. 3:30 pm to find out status. Eric said he would transfer me to billing. Talked with Christina @ 3:48pm regarding not receiving email showing zero account balance. Christina was not in billing. @ approx. 3:52 she said she would transfer me to billing. Talked with Tia @ approx. 3:55 pm she said it takes 2 billing cycles to show the balance. Tia read the history of the account and confirmed that the service was never connected. Tia said they sent modems but I never received anything. Trying to send the credit from her terminal. @ approx. 4:36 pm I was disconnected from the call. @ approx.4:42 Tia called me back. Tia put the adjustment in the system correctly now. It should not take as long to approve the credit. Sent directly to supervisor to get credited.
12/28 @ approx. 8:30 am. Called Frontier regarding statement received on the 27th showing no credits and a balance of $149.66. Prior billing service members have stated that my balance should be zero. Talked with Chris. Chris said he would be my advocate. All credits are still pending. It takes a week or two to go through. Tia set everything the best way possible.
1/24/17 Called at approx. 2:40 pm and talked to Tina. She said the account is closed since October of 2016. Credits were denied but do not know why because I never had service. Tina will escalate to supervisor. Asked me to hold for supervisor. I will need to talk to collections. Give this number **. They will credit the account for me. 1/24/17 Talked to Marisa in collections @ 4:04 pm and she said is adding notes stating I never received service and she will request to adjust balance to zero. Marisa said the delinquency was reported to credit. If I do not hear back in 5 days e-mail offline adjust. wsmcollections@frontier.com.
Reviewed May 13, 2017
I've had Verizon FIOS for 12 yrs till it changed to Frontier. No change or problems UNTIL I called to see if I could reduce my bill after my job cut my hours. The customer service person offered me a "triple bundle" for $94.99 that not only saved me money but included a landline and faster internet speed. Needless to say I signed up. I called before the installation to see what I needed to do to port my landline to them. At that time discovered they were going to charge me $139.99 - $40 more per month! I told them that was incorrect and the rep agreed the price was $94.99 and said she would make the appropriate changes. The service was installed and several days later Frontier called saying they needed some information to port over my landline number from Verizon.
When I called with the info, I once again was told the service was $40 higher than initially quoted. Also, the network extender for my cell phone which had been working fine previously wasn't working now which is a huge problem since I live between two mountains. Now my cell phone signal is horrible and Frontier wants to charge me $40 more per month than I signed up for. At this point the real nightmare with Frontier begins.
My first concern was the price and after speaking to several reps who could not help me, I asked to speak to a supervisor. After explaining the problem, he said there was nothing he could do, agreeing that Frontier made a mistake but the fact is I would either have to pay the $40 more per month, reduce my service or get another provider. He was rude, condescending and basically a bully on the phone. He showed not one bit of sensitivity to the plight I was experiencing nor was apologetic with regards to Frontier's "bait and switch" plan.
Since I already had turned off my previous TV system and was a full week into the service before being told they wouldn't honor the initial package I was offered, I decided to forego the landline, decrease the internet speed and basically go with a lesser package than I was initially promised. Then while trying to address the cell phone signal extender problem I spend no less than 5 hrs total on the phone and spoke with no less than 10-12 different tech support people, one of which who told me to disconnect the new router and hook up my previous one (which I own). This brilliant bit of advice utterly disconnected the internet and TV throughout my entire home, necessitating another long drawn on time of seeking phone help.
The technicians couldn't help me so they sent me to "Premier tech support" and when I reach this person, he wanted money to help me further and then my call dropped because my cell phone isn't working well. I called back AGAIN (7th call this morning!) and was told I should have never disconnected the router...DUH!! Ya think??? So spend another 30 min with the person reconnecting the new router...
I'm utterly sick to my stomach with Frontier!! After 12 years of wonderful service with Verizon FIOS, Frontier in one week has destroyed any confidence I might have had. They are the WORST company I've ever dealt with by far and I am 68 yrs old so have dealt with a lot of companies! I'm also pretty tech savvy so there is no reason they should have treated me like an idiot because they couldn't solve the problem. Frankly the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing so the customer has to recount every detail to every person every time a call is made. I HATE Frontier customer service and will tell everyone I know to avoid them like the plague!!
