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About Frontier Communications

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

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  • Variety of plans
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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 12, 2016

    Verizon has sold to Frontier, needless to say if you are a Verizon Customer, I MISS MY VERIZON. We have been on the phone for the past 6 hours with Frontier in attempt to sync our e-mail with the new company, we have lost our connection 4 times, our phone is now not operating properly, our email still is not synced & our movies we purchased from our DVR are gone. The poor technicians on the phone is trying their best to help us however most of them are all still learning themselves, apparently no one has the answers! This transition is a huge mess & We are not happy with Frontier or Verizon for doing this with our business! Shame on them. All the loyal customers whom have come to depend on their professionalism & customer support for so very many years HAS LET US DOWN!! All WE want is Someone To FIX THIS MESS!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 12, 2016

    I cannot stand the slow internet speed and spotty TV service since Frontier took over. What can I do? I do not want Time Warner or a Dish, and I cannot get AT&T in my neighborhood. As a consumer how is it legal for someone to purchase my business and ruin a once great service. I did not mind paying a little more for Verizon because the customer service was in the states and very reliable. I guess my question is what can I do about this? There has to be some legal recourse because something seems wrong with this situation.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed April 12, 2016

    My landline connection is dead. I called support. I tried multiple times and then was told they had to transfer me to FIOS. What? That is all they have. Then someone said a technician would come out on Sunday. Sunday rolls around and I get an automated message saying they'd be out today. No word. This company is "SICK"!! Customer service? BS. They have no talent and they bounce you around big time. Can I switch my service? Can the FCC do something???

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    Customer ServiceOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Extremely unknowledgeable reps. On phone for over an hour and got nothing resolved. Since switching to Frontier I can no longer watch TV on my tablet. ALL channels are locked. The rep kept asking someone else in different departments and putting me on hold. They had no idea what to do or say. I do not recommend this company.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Can't access on demand, can't access my gateway router setting, long time on hold just to find out when my contract expires. Mobile app is not the same as when it was Fios. Found barely found out Frontier took over. I miss Fios. Considering Time Warner cable again.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    To put it lightly, my experience with your company has been the worst experience with a cable/internet company I have ever had. And trust me, I am not the type of person who normally goes out of my way to write long, detailed reviews or letters. It all started with my initial call to your company. We recently moved to Rowlett, TX and needed a new internet account. We are not previous Verizon customers or were transferring any service over. I spoke to a man named Eric who was very helpful in getting our account set up. I gave him my debit card number, social security number and phone number. He said he was unable to "verify" my identity.

    I am recently married and I changed my name last year, so I thought, no big deal. He instead used my maiden last name to try and set up my account. He also transferred me to another department that was going to send me a identity verification form that I would need to fax in. Eric then set up a time for a technician to come to our house and get our internet set up. He sent me a confirmation email with an order number, a username and a password. Everything so far was good. Until this morning.

    Our technician was scheduled to arrive between 9 am - 11 am as confirmed by Eric's email. The technician did not show up. My husband had to take 3 hours out of his vacation time to wait for the technician that never showed. I don't know about you, but vacation time is very valuable to my husband and I. So, I called the number that was given to me by Eric to find out what happened and why the technician never came. This is where it starts to go dramatically downhill.

    I was put on hold for close to 2 hours. I was transferred between several different departments and not a single one of your employees was able to help me or even find my account in your system. But how can that be? I was sent a confirmation and given a login and password. How am I not even in your system? No phone number, no account number, no name, phone number or even social security number. So that explains why a technician did not come out to our house. The account was never created. I checked my bank account and the security deposit was never taken out so your company made it very easy to cancel. But I am VERY concerned that all my personal and account information that I gave to Eric has not been mysteriously lost.

    If my account was never created, then who did I speak to? Who is Eric? What went wrong? At this point, we have already called another internet provider to give our business to. So, why am I taking the time to write to you? And why do I think that you'll even read this or care about one lousy account? Well, so far based on what I have experienced with your company, I don't expect that you care or that you will read this but I am going to copy this letter and post it where others who, like me, are looking online for a new service provider may read it. Rest assured if I see any fraudulent activity on my account, or if I get a surprise bill from your company, I will be reporting you. Thank you for your time.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & Setup

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Decided to try Frontier because there isn't much WIFI in my area. Boy did I make a mistake. Signed up and scheduled my installation date. Took the day off work. Sat home all day 8 am - 5 pm. No one showed up or even bothered calling. After waiting for 8 hours I emailed the rep and my appointment changed. They didn't even bother to inform me. Do yourself a favor and avoid this place. They are a terrible company and have horrible customer service. I still have no WIFI and no installation date. Canceled the service even before it was hooked up because of bad service. If they can't even get a set up right I could only imagine how bad the actual service is... Buyer beware...

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    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Like a thief in the night, Frontier Communications sweeps in to degrade and destroy the confidence that I had previously held for Verizon. I hadn't heard of the pending transfers for our region, nor was I informed by Verizon of the change. I became aware of the corruption and incompetence of Frontier only just today. Suddenly, my internet is totally down. Frontier has no notice of this on site, of course. Customer and tech support is the absolute bottom of the barrel. I'll be switching my service, without a doubt. The party is over. A pox on both Verizon and Frontier for scheming and incompetence. I already hated cellular and internet providers as it was. They have no idea what they are doing. The bottom line is that is not enough competition in the communications market for consumers to get a solid experience. It has been a history of a race to the bottom. It will be just like the Airlines soon.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I called Frontier on Monday April 4th, 2016 and was put on hold for 30 min. then someone that I couldn't understand answered and said something to me. I said, "I want to know where to pay my Verizon bill." I was disconnected. Called right back and another 30 minutes on hold. Someone finally answered and couldn't understand her either. I asked, "Where can I go pay my bill?" She replied and didn't understand. So I asked her to speak slowly. Still couldn't understand. Then finally she slowed down and said, "I have to get money order and mail it in to ** Cincinnati, Ohio. I asked her to spell it I could figure it out. She said, "We haven't got systems updated for payments at place. Mail payment to ** Cincinnati, Ohio 45274." I am disgusted with this already. Always walk in my payment.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I am a business who has had our internet, and hardlines etc down now since 4-4. I have lost so much business. To make things worse they made this change without notifying me until 4-1 when we left the country on vacation. Now that I am back my phones are still not working. I want to take Frontier to court on TV so many people know how bad Frontier is. Does anyone want to join me in my lawsuit? If so email me at **.

    Frontier came out last week and replaced all our wiring to make our internet and TVs work. But my hardlines are still down. They promised it would be on today, but still no dial tones on the phones. By the way does anyone know what they are going to charge us for monthly service? No mention has been made of that. I'm not wanting credit on my bill except for the days I had no service... I am taking them to court for lost wages. We just sent out over 1500 postcards the day before we left town and none of those people can call us.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Well service was good with Verizon and after takeover it appeared to be fine until my service stopped and hardware replacement was being done. Now I have no service whatsoever and been dead in the water 3 days. Tech guys say it's something in software Frontier uses and another tech said it's something at substation that need to be changed. All I know is I have no phone, internet or TV and can't work and I am losing 3k a day due to no service... This is total failure to serve customers... The guys in the field are all trying their best but Frontier clearly didn't think things through or have proper migration in place.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & Setup

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    We had Frontier installed in our house for less than 24 hours when the entire system went down. After calling, we were told that our modem was no good and would need to be replaced. The problem? It would take them days to get back to the house. We canceled our Frontier service and put our Comcast modem back to use. That month we received a bill from Frontier, $405.96 for less than 24 hours worth of service. After hours on the phone and 2 hang ups we were able to get the bill reduced by only $77. STRONGLY recommend that you not switch to Frontier for any reason.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I'm a former Verizon Fios customer and since the transition to Frontier, there have been nothing but problems with connectivity and no on-demand features. Attempting to deal with customer service is a nightmare. Hold times are over 20 minutes and when you do finally get a person on the phone, they barely speak English. And when you voice your discontent, you're hung up on. Since April 1, I've had to call up to 5 times just to get through to someone and when I finally did after nearly an hour, it was told my call had to be transferred. I'm dropping them and will not be paying any early term fee. My agreement was with Verizon and frankly Verizon should have been upfront about this change when I renewed my 2-year contract. I hope more folks do the same.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    We had Verizon for all our cable, internet and landline service for many years. We were blindsided by the switch to Frontier in our area. We had no idea this was coming and had little information about Frontier. The change-over has been disastrous. We lost internet connection throughout the day, the TV's on-demand options wouldn't work anymore and our second phone line started dropping out. Plus, when I tried to fulfill Frontier's requests to set up my new account with them, the online site wouldn't work and I couldn't get anyone by phone who could tell me anything other than "be patient."

    A week later, with the internet still dropping out and the TV still not offering on-demand movies, I called Time Warner Cable to see what we could do to switch. They were great, came out a few days later. I called Frontier to cancel our service and it took me two hours on the phone and when I tried live chat, I was No. 71 in their queue. The phone rep I finally got said my service was already canceled. The live chat person said I'd have to contact them again after April 15 because they weren't set up for cancellations yet. I just got a callback today after sending a letter to the "office of the president." The young woman told me they would cancel my service but I'd have to pay $112 for "early termination".

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I own a small business and my account was just transferred to Frontier. However, my phone and internet bill just came in and to my surprise, it is $60 more than the usual. I call them and all they tell me is that they can't access my account and they cannot view my bill. I have been trying for over a week now. It is so frustrating. I should not have to pay that much if I was never told my bill would go up. Very annoyed and disappointed with this company. If they could not give the proper technical support they should have not took over!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Simply horrible. Starting to add service to my second home on March 7th and still as of today, April 11, not yet connected. Endless transferring from one customer service to another and more than 20 hrs on the phone with no results. The company is the only one providing wired phone and internet in my place otherwise I will be running from them.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I was hoodwinked by Verizon and Frontier. No upfront notice. Frontier has no real technical support. They are unable to resolve any issues. On the transfer of service, my account and my features like on-demand are not functioning. I spent 1 hour on the phone with absolutely no resolution. Not even the smallest of issues was resolved. A class lawsuit must be in order here. Completely unfair and unethical to treat customers in this way. I will be consulting a lawyer.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    First of, I will hope to be one of the hundreds of thousands of ex Verizon customers that are going to drop this awful company. We are the United States, how can FCC allow a company that bought Verizon (billions $?) to treat us consumers this way. Worse thing is that they blatantly lie. Friday 4-9 started to see the internet speed go down, that prompted me to call tech support. I forgot his name but overall, I spent 2+ hours with him, trying to get the speed up. He couldn't even go into the modem. Than he said, his computer froze and that he has to boot it up and will call me back. After 1/2 hour, no call back. I called tech support again and got KEVIN. I had to start the whole story. While talking to him my internet signal died on the modem. Panic! So Kevin started to say sorry for the inconvenience about a hundred time in the next 2 1/2 hour while I talked using my landline trying to get the internet signal back.

    All of a sudden we got disconnected and Kevin called me on my cell and said he will call me on my landline. I waited for 10 minutes, and picked up my phone and there was no signal. So I waited another 1/2 hour thinking he may call back my cell# since he asked for my cell phone in case we got disconnected. By this time it was late and I was frustrated and angry. No internet, no landline phone, no on-demand available. I called tech support again and got Shawn. He told me that California is down. That news infuriated me. I wasted 4 1/2 hours of my time with 2 tech support guys and they did not know of California being down??? OMG, it's awful that a company like this exist, and they bought out Verizon? Who owns Frontier? Another country? Saturday, 4-10, I called and asked for a supervisor.

    I had to wait 20 minutes to get a "supervisor", if it is true. His name is SAM, the supervisor. I had to say my story again, obviously they do not have or keep records. He keeps apologizing over and over again, I wasn't buying it. I had to do a few things at the Verizon box hardware and he ask how the box looks like, so he can get the specs. OMG, it's so obvious by this time, I am not getting anywhere. So after 2 hrs and 40 minutes, he said he has to call me back to get some answers... ya, real supervisor. We manage to set up a time for him to call me back with answers. The time set between 4:30-5 pm, he would call me back. That did not happen, another lie. It's Sunday night, I have been checking other providers and I will move on away from this company for at least the tv and internet. My phone line I am stuck with this bogus company since they are the provider in Long Beach, CA and we will see what else will come.

    I hope the FCC will yank their license or slap them with a huge fine. There are no excuses left. In the meantime I have to waste more time tomorrow, and try to get a technician to come to the house instead of waiting for their appointment. They set me up for 4-13. That's 4 maybe 5 days of no dial tone, no internet signal. Our house is wired up digitally and we need that signal asap. They don't care, they were not prepared to take over Verizon business. I feel betrayed by Verizon. They did not make this transition easy or smoother since they had the upper hand. They got their money and they ran, left us behind in disarray.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    Our services was completely shut off. I was with them for 4 hours last night and 3 hours today. Nothing was resolved. The customer service and tech support are not really knowledgeable and skilled. I opted FIOS because I thought I was with a reliable company, VERIZON, but only to find out yesterday that Frontier is the handling provider. I felt deceived. I have known couple of outsourced customer service and tech support from the Philippines and they are highly skilled and fluent English speakers but the ones for Frontier are really below standards and very unprofessional because they didn't even return my call despite requests. Some told me that they have no outgoing calls.

    I'm moving back to Time Warner for a lower rate and 3x higher internet and tv program. Frontier should not charge me any cancellation or termination fee because I got the service knowing that it was a Verizon product and will always be Verizon. Also, Verizon should have disclosed to me that the account will be moved in the next two months to Frontier so I could have decided to get it or not. There's no full disclosure and no letter was ever received for the new management to date. Also why would I suffer for their poor service and let my energy wasted for long hours every time I call them? Get everyone trained from A to Z. I lost a lot of business yesterday and today, purchased a higher data for my kids in order to get their homework done.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    I thought I would never say this but I miss Verizon. Verizon recently changed to Frontier Communications. This company is awful to say the least... We have Fios and my computer has had problems, our television and our home phone, with service. I tried calling and was on hold for 45 minutes. Then put thru to tech support in the other side of the world and they could not understand me and I could not understand them... Figures... Damn Verizon and Frontier. Definitely I'm looking for other options.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 11, 2016

    These ** needs to be flogged. Last week I called to cancel my cable server (keep internet) and I was told that my information hadn't transferred yet as a result of the FIOS Verizon Buyout. They told me to call after the 8th. So I called today, was put on hold for an hour, finally got through to customer service rep who put me on hold because I didn't have my OLD VERIZON account number on hand. After putting me on hold for 10 minutes, she hung up on me. I'm now on hold again going on to 1 hour, 13 minutes and 15 seconds while I write this report. I should be able to call and cancel my ** service. This is ridiculous. Can't believe Verizon sold to these **.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    It's been 1.5 weeks since trying to pay my bill and get a hold of someone. Well today I finally was able to login to pay my bill. I noticed on their site that it says customer service is 100% USA based. I called twice today and one person said his country was Asia and he hung up on me after I told him Asia is not a country and then he said he was not allowed to tell me from what country he is providing customer service. This makes no sense at all that I have a foreign person who won't identify what country he is in verify my account information with him so I can pay my bill. The other said he was in the Philippines and could not upgrade my service or downgrade my service. Said the only thing he could do was tell me how much I owed.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I still cannot watch Netflix, which is the least of my problems since Frontier took over the Verizon accounts in Texas. My fax/printer doesn't work, and sometimes I can get online, sometimes not. This has been terrible service because not only am I a customer, but I work from home and count on my internet connection. If this is not fixed (and I have contacted Frontier several times), then I will be moving to another service. I cannot maintain my business accounts with such a disorganized group. This is awful service... Just awful. I have reports that are due, and I still cannot file them. I will lose clients if this continues.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I called into Frontier Customer service as I was trying to get an account with them since Verizon transferred. I was not recognized as a Verizon customer. I called the number, it was extremely noisy on their side. I asked if she was in the U.S. and she said, "No." I requested to be transferred and was put on hold for a very short time. She was going to give me a new number to call. When I asked her that she could not transfer me as per law, she started to change her mind but still did not transfer. Really? Frontier I requested a person to be in the states, and you could not be able to do this?

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    This company doesn't know its left hand from its right. They took over from Verizon in California and so far it's been a total mess. You call, they keep giving dates further and further in the future for repairs. However, their billing dept seems to work fine as I have already received a bill. If you have the chance to escape from Frontier and go to another telco good luck.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    Paid premium channel on demand entitlements still not available, 10 days after cutover. Verizon said we need to pay them through April 25th, as invoiced, and Frontier will credit us the difference. Frontier said they would not credit us.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I called and contacted Verizon. They said, "Contact Frontier." I did and the only way to actually get a response is to tweet!!! Frontier that's is amazing to me - to get any help I have to tweet. A company that's supposed to want my business. I pay for all premium channels and Starz is the only one I can view.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I live in Palm Springs. Very happy with Verizon FiOS and then here comes Frontier buying Verizon lines for $8.6 billion. Message was "wait till April 8th we're transitioning." Can't wait to change vendors. They used all their money to buy Verizon and none for converting. Try to contact, massive wait. Mysteriously they changed all my HD recording to standard channels and had to redo all my set recordings. Website has broken links like if your high school teen did a website for you. Can't download mobile app (broken link). Can't see services to adjust and get rid of them - but you can see PAY MY BILL, that was only link they put up - "Hey we're crappy providers, broke your service, can't adjust anything, but please pay your bill so we can pay our idiots on staff." If you are now a Frontier customer, run baby, run - it will only continue to be bad.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    Terrible customer service. We called three times to try to add some service in to our account and we spend about 45 minutes each time we called and nobody solved my problem. One day I spoke with Mrs. Tina ** and she guaranteed our service will be working properly after 04/06/2016 because the merge from Verizon.

