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Moving from BT to EE - nothing but trouble

scassidy1986
Contributor
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Like others in these forums I was convinced to move from BT to EE for my broadband and TV (EE sold as the “premium” service) and it has been nothing but trouble

  • Placed order, no response or anything and and it stuck in pending for weeks, finally get someone to look to find out the order hasn’t been placed correctly
  • New order placed, still hear nothing - because my details had been entered wrong so nothing was linked to my existing EE mobile account
  • Finally activated, after lots of phoning to get my details sorted, but now I can’t link my accounts to manage anything or activate any extras
  • 4 weeks of the same thing, phone and explain my issues, told it has to be sorted by an offline team. Nothing happens, no updates or replies, when I put in a dissatisfaction note I get an email 30-45 mins later to say it’s been closed but no feedback or resolution or follow up
  • Broadband is working fine (actually faster than BT and the hub seems to have better coverage) but it was a struggle to get the mini boxes working, I can’t use the TV app, and regularly get an error IPC6007 that I have too many boxes active (I’ve my main and one of two mini boxes, rarely on at the same time)

 

Really not impressed with the service since moving at the start of the month (March), it does seem like the plan is too get as many people moved over to get more money (setting up the direct debit was the only thing that went smoothly!) while the backend systems clearly can’t cope or weren’t ready, I mean how difficult can it be to link a few accounts together?

Parents and friends are coming to get end of Sky/Virgin contracts and I honestly can’t recommend switching right now, especially for the TV product

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scassidy1986
Contributor
Contributor

And just to clarify - I'm not having a go at anyone from the support department, anyone I've spoken to has tried to help but it seems like with the move from BT to EE not everyone is being given the correct training so how could they help!

Neil-O
Former EE Employee

@scassidy1986 I'm really sorry about the problems you experienced with your order. The linking of the accounts to yoru EE ID is a known problem and a specialist off line team are working through a backlog of these at the moment. They hope to have this cleared by the end of next week so you should be able to manage your services on the app then. I apologise for any inconvenience caused.

 

With regards to the error on your TV service, how are the boxes conneced? Are you using any ethernet switches?

 

Thanks

Neil

Using the internet - I managed to get sorted today after contacting support with my broadband and TV setup on a different email address so I can now login and manage them.

For some reason but they were unable to run any tests against my broadband (maybe because the account was just setup?) but after doing a factory reset of the router it seems like things are working finally.

Still have some issues with activating the Game Pass for gaming (I just get a generic error that it failed), but other things like linking Netflix were resolved by updating my Netflix account to match the EE broadband/TV email!

Awilcox
Explorer

we've have had the same issue since we moved from Sky to EE  Feb this year, still got account problems, can't get any extra TV services add or make any changes until the account has been sorted,

Call Centre are really helpful and understanding however I have phoned 10+ times now are are always told it will be fixed in 48 hours or the next 5 days,

Something has happened on our account this week as our TV mini boxes are no longer working. just get IPC6007 which isn;t helpful at all

Yup same here, and I agree 100% - anytime I’ve phoned customer support they’ve done their best to try and resolve this or at least manually fix anything I can’t do, I’m sure they are fed up themselves having to deal with this!

 

i do feel sorry for them, heard a few of them say we haven't had training on your issue before, which i understand. but it's only going to be a matter of time before customers just give up and go somewhere else

I already tried to cancel my TV part but was told this would be solved soon… this was back in Feb/March haha

in fairness the thing I really need is the broadband because I work from home and so far it’s been great with no issues (other than the account setup issues) but I’ve warned other people about moving because they’ll have the same problems!

marcinKaluza
Explorer

True EE is a one big disaster, even worst than VM. 

newforestuser
Established Contributor
Established Contributor

Very similar story here. Back in February I finally gave in to the barrage of emails I'd been getting from BT telling me that all residential services were gradually being moved to EE, which was far better (faster, friendlier,  etc, etc), and moved my bradband, mobile and BT (TNT) Sport over to EE, even though I was perfectly happy with BT who had provided a perfectly acceptable service for years and who I'd only needed to contact once a year when trying to geotiate down my annual charges - all through a single point of contact. I was assured that as the EE handover was little more than a rebranding exercise it should all be painless (ha!).

The EE experience to date has been like dealing with a start-up company who have bitten off more than they can chew. The mobile switchover was eventually successful, though a bit fiddly after I'd inserted the EE SIM and had to phone support to activate the account. But the broadband and TV became (and still is) a saga of frustration and incompetence. Nothing happened for weeks, and then eventually I received a few emails (to an incorrect email address) telling me I was now an EE customer, though nothing seemed to have changed, and according to my logins via the app and via my laptop, my account was not linked to any services . Over time I eventually  received a new router and a mini-box for TV (after they'd incorrectly sent me a recording box I didn't need)  , and I do have working internet and TNT TV services. But despite multiple phone calls (all dealt with politely and to the best of the call-handler's ability) all have proved ineffective in getting my account active, in fact I now get the message "Account Closed" on logging in. (I also gave up my landline to keep the charges down to what they had been with BT.)

So I can't see what services I have, or what the payments that are taken out of my bank accoung represent. I was concerned that my mobile charges were £2.50 a month more than I had verbally agreed at the start of all this, only to be told that adding this on is the "default" so that you can see your itemised mobile bill; that always came free with BT, and I can't see my EE bills anyway! So that has now been knocked off, but no offer of refunding the £7.50 I'd paid over three months. Also I'm told that mobile has to be a separate account to broadband, so I'll need two separate logins - crazy stuff.

On yesterday's phone call to the mobile team I was assured I'd get a call back from the technical back-ffice team. Of course that never happened.

I'm going to put these problems in old-fashioned writing to customer services with a deadline for sorting them out. No disrespect to the call handling team, but they obviously are swamped with unhappy users and don't have the training to talk technical, and anyway it's obviously broken. A classic example of rolling out back-office sofware that hasn't been properly tested, especially the user-experience.

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!