I have several different order numbers since they had to change my service after refusing to honor the first package. They also refuse to send any confirmation emails detailing the service agreement and depend totally upon word of mouth... When asked for some sort of confirmation or receipt regarding the service agreement, the supervisor I spoke to told me I had to "trust his word" about the agreement and I promptly responded, "Why should I rely on your word when Frontier has burned me so many times in such a short time??" Again, I HATE Frontier customer service and will tell everyone I know to avoid them like the plague!!
Reviewed May 12, 2017
I have never been so frustrated with a company such as Frontier. From the beginning of the acquisition between them and Frontier. It has been a nightmare. With little to no apologies. Each time I call I'm on the phone more than 45 mins. The billing and misguided info provided by different reps. only affects customer. I am seeking legal advice on this matter. Repeatedly I was told, "Ohhhh I see the errors on the bills." Yet... It's an act of Congress to get the errors corrected. I have errors from 2016. We are nearly mid-year 2017. Yet, my services are affected. Sooo upsetting.
Reviewed May 12, 2017
My satellite wifi stopped working 3 days ago and after half an hour on the phone with tech services the rep told me Hughes.net said it was because there were low-level clouds within 10 miles of my house. She even told me to go to www.weather.com and that would prove that there were clouds. She said there was a mandatory service fee for a repair person to come look at it even if it couldn't be fixed. So I told her to cancel the service. Then she said there was a $400 early termination fee!!
I have had this lousy 5gb/month slow as molasses $75 wifi for over 5 years. I knew there was an initial 2-year contract. I had no idea there was another one! The lady said I should have been reading the 8-page long monthly bill for changes to their terms. OMG! This is only possible in a monopoly!! This is wrong, crooked! I am moving to Rome and I refuse to pay this bill. I am sending copies of complaints from disgruntled Frontier customers I can find, plus letters to my elected representatives.
Reviewed May 10, 2017
First - I've never taken the time out of my busy schedule to send a review. BUT!!! I am so upset and feel that what I have experienced is illegal and, at least VERY unethical business practice and potentially a violation of my privacy rights! I'll try to keep this short and to the point. I arrived home from my work office yesterday and prompting logged started my home computer to continue working from home. I was not able to access two VERY critical sites that would enable me to check and respond to customer messages (unlike Frontier, I take customer service seriously... Sorry, I digress).
They did a "test" and said they saw a bad line??? How could a bad line just stop access to certain sites... Okay, I played along.
They said they would send someone to our neighborhood to start finding the "break in the line." I asked to be transferred to billing so I could ask that I not be charged for service until it worked. NOW the fun begins... The billing agent says we are one month behind in payment. I'm already looking at Frontier site and see NO NOTICE of cancellation or interrupted service. I log into my bank and see that I mistakenly sent a payment to Verizon (previous ISP which I was very happy with until they abruptly sold my service to Frontier). Hence a month behind...
I made payment over the phone and GUESS WHAT??? The "broken line" was magically fixed. I could now access the sites I had been trying to access for the past 4 hours. This is very unsettling. How can an ISP selectively block access without any notice or even internal awareness within their own company? This feels very threatening to my privacy. If I had a choice I would switch IMMEDIATELY... Unfortunately, I don't. My neighborhood is Fiber and Frontier now owns that fiber... ARGGGG. I have lodged a complaint with the Texas Attorney General. Not sure it will help. But Frontier should not be allowed to operate like this.
Reviewed May 10, 2017
I had cable, phone and internet service with them. I decided to cancel the cable and phone service and only keep the internet service. For 4 months Frontier continued to bill me as if I had cable & phone service. Every month I got a bill I would have to call and spend hours on the phone telling them I canceled months ago and returned all their equipment. Every month I paid for my internet and after 4 months of wrong billing they turned off my internet because I wouldn't pay for services I wasn't getting.