    Terrible Service. Never recommend this service. We never have this situation with Verizon.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaffReliability

    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I've never had long distance service with Frontier. I didn't have it with Verizon before they sold to Frontier, but Frontier sneaked the charges back into my bill by changing the name of the charges and not notifying me that they were adding the long distance service charges... but they never activated the long distance service. I called to complain and the customer service person was insisting that I was making long distance calls, when my bill shows "0" calls. After a few minutes of tug war they agreed to reimburse me.... but only up to $25.00. The rest, they keep it. Besides all this bold rip off, people call me and they say the phone rings a busy tone, when I'm not on the phone.

    Internet service? That's another story. Every time I log in the service is so slow that a turtle can grow a beard. I feel like I'm in a cheap hotel somewhere in the third world. Download speed? 2.74 Mbps. Upload speed? 0.66Mbps... And they say it's normal because "there are too many people logged in". Douh! How about if you invest some of the money that you rip off from your customers improving the speed according to the number of customers that you have? PLEASE NEVER CONTRACT WITH THIRD WORLD FRONTIER, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    Verizon recently changed to Frontier communications and we will be sending our bill to the PUC. This company is awful. We have Fios and my computer has had problems, our television and our home phone, with service cut off. I tried calling and was on hold for 45 minutes. Then put thru to tech support in the Philipines and they could not understand me and I could not understand them, after waiting another 45 minutes. Just try calling their customer service and see how awful it is. They should be fined big time!

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    My load and download speeds have been less than 50% of what I'm paying for with my account. The wait times to call customer service is terrible. I need to order a new set top box for a new TV and can't get through. I tried to call Frontier today to tell them that I was trying to use a different outlet in my house and it seems that the outlet doesn't receive a signal.

    After 45 minutes of a representative repeating the same phrases and saying "uh huh" to everything, even when I asked a question, I finally persuaded her to schedule an appointment for a service technician. Today is Saturday, she gave me an appointment on Monday from 8 am - 5 pm. Well, I can't just not appear at work on Monday morning for the cable guy. I asked her to reschedule another day. She said, "No, it's Monday or not at all."

    She had no answer on how to reschedule for a different day. I really don't want to call back and waste another 45 minutes for someone to just give me some random day at their convenience that I can't be home. I can't even figure out when my contract is expiring to see what penalties I am facing to get out of the contract. I had horrible service with Time Warner but will going back to them. Anything is better than how Frontier is starting off.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I have chatted, spoken on the phone, and even contacted the president of Frontier to get answers. I was promised a reward Visa for signing a new contract with Verizon (never told they were selling to Frontier when signing new contract). I reached the required 61 days of service 3 days before the sell. When I use the information provided by Verizon to check the status of the card, my user name is not recognized. Called Verizon. All my account info has been removed from their servers. They can't check. Called Frontier. I have NO account with them yet. They can't check! Both companies kept passing me to the other. Still no definitive answer.

    I finally have an account with Frontier and the call back recording from the president's office states Verizon "should" still send the reward card, however they may if Verizon doesn't -- 4-6 weeks AFTER 90 days of service. The original reward states 2 weeks after 61 days of service. I have no idea who to contact! This is ridiculous. The only positive I have is that I'm lucky I've only lost access to some of my premium on demand channels and things like HBO Go. At least I still have internet/TV. Any suggestions would be great!!!

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    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    On April 8 I called with a minor concern. Some of my applications not working properly, but otherwise my television was working and as far as I know I had all my channels. During the process of attempting to troubleshoot these MINOR issues, I lost all video. While troubleshooting the video, my home phone stopped working; service rep called me back on my cell. Unable to resolve any of my problems, an appointment was made for April 12 (4 days with no television at all).

    IT GETS EVEN WORSE! A short time after the call was concluded, I discovered that my home phone (landline) is not working. I called back to report this problem and insist that someone respond to my problem sooner than the 4 days I had been quoted. No luck. Short version: I called about a minor problem with some applications, and now I have no television at all and no home phone at all for at least 4 days. NOT A HAPPY CUSTOMER.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    This company has the worst customer service experience. My internet service is not working. It is the only service I have through Frontier. I spent an hour on the phone with a technical support that I could barely understand and only knew what he was reading out of a manual. He walked me through resetting my own service through the Frontier admin website. I still do not understand why he did not log into the website himself and check the configurations. The end result was me being left with no internet and having to wait 3 days for a technician to come to check the outside of my home. I asked for credit for the service I am paying for and not receiving. I had to call back and speak with customer service because technical support can only put notes on my account to recommend a credit.

    Customer service told me that she was going to put an adjustment on my account because it would only take 2-3 months for approval rather than the 6 months a credit takes for approval. Somehow she was able to get a same day adjustment after I told her how completely unacceptable waiting 2 months for reimbursement of a service that they are failing to provide. I knew I was going to have these issues when I set up service with this company. I have no other options for internet providers. If you do, do not choose Frontier.

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    Customer ServiceOnline & App

    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    Where to begin? After Verizon severed our DTV package last fall and then dumped our e-mail on AOL (who uses AOL anymore?), now we've been pushed off on some company called Frontier Communications that is as incompetent as Verizon is uncaring as far as our router goes. Two days ago I received an e-mail from Frontier saying "We identified that your Verizon account number was omitted from the database used to match Frontier IDs with Verizon accounts. This matching process is necessary to ensure that a Frontier ID is correctly linked to an account." It urged me to go to frontier.com/login (which isn't loading because their server keeps dropping the connection) or call 844-303-4032 (which I did, but the people at that end cannot locate my Verizon ID. They tell me I have to create an account Online--which I would if Frontier ever fixes their website).

    If first impressions count, then I would not even give Frontier one-star. (What have they done to earn it?) As far as Verizon goes, the only service I still have with them is my cellphone, but I expect to get a letter in the mail any day now saying they've sold out to some other company no one has ever heard of and then I would have absolutely no business to do with them anymore having lost satellite, e-mail, and wireless in the last six months.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    We were just switched from Verizon Wireless to Frontier without having any say in that choice. Immediately, there was an issue with our Caller ID so I called and after 20 mins on hold, a Rep came on & not only failed to fix the Caller ID issue, but managed to accidentally shut our phone svc off, just before cutting me off. I called back & after spending another hour getting the run around, I was told they'd have to submit a repair ticket & they couldn't tell me when the phone would be restored; JUST ORDERED TIME WARNER TO REPLACE FRONTIER!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsOnline & AppReliability

    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    When a company transitions the consumer should not be aware yet service should not be interrupted. I've had problem after problem. First of all I was not able to create the new account with Frontier to log in, view bill, troubleshoot my issues or contact the nonexistent customer service. My WiFi had been acting up so I needed to log in and troubleshoot. I was working from home that evening and expected to be on a Webex conference. Our company had a 16 million dollar contract on the line and I was unable to use my WiFi. I tried calling customer service and tried the online chat. I was in a chat queue for 4 hours and never answered!!! Completely ridiculous! I was unable to view On Demand programming for a week. Now that it's on my content is not there! My points are not the! Now that On Demand has been restored, much of the content is missing... Including the premium channels which are included in my contract!

    The apps do not work correctly either. It shows channels that I'm subscribed to as locked. I feel that we should have a month of heavily discounted or free service or let out of the contract for free so we can choose another provider. Hopefully a class action lawsuit will be filed. Extremely disappointed that Verizon abandoned us and even more disappointed that we were sold to lo4usy company.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    I noticed DVR was not recording properly. Verizon told me my account now belonged to Frontier Communications. After being on hold for 20 mins, I was put back into the automated maze while they tried to look up my account. After the second 20 min hold, I spoke with someone that I could hardly understand. He stated all services would be restored by April 11th. This looks like D'Day. If not fixed by then I guess we should all move on to any other of the many providers out there.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed April 9, 2016

    A refresher course is needed for the reps, don't mislead the customer just for a sale. I was told my reward visa gift card mine to keep, under no obligations. All LIES. It throws you into a year contract. When I was told "Don't worry you can cancel if not satisfied", prior to signing up with this company. Then the real truth comes out! Teach you Reps not to lie and mislead the customer. Not Nice.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    Was not told last month when I was sold and new 2 year contract that Verizon was out. The landline has blown up with robo calls since 4/1. The online version of shows (HBO-SHOWTIME) does not work, there is no customer service, cannot pay bill online (can't get online to Verizon or Frontier). The only thing a Frontier phone rep. would offer to do was disconnect service! Rude with attitude. I am changing service, and will not pay for the early disconnect, there must be a consumer law/rights about this kind of bad business.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    Internet has been down for 20 hours now and the customer service reps are worthless. They ran a test on my phone line that my computer is connected to and now the phone doesn't work. I spent over an hour on the phone with them using my cellphone and now I have to wait 5 days for a tech to come out and attempt to fix my landline phone. I work from home and need my phone and internet service. I worked for Verizon for 5 years and it appears that Frontier will be treating their customers just like Verizon treated their employee.

    Bottom line...I will be looking for a new internet service provider starting on Monday and I suggest that everyone else do the same because it will only get worse. The customer service rep even admitted to me that Frontier should have given their customers a heads up that the transition would be affecting services and they didn't. The rep said it was a mess. Good Bye Frontier.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    I thought I would never say this but I miss Verizon. Did not know about the buyout till I tried to pay my bill. Took 2 hours while on phone with rep. to create an account. Tried 2 different credit cards and then a debit card and was told they would not go through. Had to give my tracking number for checking account before it went through.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    In seeing all the complaints regarding the switch to Frontier I felt obliged to record my experience as well. I found that the interruption was relatively minor. I followed all of the directions from Frontier and it seemed to work out fine. I had some issues for a day or two regarding the loss of signal while watching a movie via wi-fi, however, it seems to have been resolved. I also could not watch movies On Demand for a day or two. These issues seem to be typical of a changeover of providers. All in all not too much of a disruption. Having said that, I now have my fingers crossed that everything continues to go well.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    I am giving them 2 stars only for the reason my husband had a very nice person on the phone. He couldn't get hold of the help support number, but he selected 'add new service' and got through with someone. They told him that the website will be down until or by April 10 and everyone is able to pay the bill. There will be no late fee unless you pay on the 10th if website is up and running. We also didn't have our account number for Verizon but they gave us the new one for Frontier. They feel bad about this but knowing they are just switching everything over give them a little time. If you need to talk to someone and couldn't get through just call new service and they will help thinking you want to buy something.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    April 5 I called the number displayed in my tv for a channel being out. I called the number and was told sarcastically, "Good news. Bad news". Good news is Verizon can't help me. Bad news is I have to call frontier. The rep gave me the number. I called the number 800-921-8101. Easy prompts and somebody picked up. Spoke to a female rep from the Philippines. I was shocked at first as I was so programmed to long wait times. After I explained to the rep my issue. ONE channel being out. She told me should be fixed by tomorrow April 6. Perfect. Good feeling already about how this Frontier change. April 6, 6pm. Checked to see if my ONE channel was back. Sorry this was History Channel. So I checked channel 628 and it was still missing. Now I noticed the on screen information had changed. No longer giving quick code or phone number. I did not call thinking one more day is no biggie.

    April 7. My first call started around 230. I now noticed it wasn't just ONE channel missing. It was ONE channel in one room and other channels in other rooms but neither of them shared the same missing channels. I talked to a rep for 1 hour and 45 minutes. The rep told me numerous times they were talking to my set-top box. Now I knew from previous calls to Verizon when you remotely reboot the set-top box you will see the lights flashing, especially on the dvr box. Nothing ever happened. She had me unplug set boxes numerous times. My name called every 2 seconds and was told "Sorry for inconvenience" at least a million times. The rep told me she was talking to another department to help assist. My phone went dead. Now I have no dial tone, no internet and no tv at all. NOTHING. I called back using my cell phone and talk to another rep for less than 3 minutes and line went dead.

    I tried my luck again. I spoke to another rep. No notes. Had to go thru the entire story but now it's not just a few channels that are missing. It's everything is down. He tried or so he said he did everything in his disposal but he could not help me. I thanked him and asked for a supervisor. Now, I haven't use any names up until now. The so-called supervisor's name was Marie. She pretended to act like she could give a care as I had to repeat myself over and over. She asked if it was possible to call me back in 15 minutes. That would give her time to do further troubleshooting. I reluctantly agreed. That was 5:48. I gave her until 7:30 and then I called. Again NO NOTES. Surprise. The rep disconnected the call.

    I spoke to another rep from Arizona. I was shocked to say the least he troubleshot my system. But to avail it's a no go. Create a service ticket NOT UNTIL SATURDAY BY 5PM. He said. So here I sit. No phone, no internet, no tv. I have kids that need internet to do homework. He tried to move me up but have cancelled all expediting service calls. I will be calling BRIGHTHOUSE tomorrow. Against my will I will. But this is inexcusable. To go from 1-3 channels being out to now NO TV, INTERNET AND PHONE, FRONTIER has lost my business and will lose many others. And the outsourcing of jobs to boot. Icing on the cake. Service tech will be taking equipment on Saturday not fixing.

    I hope someone from Frontier reads this. I always said Verizon was a great product but had horrible customer service. I would gladly take that right now. Frontier has no idea. I ended my call at 10 pm. 7 hours. I asked for a credit and they gave me another number - 1 number off from the one I dialed 8102. No transferring as they are not set up for that.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    Frontier Communications unsuccessful transition of Verizon accounts. Since 1 April, unable to pay bill online as the result of unsecured Frontier payment processing portal. Meanwhile, Frontier offshored customer service unable to process payments over the phone; advised to "call back after March 11".

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    Reviewed April 8, 2016

    I would rate them an absolute "ZERO". Frontier recently took over the Texas, California, and Florida territories of Verizon. At first, I was notified from Verizon of a new service provider (AOL) for my email. Next, I find out (through Facebook friends and never the company itself) that Frontier is servicing my phone/internet/cable services. Within a week, all of my Verizon services have been shut down. The message on the tv says to reboot. I have attempted to reboot, turned on/off, checked cables, etc.

    Frontier's customer "service" is of no service at all. They have told me it could be a few hours, or up to 48 hrs. Well, it is going on 48 now. They act like this is completely normal and tell me to be patient. They say they are working on it and don't provide any type of confirmation or service ticket to confirm the timeframe. Per Facebook and other social media outlets, I will be lucky to have my services restored within 48 hrs. Many have waited longer than that & their services are still not restored. I have never heard of a company that conducts business in this manner. Very disappointing. Very frustrated. Very angry!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    I continue to have nothing but problems with my TV since Frontier has taken over. Demand channels not available, DVR not working, erased all of my saved DVR programs. I spend close to 4 hrs with both Frontier tech and customer service. Every person I spoke with couldn't even answer the most basic questions. It took close to 40 min to reset my box. 30 min and no resolution to a message to upgrade my DVR service. I already pay for this service. I asked about a refund for all the features not working and were working before Frontier took over. They are not trained, not knowledgeable and certainly no help... We should be able to have some recourse without having to pay early termination fees. This is the worst service I have ever had in my life.

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    Customer ServiceOnline & App

    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    I've been a satisfied Verizon Fios customer for over 5 years. As a surprise to me on April 1, 2016 I received an email that Frontier Communications is now my TV/Internet/Telephone provider. I followed instructions to create my login ID and register my phone. First problem. When you register you need to provide a password that they send via text. The text took 45 minutes to arrive and by that time their website has expired. Tried this 4 times. Second problem my internet service/TV went out. Took a day for it to come back. Problem three, tried to watch an on demand TV show only to find no Showtime/HBO on demand available. (This is now day 7 of the migration and none the few on demand programs available are not in HD).

    Problem four, telephone voice mail is not working. I called customer service to see if I could have issues resolved only to be connected to someone who had problems hearing me and couldn't understand what they were saying (I was on hold for over 45 minutes). I called back today only to find that the telephone voice mail might not be resolved until next week and they are trying to resolve the video on demand issues by the middle of the month. I called back again to find out what I need to do to cancel my service only to find out they are going to penalize me $100.00. This migration is an epic FAIL and Frontier Communications should be ashamed of this major screw up.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    I am formally a Verizon customer who was switched over to Frontier this month. My experience with the technical customer support team at Frontier has been less than thrilling. I lost my internet connection on April 2 due to the transition. I was told that there would be only 6 hours of down time and I was down for a total of 5 days until a technician finally came out to my home. I was given a variety of explanations by customer service as to why I had no Internet service and none of the representatives had an ETA. I was told that a tech would be out to my premises on Tuesday, April 5 from 8 am - 6 pm and no one ever showed up.

    I received a call from the tech the following day and he arrived later that afternoon. He told me that Verizon and Frontier have incompatible networks. He was able to get my system up and running. However, the speed was extremely and unacceptably slow that I ultimately cancelled the service the same day and switched to Cox Communications. I do not recommend Frontier to anyone. The experience has definitely left me jaded.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    Frontier is pathetic. 7 days in to the transition and still do not have full service which we paid Verizon premium prices, but also got premium service. Frontiers apps don't work... Stations we pay for are not available. No mobile Fios. Truly unacceptable. Changing servers NOW!

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    Have spent hours on the phone trying to set up my email. On Tuesday I was told after 1 and 1/2 hours they would have it fixed by the 14th! But to keep checking!!! I'm worried that all the info from my Comcast account will be lost! Having just moved into a Verizon community a month ago I hadn't gotten a Verizon email yet! No notification from anyone about this change! Wish you had a minus rating!

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    This has been an absolute disaster. For a technology company to be so unprepared for a cutover of services like this is an absolute disgrace. I have all the same problems as everyone else who have complained. We are still paying for a Rolls-Royce service and getting a broken down old Chevy! We are out and looking for another provider!

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    Awful, it took Frontier to put up the On Demand feature four days & it was incomplete. The major networks like ABC, FOX, NBC were missing plus a bunch of other cable stations & they didn't restore the series episodes from before. It is a royal mess. They promised to restore the majority of titles by the middle of April but what they are talking is restoring Movies on Demand for rent, they have not restored the TV On demand on its entirety & no new episodes of the TV programming of cable or the networks have been added since they took over 6 days ago. (VERIZON CALIFORNIA CUSTOMER)

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsSales & MarketingOnline & App

    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    Verizon sold FIOS services to Frontier with no notice from either company. When I tried to access my FIOS app I received a message informing me that the service now belonged to Frontier and to download their app. After multiple attempts, I was able to download the Frontier app which does not work. I sent the error message to their support department and received a machine generated response saying I would hear back within 24 hours. 6 days later and still no response and the app still doesn't work. My Internet service keeps cutting out, and download speeds aren't even close to the 50Mbps that I paid for.

