Install Great. End to End Experience Questionable
Really struggled to figure out how to rate my experience. Martin, the engineer who came out to do the install to the house was fantastic, and exceeded my expectations.
But getting hold of Openreach in general was really hard and they didn't take into account that this was a tenanted house and I'd explicitly said that I'd need advanced warning to go to the house.
So it seems like they're good at installs, but not so good at the end to end customer journey and are too hard to get in contact with, meaning the engineer wasted time when he's on a fixed cost per job, meaning his own personal loss.
I also saw Openreach's response, and understand they're not customer facing. And in day to day situations you shouldn't be able to contact them, instead going through your provider. But they also don't allow any mechanism where they integrate with the provider to allow me to add notes, or specify any conditions that flow through to Openreach.
I've seen it happen a lot, where either an install would be difficult, or there is value in the installer knowing things in advance, but there appears to be no way to do that. My parents had to have Openreach out 3 times before they found an engineer that'd actually install to their house, and it seems less than fair that the installing engineer takes a personal risk for their ROI, and Openreach given no way, either directly, or through providers, to contextualise an install.
1 August 2024
Unprompted review