I got tired of 4 months of calling and a total of 17 hours on the phone with them that I canceled all services and went with another internet service. They are still billing me and now sending me to collections and they owe me money. Frontier has the worst customer service I have ever. I have been told it takes 3 months for their billing dept to catch up with work orders. Come on this is the computer age, DON'T GO WITH FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS!!
Reviewed May 10, 2017
Long story short, we signed up for Fios through Frontier Cable back in January 2017. All was set up fine. Received first bill and chocked. It wasn't what was quoted to me. Called to ask why it was so high. They informed me it was because of taxes and fees. I told them it was too high and what other deals do they have to lower my bill? They said we could downgrade from 3 room package to 2 room package and with the promotions, it would be far cheaper. I was very happy and said it sounded really good and we just needed to ship back extra cable box, which we did.
Two months go by and we are billed what our quoted rate was supposed to be. Came home from work tonight to a bill that was almost double what we had been paying and what we were quoted was our rate for the first year. I thought it was a mistake and called customer service. They informed me that we had been getting 2 promotions and were only allowed 1 and the new figure was going to be our bill going forward. I tried to explain to them it was what I was told our bill would be by customer service. If I had known it was going to be double, I wouldn't have told them to move forward with the service.
I didn't make a mistake, Frontier gave me false information and without notice, would be debiting the new amount. I said this was unacceptable and I felt completely lied to. I was on the phone with several different people including 2 different managers for 4 hours. The last manager of the night told us they didn't believe any customer rep ever quoted us the lower price to begin with and that we shouldn't expect to get service for free. I didn't expect anything for free, I just expected them to honor what they had sold me to start with. Then to be called a liar to boot, sent me over the edge.
Plus we have to pay the higher amount and wait for a credit on our next bill, That we were lucky they aren't charging us more for the computer glitch because we owed more than what was being charged. I have never been so disgusted with a company's lack of regard for customer service in my life. Ended up canceling cable and only keeping internet. That's until I can find another company. We shall see if the credit is given or not. Somehow I doubt it. Stay away from Frontier if you have any other option. They could care less how they obtain your business, even if they have to lie to get it.
Reviewed May 9, 2017
Was having issue with Frontier cable (installed month ago) as the on demand wasn't working. Called customer service and invested almost 2 hours on phone with no solution. They just kept having me unplug and plug box back in. After wasting two hours, Chris (the rep) said, "I am sending a technician to your home in 4 days, you will need to be there between 8-5." You will note there was no, "What day might work for you..." Nope, just this day. I can't just skip day of work because their equipment not working. I asked for supervisor. "Nope, can't speak to supervisor, I will send them message and they have 24 hours to get back to you." You heard right, 24 hour wait.
So here we are 30 hours later and guess what... no call. Shocking! So they can't make a call in 24 hours and they expect me to wait around 8 hours in hope the service tech is better than the customer service and the supervisor. Shaking my head at such loss poor service. They employ over 20,000 people and still cannot help clients. My customers would hang me if they were treated this way. Please find another service provider if quality and service important to you.
Reviewed May 9, 2017
I added Frontier in Sept. 2016 when I moved to St. Petersburg. We are now in May 2017 and I have yet to receive one bill correct. They keep sending me emails to sign up for auto-pay - What a joke, why would I do this if they keep trying to over-charge me every month. I took a simple double-play package - Internet & Cable for $109.99 Promotion - With all there extra fees for equipment and service my bill was going to be approx. $124 a month - My bill every month comes in ranging from $170 - $190 (Different every month) I have to call EVERY month for them to adjust the bill and promise me that everything is fixed and next month my bill should be correct. Yet every month they still get it wrong!!!!
This is an outrage already!!!! If they sell packages at a certain price, you would think as big as these companies are, that their systems would have that set up to bill properly. Imagine if I would have signed up with their auto-pay, not only would I be out the extra money from my bank account every month, but then I would also have to go through the nightmare of trying to get it back! JUST DISGUSTED ALREADY!