    I contracted with Verizon 2 months ago and was never told that they were selling. I consider these bait and switch tactics, breach of contract. I never signed a contract with Frontier and I will be switching to another service provider as soon as possible. Frontier is in breach of contract for failing to provide the services that Verizon guaranteed, therefore I will not pay an early termination fee. From the number of complaints on this and other sites, I will be watching the news closely for a class-action lawsuit. I found similar complaints dating back to 2013 in other parts of the country, so I have no faith that they will rectify this situation.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    Since the takeover on April 1st my service is getting worse by the day. Today it has been turned off because of "lack of payment" but I have a paid bill in my hand with the confirmation number. I even paid it a week early. Next bill isn't due till April 21st. I'm beginning to think this is the worst April Fools joke ever played.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2016

    This was the BIGGEST MISTAKE that a company has ever done to its loyal customers, thanks Verizon for messing up the Internet and TV! I only stayed with Verizon because of the FIOS service that Verizon has given me for over 4 years. But since Frontier took over, I am planning on switching to another company in the next couple of weeks.

    I have had Internet outages. I had to reconfigure my router, reconfigure my Wifi password, and I also have the Ultimate TV package, the highest price package you can get, which costs me a bundle. I am missing many stations which I am paying for on my TV. This is a JOKE that Frontier thinks it has it "under control." Frontier is fooling their selves and the FCC. This should have never been allowed to take place. Frontier is and was way too small a company to take over Verizon's service. I am very UNHAPPY with the service since Frontier has taken over from Verizon!!!

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    Customer ServiceOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Worst company I've ever dealt with. They're transitioning existing Verizon users onto their system after an acquisition, and I'm unable to login to my user account online or use my account to access television and streaming services on my devices. I've called 9 times and get disconnected by the service rep each time. They take down my mobile # at the beginning of the call and assure me they'll call back if we're disconnected, but of course they never do. The resolution I received for my issue is that they're still transitioning information and I should call back later to check, as they can't say when the issues will be resolved. It's been almost a week, and they still can't offer a resolution or even a timeline to resolution.

    I asked for my bill to be pro-rated to reflect the extended interruption in service and each time they transfer me to billing and I'm immediately disconnected. I call back, wait on hold for another 30 minutes, and the process repeats. Customer service also declined to connect me with a manager when asked. I was told no management was available and that the existing service rep was able to handle my issue. This is of course not true, since they've been unable to handle anything for almost a week now. All I want to do is unlock my user login to access my billing details on their website and login to streaming apps, but that appears to be too much for them. They've lost their chance to make a good first impression. I'll be finding a new service provider.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Since 4 1 I have not been able to secure any correct info. They now discontinued my tv service and will cancel everything tomorrow. I had Verizon tv, internet and phone. Because of the horrible service I was changing everything except internet. In this area internet is either Time Warner or Verizon with no exceptions. I am changing to ATT home phone but I have not received the equipment as yet but they notified Frontier. Frontier is discontinuing my service due to the phone number change.

    Someone at Frontier called my home on another issue and told me "by the way your service will end on 4 7". I called frontier and after speaking to 3 different people I am told this was not the case and my service will continue until I advise them to discontinue. I turn on the tv this afternoon and no tv service but I have phone and internet. I call customer service and I am told my service will end 4 7 because I am having ATT internet phone but she has no idea why I no tv service. She advises me that because I am doing ATT phone the policy is to d all coverage. I asked her is it not a policy to contact the customer to advise. She said no. She will work on my internet issue and now tech support has gotten the tv on but no DVD support. All the shows we taped gone. The worst service ever.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    I'm a Frontier customer in southeastern Ohio and Frontier was bad before they took on more of the Verizon landline service area. I too called in with a concern about why my FiOS mobile stopped working. I was told this was due to Frontier blackout period. In other words, things were not working so they threw everything into a black box and called it the blackout period. All the big co. in US are doing lousy jobs of cutovers. Not like the good old days when dial tone was considered sacred. Bottom line Frontier service and customer service is bad but...who cares.

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    Customer ServiceReliability

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Transition from Verizon to Frontier is a nightmare. My experiences have proved that calling any of the support lines will get you a different answer or indifferent attitude. You cannot assess any services that you have paid for and enjoyed for years. I feel tricked and robbed and there is no confidence in hope for the future. Feeling completely helpless. 5 different phone calls and 5 different explanations, attitudes and dates of completion. They have wasted my time and money and patience. They were not prepared for this purchase! Now we, the consumer have no protection from their incompetent planning. Help, help SOS! Is there nothing left reliable or trustworthy? Not even a relaxing evening with your favorite flick is sacred. Give us a break, get it together!!! Or sell it to someone who knows how! Disgusted in Sarasota.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    The account I am writing about is a business account. I feel very fortunate not to have TV or a DVR on this service. I entered a web address that I wanted to go to and was redirected from my Google page to the Frontier page. I had to reenter the address and finally found what I was looking for several entries down the page, after all the advertisements. Are the advertisements helping to pay for Frontier's internet service they are to provide to all of us? I digress.

    I called customer service, I found the number online. The connection was so bad that I could not really hear them. I thought to myself "how classic" that I have terrible phone reception when calling the provider. I never did get an answer to my question as I was transferred to another person and that connection was even worse. She ended up disconnecting the call. I keep wondering if she will call back as she has my account number and information. (I am not holding my breath.)

    In rereading the letter I received I see there is no option to opt-out and I never received an email from them even though the letter states they will "remain in touch to keep you informed by email throughout the transition". What are the chances that I will receive my new FIOS (my bad...Frontier internet) and phone service next week for our new business location. I am not feeling very confident that I will have my new service in time for our opening. Their lack of support really has a trickle down effect on others.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    The worse cable company ever - I never knew about them buying out Verizon until I contacted Verizon on this week and now I'm being told that all my service shouldn't be back up and running until Sunday the 10. I don't agree - I'm switching providers and I recommend everyone else do the same. We never signed up not to have service for a week and a half or to get horrible service.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Tried contacting Frontier regarding billing / fraud issues unresolved from Verizon. 7 days after take over Frontier could not access account information and was told to call back. When I asked to speak to fraud dept I was transferred around, put back into queue. Queue does not recognize entries. Poor quality customer service. Poor planning & execution of take over. I thank god I'm calling for employer and not having to deal with this company personally.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    If I could give a Zero, I would! We have had Verizon FiOS for TV & Internet for several years. The service was good and kept getting better. Customer service was fantastic and we had no problems. I even highly recommended it to friends and family over the years. We went along for a couple years after our initial contract finished and went to month-to-month. Last fall a guy comes to the door and convinces us to cancel my account and open one in my husband's name, supposedly to save money on our monthly bill and receive a $300 Visa card and a new tablet (which required a 2-yr Verizon Wireless data contract). We had to start a new Verizon FiOS 2-yr contract, so we signed on. Even though the bill wasn't reduced that much, we were pretty happy with the incentives we received.

    What he didn't tell us, however, is that the company was being bought out and that everything would change to Frontier. 2 weeks ago, when I started getting emails from Frontier, I thought they were spam, so I ignored them. I hadn't heard anything from Verizon about any merger or transition. I received 2 emails today with my "pin," which I hadn't requested, so I googled info about the merger and found articles from last fall about it. When I went to their website, downloaded their apps, and tried to use the pins they sent, the system made me create a new one. I don't understand why Verizon never contacted us about this impending change. My 83 year old mother-in-law is confused and doesn't know how to pay her bill. I can't set up my online account because it requires my account number, which I don't know because I paid all my bills online and I can't log into my Verizon account to look it up.

    I'm so angry that Verizon misled us into beginning a new 2-year contract when they were just going to be absorbed by Frontier a few months later. It seems no one is happy about this change and I might just have to pay the fee to cancel my contract. It's ridiculous that there was no communication from Verizon and only various suspicious emails from Frontier. Frontier had better get on the ball and start offering something to the millions of unhappy Verizon customers, or they're going to lose a lot of them in the coming months.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Like many people I only found out about the change from Verizon because I called to let Verizon know I had no internet or cable. Like most people I depend on internet for many things. I go to school and teach using this. 8 calls later and finally calling the office of the president I got hold of a someone who had command of the English language. I was lucky enough that she was willing to disconnect my service without a termination fee, earlier I was told it would be 160$ for early disconnection fee with a company I didn't sign up for.

    When calling the IT department got call centers where the people were not trained. None of them had degrees. Was told by one that I was asking her a personal question when I asked her what her qualification were to do her job. Had to explain that, NO it's a professional questions and since I am calling you for your expertise I should know what I am getting. Let's say I not a fan of Comcast but it's better than this.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    My Frontier Communications service has been almost non-existent since they took over five days ago. I have no way to use TIVO, my iPad, my Internet. I have spent four hours on the phone trying to get the problems resolved with no success yet! A young woman in West Virginia got part of my desktop PC Internet service to work, but not my iPad or TIVO. A man in the Philippines couldn't help either. YET, the Frontier spokesman in the newspaper says that the takeover has been a success & that the problems have been resolved! The Philippine service rep couldn't give me an estimated time or day when I might have these service issues resolved!!! They have lost their chance to make a good first impression on me! I will start calling other servers tomorrow!

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    As a former Verizon customer I subscribed to landline and DSL Internet services, now transferred to Frontier Communications. As directed by the one letter I received I set up a Frontier Account online. So far so good. On April 3 I found documents missing from my computers memory, and on April 4th my entire computer had been scrubbed back to factory default, 2012. When I eventually reached Tech Support at Frontier I was told I would be transferred to AOL! What? At AOL I was told AOL Tech Support will be assisting Frontier customers with their issues, for a charge, and would I like a quote? No thanks! Eventually I discovered the issue was Frontier did not recognize my computer so no service. Now I have spotty and slow Internet, having to turn my router off then on, every time I use it. The service I will be charged for is not being provided in good faith, and I will not be paying it.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Nightmare! Contacted customer service after being without Internet connectivity for a few hours. I could not get a straight answer from anyone. I asked if there was an outage in my area or if I was the only customer with an issue and nobody had a clue. I was told I would receive a call back with an update... lol... still waiting. I work from home so being without this service truly costs me. I'm already researching other options. I understand things don't always go as planned but I never want to have to deal with that customer service department again.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Called customer service about my DVR not recording on its own and that I had to manually record the programs I wanted save. The Frontier employee did not have a idea of what he was doing and kept putting me on hold for minutes at a time. He stated that he would do a line check to my DVR and when it went through he completely ERASED my whole DVR of all of its content. After he erased my DVR I was really upset and asked for a supervisor who didn't help me anymore, he just told me relax and that the equipment in my house is not compatible with Frontier's service. I do not understand this at all, they took over Verizon and it all worked with them and now Frontier takes over and everything is not compatible. Just sounds like a excuse because they don't know what they are doing. Needless to say I really think I am going to switch to another carrier.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    We have lost our ability to get on-demand programming and now our DVR is compromised. Called Frontier customer service and they say it will get better after April 7. I doubt that after reading other reviews. I have been a loyal Verizon customer for 35 years. Now I am looking into switching my internet, home phone service and cell service to ANYONE but Verizon. They screwed us over in Florida!!

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    Despicable. To promise a smooth transition over from Verizon and then to leave billions of people without proper service is disgraceful. My wife's school in Westminster, CA is without phone, internet, and any means of communication. Not only has this brought the school to a dead stop as far as teaching is concerned but what happens if there's an emergency? Has Frontier sent technicians out to do all they can to rectify the issue? Not one, and merely gave some vague lip service about possibly having service up in 2 weeks??? They are either utterly incompetent or they simply don't care. Not sure which is worse.

    My wife had to spend an extra 2 hours after school, creating lesson plans from scratch because there was no network, having to leave my young daughter home for hours on her own. ALL BECAUSE OF TERRIBLE SERVICE and by the looks of these other comments, a company that couldn't care less. On top of this, still no on-demand??? I guess we all can expect reduced bills for this quarter? I very much doubt this and as a company they've done a great SEO job of outranking complaints online - the sign of an ultra-shady company that spend their efforts quelling complaints rather than combatting the problems. Great start Frontier. A round of applause from us all.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    I have never heard of Frontier till trying to reach Verizon customer services yesterday and was told that my account plus their wireless business in TX, CA and FL had been sold to Frontier. I called Frontier and reached a lady in the Philippines speaking broken English which was of zero help. Eventually I reached somebody in the US who spoke reasonable English but could not tell me anything useful, for example, if the Verizon store in my town in CA will continue providing customer service. I am utterly shocked by the idea that a company such as Verizon will essentially throw away possibly millions of loyal customers without any warning and to a below-par company such as Frontier.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    I just called Verizon 2 weeks ago to renew my contract, upgrade my equipment and internet speed. I was never told anything about this transition. I was led to believe that I was renewing my contract for the latest and greatest Verizon service. Only to find out that once I plugged in my upgraded equipment, my services no longer worked properly. We have had extremely slow, or non-working internet, frozen FIOS programming and pixelated pictures. It is extremely frustrating to be paying for something that we can't even use - and paying at a premium at that! The rates on the Frontier website are significantly lower than Verizon. I feel like I have been deceived and disregarded as a customer. This is unacceptable.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    Wow!!! One star, not even! This transition is downright pathetic! Can't reach anyone who knows anything regarding this transition at customer support. Philippine-based customer service! No US contact number's listed. All numbers given by this so-called customer service are either disconnected or bring you back to the Philippines. Have called 15 times since 4/4. Finally got someone to transfer me to someone in OHIO! I had question regarding my $298 bill for service from 3/25-4/24, which is due in a few days. Once I attempted to discuss getting credited for the loss of my on demand services and my premium channels (HBO, Cinemax & Showtime mainly) during this transition, she hung up! I still do not have those services.

    Well Mr. Flynn! Not sure how you could make a statement to Mr. Levesque, with the Tampa Bay Times on Monday, that things are in great shape and that you are pleased with the transition??? That is such BS! Who are you kidding? It's not even close to true and today is 4/5 and many of us are still having issues today. One question. Why was there not an educated customer services center set up just for this transition? I realize this was a big deal to take on but business 101 is pretty basic. Having great Customer Service usually brings great success. Frontier you have failed! Will be looking to take both our accounts generating about $450 per month, elsewhere.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    Surprise email the day of/before Verizon threw us under the Frontier bus. I've had Verizon for over 10 years and rarely had an issue, I'd say I was 99% pleased. All of a sudden, I have to transfer my email address to AOL (what the hell is that about), then I have to register with Frontier (maybe a little advanced notice would have helped). Try to register for Frontier and get the loop, going in circles, call the 800 number and they hang up on you after you navigate phone prompt hell. Can't register because I don't have a Frontier ID. My Verizon won't work because the email they have on file isn't the one I use.

    Finally talk to a human (maybe) on the chat feature, change my email. OK I can sign in now, but there's nothing but another endless loop to sign in to, unless I want to pay my bill which I can't see or figure out how much it is and nobody seems to know. The best part, I'm out of town on business doing half of this on my phone, FML. Way to FAIL Frontier! Verizon you can kiss my ass for doing this to us too. I can see I'm going to start researching other providers in my area. Unfortunately Comcrap seems to be the big one there. Consumers need to rebel.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    What reality does Frontier Communications live in whereby they can screw up an implementation so badly and survive as a business?!? Poor communications about the Premier takeover of Verizon customers in CA, TX and FL. When I called Verizon support they gave me a support number that does not work in TX. Then went online and found another number that did not work in TX. Once I finally got a number that would work, the Philippine-based help desk could not help and only tell me they are working on it but it would not be fixed for several more days. When I pressed her for what that meant she responded by the end of the week - this after being down for 4 days. I'm researching new providers and will leave Frontier to those more patience with this horrible service and company.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    I am a former Verizon internet customer in Bradenton, FL who was transferred to Frontier on April 1. My internet service went out about 9AM on Friday morning and was not restored until about 10-11PM Friday night. I had received one (undated) letter from Frontier prior to the conversion recommending I go to their website to establish an account. The procedure led you in a circle, asking you for your Frontier account number. Obviously, I did not yet have one. The letter provided no phone number to call, but I found a customer service number on their website during my failed attempt to establish an account (844-387-8989). I received no useful help when I called, but fortunately wrote this phone number on the letter they sent me, so I had a number to call on Friday. When I called around 10AM, I received a recording that the internet service was transitioning and would be restored soon.

    By about noon, when service had still not been restored, I called this number again. There was no mention in the recording about the internet service being down, only that problems remained with transitioning the on-demand cable TV service. I called again about 1:45PM and after listening to the same recording, waited until I could speak to a customer service agent. The agent was of no help. She had me recycle the power to my router and report the status of the lights on the device.

    After some further checking, the agent admitted I was still under migration and that my service would be restored soon, with no specific estimated time frame for restoration of service. I asked that my bill be reduced for the amount of time my service was down. The agent agreed. When I asked for a trouble ticket number or similar identification to document this incident, the agent was unable to provide one, so instead gave me her Employee ID number instead. I also asked the agent how I would be informed that internet service was restored. She said I would be sent an email. I noted the problem of checking my email when I had no internet service. She then agreed that I would receive a phone call when service was restored. I did not receive an email, a phone call, or any other means of communication to inform me that service was restored.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    What can I say, all reviews haven't said! Nothing compares, not even close to what we originally had with Verizon Fios services! Frontier mobile app? You call that an app?! Seriously, worst company ever! So far! It will take a miracle?!

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    BAD! Loss of partial TV services, Internet/WiFi bogging down. Can't get access to my account. Technical Support is AWFUL. Asked me what my modem model is! They should have my records! FIOS does not supply you with a modem! They supply a router! I asked for a trouble call log number and they kept repeating 'call this same number'. They said that I had a bad phone as they had a hard time understanding my and me them. Beam me up! It is THEIR phone system I have!

