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Author Topic: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES  (Read 8163 times)

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Now, the ugly truth of PLDT has finally been published by one leading news column in the Philippines.

Basahin ninyu at sabay tayong tumawa sa ka palpakan ng PLDT service!!! LOL


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This PLDT DSL hell
by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES

TODAY marks one month of nothing but intermittent Internet from PLDT DSL.

Which is also to say that for the past month we’ve given PLDT a chance to deliver the service that it promises us, and which we deserve, paying customers as we are who have been using their DSL since forever. Which is to say that for the past month we have been disappointed.

That is putting it kindly. The work we do is dependent on staying up to date and in touch with the world via the Internet. We invest in the service, use hard-earned money to pay for it, not because we want to be on Facebook every day – though that is as valid a reason as any thank you very much. But where I live, we use the Internet for work. For updating websites and publishing content, for doing research for articles, and sending those articles out into the world.

Were it not for a heaven-sent cousin who lives next door and shares her Internet with us for free, and my phone’s Smart 3G service, this would’ve been a month of no work done at all in this household.

Service please!

When the PLDT phone and DSL service both died on October 20, we could not even bring ourselves to dial their customer service hotline 172. Have you heard that recording? It’s atrocious. Because also instead of giving you a customer service representative, it tells you to listen to a recording of this same male voice who will walk you through troubleshooting your DSL modem yourself.
They make us do it ourselves, and don’t even have the decency to give us a real person to talk to. But of course you can stay on the line and waste a good 20 to 30 minutes waiting for a customer service representative to answer your call, too.

On October 21, I found a PLDT’s customer service Facebook page and sent them a private message. Five hours later, Iggy of PLDT informs me that there’s an “ongoing PLDT facility migration.” On October 23, all the way in Tacloban, I report to Iggy again on behalf of my household: the phone line was back but the DSL was still dead. The following day a certain Fay replies and says they are still performing system maintenance and “may not be able to handle your concern immediately.”

I wanted to say: well it’s been five whole days, so “immediately” is out of the question. Little did I know we were looking at a month down the line with no DSL.

Instead I ask how much longer the service will be down, and if we get a refund for the five days we haven’t had Internet. A certain Celle replies and says they cannot give a date for the completion of the maintenance, and requests for refunds are entertained once service is restored.

None of that sounds hopeful of course. And really: to have to request for a refund instead of being given it for services PLDT knows full well it is unable to provide is just offensive.

Beyond broadband

The PLDT DSL slogan says it is “beyond broadband.” Well you know what’s beyond broadband? No broadband at all!

From October 20 and into the first week of November, we had no real internet service to speak of. On November 8, I send a tweet to @PLDTcares, telling them this is practically three weeks without Internet, thanks to them. No one replies. I send them the same tweet three days after, on November 11.

An Eileen from PLDT sends me a direct message on Twitter and says they’ve sent a report for “immediate troubleshooting” and thanks me for bearing with them.

For three days, from November 13 to 15, the service was back. Since November 16 though, it’s been as unreliable and intermittent as it has been all month. I go back and send @PLDTcares a tweet, they send me a direct message telling me that in fact “adjustment on the restoration of the line has been completed” and they would do “immediate line testing” to figure out what’s wrong.
No one has offered to come check out our DSL modem. No one has followed up to tell us exactly what’s going on, offer their apologies and a refund for the past month of only three days of service, if at all.

PLDT DSL’s epic fail

Early morning of November 18, 30 days since we first lost our DSL service, Tanie and Precious inform me via Twitter direct message of how much more trouble this is going to be.

That is, if I insist, as I have the right to, that we get a refund for the past month of no services rendered. Because apparently the only basis for a refund is PLDT’s technical report on our account and the number of days we have not used the service after its restoration.

Which means they will not refund us for October 20 to November 16, when they themselves had said they were under system maintenance? Which means the basis is not whether or not we have had the service, but what their technical reports say? I wonder if we will ever see those reports. One wonders if we can charge them for work not done and lost due to the lack of DSL service.

Of course not. Because in this country PLDT DSL’s epic failure to deliver services that its customers pay for, goes unnoticed and unpunished. Welcome to the Philippines, protecting big business is our business. The consumers can go to hell.

http://www.manilatimes.net/pldt-dsl-hell/142785/

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2014, 07:21:05 AM »
epic tlga... hahaha...
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2014, 08:12:42 AM »
PLDT DSL as been indeed intermittent.  We currently suffer the lock-in period bundled with their Telpad with poor connection.
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2015, 01:10:52 AM »
Same scenario I am experiencing with my PLDT DSL. Parang SABUNGAN lang, mas lamang pa ang SA WALA kesa sa SA MERON.

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2015, 09:50:25 PM »
PLDT DSL as been indeed intermittent.  We currently suffer the lock-in period bundled with their Telpad with poor connection.

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 11:07:07 AM »
PLDC este PLDT has the very worse customer service. we are still experiencing this kind of manner sa office namin. 2 weeks na kaming walang net sa office. parang di nagcocommunicate ng maayos or ang panget at sobrang panget lang ng sistema nila. tatawag ka sa customer service, may sasagot na representative tas sasabihin mag didispatch daw ng technician pero pag tumawag ka sa mga techinician wala naman daw report sa kanila. parang ewan lang yung sistema nila or parang niloloko ka lang as consumer na wala silang pake sayu pag nagkaaberya ang connection mo. imagine our office is paying atleast PHP 30,000 per month for 15mbps connection. pero minsan halos mas mabilis pa ng 512kbps na connection. yes you heard me right. PLDT has the very worst customer service.

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015, 02:50:25 PM »
and we are one sa pinaka mahal na binabayaran na internet connection sa buong mundo for that kind of service!
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2016, 02:29:54 AM »
Napuno na ako sa PLDT dahil sa dami ng problema, kaya nag-switch ako sa Sky almost 1 year na. Di hamak na mas maganda connection ko ngayon.

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2016, 11:12:05 AM »
Napuno na ako sa PLDT dahil sa dami ng problema, kaya nag-switch ako sa Sky almost 1 year na. Di hamak na mas maganda connection ko ngayon.

ako din sky na umalis na ako sa pldt tapos bukod sa internet babayaran mo pa monthly ng telepono mo. e sa sky di na kailangan ng phone.
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2016, 02:56:20 AM »
ako din sky na umalis na ako sa pldt tapos bukod sa internet babayaran mo pa monthly ng telepono mo. e sa sky di na kailangan ng phone.

  Magkano ba sa Sky Broadband?
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« Last Edit: November 03, 2016, 03:53:04 AM by Igor »
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2016, 09:27:17 AM »
nakakatorrent ba sa skybroadband? meron bang capping?
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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2016, 11:41:46 AM »
Napuno na ako sa PLDT dahil sa dami ng problema, kaya nag-switch ako sa Sky almost 1 year na. Di hamak na mas maganda connection ko ngayon.

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Re: This PLDT DSL hell - by KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO from THE MANILA TIMES
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2016, 07:50:47 PM »
nakakatorrent ba sa skybroadband? meron bang capping?

wala capping. oo pwede mag torrent.
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