Reviewed May 9, 2017
I accidentally hit my button twice, making a payment online, and it subsequently took the payment amount out of my account twice. I have talked to 3 different people in 3 weeks' time. Twice I was assured payment would be sent back... Still not done. Now a 3rd person tells me I have to talk to collections. Why did the previous 2 people tell me payment will be returned within 5-7 business days?? Incompetent liars!!
Reviewed May 9, 2017
We were paying around $85 a month for internet and cable. However, we do not watch much TV, let alone specific cable stations. So, we called in to simplify our service and pay less. On March 24th, 2017, a Frontier employee, knowing we were previous Verizon customers, gave us a promotional price for internet at an affordable $34.99 per month for TWO YEARS. Mind you, this was a verbal contract with an official confirmation number from the company. Fast-forward to the next bill, and we were still charged the $85 (new amount had NOT taken effect). An employee helped us again, crediting our account and promising we were good to go with our billing.
Fast-forward to the current May bill. We were charged $54.99 for just internet. Spent nearly 2 hours today talking to various employees. NO ONE honored Frontier's OWN CONTRACT with us. Later, I spoke with the floor manager. He explained we had been "automatically disqualified" because they no longer honored that promotion (what!?). Bearing in mind they never communicated this change to us, their so-called "automatic disqualification" was a euphemism for underhanded billing practices.
Here's the important detail for future Frontier customers: NO COMMUNICATION or CONSISTENCY. Not only did they not honor their contract with us, but they also NEVER communicated our "automatic disqualification" of our promotion. Additionally, they swore they could not adjust our monthly bill to consistently reflect the amount they agreed to. Who does this in a business? I was only asking for something THEY had previously offered to us. So, in short, here is our issues with Frontier: hidden billing practices, breach of contract, bad communication, lack of effort to serve customers. Please know that this is my first review online for bad business. I am not someone seeking a fight or looking for trouble or even a lawsuit. I just wanted to warn future consumers. Thank you for listening.
Reviewed May 7, 2017
Called month in and month out for the past 5 plus months, every time spending 90 plus minutes on the phone with them. Even with names and employee ID numbers and confirmation numbers. They continue to charge me wrong amounts. I ended up paying them more than authorized just so I didn't get sent to collections. I hate this company more than words could ever explain!!! Crooks are beyond words!!!
Reviewed May 7, 2017
Wow. First of all... DON'T... I REPEAT... DON'T USE FRONTIER!!!!! I saw the 1-star rating and thought, "Well, let's see. I hate Comcast but was forced to use them in the past. But I survived. Let's see how it goes with Frontier." Which I'm forced to use now because our apartment building only supports that and/or something else which also has a 1-star avg rating. Well... it's even WORSE than I could've ever imagined. First of all... They make empty promises: "You'll get a 200 dollar Amazon gift card".
This is supposed to be 'Verizon'... But they made the mistake by letting Frontier take over. Great. I called them and after a long, hard struggle reached someone. He went through the process with me, but not ONCE did he say they'll check my credit (and it'll hit my credit in the process). I even ASKED if it would be better to do this on my husband's name. They said, "It doesn't matter"... Now, if he had said that they would check the credit, it DEFINITELY matters (because I know his credit is far better because he's been in the country for much longer and my short history of credit is hitting my score at the moment). Nonetheless. Everywhere online when I check my own credit score, it says it's "Good" or "Very good" depending on where you look and which system you're using.
Unaware of this I decided to proceed. The man on the line said that payment options don't matter right now because they will take care of it on the installation date. So I was planning on setting up my husband's credit card then when they were SUPPOSED to arrive. FIRST MAJOR RED FLAG ---> I receive a text after my phone call saying my scheduled date for installation is a week plus later. Now I work from home... What am I supposed to do for 10 days?
SECOND MAJOR RED FLAG ---> I receive an automated phone call confirming appointment the day before. (Why it's a red flag will become apparent later in this review.) THIRD MAJOR RED FLAG ---> No one shows up in the 4-hour interval they gave us between 8am and 12pm. That's FOUR hours. My husband had to drive back and forth from work because I had an appointment in the city just so that someone would be present when they arrive... as they said there should be.