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    Reviewed April 5, 2016

    Like some of the other comments, I am extremely upset by the lack of communication provided by Verizon and Frontier. I was given 3 days, which is more than others. First problem was the notification for landline voicemail (I know, who still has landline?). However, when I called Verizon to inquire, was told that the number to retrieve messages changed some time ago. Lo and behold, there were over 15 messages waiting. Only then did I receive a message from Verizon that the number had changed.

    Over the weekend, I lost tv connection, and luckily got a technician to come out today. He explained that they weren't even filled in with resolution and spent the next 3 hours working with their tech support. During this wait, lost Internet connection, which is crucial since I work from home. It finally appears to be working (albeit, slowly) but may have to consider another carrier altogether within the next month. Crap service.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Spent over 2 hours on phone Saturday 4/2/16 with several different reps in various departments. Most had no clue what they were doing, couldn't find my account even though gave them the Verizon account I've had years. The internet does not work, cannot get into email and almost all the on demand networks are non-existent. No there knew why I was unable to access them or when or if they would be available.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Friday I went to link my Verizon account as directed. It won't send the PIN to my PIN. Tried again Saturday, still nothing. Today I called for that and the fact that the battery is blinking and beeping for low battery. I used the chat feature on their website. Never resolved issue with not being able to log in. Had me go out and unplug the battery. Ummm this is your equipment that I am renting so how about you do that. Due to some reviews on here I went to look for my paid for movies... NONE of them are there at all.

    I asked to cancel my TV and Phone service and they said it would cost $300.00 to do so. I asked why and they said that my contract with Verizon is now with them. I don't recall to agreeing to anything with Frontier and that they are in violation of the contract due to no service or product already paid for being transferred across. Not being able to pay my bill that was due on the first. Not coming to service the equipment themselves. I pay a lot for this bundle. I think it might be worth it to pay the $300.00 and cancel the service. Oh and to cancel with Verizon was only $200.00. So why if my contract slides to them, doesn't my pricing to cancel?

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    I hate this company, loved Verizon. I am going to cancel everything I have with Verizon now except cell phone and take my business to Cox. I spent 4 hours on the phone Sunday with 4 different people - all saying something different. Today I called to get some sort of a credit and after 17 minutes the person (all from India by the way) told me he still couldn't see my account. WHAT!? 17 minutes! I had no internet yesterday and I run a business from my home. NOT ACCEPTABLE. Verizon should never have done this.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    So far, I am still unable to fully access my account due to the transition. Customer service finally was able to answer one of my requests for answers. The answer is the transition will not be fully completed until the 10th of April. Most of my premium video on demand channels are gone. The few channels that are left have about 1/4 of the lineup that I had days before. Optimistically awaiting Verizon FIOS to buy back their customers from Frontier who obviously does not have any idea how to support such a large clientele base.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    I am ready to pull my hair out and I feel like I am normally pretty patient. This transition from Verizon has been TERRIBLE. I called today to find out where my $400 gift card was from my original signed contract with Verizon at the end of December. I was transferred FIVE times, and nobody could help me. I had to give the same information over and over to five different people, and NOBODY knew how to help. I have had this service for more than three months, and I am truly tempted to now cancel even if I have to pay a cancellation fee. When customer support can't understand you because they aren't fluent in English, then it becomes a game of transferring to someone else to handle the issue.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Internet speed is not up to 50/50 speed. If transitioning was/still a smooth process "from Verizon to Frontier " as claimed, then were is my 50/50 internet speed I been charged for? Where are the premium channels on VOD group, all I'm getting 8 sorry channels? On top of all, when logging into Fios Frontier account to watch Espn or Cnn, Fox...etc is impossible. Frontier is not set to provide it yet for California customers. I hope we will see some improvement matching or close to what I/we were getting from Verizon services.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    I hooked up my internet last two weeks ago. Tech was here at 9:30 in morning which always makes me happy. Signed up for the lowest speeds they offered which were 7 meg download 1 meg upload. I work from home and use an internet based dialer for my job so the speeds were affecting the usage of the program we use for customer service. So I called and upgraded to the next package. Now have 15 Meg download and 1.06 upload. Tech never even had to come to my house must have switched a line or something. Was a little dissatisfied because I stressed to the guy on the phone that I need 2 mb upload but overall have been very happy with the service.

    Also I live in the downtown area so I don't know if that plays a part in having decent service but overall I am satisfied. Was a little worried when I read hundreds of reviews online about the service Frontier offers but I have no complaints whatsoever. I think a lot of these people that leave negative reviews probably live in an apartment with very poor wiring or household pests such as mice that may have nibbled on the lines affecting the quality of the signal. Also I have a business account with them so maybe that plays a role in having quality service.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    The takeover is a mess. It takes a miracle to get through on the phone and when I do they tell me to call back in a week while the takeover finishes. I even tried to give them my information so that they could verify my account only to be told to call back next week. They did not my information, what a crook. I am going to cancel Frontier and immediately start looking for other companies.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Can't pay my final Verizon bill - been working all morning. They shouldn't have taken on the service if they were not ready to support it.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Frontier is the worse I have ever deal with. On 4/1/2016, I wanted to watch WWE wrestle and happens once a year and the first in Dallas Texas. But I was on the phone three times with them and still did get to watch it. Every time they would start it for me it would lock up. Then in the process they took off my dvr and all my movies we brought. We lost about 2000 dollars last night. This morning I have been on the phone with them four different time because they keep hang up on me. Then I got past that and now been on hold for 30 minutes. I think we all need to switch and then get a lawsuit. So if anyone wants to get into one let me know. After 30 minutes on the phone, lady comes up and tells me they sent me to the wrong place and she would send me to the right one. Then it goes right back to the front of the phone where you have to go back through everything again. That is it I am switching... today.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Ok so this smooth transition they claim they are performing is ludicrous. I am totally done with this company. Only 1 week into the transition. Lost all my paid movies that I purchased that cost over $1000.00 plus all the points that I have carefully earned from PPV. Customer support says, "sucks to be you", and hung up on me. I'm going back to Dish Network. Stand with me and switch to another carrier. Show this company that their customers have the power to financially put them in line and treat their customers like customers not slaves.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Like many of the other victims here, I too have no ability to pay, login, create account, etc. Frontier has no record of my account other than my address and also told me they have no way of updating with my phone number... the same one I have used with Fios for years. On top of this, I have lost all but two of my purchased FIOS PPV HD movies totaling close to $1000. Frontier reps claim they have no record of my purchases, but, fortunately I do since they all hit my checking account as drafts by Verizon.

    Since I am now the "property" of Frontier, I will give them exactly one month to remedy my service and billing issues. If they do not, there will be no cancellation fee incurred because I will sue Frontier Communications, in the Justice of the Peace (Collin County, TX) for my PPV loses and the exit contract fee they intend on enforcing. Frontier has no clue who they have crossed but I assure you, I am not splitting the bill for their amateur business moves nor will I be out any money because of Daniel J McCarthy's ignorance. What a failure and sadly a loss for both companies involved.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Shame on you Verizon and Frontier! Big business not taking responsibility to give the best effort to make this horrible transition go away! The customers are the people that pay for the services, without us, you do not have a company. Customers not being treated with respect. Will cause a collapse in your corporate structure. The true test is see if you wake up and recognize you need US to exist. Adopt some core values and step up and provide us with decent service--we gave you the money, now provide the product. Buyer beware!

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    Verizon FIOS sold its customers to Frontier Communications with little or no notice of this change and the transition is not so smooth. I received my first notice (in the mail) of this change on March 31, 2016; the change was effective April 1, 2016. Then I started to receive daily Welcome to Frontier and Meet Frontier emails from Frontier. At the time I submitted this, there were 1,281 complaints posted with Consumer Affairs at the following website: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/frontier.html.

    I can no longer log into Verizon's website nor reach them on the phone and the same is for Frontier Communications. Please I implore your help to a) understand what can be done with Frontier Communications, b) are we able return to Verizon FIOS, c) what agency can help make these companies more accountable. It is not right that we are paying for a service that is very broken. It is not right that we're given no notice of this change and no options. PLEASE, investigate and make this a feature story! I know David Muir and his resources can get to the bottom of this.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    I was so happy with Verizon and things were going so well. I had been extremely excited for finally being able to be in a place that had FiOS. Out of the blue, I heard about a merger - or handoff - of Verizon to Frontier Communications. All of the sudden, a big ol' mess! I am in the process of moving and when I went to check the order on Verizon's site via my Order number, it disappeared from Verizon's site and I was told that the account was handed off to Frontier. I spoke to Frontier and they have no record of my transfer order and no way to allow me to look into my account (as there was a mess with the transfer of accounts). I was told by a customer service rep that I needed to allow a grace period of 14 days for things to show up.

    The thing is, I was transferring services (been in the planning phase for several weeks and worked painstakingly through it with a Verizon rep who probably knew I was screwed but didn't say a peep). What a crappy transition. I have switched carriers - they will accommodate my install - but am unable to cancel Frontier at the moment. I feel like I am being held hostage. Complete slap in the face for a loyal customer. No working video on demand, a loss of services and no help whatsoever. Complete negligence. Disgusting really.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    The transition from Verizon to Frontier was April 1, 2016. When I arrived home on 4/1/16 and since that time I have no internet access. I have called five times and been told a different story by each technician I have talked to. The latest is we won't have access for over a week. Simply put, this is not acceptable and they have had over four months to get ready for this switch. I will be changing my service and someone needs to be accountable for this mess.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    Like most of the complains here: I had no idea this switch over was taken place. On Demand hasn't work since first day. I called customer service and could not even understand most of the representatives (3 or 4). I asked where they located and I was told in Texas, then someone told me Philippines. I asked for the supervisor and he was worst than any of the reps; could not give any straight answer about anything.

    I was with Verizon for more than 2 years and since I was Happy with their service, I renew for another 2 years about 3 months ago. I asked if I could get out of my contract and go with another company and the supervisor will not give me an answer. Finally I got On Demand to work by restarting every box in the house (3) but the movies showing under new releases are old and everything is a mess. We need to get together on this if they don't let us get out of the contract and fight for. Worst experience of any company I conducted business in my life.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    I attempted to pay my Verizon Fios bill to find out the web page has been removed. I was directed to the Meetfrontier site only to find out I need to link my account. Several attempts to link the account were made by me only to find out I need a 4 digit code which I was able to get (the wrong one) from the third call to Frontier. The first call taker told me to Google it and call back if this did not solve the problem. I was not able to hear or understand the second call taker.

    After entering the provided wrong code, I received the message that I have locked my account. I need to contact Frontier Customer support. I won't bore you with the next 3 calls that all failed to unlock whatever was locked. The seventh call taker did spend time helping. She did very good and was able to connect me to an account. Too bad it was not mine. I am now linked to someone's account in Largo, FL. How this happened I don't know. I gave her my account home address, account number, and account phone number. None of which match the linked account I have now of a Charles in Largo FL. I give up. I can't wait to see what I will be billed for this mess.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    The transferring from Verizon was a complete and total disaster. I called up to see what the problem with the on demand and flaky internet. I was told not their problem it's mine. Was treated very rudely, then I asked for a supervisor who answered and got hung up on. So at this point I was furious so I called back and cancelled. I was told once again not their problem that I was treated like crap and that they don't see my last payment mercilessly. All of a sudden they say I owe over 500 bucks now plus a termination fee.

    First of all I did not sign a contract with you nor was I in one with Verizon. They tell me once again my problem and that with the termination fee of a contract that I never did sign up for it will be 1200. So I said, "Ya ok good luck with that. Show me where I agreed to that." Total disregard for customer service. I do not think that I was ever treated this bad by any company before. Thank you Verizon for screwing the customer in this deal. Still wondering how they are in business.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    I was recently advised that, without consumer consent, Lewisville, TX Verizon Fios customers were forced to move to Frontier. OK, I was aware of the change, but no one ever explained WHY this change took place. I did some online research about previous Verizon to Frontier takeovers and all reviews were negative. It appears that Verizon has a habit of dumping customers and having Frontier take over just due to sheer greed!! Apparently Verizon dumps customers in certain markets just because they aren't profitable enough.

    The nightmare began when I called to find out why my VOD service wasn't working. I was basically told that the service wasn't functioning due to the takeover. So apparently I have to go without my VOD during the weekend!! The customer service rep I initially spoke with was extremely polite but had no idea when VOD service would be available again. I did further online research and discovered Frontier has a habit of providing customer service reps with very little training and inadequate equipment to cut costs. I was also dismayed to discover that Frontier will avoid dispatching techs at all costs and they expect customers to actually switch out equipment such as routers on their own!!

    They only send out techs after making customers go through tedious troubleshooting routines!! So I am now stuck with a new ISP I didn't even want and they are doing EVERYTHING possible to cut costs, yet they don't plan on passing those savings on to customers. I am getting less service for the same amount of money!! Sadly, this makes me feel the need to switch to Time Warner. I know Time Warner is a joke when it comes to customer service, but they can't be any worse than Frontier!!!

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    The transition from Verizon to Frontier is a total mess and completely frustrating as a customer. First - I was never advised (as a customer) that this change was going to happen. Okay... not a big deal I guess if everything transitioned smoothly... HOWEVER... this transition has been anything but "smooth". As other posts have mentioned, The last two days I have attempted to link my old account to Frontier with no success. To quote another post "I entered info and it is still not linked. Today it says it has sent an access code to my phone but it never comes through." I also had the full package with all of the premium channels which when I attempt to access VOD, I only get a handful of channels and none of the premium channels that I am charged for at a premium price!

    When I called the technical service number that shows when I access VOD - they are just as lost and confused as I am and proceed to tell me that there is an outage in my area (which is interesting because it's been out since the start of this transition - which to me is a transition issue not an outage issue). She then advised to go to meetfrontier.com to understand everything. Interestingly this website is the same website that I attempted to create an account and link my Fios account which requires that I enter a Frontier PIN, which I do not have. I ask the technical service agent for my PIN and when I asked to be transferred she stated that they are not available until tomorrow.

    The worst part of all of this entire debacle is that no one at Frontier knows what is going on - I can't get any solid answers and we are STILL BEING CHARGED FOR SERVICES THAT I AM NOT ABLE TO ACCESS/USE!!! I hope Frontier gets it together and as a sign of good faith (or rather good business practice) give customers a credit on their next bill because this is absurd. I had no issues with Fios and am really disappointed to write such a review - I really hope that in a few days I am able to write an update to this post that amends my impression of Frontier.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    After 5 attempts Frontier finally linked my Verizon account then I have to enter my Frontier pin. I tried the live chat, I received a pop up stated no operators were available. After reading some of the reviews, I'm not too excited to call. My on demand is working however, all of the new release movies are old. Some even say "in theaters now" and were made 2013 or earlier. I have no local on demand channels (ABC, NBC and so on). If this is what I have to look forward to, they will lose my business too!

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    Not even close. Many features are still missing after a promise of "seamless" conversion. Telephone reps totally untrained and no resolution yet. No or limited on demand. Unable to use HBO, ESPN and other online apps. No billing info available. Website doesn't work. No remote access.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    I'm very unhappy Verizon sold their FIOS customer to Frontier, I purchased On Demand movies from Verizon. When I went into my Library the movies is no longer available, I was billed and paid the full amount for the movies. When I called Frontier I was bounced back and forth and placed on hold for over an hour and a half. I purchased Verizon premier package and now my services has been reduced. When I try to access DVR I'm receiving an error message to upgrade my services, but the monthly fee is showing correctly. I was informed this will not be corrected until Thursday of next week. I was under contract with Verizon, I will be seek legal advice to cancel my services without being charge since I didn't agree to have services with Frontier Communications.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    I have called Frontier Communications customer service 3 times and nobody there can link or set up accounts. My NHL Center Ice is also not working and I can't pick up any of the channels since this sale from Verizon to Frontier went into effect. When I called Frontier Communications yesterday they said they were aware of the problem, however they had no estimated time frame on when NHL Center Ice would be available again. They owe refunds to customers who prepaid for this NHL Center Ice package. We should be able to change service providers without a moving penalty due to all of these problems.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Frontier's execs said all the right things about changing over from Verizon. But as you would expect, there are huge gaps between what the bigwigs promise and what is actually delivered. The service rep I finally was able to get, after a long wait, knew very little about the system. After a long delay, he repeated the company line that everything is the same as with Verizon. But since at least one feature is no longer working, I assured him that this was not the case. He said he would transfer me to a service tech (even though his title on the live chat appeared as expert technician). The tech I was being transferred to never appeared, so I disconnected after 15 minutes. I can't wait until summer when my contract with Verizon is ended. BTW, Verizon switching our email accounts to AOL was a slap in the face. AOL's technology is on par with 8-tracks. Fortunately I found a good mail provider. Ad now I'll be looking for another phone company.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    We noticed our service lag, then we tried to contact Verizon. This is when we learned Verizon sold to Frontier. We tried to resolve over phone. They hung up. We called again, they hung up. That's OK, as we could Not understand his dialect. Utterly useless. We tried to pay, jumped thru hoop after hoop after hoop. We still can't pay the bill. So why do we want service with a company that can't honor the service agreement? We don't. (We will allow bill to go unpaid. It's a month in advance for services that they can't render). We will Not pay an early termination fee, & will dispute charges for such.

    We will not be alone, nor will allow a substandard service allow us to be railroaded into paying for anything that was previously agreed to between Verizon & us. We see also you charge customers that pay by phone. That makes sense why you already have so many complaints, regarding inability to pay online. Goodbye Frontier, you chose to inadequately provide service, & we will be blocking acct #s from your so called service reps in India.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Frontier is the worst company I have ever dealt with. Told me it takes time. Can't get my internet to work properly. Can't login to my Verizon bill. Can't create a Frontier account. Transferred from one person to another for 3 hours with no success. Will lose my business. Am exploring other options.

