on 04-12-2023 18:29
Hi there,
New customer to Virgin Media (they've only recently come to our area). First attempted install was 13th November.
We've had five failed installations so far. I think we finally now have an answer on what's happening (issue 500m away so not relating to our property) but beyond that there's no communication on when services will work if ever.
What am I best off doing? Feel like I'm going crazy calling the same numbers over and over with no resolution.
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on 04-12-2023 19:33
You are stuck until VM gets its act together with the cable installation sub-contractors and completes your installation or VM gives up altogether and cancels your installation.
You should start keeping a detailed record of events (dates, times of all calls, messages, texts etc. along with any missed appointments and failed appointments where someone turns up but no work was carried out). Keep the record in a timeline format with links from the timeline to each piece of recorded evidence. This will make it easy for you in the future to put forward a case to arbitration for the correct compensation, should that be necessary.
https://www.virginmedia.com/help/billing-and-payments/automatic-compensation
Do you have a working connection from another provider at the moment?
If not you should be considering what temporary measures you can put in place to give you some connectivity (a temporary Openreach connection on a rolling 30 day contract or an unlimited data SIM on a rolling 30 day contract).
You are unlikely to get any useful info from VM that you can truly rely upon and help you plan what to do.
Go through some of the (many) delayed installation topics on this forum and you'll soon get a good idea about VM's general patterns of behaviour in such cases.
on 04-12-2023 19:33
You are stuck until VM gets its act together with the cable installation sub-contractors and completes your installation or VM gives up altogether and cancels your installation.
You should start keeping a detailed record of events (dates, times of all calls, messages, texts etc. along with any missed appointments and failed appointments where someone turns up but no work was carried out). Keep the record in a timeline format with links from the timeline to each piece of recorded evidence. This will make it easy for you in the future to put forward a case to arbitration for the correct compensation, should that be necessary.
https://www.virginmedia.com/help/billing-and-payments/automatic-compensation
Do you have a working connection from another provider at the moment?
If not you should be considering what temporary measures you can put in place to give you some connectivity (a temporary Openreach connection on a rolling 30 day contract or an unlimited data SIM on a rolling 30 day contract).
You are unlikely to get any useful info from VM that you can truly rely upon and help you plan what to do.
Go through some of the (many) delayed installation topics on this forum and you'll soon get a good idea about VM's general patterns of behaviour in such cases.
on 05-12-2023 08:57
Thank you for this answer. After posting I did read the other topics and it was quite alarming.
We have another means of getting Internet access for the time being. I was just concerned there may be something else I could do that I hadn't thought of.