FOURTH MAJOR RED FLAG ---> I call Frontier. Ask them what is going on. Now it's 12:20 pm. The guy says, "No technician has even been assigned to you." I ask how??? He says, "I don't know... That's so weird." The **? I told him we've been waiting a WEEK for them to come out. His reply: "That's odd. Something must be up. They usually come out 3 days after the initial call. We'll have to reschedule though. We'll reschedule for next Wednesday at 1pm-5pm"... ANOTHER 8 more days! Now, we're waiting almost half a month JUST FOR INSTALLATION.
LAST ** UP ---> I received a letter in the mail. Dated 26th of April. "Your credit doesn't meet Frontier's criteria. This might've hit your credit." Excuse me? No one said they'd check my credit. If they had mentioned it, I would've immediately transferred the details over to my husband's name. But they said, "It doesn't matter, we'll deal with all that when we do the installation." Now... it's dated SIX DAYS before the first installation date, WHY would I receive a phone call to confirm installation the day before? (Refer to the second red flag). Also, how couldn't the guy (referring to fourth red flag) see on their system what's going on and tell me that this is the case? They are ridiculously unprofessional and I don't trust them at all. I thought Comcast is bad... Well, nothing could be worse than Frontier Communications.
Reviewed May 5, 2017
This is what I wrote to their President with no response yet and instead of writing a new review I am copying and pasting in hope that someone else doesn't make the same mistake we did.
I was a customer from about October 2016 until I finally cancelled services May 3rd 2017. I would like to start by saying in my 27 years I have never had to write to a company like this or had the amount of issues as I have had with Frontier. My husband worked for ** which requires home phone and reliable internet to work. When we began services we lived at ** and moved to ** which is right next door around December 1st. While living at ** we had no issues with internet or phone. However, when we called to move services over I got the runaround with customer support and was even told at one point to hook it up myself and as I had just given birth November 29th I became quite upset.
We finally had services installed and they worked for about a week before we began having issues with the internet speed and internet dropping. So my husband was forced to call off work multiple times while waiting for technical support to come fix the issues. Since December 1st I would say we have had a technician come out to the house about every 2-3 weeks until we finally cancelled services. I should have cancelled right away but I was promised time and time again the issue would be resolved. We even upgraded our internet speeds in hopes that it would help and it didn't. Having reliable internet was vital to my husband's income and mine since he was the one working while I cared for our first child.
Since we installed services with your company they have ran new lines from the road, rerun wiring, switched out modem boxes 2-3 times and yet I would say on average my husband was only able to work 25-28 hours out of the 40 he was scheduled since we had services moved. For the last 3 weeks he was unable to work at all and 3 weeks without income has hurt our family possibly beyond repair. I don't think I need to explain the amount of stress this caused my family and the amount of bills that began to pile up. Yet we always paid our bills with your company in good faith that things would get better. They didn't.
I am writing this in hopes that 1) you will help make this situation right by us and give us restitution to make up for lack of income because of YOUR company and 2) that this might not happen to any other family. If needed I can provide proof of his lack of income or you can just look at our usage log and see what I am referring to. It is pretty bad. When I called about 1.5-2 weeks ago I was told by a representative they could see our internet had dropped over 100 times that day. Please make this right by my family.
Reviewed May 5, 2017
I have had Frontier Communications as a landline supplier for several years. Unfortunately I don’t have any other viable choices because there is spotty cell service in my area. VOIP is not a choice either because satellite internet from Frontier is my only choice. In the past 3 years I have lost phone service on average of every 45 days. The outage usually lasts for over 24 hours. I have gone so far as reporting the poor service to the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission. All they did was provide a letter stating the Frontier had fixed that particular problem. I also sent a registered letter to the Frontier CEO. The letter was received and signed for but has never been answered.
I have been involved in the telecommunications industry for almost 50 years and I have never seen such shoddy service coupled with exceedingly poor customer service. My dealings with the field technicians has been the only positive note but they are spread too thin. My advice is to think long and hard before dealing with Frontier and to explore any possible alternative.