    Updated on 04/06/2016: Finally got a serviceman to come over and he said there is nothing he could do. Asked for a supervisor. Got him on the phone and he suggested to change the modem and do a speed check. Service guy put in modem then said problem was worse. Couldn't get through to proper department to get it hooked up. Said was going to another customer down the street. I called myself and got through to the department he couldn't get through to. Walked outside and found him sitting in his van playing on his phone. Got the connection together. Internet still doesn't work. Called Frontier back and was told the modem was NOT one of their approved modems. Need to send someone else out and they want to possibly charge me. WHAT? Oh, and they want me to stay home all day for two days to wait for them. Worst company ever!!!

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Our On-Demand has been out for days. They said it would be fixed in a few hours. Not the case. Called in, on hold for over 30 minutes, and I was told that since our live TV is working we don't have a problem. Spent another hour just trying to confirm my account. Of the three representatives I spoke to only one was competent.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    This transition from Verizon to Frontier is a cluster. Spent the last week trying to link my old account to Frontier with no success. Last week I entered info and it is still not linked. Today it says it has sent an access code to my phone but it never comes through (3 times). It has asked me for my Frontier PIN # that is on my bill (which has never shown up). When I called customer service department they asked for this same PIN to identify account and once again WE HAVE NO PIN. Was told by the customer service rep that the transition is still ongoing and to check back next week. I told him that I have a payment due and would like to pay it. He forwarded me into a voice automated system that took me through several steps and then informed me that it would charge an additional $3.50 for the pleasure of paying by phone.

    Let me get this right. Their system is jacked up but I have to pay extra because of this. This is total BS. On top of that they are still charging me for a suite of services that I'm not receiving (incomplete ON DEMAND and Internet connection speed seems to have dropped off). I'm sure there will be no adjustments made to the billing to offset poor experience and my other complaints will be answered by an auto reply. They need to remember that they are not the only service provider available and at the end of the day we will either get the service we pay for or we will find a provider that can step up and provide it at the same or lesser cost.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Verizon threw their customers under the bus. I cannot believe Verizon offers no help to the people they have contracted with for FIOS. They sold the services but take no responsibility for the failure of this transition. I've attempted to pay my last Verizon bill by several different means to no avail. I will be looking for another internet company to do business with.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Frontier tells its customer support to lie and tell customer they are in Allen, TX. They are polite as I usually find tech support in the Philippines, but after 10 or more calls I ask where they are personally located and always get Allen, TX. I asked what the local time was and the weather and they are usually tripped up and tell me calm weather and usually give me their local time. Frontier must think their customers are stupid. Unfortunately we are stuck with this poor company with a bad history of unhappy customers. FiOS is great but I predict they will raise prices. That is when you call retention dept and tell them "I am cancelling service or don't raise cost." You will see how fast they appease you.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    I am not happy at all with how Verizon sold all of its Fios customers to Frontier Communications. It wasn't until I received an extremely vague email that we have a new provider. I always pay my bill before it's actually due. I have called and have made several attempts to complete this task online without success. The prompts online advises to enter Verizon account number and absolutely nothing happens. I created a Frontier ID which explains that it links everything to my account. When I click on account, it shows my account information and immediately disappears. I called and got thrown into a loop of prompts that tells me the information entered is incorrect. If this is the type of service that I can look forward to, I will be finding a new provider.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    The worst experience ever. Frontier Cable took over service April 1 and I lost cable service "because services needed to be migrated." Was told this could take 24 to 48 hrs. You would think that in this day and age that this would of been done in time for the April 1 take over. I had to spend 1 hr on the phone going through registration process and still I don't have any service. I will be looking for a new provider.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    Very dissatisfied with this new company that has bought Verizon and our contracts with Verizon. We only once had a problem connecting to our "On demand" and it was solve in 15 minutes. This new company said we have to wait until Monday for the transition to complete. We pay a lot of money to have great service and on demand, not to mention the person who we talk to is located in the Philippines, very hard to understand. We have a bundle with TV, Internet, and phone but unfortunately we will looking for a new provider.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2016

    I am not able to access my on demand services. Verizon switched to Frontier and although I am paying for this feature, I can't access it. The chat was never answered and my call went straight to a recording. Services are not available.

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    Reviewed March 31, 2016

    Called customer service to remedy an issue where they blocked my internet, although I pay for service monthly, because they require customers to input account information that doesn't even work. Spoke to a representative who almost spoke an entirely different language and kept asking me the same questions over and over again which I could hardly understand. VERY frustrating and time consuming. Had to call back the next day, hoping to get an American or someone who spoke clear English (to no fault of their own).

    A few days later, was unable to pay my bill through their automated system so I was forced to speak to a representative. Once again, the technician barely knew English. Why would you outsource to a country with such a strong accent or who can barely speak English when your customers are English/Spanish speaking Americans??? This is ridiculously unacceptable. Not to mention the internet service cuts out when there is even a small breeze outside. Worst company ever!!! Will be switching to Time Warner or someone else.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2016

    This morning I found my call blocking was 'full,' with only 12 numbers. In view of the fact I keep right on getting these calls from scammers, and the fact that I am paying 'extra' for the service, I am leaving Frontier and going with Exede Satellite. Frontier's service has never been adequate out here. Each time it rains I get static in the line. Twice since Frontier took over the area I have been entirely without telephone service, once it was 18 days! because their crews could not find the break in the old, copper filament aerial lines. I've also had it with the fact I cannot make myself understood to their foreign-speaking staff when I need help with anything. This morning I attempted to call about the call-blocking service, only to encounter an individual whose accent was so thick that I could not understand him!

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    We have had Frontier for about 8 months for our internet provider. The very first bill was twice what it was supposed to be, and they have never been correct. Each month we spend 1/2 hour to 1 hour getting the bill corrected, and when it comes the next month, it is wrong again. They keep charging us for new services that we did not sign up for or agree to. Their customer service people do not speak English well, so the whole experience is a nightmare. They also don't appear to have the ability to correct the account, because they will credit the current bill to the proper amount, and then we get the charges on the next bill with late charges for not paying the incorrect amount. It has been a long 8 months. Too bad. We are going elsewhere. Life is too short.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    Here is the story of my magical experience with Frontier Communications. At first everything seemed fine, the person who installed it was friendly and I didn't have any problems for the first month, but this was just the beginning of a terrible ordeal. After the first month, I kept losing my connection, so naturally I called them, to ask them if there was anything wrong with my connection, or if they were having problems on their end. They assured me that everything was fine, and that I may just have to restart my router. Now having worked at an ISP before, I know that they are full of themselves when they tell you to restart your router, that usually doesn't fix anything, especially if your internet keeps on disconnecting.

    So a few more days pass and eventually my internet stops working completely. I call them again and explain to them that I think the issue is something with the line. They said okay, opened a ticket and said they would send someone down to see if they could fix the issue. The woman on the phone said they would send someone within the week. Well let me tell you something, it definitely was not within a week but they were nice enough to send someone a month later. At this point I was livid, I paid for a month of no internet that they were supposed to fix. I called them to see if they could waive the fees for that month, but they told me no. So their tech comes down, they fix one of the wires running down to the router, and it works again, albeit somewhat slower than it was before.

    After that whole mess I was left with sub-par internet speeds that range from 300 - 500 kbps down, which let me tell you is abysmal. They promise you "Lightning fast internet," but honestly they should name themselves Throttle Communications, because whatever they promise you is not even close to the speeds that you are going to get. Also prepare yourself for unreliable speeds, and high latency. The other day, I tried to load Google, and it took an hour to access the site. An hour to access Google, come on! Needless to say if you live in Washington, and are looking for an ISP, do not under any circumstances use Frontier Communications, you are wasting your money on an overpriced, unreliable connection.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    I tried to set up internet in January of this year. After calling to set up an installation time, I was told my order had not been received. I went with another company and did not start service. I still received bills even though I supposedly had never put in an order and had definitely never started service. I called in multiple times and was told the account would be taken care of. Clearly it was not, since I received a collections letter today, three months later. I called in and asked for a supervisor multiple times. When I talked to him I still could not get a confirmation that this balance was cleared. I am still not certain that they have taken care of things, and I guess I won't know until I receive a notice that I have been sent to collections.

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    Reviewed March 27, 2016

    The Internet service started out good. Then shortly after always have to reset modem, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Called tech support, the person I spoke with doesn't understand English well. When I asked what "country" they were calling from she answered "Texas". Kept asking me the same questions over again. When I asked her a question she didn't answer, just asked another question. When I asked for her supervisor or someone that understood English better, she put me on hold and dropped me. Too bad a huge company like Frontier could not have people from the United States take care of their customers in the United States. Overall my experiences with Frontier Internet have started bad quickly and went down from there.

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    Reviewed March 26, 2016

    This is the slowest internet I have ever had. I have to wait forever to get the page to load and watching anything using Frontier internet is almost impossible most of the time! I pay for the highest speed they offer but get less than the lowest speed anyone could ever offer (1.6Mbps, not the 24Mbps I pay for.) They charge $90.00 every time I call to get this fixed and it has never been fixed no matter how many attempts they make or solutions they try. Frontier is the one with all the problems but I have to pay for it. I absolutely despise this company and their crappy crappy service. I would give them a -50 star rating if it was available. I wish I would have never wasted my time or my money with Frontier internet service.

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    Reviewed March 25, 2016

    We have a land line service and only that because Frontier will not update their lines for Internet Service, although I was told they have a new line but won't connect to it for that purpose. Back to my complaint, I have had 8 days without service because every customer service operator told me in the Repair Order, they would update it and I would have repair within a day or at the very least, the next day service. I called at least every two days and no service update was noted, so they said they would do that. Called back on the day the first service was ordered, 1 week later and they still didn't have an updated service call. Finally the next day, I got a service man. They told me he would call me to see if the line was working correctly. No it was not. There is still a lot of noise on the line a month later. I waited for the operator I had talked to after it was repaired to give me the credit for no service for 8 days.

    No call, so when the invoice came, no credit and a service charge was added. I called, and wished I had not. No one speaks clear English - hard to understand them and when I ask them to speak to a Supervisor, their computers are down, no one will talk to me and I am sending a check only for the time I have had service, leaving off the so called Service charge, because I have had very poor service. We do not live far from a major highway, but no one will fix the line properly and they tell me the reason is land lines are nearly out and they are financially in trouble, so won't fix them properly. I feel this needs to be address by the Commission on Communications, which I wrote a couple of complaints regarding the last time and this time, not hearing back from them either. We shouldn't have to pay these outrages charges when we get such poor service.

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    Reviewed March 24, 2016

    I am so much dissatisfied that I took the pain to open an account at ConsumerAffairs to vent my anger. I am a frontier customer and I feel that the service is out of the world, even companies in 3rd world countries have better services. I was lured by the $100 gift card and I ended up signing for a year, tied so that I cannot leave, cause if I leave, I will have to pay that back. The problem is not just to pay back but the first bill you get is $250 and I can tell you they put all sorts of charges to come to that figure for a 3MBPS DSL link which they call broadband; what a joke... totally atrocious!! Now I am locked in, I already paid 250 bucks and I cannot move out of the contract and the customer service representative is always offline, you have to deal with your own problems. Even getting a regular bill is a problem. I don't know if they have any idea how we customers are suffering. My suggestion -- be away from them.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2016

    For the past 6 months I've also had to call Frontier Communications to have my invoice corrected. I'm always told it will be the same from that time forward, but it never is. The excuse they like to use is the PROMO one. It's amazing how many promos I have/had that I didn't know existed. Then they surprisingly expire causing my invoice to go up. For example, my internet promo or should I say my 2 internet promos (1 I didn't know existed) was supposed to terminate in 2014 but was still getting credit causing my recent invoice to go up. Or how about the Movie Channels PROMO. We were getting 3 months FREE of Showtime, Starz, Epic, and TMC. Frontier called me about the offer not the other way around which we gladly said "yes" to. The Customer Rep did say they would invoice us for it but there would also be a credit for the same amount. WHAT? She said that's just the way Frontier did it.

    What Frontier also does which they don't tell you in the beginning is they give you double the credit on the first invoice (my fault for not noticing it) just so they can invoice you back for the extra credit at the end of the promo. Again the rep didn't know why Frontier did it this way, they just did. I get confused just thinking about it.

    The last straw was just today when I found out I had a TV Promo that was supposed to end in December but was still getting the credit, and I now have to repay it back. What really makes me mad about it was in December I called to have our TV package downgraded to a more basic one. I was told by the CS rep I shouldn't do it because it would end my TV promo and the prices would go up. Why couldn't they have told me that then? Or how about the internet issue I also had today. I live chatted wanting to know my internet speed. I was in the process of being transferred for the 3rd time when I just gave up. I'm definitely exploring other options, Frontier not being one of them.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2016

    Constant slow internet, phone line static, keep losing internet. Have to call technical support all the time. They must know the service is terrible because they ask for a number to call back if we get cut off which happens about 1/2 the time, but they never call back. They blame the remote location of my house but the service in town isn't much better. The local bank has their calls transferred to Medford because Frontier is so bad.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2016

    Called Frontier to get newer HDMI cable for new TV I had just purchased. After 2 hours on the phone I was quoted $50 fee and only $1.50 more a month for rebundling a package with them. OK. So I paid a bill in 2/11 for the $184.09 then 2/26 they send me a bill for $417.57. Last time I checked my math adding 1.50 to 184.09 does not equal 417.57. So we called and they brought the bill down to 288.87. We then proceeded to disconnect service. Bottom line they never did the disconnect and want another 300.66. Terrible, terrible service – I can’t believe I was a customer for so many years and this is how they treat a long term customer. This company needs to be investigated with billing practices and yes I plan to file a complaint.

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    Reviewed March 20, 2016

    My family and I had Frontier for over five years. At first, it wasn't that bad, all we really did was go on YouTube and sometimes Netflix, but then I got into gaming. The package I have with Frontier says that I should get speeds up to 6 mb/s. It doesn't even come close. It peaks at 300 kb/s with no one on it! In fact, I checked the router settings and it says the maximum capability on it was around 3 mb/s, so that 6 mb/s speed is obviously a lie. On top of this, I talked to someone who also had Frontier and he said that they will slow down your internet speed gradually, but when asked about it, they will put it back up. On top of gaming, the rest of my family is all on YouTube or Netflix. If I could, I would go to a new service provider, but unfortunately, they're the only ones that provide service without a data cap. I would rate Frontier 0/10 if I could.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2016

    For two months in a row we have been billed $253.23 for Fios TV and Fios Internet. We were supposed to receive a bundled price of $107.71 including tax, plus $47 for 2 HD receivers and 1 standard receiver. After being transferred to at least 10 different service and billing agents, no one has been able to get the bundling to work. As much as we enjoy the quality of Fios internet and TV, we just can't invest 2 hours each month being transferred to various agents without anyone being able to resolve this issue.

    If you are considering Fios service in Oregon, run away!!! It's really too bad because the products are good, but for whatever reason they cannot bundle the products, so your bill will be messed up each month. FIOS customer support will provide a credit each month, but that will require 2 hours of your time. We are in month three of continued billing issues, and are now cancelling service with FIOS. We are kicking ourselves that we didn't just stick with FIOS internet.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2016

    I have had the unfortunate pleasure of being a Frontier Internet Customer due to lack of options in my area because it is the only service that is not based on satellite. I have been told I am in a 'high demand/low service' area and the internet will run slow depending on the number of people using it. I can barely use it to search the web and even watching a short video on YouTube is next to impossible. One of their suggestions was to go back to a hard line connection versus using the Wi-Fi, which might help. Glad I wasted 45 minutes on that call! I am actually writing this while on hold with them because I am being charged for a second account that I am not associated with. The fact that I cannot reach anyone that can speak English is a shame. Even if I could understand them, they do not seem to be in touch with anything that actually going on. WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!

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    Reviewed March 16, 2016

    I thought it was time to write a review about Frontier Communications. It baffles me how they remain in business. My guess is that it will be only a matter of time before they are out of business. They are the WORST company, I have ever dealt with. HORRIBLE! For 13 months in a row (my bad), my bill was never consistent. Month after month, I called to dispute the charges. I was yet to determine what my actual charges should be, as they shifted from month to month.

    The final straw was when the customer service representative told that the bill "should" increase every month, as they are staying competitive with other cable/internet suppliers. Hysterical, right!?! When I told her that I didn't have that issue with AT&T Uverse, prior to the Frontier sale, she didn't have a response for me. That was it! I realized that they were not getting any better with their billing, but getting far worse! I canceled that day and moved my business in Xfinity.

    I asked to be disconnected on the following Saturday, after Xfinity was installed. That next Tuesday, I woke up only to find that I had been cut-off and that they in fact only did disconnects on weekdays, so my request of a Saturday cut-off should have been declined in that initial phone call. So frustrating!! I had to now jump through hoops to get reconnected, as I work from home. I needed service. Finally... I'm disconnected, Xfinity is great. Then the final bill comes... for 8 days of service, it's half of what my bill was in January. (January $122, February $147, March $154)... I debated and argued with the customer service rep, only to rip out my credit card, pay it over the phone and be forever done with Frontier.

    Although, I focus on billing issues. Over the past year, I've had problems with service, with multiple accounts being set up for me, payments going to the wrong account, mixing up a family members (we don't live together) account with mine etc. The list goes on.... One final laugh before I close this blog. On their website after logging in to my account to the Welcome page. My name is spelled A-L-I-S-O-N. Their welcome page says, "Welcome Alisn"... can you imagine?? They can't even display a customer's name correctly. My advice to all of my fellow consumers.... is stay away. This company is in big trouble... they just can't get their act together.

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    Reviewed March 16, 2016

    I thought I would give some perspective from a customer service representative working for Frontier Communications. It would be amiss to tell you that I have a great deal of faith in this company. After reading many of the reviews on here and having the vantage point and experience of working at Frontier, I do not have faith in them at all. I also not only believe they will go out of business but I hope for it. They are not a good company. Why else would they not invest in training the frontlines (customer service) properly so that we are able to efficiently take care of our customers! Some of you are under the illusion that we possess some kind of power over your accounts and services. We do not. We are the low man on the totem pole yet we are firsthand witnesses to the irresponsible, greedy, and unapologetic treatment of our customers.

