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Re: Systemic problems at Verizon

  • From: deeann mikula
  • Date: Fri Feb 16 10:39:15 2001

On 16 Feb 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Are things as bad in Verizon country as they got in Ameritech country?

i don't know how bad it is with ameritech, but honestly, verizon is a
joke.  since this isn't an adsl forum, i won't write the novel that i
could regarding their (lack of) service.  but it reaches from customer
support to order placing to ticket escalation to the techs (mis)
configuring their routers.

some example of daily mishaps:
*new customer bound to the wrong isp
*inability to locate an address that is already billed by verizon
 (therefore, no adsl for customer)
*customers switched to new vci/vpi with no coordination with us
*new customers placed on new vci/vpi witn no coordination with us
*refusal to service existing customers trouble tickets because they are
 "too far from the CO to have adsl"
*days long outages that aren't explainable by anyone (techs to senior mgmt.)
*customers SHUT off because they mention to bell techs that their OS is linux
 (we support linux, verizon doesn't, therefore, they cancel exisiting service)

the last quote in that article sums it up:

"For a company that supposedly should be technologically expert, they
were completely unprepared for taking on the business and they have
never caught up," she said. "Their service is abysmal."

deeann m.m. mikula
director of operations

telerama public access internet
http://www.telerama.com
1.877.688.3200