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Openreach Reviews

1.7 Rating 235 Reviews
16 %
of reviewers recommend Openreach
1.7
Based on 235 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver, Postal Service
On-time Delivery
Greater than 9%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Live Chat, Email
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.9 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time
22.75 minutes

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Anonymous
Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Had one engineer come out, who explain they would have to come back to connect full fibre to the house. That was a month ago. Now they are outside doing just about every other house in the street. Ask the guys would they be doing mine to which they explained EE has to come out first to remove my copper line. That would leave me with no connection. EE explained they are waiting on Openreach, and are still waiting on Openreach. Currently I'm paying for Full fibre and not getting it. Hope they have to come back when it's pissing down with heavy rain and high winds.
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Posted 26 minutes ago
We have had no Internet or landline since 6th January 2025. OPENREACH fail to contact us we have to ring Talk Talk everyday who give us another date for it to be fixed but it never happens! We run a business and rely on our landline and Internet for work, and in this economic climate having our lifeline out of action for 3 weeks is out of order is not acceptable! They are just awful company!
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Posted 5 days ago
Between Sky and OpenReach it is apparently a competition as to see who can do as little as possible in fixing my frustratingly slow internet. 1) The engineer sent out by Sky is a lad from openreach. Who then tells me everything is fine. 2) Sky then tells me everything is fine, but the area is serviced by 3rd world ' broadband' speeds - and no, it is not going to get upgraded, but we will force you to pay a truckload of money for it. Problem is the service is always dropping and the speed of the line is sometimes only 3mb/s.... seriously? Is this the best that you can do?
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Posted 6 days ago
Openreach keep sending me texts with dates when they will come and fit Fast Broadband. All I have to do is text CONFIRM. I text CONFIRM and it answers with 'not delivered' in red! This 'communication' has so far lasted 5 months - the same text delivered and my reply NOT delivered - a never ending cycle. There is NO WAY of contacting them. No telephone number/email etc. They are useless! Does anyone know how I can
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Posted 1 week ago
Despicable, deplorable third world service. How can a company like this be in business? Trying to get internet at our new flat in London for over 1.5 months. We have been lied to by their engineers and the providers themselves can't get appropriate communication. This is third world service
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Posted 1 week ago
They just don't turn up and you're left hanging as to why. Your option is to book another installation but who can guarantee they'll come then??? They need to be shut down by the regulator.
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Posted 1 week ago
We had fibre installed yesterday, the engineer Murao was brilliant. He worked tirelessly in the freezing cold and had to pull the fibre cable up 200 yards as unknown to him the cable hadn’t been laid to our property. He was very grateful for a plentiful supply of tea. We have never known an engineer as efficient, polite, hard working and funny as Murao. He is a great guy and a credit to Openreach.
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Must useless company ever ! 1 month to have internet in my house ? 😂 Someone can explain me why they take so long ?
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Posted 2 weeks ago
After entire private path taken up with no notification, we 3 houses let that slide, however we were told that as a telegraph pole approx 10 feet away no further digging, then told no access to it ????????? It's there in the open plenty access. This morning some workmen digging path again with no notification, stopped them asked why not using pole, they admitted they were surprised at dig works when that was available, rang BT/ee another issue their, the saga goes on. But made them stop because two other properties affected without notice Am adamant that unless a good reason the pole should not be used then the entire path cannot be dug. Elon musk can connect from space bt/ee/openreach can't even go ten feet across garden, wish could afford Mr musk's prices.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Absolute disgrace. Because of a faulty survey and pathetic management I've been without Internet since early November 2024
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Posted 3 weeks ago
I originally booked the 13th 1-6pm as I was moving house, they changed my booking to 18th, I phoned sky to double confirm as open reach didn’t have a hotline, confirmed booking amended to 18th, somehow engineer turned up at 13th, I wasn’t at the property so had to amend again to the 23rd, no time range was given, so I expected 1-6pm as well, but as a backup I handed my keys to neighbours, somehow on the 23rd they showed up at 10:15am, engineers said they phoned me, but my phone never rang, oh and I found this out at 4:30pm when I called sky to double check if they are coming, I had no alert updating me at all, had to reschedule again, then somehow I received a message from sky saying I cancelled my broadband!! I had to phone Sky to check what’s wrong and they said open reach cancelled it because they did not have access!! Moved to new house for 11 days still do not have internet what a nightmare of this service!!
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Posted 4 weeks ago
Absolutely terrible service, was supposed to have the phone line connected to my new build, the engineer knocked, i answered within 20 seconds and there was no one there, the job then got cancelled. He literally must have run off, just couldn't be bothered with it being Christmas. I know have to wait until jan the 8th to try again, have no broadband for my kids or work. Joke of a service, how are they even allowed to operate.
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Posted 1 month ago
After a year of struggling to get broadband installed and going through three providers they yet again did not turn up today . So I posted on Trust Pilot and hey presto you can get a reply from Openreach : Reply from Openreach 2 hours ago Hi David, I am sorry to hear this, please ask you're provider to contact us direct and we will work with them to get you on line asap. Cheers Gareth Too late really, my provider has been escalating this with Openreach several times without result in the last three months. Useless.
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Posted 1 month ago
Multiple calls to BT support/help contact center - all over 60 minutes.. Issue still not resolved. Basically they are ripping off an elderly relevant, and now the phone line is not working for a vulnerable elderly person. Will be cancelling as soon as is physically possible!!
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Posted 1 month ago
What an exquisite conjoining of two useless organisations - OPENREACH (the joke is in the name as you cannot reach them) and TALKTALK They give Laurel & Hardy a run for their money The former failed to turn up or contact me on their promised time slot - the latter put me through a Nepalese call centre where I might as well been talking to a Yeti, the amount of sense I got on the other end of the 'phone Sadly, in this area, Openreach have the monopoly - and boy, don't they know it
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Posted 1 month ago
A very bad experience; the work was done in a hurry and with poor quality, which caused a delay in activating my broadband.
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Posted 1 month ago
If you have any way of avoiding dealing with these, go with absolutely ANYONE else And if they book a appointment with you, be aware that they will do EVERYTHING they can to cancel it, costing time and making the whole exchange an absolutely nightmare. Also, they go out of their way to not allow you to contact them directly, even when you have an appointment from them.
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Posted 1 month ago
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Posted 1 month ago
Driver of vehicle driving dangerous lot and using extremely bad language BK72 HXF in the far cotton area of Northampton
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Posted 1 month ago
First time with BT and Openreach and will be the last. Got fibre cable installed on 7/11/24. The outside cable was attached to my property in an inconvenient and unsatisfactory place. When I asked the engineer to move it I was told “you don’t own the air” so basically you can do whatever you like Openreach regardless of what your customers want??? I was told someone would be out at a later date to move it and remove the old cable. Several lengthy phone calls and online forms later, 3 engineer visits and 3 days unpaid days off my work and the issue has still not been resolved. In fact they said I will now be charged for moving the cable. Please stay away from BT EE and Openreach. Absolutely disgusting service I have never experienced anything like this with any other provider
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Posted 1 month ago
Openreach is rated 1.7 based on 235 reviews