    On the other hand, we are also the whipping boy for Frontier's customers. We hear ad nauseam and often at decibel levels which could break the sound barrier of our customer's dissatisfaction. Still others are so mentally abusive it stays with you so that you can't help but remember names, numbers, addresses. After all, I am staring at your account during your 20 minute long tirades.

    I do not get rude with these or any of my customers. I refuse to raise my voice over yours or interrupt you when you vent, even though there is very little I can do to fix what ails you. I empathize so much so that at times I'm just as angry as you are but I keep it on the inside. I do realize that Frontier services poor, rural communities and that people from these communities do not have alternatives at their disposal for expressing their anger other than yelling, cursing, and being downright vicious.

    However, after all of this I will offer you a sage piece of advice as a person who gets to see from the customer's point of view and a person who is privy to the inner workings of Frontier itself. Your power lies in your pocket, not in your intellect. The next time you have a problem with Frontier, state very clearly to the customer service representative that you will be switching your services to another company. We can then get you right over to a department that will be able to offer you instant refunds and promotions to keep your business. And for those who actually have the fortitude and can afford to switch your services regardless of the early termination fees, more power to you.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2016

    I have been a customer for a number of years in small town Illinois. When I first started with Frontier Internet their customer service was wonderful and has since deteriorated drastically. Internet service has gone down quite a few times and to have someone come out to fix it takes at least 1 week. 100% of the time the issue is in the switch box. I called Frontier on Saturday, March 5, 2016 because my internet stopped working. I was told someone would be out to fix it on Thursday March 10, 2016 and that I did not need to be home because it was an external issue. When I got home from work, I rebooted my router and of course my internet was not working. I called Frontier Tech support and gave my ticket number. He looked it up and said someone was out to fix it and there was no problem externally.

    This is NOT the first time this has happened. I told the tech adviser that obviously something is wrong and he tested the line. He then told me that he can see that something is obviously still wrong and didn't understand why the person that came out to my home closed out the ticket. I was then given a new ticket number and told that the soonest a tech could come out was on Thursday March 17 2016. I told him that was absolutely unacceptable because this should have been taken care of when he was here. I was told to call back in the morning so they can talk to dispatch to get someone out sooner.

    I called back this morning March 11, 2016 and spoke to someone in a foreign country that I could barely understand and was told that was the soonest date. I told him that was unacceptable and I would be calling corporate headquarters. He told me that he would escalate my issue and I would hear back in 24 hours. I told him that was unacceptable. After our conversation ended I called customer service again. Was told the same thing. There are many people in my area that are not happy at all with Frontier's service because as a small town it seems we are thrown to the wayside. This is very poor service and I am extremely disappointed in Frontier's service.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2016

    I'm going on 2 years with Frontier. I moved 2 months ago and that's when my trouble started. When you have to reach out to a company for help, that's when you learn nature of their customer service, which is hit or miss. I was promised one price, my bill says something different. Care made multiple excuses for this. I've been having trouble with my internet connection. Literally, I've talked to tech support 8 times, care 4, and 1 visit to my house in the past 2 months. I've been paying them $40 a month for 2 years... Do the math and figure out this company isn't worth it.

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    Reviewed March 10, 2016

    We have Frontier Communications for our internet service. I can't believe we have to actually pay for the service. We can access the internet about 50% of time which is very frustrating especially when we need to conduct business from our home. When we can access the internet it is very slow. I have noticed that in the evening and weekends when people are home from work and the kids are out of school in our area it is almost impossible to access. If you need to download a program or make updates to your computer it usually times out before you can get the program completely downloaded. Forget about using it to order a movie on PPV or using Netflix or Amazon as these services do nothing but buffer the entire time you are trying to watch them. When I call Frontier they just don't understand what the problem could be. I give a 1 star rating because you have to rate with at least that to post.

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    Reviewed March 10, 2016

    I called Frontier to upgrade my internet to a faster speed. The gentleman told me I was $90 a month and it would be $134 a month. I own a business and said that was fine but if I don't think it's faster can I cancel, he stated "no" I could not until May 9th because that is when my contract runs out. So I ordered the faster internet and the guy called and showed up early and that was great. I told him that if I didn't like it I wanted to cancel but the guy on the phone said not till May 9th. The installer said "that's not true you have 30 days."

    So when my bill came in it went from $278 to $556. Wow $280 for a $44 internet? I called the customer service and the guy I talked to said he sees where my discounts didn't get put on the bill and he would take care of it, but call back in a couple days for my new bill. Called March 10, 2016 and had to argue for an hour and a half with the manager who told me that I was charged a $149 install fee and when I upgraded that renewed my contract another year. I was never told about the install fee or the new renewal. She also told me if I signed up for 2 years she would take off the $149. What? So I have to be threatened to get my money back. This is horrible and I will drop this company as soon as I can!

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    Reviewed March 9, 2016

    As a small business we needed internet. We went into the Frontier office and we were told about the great specials they had. They told us to get the phone and internet because it was much cheaper. We then signed a 2 year contract for the services. It took almost 3 weeks to get the service installed, and the installers were very professional. The internet was not as fast as I was told, and when I got my bill for $157.16 I couldn't believe it. I called 4 times and was always disconnected in the middle of the call. After 2 hours of calling back I was transferred to a lady that said I had a contract and if I wanted to quit I would have to pay the entire contract. I told her I have only been a customer for 2 weeks and was not satisfied. She then told me I was under contract and if I would like she will have her manager call me. I will keep you up to date how this ends up. I will have to give them 1 star since I can't give them no stars.

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    Reviewed March 9, 2016

    The worst experience ever by dealing any companies in 20 years! This company is like a poison ivy, stay away! I was lured by their salesman to buy a internet+phone+TV package for $80/month. The sales guy said that is all, no installation fee. So I agreed to give it a try, but still keep my old Optimum services just in case. It took them two weeks to install and turn on internet service and then the real problem came--the TV service, which was provided by DirecTV could not be successfully turned on because DirecTV could not find any satellite signals. I called Frontier, they said they could not do anything about it except I myself to call DirecTV to cancel my TV service and then call them again to cancel internet.

    I called DirecTV and cancelled TV service, but when I call Frontier to cancel internet, their customer service lady said I should try Dish Network since Dish's signal is 4 times better than DirecTV (no idea why they did not recommend Dish in the first place), and there is no cost to get Dish installed. I waited for another 10 days to get technician from Dish Network to drop by and he told me no signal at all. While I have to call Dish to cancel TV service and call Frontier again to cancel internet service. This time it was cancelled and I mailed back their modem. I thought this was over, but today I got a bill of $400 said I have installation fee, TV fee, internet service fee, blah blah.

    I called Frontier and their explanation was ridiculous--"sorry TV did not work, so we will waive you TV fee, but the other fees cannot be waived since you used Frontier service." I told them I did not use Frontier service at all since I still keep my account with Optimum all the time and been using Optimum only these days. I told them to check the phone and internet usage and they will find out I did not use it at all. Astonishingly, they said they do not check data usage, they only check if my modem is on or not, so since my modem had been turned on all the time, they count me as "using Frontier all the time."

    Very rude, very unreasonable, a lot of lies and tricks from sales to customer service. I will not feel surprise if this company goes bankrupt in a couple of years. They can just ruin their reputation this easily. I will tell everybody I know about this experience--in just 15 days, I had many hours back and forth phone calls, stressful argument, long time waiting in the queue to get an agent to talk, failed service and finally a $400 bill. It is a nightmare!

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    Reviewed March 5, 2016

    After hours trying to talk to a person to cancel service!! First my mother and now me!! I was not able to get my service stopped. A few years back my late mother attempted to cancel service after being over billed many times for less than reliable product delivery, she continued to be billed! Hours of trying to get a phone call to a customer service rep was wasted time and eventually after months they threatened to report her for non-payment to the national credit reports, she caved in and paid them.

    Fast forward to today, I attempted to call to cancel my service because I moved. Same thing! Hours of "dropped calls" sitting in phone queues, inability of operators being able to make a decision and putting me on hold for up to 1/2 hour waiting for a "supervisor"... they tell me "we have no record of you calling" even though I have entered my account number into the computer phone answering system... NO RECORD OF ME CALLING?? They say "if you had talked to a person, they would be logged into your account." I attempted many times but never got past the computer, the computer has no record of me calling?

    I sent mail requests to drop service, the response? "We do not accept mail." So my only way to cancel is to call, sit in queue, talk to a guy I can't understand, and hope this person is able to cancel service. Well, I did that too, they have no record, I need to pay them? This is not the first time these bullies have used credit reporting as a way to EXTORT money from people.

    Now with a bad credit rating, I have to face the fact I should just pay these bullies to protect my credit. I have no recourse. They have the power! I was told if I am responsible for any part of the bill, they won't do anything for my credit. On a good note: the service provided to me for years was far better than "Mediacom" which is my only other option in the town where I lived. If I could give a negative star rating, I would!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed March 4, 2016

    Was quoted a price of $125 by 2 different representatives. After almost 5 hrs on phone throughout the day with hang ups and disconnections, Frontier would not honor their word. Terrible customer services, liars. I left to another company. Would never recommend Frontier to anyone. Worst cable company out there. They have no values or principles.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed March 4, 2016

    Did not show up for appt on march the 3. I called to have my service transferred to new apartment on march 2. I was told they would be here march 3 between 8 and 6 pm. Never showed and no call. Very bad service. I will be switching providers.

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    Reviewed March 3, 2016

    I have contacted Frontier 3 times to stop my auto pay from coming out of my closed checking account. They kept taking it out monthly and it is still on there! They say that there is no record of it. They have suspended my service for a returned payment of $225 that never should have come out because I canceled the auto pay! Now every single person that I have spoke to tells me something different. I spoke to a supervisor who said that they were wrong, I actually have a $115 dollar credit and would be restored within 24 hours.

    Well... It has not been restored in two days and now Frontier says that phone call never happened! I have an email that this supervisor sent to me with the information and they will not give me anyone to forward it to. They still insist that this conversation never happened. I live in a rural area with very few options but am looking into any other company possible. This has affected my work at home business as well as my child's school work and I cannot get any of them to make it right. I just get something different told each time.

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    Reviewed March 2, 2016

    I have been a Frontier customer for a long time, first with landline phone, then added DISH through Frontier, then satellite internet because DSL not available. For 2 weeks now I have either called or chatted with customer service because my online payment account disappeared. I couldn't check my billing statement, pay my bill, see payment history, etc. Almost 2 weeks later and over 15 people I interacted with no one has solved this problem. I've been transferred around, disconnected (and they never call back), had them try to sell me more products, but I still can't access my acct!

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed March 2, 2016

    WE have phone and internet and this company is the worst in the world. Every appointment has a window of 8AM to 5 PM (what company does that except them) and yesterday they were to come and do some inside wiring on March 1, 2016 which they tore up 3 years ago and they never showed, never called. I called twice the office and suppose to be there. Even gave me the techs name as Gerald. They were then suppose to come today which is March 2, 2016. NEVER SHOWED, never called. This happens with them every service call. WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD.

    The company needs to FIRE every manager and the employees in the area of Robbinsville, NC and get out of the business, let AT&T take over. They at least would honor you with a call. We live out of state and had to stay over 2 extra days to get NO SERVICE. My time is valuable FRONTIER and you will pay as I am calling for CREDITS. No service but they still like to take your money and big time. We are in Robbinsville, NC and they all need to be leave from the area.

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    Reviewed Feb. 29, 2016

    Well I made a paragraph review and when I posted it I couldn't post due to the atrocious internet that I was talking about! So I am not going to retype it all. Blackouts lasting 5-10 minute + periods. Awful customer service. Poor handling of their customers needs. More customers than they're apparently able to hand. Been going on last 2 months been getting progressively worse. Came and replaced an "incompatible part" that wasn't even supposed to be used for my internet a few weeks ago. That only helped slightly.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016

    I have been paying for international calling since September 2015. As of February 2016 it still doesn't work but I still have to pay the bill. I found out when I got a bill from my old international carrier in January for $230. After several phone calls, hours of being on hold, and hours of being on chat it still doesn't work. Filed a complaint with FCC. Ticket assigned to a person that is less than professional and even less willing to work with me to get me refunded for what I paid. She insulted me, threaten to close the ticket without fixing the problem or refunding the expenses I have already paid.

    I would like my $275 to be refunded. I am still paying every month for international calling which still doesn't work. I want to talk about what the plan is for my refund so I can get reimbursed quickly, but my request is refused, usually it is ignored. I requested to work with someone different which is also refused. I don't care if the problem is fixed or not because I will find a different international and long distance carrier. I have been treated better by the cable company, and I thought no one could be worse than Comcast, until now.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016

    Agents need to have more adequate training. Programming features are great and little interruptions via satellite. Changing packages are simple. Contract varies after changing packages so if you had a 2 year contract it might change to 3 year contract. Prices also change without notification. That's the downside. Make sure you can afford the service and more. Easy convenience of moving and bringing your service with you. Hopper receiver is good but pricey. Overcharges are done and the convenience of having customer service representatives help out is done but little. Only supervisors can make those big decisions. So far reliable services short-valued on billing charges and contracts.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016

    Customer support is an oxymoron at Frontier. Their idea of support is to tell you to wait a few days and see if the problem resolves itself. I've had major problems with the DVR and when I called and asked that they send someone out to check it out - they refuse. I was told (how they "knew" this is beyond me) that the problem is not my DVR, but the cables attached to the box and replacing the cables would be my responsibility ignoring the fact that they charge a lot for cable service. It's of less value since there is a major problem with the cable and they refuse to even check it out let alone repair it. Any problem is my problem to figure out. I pay them to be able to rely on them if there is a problem. Yes, I'm switching (like MANY others) to another provider. Everyone I speak to who has cable with Frontier is VERY dissatisfied.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016

    I live in an area where I have NO option other than Frontier Communications. We pay for High Speed internet but we get something closer to dial-up. When you call for service, you make an appointment, they don't show up, they don't call and they hang up the phone if you call about it. I have made 3 different appointments and had this happen all three times. I have been offered the highest speed internet and have never received it. If you go on their facebook page, you can read about how upset people are all over the country with their horrible service but nothing can be done because apparently nobody polices them. Have been hung up when trying to get someone who is in authority to discuss this matter with.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016

    The worst day in our home-tech lives was the day Frontier took over the FIOS infrastructure Verizon built in our neighborhood a couple of years earlier. Our Internet/TV/phone service went quickly from nearly flawless to regularly screwed up. The HD signal to the TV sets is intermittent and suffers long drop-outs/blackouts. The Internet service clocks regularly at 12-14 mbps when it is meant to be 20-25 mbps. Internet is prone to sudden unfixable hours-long outages. Came home from a business trip to find the whole house (TV, Internet, landline) dead and cold. Called Frontier immediately; it took them four days to send a tech to the site. Repeatedly promised service visits that did not materialize.

    Twice in the past 12 months Frontier has lost my monthly payment, then accused me of failing to remit. Each time I have to fax (fax!) them a scan of my bank statement showing they actually cashed the check. Clearly the company is in way over its head. It can't manage the technical infrastructure it's got; it does not have the systems and processes in place to service its user base. If there is a worse ISP in the United States I would hate to know about it. They have delivered unforgivably bad service almost since day one.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016

    Had a landline with terrible connection, even worse when it rained. Looking at my bill I made 4 calls less than 5 minutes each in that billing cycle cost $50. Overpaid bill, had $65.11 credit on account. Decided to just cancel the landline. The rep tried to sell me bundles, finally got her to understand, told me that it would take 90 days to get my credit balance refunded. Got my Frontier bill today... What a joke. Now I owe them money $100.00 to cancel my landline. Asked 3 times, no there is no supervisor that I can discuss this with. Second call made and their computers are down. Took my contact number to call me back when computers are working again... I'm still waiting.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016

    After various billing errors I got a confirmed monthly billing price. The very next bill was for almost $50 more. I called customer service and they did nothing to reduce the bill.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2016

    I have been trying for 3 months straight to get internet. Every time I call they tell me that it's not in my area. Even though every single one of my neighbors have Frontier not only that the house across from the alley from us we used to rent and my husband had Frontier. Since I told them that now there is no ports open. They keep telling me the ports are full. I don't know how or why that is. Obviously they don't want any business. I'm so fed up with them. Minding you all there is hardly any providers in my area so Frontier was one of my only options til they just keep making excuses so now I am so totally going with another provider and would not ever recommend Frontier ever.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016

    I've just spent 40 minutes trying to stop being billed for services I did not receive. I have Frontier phone and internet service at my primary residence, I was trying to get internet only service at a different residence where I spend time taking care of a terminally ill family member. Five weeks ago I called Frontier and told them I was an existing customer who wanted to know if I could add internet only at a different address on MY CURRENT ACCOUNT. I was told that was no problem and that it would be $19.99/month. Needless to say, the internet was never connected at the second address, yet I received a bill for $48.99. When I called them I spent 40 minutes trying to cancel the second internet service and was told repeatedly that I would have to PAY the $48.99 and that it would be credited to THAT account.