Reviewed May 4, 2017
The special was $60.00 per moth 50/50 internet, TV, and phone service. 3 days after installation I check my bill online it was $340.98. Called them, they said it included installation activation and equipment when I was told all of that was free of charges or was included in the $60.00 a month deal plus tax which should be about $70.00 per month. I have been trying to cancel services since April 17 2017. Today is 5/3/17 and still not been able to cancel, every time I try to cancel they just put on hold forever or just drop my call when I say that I want to cancel. They are liars. Don't believe in frontier communications staff or you'll be surprised.
Reviewed May 2, 2017
We ordered Frontier FIOS. We got a quoted price along with package details and an install date (4/25/17). They showed up on the date they said they would and installed the equipment. The installer did his job except for making sure everything worked and he took all the power cords from our previous provider and to top it off he left most of his tools in our home when he left. He assured me everything would be working in minutes and before he left. TV worked immediately but internet and on demand were not functioning. We contacted tech support and spent more than 2 hours running diagnostics with tech and finally tech said all would work in the morning. The tech said if not working in the morning call in and start a service ticket and they would expedite the ticket to no more than 2 days for resolution.
The following day the system didn't improve so we called in. Frontier reps Jake and Monica stated that it would be at least 6 days for next repair appointment and we would have to pay for the repair appointment. After further phone and chat time with reps Connie and Wedel we were told we would not have full service for at least a week. When we requested return of power cords taken by installer we were told it would be easier if we "just went to Walmart and replaced them ourselves". My fiance finally got to a supervisor and said she wanted to cancel service and we were told it would cost us $230 to cancel even though service didn't work. The Frontier rep said we were long term customers and we would have to pay for cancellation. WE ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE Frontier customers before 4/25 but they were so sure that they were right that they accused my fiance of lying to them.
We provided documentation from our rental complex and our TV/internet service provider and that didn't matter to them. We finally got them to see that we weren't past customers and cancelled the service without fees and now, 4 days later, they say we have ordered new service, and any further cancellation will cost another $230 and we are responsible for double charges. We have cancellation confirmations and recorded all conversations because they warned us conversations were recorded and now we are told we owe $460 for 2 cancellations. We still never had functioning service. We have talked to agents that have agreed with us in the matter of not having previous service (including supervisors) and we have talked with reps (including supervisors) that say we owe $230 and $460 for service we never had. We have been accused of lying and have been threatened. Please help!
Reviewed May 2, 2017
I signed up for a promotion that came to me in flyer to my home in March. It was a triple play + HBO and tech support for 6 months for $60.00 + tax. Sounds too good to be true??? Well it was!!! I signed up for that and received a bill saying something completely different!! After spending an hour on the phone with them in April to fix it, once again in May I am doing the same thing, this time they never heard of that promotion!! UGH So, I gave in and the best thing they could do for me was make my bill 89.66 + tax with no TECH Support of course! How can they get away with this? I am so tired of cable companies. All of them are the same!
Reviewed May 2, 2017
When I opened my acct with them. Some idiot spelled my name Daniel instead of Danielle. So my acct went to the fraud dept. They have now turned off my service 3 times (For no reason at all!) Even after speaking with corporate office! And being told the problem was solved... Everyone single person I spoke with. Was completely unprofessional, rude, and uneducated about their job! Just plain incompetent people! I switched my service to them. To save myself $40 a month... Honestly, I'd rather pay the extra. Than have to deal with those freaking idiots one more time!!!
Reviewed May 2, 2017
YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MY RANT. FRONTIER IS A HORRIBLE COMPANY!!!! After being a loyal customer to Verizon for 8 years this Verizon to Frontier take over has been a disaster. Frontier's service is beyond horrible and as a company they should really re-evaluate their customer interactions and really listen to what their paying customers have to say. I was a Verizon customer for over 8 years and was completely satisfied. Unfortunately Verizon Fios in our area became Frontier. I was worried since everything I read was bad reviews for Frontier but I figured same equipment new name on my bill. It took maybe a less than a month when I started to deal with the horrible customer service Frontier has to offer. My speed went from 70 Mbps download to 18 Mbps and when I called all they would say "We don't guarantee our speeds. You can upgrade for higher speeds"
In my head I wanted to tell this idiot, "If you can't get me 75 how are you going to charge me for more and still not give me the speeds I want." But I was so frustrated because we had gone over so many troubleshootings I just ended up cancelling the chat and decided to deal with this another day. Well today was the other day and needless to say the experience sucked again!!!! I clicked the chat button and began my chat well. Once we got to the same point where this guy is explaining how they can't guarantee service I told him to please cancel my account and this guy's response was "Are you still there?" I would respond yes and then eventually he closed down my chat due to lack of response but I was responding.
