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Hi everyone, I have read a few posts detailing installation woes and the ensuing battle for information from customer services. Here is my story, looking for any help or advice if possible. I placed my order on 25th March for Broadband, phone and TV, with installation on 12th April. Our house must be one of the only ones in the street that doesn't have Virgin Media cabling to it. Having not heard anything in the two weeks prior to installation regarding pre installation, I called up to ask when it was being done. I was told 'today', needless to say, that day was not 'the day', neither was the next day, but did get told I would receive a call 48 hours before, or that morning, whichever customer service advisor you got through to. They did turn up on 4th April to do the pre installation (after another call being told 'today', but no call from the 3rd party engineers, despite assurances that I would get one). They couldn't do the job due to a stuck cable rod, so left needing to do 'some construction work'. A complaint was escalated with the promise of an update in 48 hours - no update came. After yet another call on the 8th, I was told that they would be doing the work on the 10th, without fail and there would be no further delay. 10th came and went, called on the 10th at 4:30pm and was told that it was scheduled and they could still come (until 7pm ??!) I was told if they hadn't come by then, phone them back, which I did, and they said I would have an update at 10am next morning. No update again. Friday afternoon, I received an updated installation appointment now for 10th May, this is after speaking yet again to customer services, who still don't know what is going on, keep saying that it is some 'back office team' but they can only email them, and I would have an update in 48 hours. How familiar. 96 hours later and still waiting, but there was a works permit put in for a dig outside from the 15 April to 16 April, but funny enough, nobody showed up for this either. I'm sure this is all to familiar on here, but if anyone can give any pointers on where to take it, or anyone can help out, it would be much appreciated. Feel like I'm going round in circles. DaveDelayed installation with little to no information
Unfortunately from looking through the community posts, poor installation experiences are common. I placed an order for Virgin 1 Gig broadband and phone on 5 January 2025. We live on small cul-de-sac road that already has Virgin Media and were given an install date of 8 January 2025. The installation engineer arrived late in the evening and giving credit where its due, he was brilliant, spending a lot of time looking, but ultimately could not find the Virgin cable to our house. A pre-install site survey was booked for 10 January 2025. With the daylight the pre-install person found the loose cable for our house. A new installation date was booked for 13 January 2025. Another installation engineering arrived to complete the install, but said that there was a fault with the cable and he could not complete the install. We have subsequently had a rolling preinstall date which keeps moving to the following day and have been given three new installation dates: 29 January, 11 February and now 25 February. A family member works for the local council and no works requests have been raised. What is most ludicrous about this and absolutely unacceptable from a business and customer service perspective is the lack of information or the apparent inability of anyone to answer three very basic and simple questions: What actually needs to be done? When will it be done? What is causing the ongoing delays?Unauthorised pre-installation work was carried out by (Virgin Media) Avonline Networks
After contacting Virgin Numerous times and waiting numerous days for an engineer, they finally decided to come when we were not home. We left notes for the cable installer and with the Virgin Media team; these were to install our services in a specific location so it doesn’t conflict with our upcoming building works. Despite our specific instructions, they failed to tell their pre-install team, and they installed the external box right in the way of our pre-planned construction work. This is now causing us delays as it is right in the way our building works. When I contacted the pre-install team to inform them of the situation, I was told they could not do much about it. They would try to contact the subcontractors, and my best option would be to try to catch them when they next visit. Hopefully, someone at VM will be able to investigate this and look into it as an urgent matter.