    I kept explaining that I DID NOT want that account and to cancel it. After 30 minutes, I asked to speak to a supervisor (AND WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO), the representative put me on hold for five minutes then came back on the phone and told me the account would be closed and that I did not have to pay the bill, but would receive a bill for the next 3 cycles that would have a zero balance. Frontier has lied about internet speeds and coverage areas since taking over phone service in West Virginia. The lines to my daughter's phone were being cut down weekly and Frontier continued to bill her for 9 months she did not have phone service. She lives in an area that is not accessible by cell phone and now has to drive 2 miles to reach cell service in an emergency! Frontier is not dependable or honest!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2016

    Frontier internet is by far the worst internet provider. It is the only option we have in our town. We pay for highest speed they have, it never works. They changed our wifi name and password without even notifying us, if we would have never called we would've never known. It should be $1.00 a month for the amount of use we get out of our service. If you have other options go with them.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2016

    After multiple set up attempts internet could not be connected. Cancelled service (which I was not receiving), was told no charges will be applied. After three months they are still trying to bill me! Now I have been sent to collections. After speaking with Frontier MULTIPLE times each representative told me the billing has been set to zero and invoices would reflect such... STILL RECEIVING HARASSING COLLECTION NOTICES. No correspondence could be provided on Frontier's end for conversations about billing "resolutions". Terrible company and hours of wasted time on phone... I pay three times more for service and customer service I can rely on.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2016

    I have to have Frontier Internet, it's the only option in my area. Started out with their basic package, but the speeds were way too slow, so I upgraded. They brought me a new modem, and I was hoping that would be the end all fix. Well, nothing has changed. Sure, I get some speeds at 14mbps (I am paying for 20+) but if I do see those numbers, they quickly fall to 3mbps if I am lucky. Usually the services goes in and out. Have contacted them numerous times, and EVERY time someone comes out, service is great and they read 20+mbps. I stood 2 feet from the wireless modem, using my iPhone, and got a reading in the range of 3-14, and it varied every single time. This internet is by far, the worst!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2016

    I am at my last wits with Frontier. Ever since the switch from AT&T my billing issues have been outrageous. I have to contact them every month because of discrepancies with my bill. Most of the time I contact them by way of live Chat so I can have proof of the conversation. I believe their billing practices are intentional to deceive the consumer and someone needs to look into how many billing complaints they are receiving. The customer service is below par. No one is able to correct my bill and keep it accurate. It changes every month yet the services do not. Frontier needs to be investigated!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2016

    Despite innumerable calls to customer service, including attempts to reach supervisors, and hours (no exaggeration) working my way through menu options and being on hold, Frontier has not repaired my phone: the line is intermittently dead; the connection is so scratchy and garbled it is often impossible to understand the caller; caller ID fails to identify callers; phone representatives have repeatedly assured me that the service would be repaired.

    When it is not and I call back to complain, I am given a runaround, transferred from one department to another, and THREE times disconnected and no one has called me back despite the fact that I always make sure they have my phone number. The several technicians who have serviced my home claim it is because I am connected by old copper cables and that I need to be on a fiber optic cable. I am told by some agents that Frontier will only do this if I bundle either Internet or TV with them, which I do not want to do; others tell me this is not true, that in fact Frontier has a responsibility to provide me with phone service THAT WORKS and for which I am paying monthly. I simply cannot make any more phone calls or wait on hold any longer. I am at my wit's end and do not know where to turn, except to file a complaint. I now wonder if even this will make any difference - is this just another futile effort on my part?

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016

    Giving Frontier even 1 star is an overstatement. This is literally the WORST communication company in the United States. They scam you into buying the service, then try and trick you into paying more than you actually owe. Make sure you read through all of your bills because they tack things on. You have better luck winning the lottery than you do getting someone on the phone who can actually do something for you before the line mysteriously disconnects. Don't cause yourself the trouble - stick to Optimum.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016

    I pay for 24mbp/s and I have had 12mbp/s for the past 24 months. I have had the modem replaced 4 times and tech sent out to fix it 9 times. Still not fixed!!! I have a bonded service 2 DSL lines with 12 on each. My modem is set for 28mbps. Line 1 is doing 100% upload all the time which shuts off line 1 dropping me down to 12mbps or less all the time. At least 2 or more times a day I lose all internet no DSL lights and no internet light. Modem says connecting. After a restart of the modem I get service back to full until I get on the internet and back to 12 again. I pay $69.99 every month for the past 24 months for 24mbps and I only get 12mbps or less. The 12mbps is $39.99 a month and yet I am being charged for 24mbps and not getting it. I would like whoever governs the internet companies! Frontier needs to stop stealing from their CUSTOMERS LIKE THIS. Someone please HELP.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016

    I had AT&T U-verse. Cannot say enough good things about AT&T, sold to Frontier. Got late payment letter not the case applied to incorrect account. Disconnected service for no payment. No letter. Had $400.00 in incorrect account. Bill increased $40.00. Called. Said "Program was over. Pay this bill," and I did. Next bill would be back to old rate. Next bill was $40 + $10. When I called yesterday I was told the promotion was denied. No one told me and I was told nothing could be done. I work for the number one in our field in the US. I do not understand how frontier can stay in business. It is like a bait and switch. Customer service tells you one thing but the company does not back them up.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016

    Frontier is by far the worst internet service you can get. It's almost better having no internet service then having Frontier. You will be constantly unsatisfied with the level of service or non-existent level of service. Customer support is full of smartasses. They lie and push so many people on the same lines that they are inconsistent and unstable. If you sign up for Frontier service be prepared to be disappointed to say the least. When you are having problems with your service they will just make up excuses and say "Oh our tools are down right now. Sorry we can't help you." Absolutely horrible. So here's what you have learned about Frontier's internet service. Unstable, unreliable, slow, high latencies. And remember, if you don't get it, you can't be disappointed.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016

    My service was started back in November of 2015... today is February 1, 2016. When my service was started they had to run a line for the internet from a box at the front of my yard, through my front yard, around my side yard, and through my back yard. I was assured that this line would be buried within one week. This didn't happen, so I called 2 times to complain, both times being assured that someone would look into it and call me back. I never received a call back. Then on 1/15 I called again, was finally given a ticket number, and assured a completion date of 1/27/16. As of today, still no line buried. I have a kid and 2 dogs. I'm trying to keep off this bright orange line that is running through my yard. Very, very dissatisfied. I called again today and the Customer Service rep could give me no information.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016

    In Dec. 2014 I started receiving auto deductions to my checking account from Frontier for $12.99. I have just spent over 2 hours trying to get info regarding what this is for. When I finally reached a real person at Frontier, all he could tell me is that there is no account in my name, they do not provide service at my location and he had no idea why I was being charged. My bank stated the charges would have to be canceled thru the provider since they were "pre-authorized"?? My only option is to cancel the account at my bank, which is a huge pain in the butt, since most of my other legitimate bills are paperless. How can they have access to my account for billing, yet have no record of me (or anyone related to me)!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016

    Signed up for high speed internet and a landline telephone through Frontier. Was told I was getting a $100 Visa GC for signing up. Gave a CC number to firm up the order. Got a confirmation number **, and even was told what my home telephone number was going to be. Then was told 3 days later, "Sorry, service in your area is 'capped' and you are not truly getting service." This is a big deal for us, as I got a new job which requires me to work a lot from home, using my internet service. Currently we have "snail slow" internet with a company out of Mattawan, MI called Message Express Internet (MEI). It's just too slow to be efficient! So we were thrilled to be getting high speed internet through Frontier.

    We even cancelled plans with a realtor to put our home on the market because this service was in the works. Frontier got our hopes up that we would not have to sell our beloved home by firming up an order (there was nothing tentative about it), then squashed those hopes 3 days later. In the future, if there is any uncertainty about being able to serve a customer three things should happen: (1) tell the customer that service in the area is uncertain, and get back to the customer later, (2) do NOT take a credit card until service is installed, and (3) do NOT make promises about a $100 Visa gift card that you cannot/will not follow through on. Very disappointed!

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2016

    I was moving to a newly purchased home, 6 miles from my old home, moving from Lake county to Mchenry. Prior to choosing a provider I called Frontier with several questions, high on the list - porting my current phone too from Lake county to Mchenry county. Explained in detail moving from one county to another, was assured I would be able to port my current phone #. Contacted Frontier a few more times, verifying they were able to import current phone #, again told was fine. Set up my home move around the Frontier installation of phone & internet, along with Dish Network. Called again 5 days before the move, the rep put me on hold, and verified with Comcast (existing phone provider) that phone # could be imported & paperwork was in process.

    A few days before the move Dish was in contact with me to set up a time for the new install, no calls or emails from Frontier to set up time (was originally told they would be out between 8 AM & 5 PM day of install & day before the move), so I assumed we were still on (BIG mistake on my part). Day before the move, when phone, internet & Dish were to be installed, Dish called me to tell me they were on their way to the new house to do the install.

    I then called Frontier to make sure they would not be there at the same time, and lo & behold I was told they CANCELED my install, because they were unable to import my phone #. They NEVER called me to canceled (well they actually did call my new/uninstalled new phone # to leave a message at the end of the scheduled install day to cancel). Mind you, I had no communication whatsoever from Frontier, unless I called them. I was in constant contact with Frontier raising hell about their so-called "service" the day before & the day of the move.

    So, we moved into our new home with no phone or internet on a Wednesday. They rescheduled the install for Friday between 8 & 5. I called them in the morning to verify, called them in the early afternoon to verify, called them late afternoon to verify...was told each time, they would be by end of day. Finally, at 4:45 I called them, was told the tech ran out of time & would NOT be there to install (rep was very rude). AGGGRRRRRR!

    Raised a big stink Saturday morning, tech come out later that morning. I checked the phone & hear the tone for voice mail. Called Frontier to ask how I access voicemail, because directions I was given with passcode did not work. They had every excuse in the world. I was finally able to access my voice mail 1 week after phone & internet install. Phone had been great, but internet a bit slow. Once again I called with questions as to the slow internet speed & found out I was paying for Ultra & was getting the slower one. They had no idea why I was not set for Ultra, but would see what they could do. Took another 3 weeks for them to get Ultra set up. Worked faster & I had no issues until 8 days ago.

    First day internet was cutting in & out, I called Frontier & was told, "You are in a high traffic area. They are working on it". I asked if there was an actual tech physically working on the issue, he said, "They are working on it". Later that night, had NO internet access at all. Called that into Frontier Saturday morning. We tried a few things, nothing worked, so another trouble ticket was put in. The earliest they would be out was Monday between 8 AM & 5 PM. Called them Monday morning @ 7:45 AM to verify I was scheduled for that day, was told tech was en route. Called again at 1:30 PM, "Where was tech & am I still scheduled for today?" The rep checked with dispatch & was told they would be there before 5 PM that day.

    By 4:20 when no tech showed up (I stayed at home all day waiting for the "elusive tech"). I called for the THIRD time that day, was told the Tech was out at 10 AM that morning & work was completed. I told the rep, "No one had been out to my home that day" & therefore still had no internet service, so the rep contacted dispatch and was told the tech got busy, ran out of time & they would reschedule it for another time. They could not schedule it while I was on the phone because the ticket had not yet been canceled to be rescheduled (very confusing as the rep told me the ticket was completed. Hmmmmm, one had not knowing what the other is doing).

    Called a very helpful gentleman who has been helping me with straightening out the bill (first bill I received as $350 for internet & phone service that was supposed to be $60.98 per month, with no installation or additional fees). Begged him to see what he could do, and within an hour I received a call from the tech, who came out to my home within 2 hours.

    As of now, internet still cuts in & out. They are not sure what to do next, as they have exhausted all avenues of repair. Am currently researching other providers, but a very limited selection due to being out in the county. Tech's are great guys, but they are run ragged, as they now do installs, repairs & troubleshooting. One guy for our area does it all. Very sad that a big company like Frontier is run so shoddily with no one being held accountable. All of the reps with the exception of two were as helpful as they could be, very apologetic & courteous.

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2016

    We paid for 6 MB/s download speed. After only receiving 3 MB/s we call them. They told us that we are in a "high demand area" and are aware of the problem but aren't fixing it. I live in a town of 400 people. I fail to understand how this is a high demand area. It's due to low ISP competition in my area. This is my only option.

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016

    First off we have been dealing with Frontier Communications for many years now about the slowness of the internet. I live out in the country and pay about $45/month plus phone and satellite which comes to about $200/month. I have called and called and called. At this point they know who I am when I call in about the slowness of the internet and we are paying and they are promoting high-speed internet. We are getting an upload speed of .24-.26 mbps and a download speed of .18-.21 mbps. Now that is a joke. I have called and talked with tech support many times and they say unfortunately the server we are on is at max capacity and there is no plans for an upgrade. So as a business where server is at MAX CAPACITY and where we live there is no competition for other options and there is a waiting list to get on the server. Talk about a monopoly!!!

    So I build a house down the street and I can't even purchase internet which runs right by my house because your server is at MAX CAPACITY? I'm not a huge business guru but common sense tells me if the server is max'd out, it may be worth my while to drop a new server in so if other customers want to join we would able to collect $$ from them and give them the service we are providing anyway. More money for FRONTIER (idiots) given to them by the paying customer.

    Every time I call tech support they are even embarrassed to say yeah they understand the issues but they are not in a position to make those decisions. The tech people just have to appease the person on the other end of the phone and say we understand and sorry and blah, blah, blah. The joker running Frontier communications should step down after this $150 MILLION DOLLAR lawsuit. WV won. They have been robbing the people of WV and not giving them what they have been paying for. This company is a JOKE.

    If AT&T or any other company came in and competed with them I and many other West Virginians would drop Frontier in a heart beat. For the eleven years I have been fighting with Frontier about the internet they should give me the same eleven years for free. I hope the people of WV get what they deserve which is high speed internet and Frontier goes out of business and a real company takes over. Frontier communications is a JOKE...

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016

    I've had problems with Frontier since they replaced AT&T. My newest frustration is intermittent internet which is worse than ever. Technicians come and go and customer service reps will tell you to reset and reboot. The problems never get solved and I never have more than limited internet service which makes streaming impossible because the screen consistently freezes. If you have a choice, avoid Frontier and its defective equipment. Why am I still with them? They locked me into a contract until 2017. Great deal for Frontier, I pay for no services and they cash my checks.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2016

    I called Frontier because the Ron and Don show I listen to on the radio said great reviews about them. I listened to this for months and decided I would call and see what they had to offer. I had a contract with DirecTV but Frontier said they could offer me better plan and internet prices and services. So I cancelled my 2-year agreement with DirecTV and had to pay 155.00 early termination fee. I ordered my new services through Frontier. I got my tv service within a week from Dish. I didn't find out until a week later when I called Frontier that I wouldn't get my internet for a month. I asked to get it expedited and they said they could. I never heard back from them so I called again and we put another ticket in to have it expedited. Never heard nothing from them.

    Finally January 23rd was coming up and I thought I better call them to confirm our appointment on the 23rd. They said "yes it would be between 9-3." I asked if they could narrow it down and they said "no". I said "ok fine I would just wait". I waited all day no one showed up and no one called. I spent the next two hours on the phone. I am not kidding 2 hours and got nowhere. They told me they would be here on Monday. I told them no way was I taking a day off work to sit here and wait to see if they showed up. This has already cost me 155.00. That is all she kept saying is they would have someone out here on Monday. NO I am not taking Monday off and losing a couple more hundred dollars on a chance you might show up.

    For a communication company they have the worst. For customer service it's terrible. All they will say is they have no control over dispatch. Well I told them that dispatch is really making a bad name for them. I am going to tell the world not to get Frontier. I have emailed my radio station that advertised for them and complained. I will post as much as I can to let people know how they tell you one thing to get your business and then not follow through with anything they tell you. Don't use this company.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2016

    If I could give a NEGATIVE 5 stars I would! We have had this internet service for about a year now and it's the worst service we have ever had. At least four times a week (sometimes even A DAY!!) we have to reboot the modem as our internet is down once again! We are over our data package on our cell phones due to having to turn on our hotspot for my husband to be able to work at home. When booking trips and large purchases online I actually leave the house and go to Starbucks so I'm confident I will have a complete hour of internet. The service guys have been out here about 6 times in the last 6 months and it will work for about a day and then back to the same old lovely service (or lack thereof) as before. Each one 'guaranteeing' they have fixed the problem. And every time... it goes back out.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2016

    For over two weeks the broadband has been going in and out causing both the Internet and TV to go out. Once I waited one hour and 9 minutes on chat to just be told they are aware of problems then the tech left the chat. After several more chats and calls a tech came out and replaced the wiring and modem in the house. The problems continued. Today I called customer service and the tech would not look up my account without an account number that I couldn't look up without internet working because we are paperless. He told me there is nothing he can do for me and hung up. Frontier's products are horrible and their service is worse.

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2016

    Having been a Frontier customer for many years now, I could write a short novel about all of the times they broke their commitments, charged more than they initially stated, or otherwise failed to meet the basic expectations of an internet service provider. Most recently, with our new house, we've had issues with being billed for an installation that was supposed to be free (we had to call to get a credit, was not done automatically), and getting jerked around by customer service to get a simple power supply replacement. This service only takes 5-10 minutes at the most - removing the existing supply, mounting the new one - and wiring it all back up.

    With the power supply dying, I wired up my own 12V power supply directly to my ONT - which worked great. I called Frontier to set up a service date - and they said we'd have to wait 5 days before they could send someone out. (They refused to drop it off and let me replace it). Had I not installed my own - I would have been without internet for FIVE days! (First world problem, I know).

    Well, I ended up cancelling that appointment because I was not going to be available to take time away from work - and I used my 12V power supply for a few months to avoid dealing with them. Fast forward to 1/2016 - and I was experiencing an unrelated internet issue (which I identified and corrected, through no help of their techs) and figured I'd keep the service call open so they'd swap the power supply finally.

    THEY scheduled the date - Friday the 15th - and said "If it doesn't work - let us know." I took the day off work to wait for their tech, who would arrive any time between 8 am and 6 pm. I get a call around 3 pm saying that they won't "likely" make it out today, and how does Saturday between 8 am and noon sound? I told them to shove it and cancel the service. My power supply was plenty reliable - and I was tired of dealing with their crap. I get no response to my cancellation request, and Saturday comes and goes without a peep from Frontier (a site visit, call, email, or otherwise) - so I assume all is done.

    Sunday morning, as I'm brushing my teeth - I see a Frontier truck pass our house, and begin backing up into our narrow driveway. Our driveway was full - and his parking was not only blocking the sidewalk but puts the front of his truck into the street itself. He nearly hit our car and parked within 6 inches of our bumper. We're literally YELLING in our living room "YOU'RE GOING TO HIT OUR CAR!!!"