I started another chat and the representative said, "I will send a tech. Please be advised that charges will apply." I asked why and she said, "Well if it's not Frontiers fault you will be charged for the tech." I asked what were the possibilities of it being something else other than their equipment, their lines, she said she couldn't tell me. So I asked how often are customers charged when tickets like these are created and she said often. So my response of course was, "Can I see your technician's training manual because there is no way that most of your customers would have issues with internet speeds and it not be Frontier." No response on their end. Needless to say I will be cancelling my account tomorrow. I am lucky that I am on a month to month now and don't have to deal with cancellation fees. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH FRONTIER!
Reviewed April 30, 2017
Letter to the President of Frontier Communications or whomever is not playing golf at the time, and can read! It is inconceivable to me that Frontier Communications review is nothing but Wall Street BS, not a truthful and objective review of the importance of Customer Service, and the horrible and well-earned reputation of that company. The support that Frontier pretends to give to their long-term customers as I have been, unfortunately is non-existent, and/or very poor to say the least.
To ignore the top 3,155 complaints about that company (see:https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/frontier.html) in favor of promoting their stock values is insane... A lot of wind from the company and a lot of anger for those who like me are stuck using Frontier in areas where only Frontier is available (I live upstate NY where until very recently only Frontier was available as a telephone and Internet provider, and a consumer-hated monopoly of communications services that should be illegal when it leaves no choice to go somewhere else).
The rating with the Consumer Affairs Bureau is ONE star out of five, and I am sure that zero star was the choice of many, if it was possible to input zero star. Even some of their technicians in our area are changing their services from Frontier to another one, experiencing the same technical problems and difficulties as the regular consumers experience on a daily basis.
The painfully slow connections at a very high cost to the consumer, the ineptitude, and aloofness of their technicians are well known facts... For example when you say that you are using an Apple computer, there is usually a long silence on the other line, a lot of "huh's?" and "Well we're not very familiar with Apple computers"... Succinctly it means we do not know ** about Apple computers and how to service your connection problems. In today's world, many companies and individuals rely on Apple products, from iPhones, tablets, iPads, Apple TV to Apple computers, and Mac is still considered the best performing platform. Granted, they are expensive and Window based PC are still very popular... it makes no difference to Frontier as it doesnt make Frontier work better for the one or the other... But is worse for the Mac, indeed. That's a more than fair statement.
They also made me purchase equipment to boost the connection, in the order of almost $350.00. It worked a little better, but not significantly. They would not let me use my Mac Time Machine which is AWESOME, ONLY because they cannot troubleshoot it... So I have perfectly good working equipment that I am unable to use because of their ignorance and ineptitude to service anything... That Time Machine can also be used as a router, making their equipment obsolete. But no, they would not allow me to use better equipment.
When an appointment is made for a repair... the technician does not show up. It happened to me, FOUR TIMES in a row. NO ONE SHOWS UP!!? Disregarding the fact that a person will wait an entire day, probably canceling appointments to make sure to be available to the technician, and making THEIR TIME available to nickenpoops who have no regard, nor respect for the persons who pay their salaries. That is outrageous.
Telephone calls to Tech Support avail to nothing being resolved. Credits have been asked and responded by "Yes, we will credit you for this month"... Then you read your statement and there is no refund. That company SUCKS big time and does not deserve one cent of stock growth unless they start hiring people who have the competence to fix their own line problems, customers problems, and equipment problems. I understand that the deal of buying some equipment and territories from Verizon was a big mistake, since it is now well publicized that Frontier received outdated equipment from Verizon. Shame on Verizon... but nevertheless it was Frontier's decision to purchase that crap.