    My wife RUNS out and yells at him for being so careless and that he nearly hit our car and his response is "Yeah, I can see that." There's PLENTY of street parking - but he chose to back up, nearly hitting the car in the street, nearing rear-ending OUR car, and then leaves his truck parked illegally blocking the sidewalk. He was mum the entire time, not saying a word and being a general jackass about everything. Zero attempt at customer service. Mind you - this is SUNDAY, the day AFTER they allegedly scheduled our 8am-to-Noon window. We had no forewarning, nor a call saying our appointment was pushed from Saturday to Sunday. Hell - we had CANCELLED this appointment, and yet here he is! He replaced the power supply, so at least THAT was the silver lining to all of this - but it makes me never want to deal with this company ever again. Tried calling them and sat on hold for 15 minutes and gave up.

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2016

    I live in rural Wisconsin and have very few options for internet - All service in Taylor County are not great. Rib Lake is very bad. I just want people to be honest. I have been charged by Frontier Broadband Max Standard that is said will go up to 6Mb download and 1Mb upload for $29.99. I am being charged $34.99 (why I do not know) and get only 3Mb down and .35 upload. It is bad enough that it is slow and expensive for what we get, but when I called and ask why the charges shouldn't be half for the service I was getting, they said "UP TO 6Mb... 1Mb" Wow, big business deception to the max.

    In my opinion, I am being charged at the same rate (More) than those who are getting better service. This is why some people get treated differently than others and why rich companies can take advantage of smaller towns and force us to pay more for less quality services, while offering better quality to others for the same price. It should be equal pay for equal service - Charge me for the 3MB not 6Mb if you can not deliver. This is not right. If you can not deliver equal service, then charge what you can, but do not make us pay for something that you can not provide and make us think you are when you are not.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2016

    We recently established internet only service with Frontier Communications upon our relocation to the area. The representatives over the phone have all been pleasant and easy to work with. The tech sent out to do the installation was efficient and in and out within the scheduled time. Our service has been very reliable and well worth the price we pay. On the first bill, we did have to call because we were enrolled in some type of "cloud" service as well as an antivirus/protection program, but the rep on the phone quickly removed those charges. If you are considering opening an account with Frontier, they offer a referral program that could save you (and me) up to $150 (each).

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    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2016

    Internet service very spotty. Then they make you spend massive amounts of your time trying to fix problem. Also, Sales Dept. very aggressive at loading you up with unnecessary features. When you realize what they've done, they refuse to properly refund. Beware!

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    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2016

    We pay $44. a month for broadband. That includes a telephone we do not have, btw. Our download speed is between 1.5 and 2.5. Upload is VERY bad. .89, I believe it was. I have contacted them 3 times, reaching a different office each time. I cannot get anyone to tell me if they intend to fix it or not. Kenneth who lives next door finally gave up with them and went to Hughes. I don't want to have to guess at which level one is fapped so Hughes is out for me. Just airing a grievance. There has been no resolution.

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    Reviewed Jan. 10, 2016

    We have called Frontier Technical Assistance on 01/06/16, after 5 days of nonfunctional telephone services, and we were informed that the earliest date available for technical support to come was 01/21/16. Our home telephone had started to have background static sounds, impacting receiving or making phone calls, leading to all calls being directed to voice mail and total inability to make calls. Technical Support asked several questions and also alerted us that the problem may require a payment for service. However DID NOT set up a reasonable 24-48 hours service. Considering how much they charge and the fact that who has a landline most likely use it, this delay to repair is unacceptable and we just feel that this company has no respect for its customer. We are looking in the market for a better option.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2016

    This company is one of the worst companies I've ever had to deal with. First off, their customer service is the worst. They hire people that have no clue what they are talking about. Literally. No. Clue. I know more about internet than some of their workers do. They aren't helpful whatsoever. I'm a patient person, But it gets really old when you're calling Frontier around 3 times a week or more because of an outage. Most of their workers are either Incompetent or terrible people. I've had some bad experiences on their helpline to say the least.

    Not to mention, we had a serious reason at one point *medical device* that needed internet. We informed them that it was very necessary to have internet for this device. They said they wouldn't even send a technician to our house for around 3 days. Not to mention their terrible customer service. Their service in general is terrible in my area. It goes out weekly. At some points daily. The highest speed we usually get is around 30 KB?!? Honestly, the highest I've ever seen it for even a moment was 80kb. We've never seen 1mb even.

    We were paying for 6MB. We obviously called and reported it multiple times. Saying, "You guys offer 19$ pay in commercials. Why are we paying 50$". They would proceed to say they'd lower our bill to 19$ then about a month later they would raise it back up to 30, 40, or 50 dollars. This happened several times over the past year. As if all of that Isn't bad enough, Sometimes we get speeds as low as .02 KB. It won't even load an internet page. Yeah that's "real" high speed right?

    We only have this internet at this point because it's the only option available in our area. If you have another option, don't go with frontier. Honestly. I'm a kind person, but they treat their customers really bad. There are a few good workers here and there. At this point seeing a nice person actually blows my mind. The rest are uneducated and rude.

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2016

    I have called Frontier numerous times to let them know that the connection is intermittent. I had (3) different people from their service department tell me that the reason for this is because there isn't enough coverage in my area. I just got off the phone with Customer Service - they will not refund money - only a partial credit for (1) month and I was told that all they have to do is provide a connection. They are not responsible to ensure that it works! They also told me there is anything I can do about this because they are not regulated! I went online under Frontier Internet Complaints and they are endless! How is it possible that a company can charge you for a service the DON'T provide?

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2016

    I had my telephone service turned off because I was moving to another state. I had a credit but Frontier will not give it back to me for a minimum of 90 days. The ** make you pay upfront for the service plus a monthly fee. Don't use them unless you absolutely have to.

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2016

    I have a business account with Frontier Communications. My internet went out for about a week and my telephone has now been out for about 2 days. I called the company. They said they will send a tech. I will be the second in line. No one ever showed. I called him the following morning and they told me again I will be the second one in line and I would have to wait until the afternoon to get my services fixed which is not good for my business since my clients call in to make appointments to get their hair done.

    About 6 months ago I had the same issue. I called. They sent the check out. The tech left, never told me he was leaving, didn't fix the problem so then I called Frontier. They told me that they have to send another check out which took another 48 hours. This company is the worst. I will never recommend and I cannot wait to switch. How unprofessional. I also called and ask to speak to a supervisor and the customer service rep told me that they were in a conference meeting with all of the owners of the company. How the heck is that possible that they pull in every supervisor to a meeting where no client will be able to be helped. They're full of lies. I do not recommend them.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2016

    I had an account in their system even though I never had opened one. They proceeded to deny that it was in error but it was from several residences and would switch addresses on credit report from records to records. They would not take it off my credit report and I am about to sue this shady company for the damage it has done to me. They ask you to fill out a biography of all your data if you dispute a charge which is about crazy. They ask for all kinds of copies of all kinds of stuff they have no business to as if they are phishing for people's data over a 64 dollar bill which in my guess was really just someone in their back end database and a data breach where someone was screwing with their data.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2016

    On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 our internet service went out. We contacted Frontier on the 24th and advised them of this. They stated that they would have a technician out on Wednesday, December 30. On Tuesday the 29th there was a technician that sat in front of our house for 10 minutes but never got out of the van and left. No technician showed up on the 30th. Frontier then stated they would be on the 31st of December. Still no technician. Today, January 2, we still have not had a technician repair our internet or show up, and we have had several call in to very rude customer service agents with no explanation.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2016

    Seriously you guys had me on the phone for an 1 hr, and someone named Madison had no idea what she was talking about pretty much jerked me around with her BS and the supervisor NICK didn't know a ** thing. I might as well have been talking to 2 potatoes that were eating each other. What a joke. I better get reimbursement for your company's ** up, make sure it happens.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    The following was/is my experience. 5 days ago I started getting spam emails. I called Frontier Tech support & was told my email had been hacked. I needed to reset my password. Done. Then I requested putting Frontier Secure on my iPad. Tech said I would receive an email w/ a link. Done. The email said I would receive a follow up email within 24 hours. 3 days later still no follow up email. Called tech support again. Magic! This tech sent the email on the spot. (How come the other tech couldn't do that 3 days ago???) Next problem can't send emails from my iPad (works on my laptop). Tech says "we don't support iPads" and told me to contact Apple. Did & Apple did everything they could including contacting Frontier Tech support. Frontier did not assist Apple.

    Not getting anywhere w/ Frontier tech support, I contacted Frontier Corp. I was told someone from Frontier Tech would be calling. So far no follow up phone call... have been unable to send emails for 5 days now. In my opinion Frontier USED to have excellent customer service. My experience this time was horrible. I found the techs did not do the follow up promised. They were very complacent and it seems they have little to no desire to assist the customer. Would I recommend Frontier to a friend? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2015

    We've been subscribers to Frontier for a while. Recently we had an outage which affected Internet and phone. Repair services were contacted and a date of repair established. The morning the repairs were to have been accomplished a voice mail was left informing me that there were other consumers with outage issues and it was unknown as to how long we might have to wait until service was restored.

    A technician was eventually assigned and did come to the residence. He informed me that there were multiple issues. 1. The hub in Scotts Mills was in dire need of repair and it was substandard. 2. The installers had damaged a line for our service when installing a service in another residence. 3. There were further 'line issues' east of our residence. 4. There have been ongoing complaints regarding service in this area and that there was no plan for remedy in the foreseeable future. 5. Residents in this area would continue to receive substandard service until hardware in the Scotts Mills hub was replaced or repaired.

    Further communications to senior management have been unfruitful at this time. I have received no communications from management despite numerous calls and emails. We continue to pay for a service which is touted to be one thing but is an entirely substandard service. Contact the state public utilities commission for further methods to correct the issue and find a different provider.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    I have been a Frontier customer for about 2 years. I live in Connecticut and became a Frontier customer when ATT sold the market to Frontier. My initial experience with Frontier was awful. The customer service group did know the difference between a standard modem and a gateway set up. When I called to say I was having problems with my gateway they mailed me a regular modem as a replacement. After arguing, they finally sent a technician. The technician recognized I had a gateway and replaced the defective unit.

    A year has gone by and the unit has failed. I again called customer service. The reps now recognize I have a gateway!! They also tell me I need to replace the equipment due to the problem. Ok, I ask, "When can you send someone out?" They tell me next day - which was Sunday. I'm thinking, WOW, things really have changed. I ask, "When can I expect the tech?" They tell me from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. I am concerned as it is a Sunday and I have errands that I need to run. But ok, here we go. It's Sunday morning and at 9:00 am I call to see if I can get an estimate of when the tech will be by. They tell me I should get a call by 12:30 if the tech doesn't arrive sooner.

    At 1:00 pm, no tech no call. I call and I am told they tech will definitely be out to see me by 4:30 pm. I give my cell number asking the tech to call me before coming by. At 4:30 pm I call and the fun really starts. Each time I get through to customer service they hang up when I give my account information, saying they can't hear me! I called back 5 times! Finally I called on my wife's phone and didn't give my account information until I was actually speaking with someone that could hear me. Now come on, a customer service area that says call back because we can't hear you? This is a telephone company! The last customer service rep tells me I was never scheduled in the system for a tech to come out - the problem was listed as pending in the system. This is after other reps earlier in the day claim to have spoken with the dispatching area and told me a tech was coming. Is this any way to run a business?

    They are scheduled to come out this Wednesday to hopefully replace the gateway or at least get it working. But really, how can a company with service like this hope to remain in business? Wouldn't it have been easier to just tell me no one was available until later in the week instead of lying about someone coming out the next day if you knew it couldn't be done? And then lying throughout the course of the next day saying a tech was coming? And then hanging up multiple times saying we can't hear you? Really, who is running this company or at least the customer service area? When did lying to your customers become an acceptable way of doing business? As you can imagine I am now shopping for a new provider. In my line of work, if I ever lied I would be out the door. How a company that lies to its customers can stay in business is beyond me. I would rather have no service than pay for lies.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2015

    They took payment from credit card after they knew we cancelled service. I have contacted them a minimum of six times and transferred department to department. My last call I supposedly spoke with a supervisor who was going to check into it and call me next day. They did call me next day assuring me that my payment was sent out December 3. I was told it would be here no later than December 24th. It is now December 27th. They have sent me three bills posting they owe me money, but obviously are not going to pay it. I have spent over 4.5 hours on the phone with this company trying to resolve this.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2015

    Frontier is the absolute worst. I've been dealing with them for about 7 years (other internet providers were not available until last year). For 7 years they've asked to come into my home to determine the problem with the stalling, dropping and just plain horrible internet service. For 7 years I've explained our wiring is new and that it's not the problem. We finally allowed them to come in - and - you guessed it - it's not our wiring. They charged me $92 to tell me what I've been telling them for 7 years.

    We are under construction and moving our computer to a new room. The tech was friendly and my husband was talking to him about this. The tech basically said, "hey let's take a look." He saw that my husband had 2 wires mixed up (not even finished wiring the room & would've realized the problem when we were ready to being service in the new room). Frontier said that is the reason they're charging us the fee. We didn't ask for their help with that issue - so BE CAREFUL! They will find any excuse to charge a fee if they come into your home!!! I even tried to keep a log of log in time, stall times, drop times, refresh and reboot times and it was so often that it was hard to even keep a log. The charge was the absolute last straw. We're looking elsewhere and fast!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2015

    Trying to set up a landline for our aged mother in a nursing home. Frontier wanted proof of identity. Ok, gave them driver's license number, home address, credit card number. They wanted my entire SS#, over the phone!!! Finally got a supervisor on the phone. He wanted a signed NOTARIZED form faxed to them. Don't they know the only legal notarized form is the original? Only when you can feel the embossed document do you know it's real. Have spent over 3 hours trying to get a phone to a lady whose only enjoyment is talking to the people she cares about. No other carriers available at the nursing home. Wonder what kind of kickback this ** company gets.

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2015

    Second time dealing with Frontier. First time it took over a month to get anyone out to my house then I decided to switch to Charter instead. Moved where Frontier is the only provider. Purchased just the internet for 49.99 for 1-6 Mbps. They said they would show up Friday, they didn't show up -- I had to call to find out they were not coming. I was upset and granted a $25 credit which they never applied to my account and when I mentioned it in the future they had no idea what I was talking about. Frontier came the next day. Internet service was okay for a week, then went downhill fast. I called and did speed test. I wasn't even reaching 1 mb in upload or downloading. They promise 1 to 6mbps. I live in the sticks but with enough neighbors to overwork the technology they have set up in my area as they said. They also told me they have no future date when a technician can upgrade the equipment.

    So as I stated before I'm paying 49.99 plus tax for less than 1mbps, and they cannot do anything for me. They want to continue to charge me the same and late fees for not paying, but they can't provide the minimum service they promised. Also they had extra charges on my account such as activation fee when it was a self set up. I had to call to get this removed. Also the person who made my service had extra protections such as security added when I distinctly told them I didn't want it as I already have protection. Honestly the worst company to deal with. I cannot believe it's real. I would never deal with them again if I had any other options besides cell phone data.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2015

    My experience with Frontier Communications of Connecticut, which has been ongoing for over a year now, has become almost laughable at this point which has prompted me to write this review. I moved into a new apartment in October of 2014, and having dealt positively with AT&T in the past, decided to give Frontier a chance since they had just bought AT&T's accounts. I asked them to install internet services for me, and even though they gave me a ridiculous time frame as to when they could come out and install it (10 days, could be at any time so I had to take the day off from work), I agreed and gave them a $50.00 deposit. I really wish I had known better not to do this. The technician never showed up after I waited all day.

    I called Frontier that evening, and they said someone must have screwed up and my account wasn't showing up in their system. After expressing my frustration and pointing out that I even gave a deposit, they simply stated they just had to re-enter my information. After providing the information, the representative said someone would be out to install service in ANOTHER 10 days. I said "forget it, I'll get service with someone else, please give me my refund." The representative told me he cancelled my account and my refund would be issued within 7-10 business days.

    Well, after 10 business days came and went, I called Frontier to let them know I never received my refund. They apologized for the inconvenience, and promised it was issued correctly this time. At no surprise to me, the refund never came. I tried calling multiple times over the next few months, but to no avail. At one point in June of 2015, a representative who seemed to actually know what she was talking about apologized profusely and promised my refund would arrive in the mail within 1-2 months. Yes, months. But it didn't come.

    I had pretty much given up, until I received a phone call from a Frontier representative today. I had moved out of my apartment last month, and the person who moved into it after me must have asked for Frontier to switch their account to the new address. This representative who called me expressed confusion when she told me that someone was trying to have their service installed where I currently have service. I almost laughed at her but I was too annoyed. Not only had Frontier never cancelled my account, they still could not give me an answer as to what went wrong and why I never got a refund. And yet again, I was promised my refund in another 1-2 months. Absolutely ridiculous.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2015

    Frontier provides internet service to my mom in Clyde, Ohio. They never told her that for $70.00 per month they only provide 5 GBytes of data. She recently ran out and her internet slowed to a crawl. When she called Frontier, she was told she could buy more data at 2 GB for $15. However when her computer again slowed down 2 days later, Frontier claimed she had used the 2 GB. She explained that she had only checked email. They insisted she buy 2 more GB so they could "track" her usage. She reluctantly agreed and Frontier said 2 GB would be available in an hour. Two hours later when her computer was still crawling, Frontier said their "tools" were down and her data might be available the next day. This company is totally inept and a real ripoff. Avoid them at all costs.

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    Reviewed Dec. 11, 2015

    I contacted Frontier the week of Thanksgiving. The earliest they could have someone here is Dec 8, 2015 between 8-5 pm. I sat here all day, no one showed up. I called and they said they couldn't make it but would definitely be here on Dec 9. I said when they said well 8-5. So I sat here no one showed up again. I called at 5:00 they said they could check and see. Then came back on the phone and said they will be here on the 10th afternoon. I had other things to do so they said the 11th between 8-12. Here it is 12:10. No one. I called - they said "he's on his way." It is now 1:35 pm - their truck just passed my house.

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2015

    Very poor service in the area. Spoke to someone, they said "No problem. We will cancel your service." Come to find out they never canceled my service and now want to charge me 900 to get out of a contract.

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    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