I have been a customer for 13 long years with this inept company. What broke the camel's back as they say, is that during my last phone call - at the beginning of this week - to Frontier Tech Support, when I complained about non-ending disrupted connections, the lady from tech support had the audacity to say to me "Well, we have a program to offer you and for $12.99 a month we can protect your equipment"... Say what? Isnt that what I am already paying for? I could not answer anything to this poor woman, except that I started laughing. That did it for me... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH... NO MORE of this BS!
I am now switching to Spectrum, for better or for worse, as I feel that anything is better than Frontier. I would NEVER recommend this company to anyone. In the long run, Frontier has been unable to perform, and is entirely incompetent, not deserving one hair of financial growth. Actually I am thinking about starting a class-action lawsuit against them to refund money to ALL unhappy consumers. If anyone has suffered from services not provided by Frontier, i.e. poor connections, failing to repair, failure to replace faulty equipment, interruption of services without reimbursement, please contact me by email at **. We will put our heads together, and I know an excellent Attorney (used to be a Prosecutor) who will be more than happy to take this on.
Reviewed April 28, 2017
Beware of this company. They try to sell you the world and quote very low prices and then when the bill comes they have a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with you why the bill is so high. I have now posted on FB after I could not get the 800 operator to even find my bill. She said that the computer software they use for my bill is different from what they have online. Can you believe that? I am going to see now what they do. If I don't get satisfaction I will cancel this service. I was even told by UPS after they sent me a bunch of receivers I did not request that they were not honest.
Reviewed April 28, 2017
I quit service with Verizon before they went to Frontier. The service was turned off. Verizon passed me on to Frontier because I started to get billed by Frontier for service I wasn't getting because the service was turned off!!!! Where I rent the landlord started service with another company. Frontier continued to bill me and all attempts on my part to contact them fell through. I couldn't even get an address to send the boxes and modem to. Now they have turned over the billing to a collection company which will put a dent in my credit. Stay far away from this company.
Updated review: May 27, 2017
Well, thanks to this site and Frontier, namely Lianne who reached out to me and Sandra in customer service? They have totally changed my perspective of the company. They resolved my issues and monitored my installation from start to finish this time. I am totally happy with the company and pleased with my installation. I hope they have resolved the complaints on this site as well.
Original Review: April 27, 2017
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THE IDIOTS! They are incompetent, lack compassion and respect for your time and patronage. I ordered service for my business 3 weeks ago April 12th. THEY made the appointment for Friday April 21 between 11 & 3... never showed and not a single courtesy call or email. Called 2 days later on Monday April 24 and was told my order was hung up in Engineering. At that point I was told the Engineering Department would call me back within 24 hours. Needless to say that never happened either.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt and waited an additional 2 days until Thursday April 27th. I called to complain and asked to speak to a supervisor. I was told that I cannot but the operator I talked to would fill to a form and submit to the supervisor and it would be 20 to 30 minutes for a return call. I informed her I had been waiting for a call for 3 days so why would they ask me to wait again? So sorry was all I got. I waited 2 hours before I called back and just cancelled the service before it started.
These incompetent idiots think they can run the business whichever way they choose in complete indifference to what their customers are saying? Thank goodness I found this site before I waited another 3 weeks for an answer... was nice to see that they have the worst possible service... other than United Airlines of course... I can honestly say that cancelling the order before I got started was the best feeling I have had in a very long time and I encourage others to get out or even better? NEVER ORDER INTERNET SERVICE FROM FRONTIER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Reviewed April 27, 2017
I am disgusted with this company!!!! They lie and steal your money!!!! I disconnected due to moving. They never said that they would continue auto pay. Now that they've stolen my money...they said it would take 3 months to refund over 100 dollars!!!! I talked with several people... even a supervisor without help. Don't sign with them if you can help it!!!! EVIL business practice.
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:
- www.frontier.com