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Openreach Reviews

1.7 Rating 213 Reviews
17 %
of reviewers recommend Openreach
1.7
Based on 213 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver, Postal Service
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Live Chat, Email
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
2 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time
22.75 minutes

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Openreach 1 star review on 8th August 2024
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Openreach 2 star review on 8th August 2024
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Openreach 1 star review on 2nd May 2024
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Openreach 1 star review on 22nd November 2023
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Pathetic service. I placed an order through V4, and they used Openreach. Originally it was Thursday, then they moved it to Friday, and it's now Saturday and I still haven't heard anything from them. Avoid at all costs.
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Posted 2 months ago
terrible. The engineer strung me along kept setting the time back and back until he just never came and didn't even say he wouldn't make it. I cancelled seeing my mum in hospital and had to get someone to go to my house to wait for him never to even show up. He knew I was getting someone to go around at 1pm and he was still messing me about with times at 6:15pm.
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Posted 2 months ago
I have up to now had 3 engineers come out to sort my slow wifi out. 1st came ag 7.30 am. Woke me up. He was talking about running cable under my newly fitted carpet, move everything into the bedroom etc. All it was was a slow internet i told him to leave. Second one said it I needed new cable. Needed an electrician to do that. Third engineer was thorough. Got verything working as it should be. Very polite and new what he was doing. Third time lucky. Thank you Hangsingh. Only one who seemed to know what he was doing. Are these engineers not trained before they go off into peoples homes?
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Posted 3 months ago
I tried to speak to Openreach but it appears you can only chat to their online chat bot, before you might eventually get a human if you press the right combination of options. I then tried to log a complaint about their engineers over 2 visits who dragged dirty muddy cable all over my front windows and were in my front bushes, woke me up on a Saturday morning banging cable on my walls and swearing at each other, yet never announced they were coming on either visit. Openreach just told me to speak to my service provider but I didn't call the engineers out. My 'service provider' TalkTalk therefore would not log the complaint and sent me back to Openreach. I went to and fro 3 times. Each time Openreach asked which neighbour called the engineers out...no idea didn't see a neighbour outside with them! Yet Openreach must know as they tracked the engineers down. So what I am now assuming after unsuccessful logging of a complaint, is that Openreach never log complaints, giving the impression they give great customer service...which...they don't!! Openreach...not so 'Open'...more 'Closed' and go away annoying customers.
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Posted 3 months ago
Landline still not working after 5 days. I was given an appointment for a engineer to visit between 8am and 1pm today. No-one turned up and no message or apology. Compained to BT this evening, couldn't speak to a human, just they knew there is a fault and an engineer would call in two days ????? Hopeless, we will be changing our supplier.
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Posted 3 months ago
...Openreach whilst installing a neighbours new broadband line...CUT OFF OURS!...the permit holders on our Rd have every right to be upset as we try and keep spaces free for the engineer(s) to finally arrive and fix the problem THEY created...so fyet days of this as we fret and phone fret and phone etc this is becoming a complete and utter joke and waste of our time isn't it? If I could give 0 as a score it would be too much
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Posted 3 months ago
Engineer arrived without appointment. Smoking in my face when I opened the door. When I said it was inconvenient as I was in the middle of stuff. He started to walk away. I told him to wait, and come around the back of the house where the incompetent Sky engineer has installed the box. He said it was inconvenient for him. He drove away. I now have to wait 2 weeks for another aggressive Openreach engineer to do a basic check. Perhaps you have to be diversity averse to be a Openreach engineer?
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Posted 3 months ago
If anyone is having an full fibre install or any engineer visits soon, be wary if you get assigned engineer called Emma.. waited in all day for her arrival. Was then told Between 1-6pm, called her at 6pm to see if she was on her way and maybe running late.. no answer so called EE direct.. she said to EE I refused entry and cancelled appointment at 6:01pm! No contact at all from her. Now have to wait till September for another engineer!! Shocking behaviour (maybe don’t like working in the rain but very unprofessional to say the least)
Openreach 1 star review on 8th August 2024
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Posted 3 months ago
Is this parking even legal - across my pavement. Definitely not on any emergency. Portree, Urquhart Place, today. Carpark within a few feet!
Openreach 2 star review on 8th August 2024
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Posted 3 months ago
I PAID 848-77 pounds in MAY for a telegraph pole outside on the pavement to be moved 2yds so I can widen my gateway,then told it would cost thousands asked for a refund 3 MONTHS later &many emails & calls --NO answer .NO customer service or contact tel number-HAS to be illegal and its deliberate but as a public company they have to provide contact details BUT its a deliberate brick wall they are breaking UK company law&I need my refund at 77 soon a WASPIE pensioner that gov have stolen my full pensioner leaving me with 169 wk. so gov are also thieves.
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Posted 3 months ago
My sky broadband was awful. Your engineer, Jerome, was superb. I live in Chadwell Heath, RM64SL and would like my thanks passed onto him. He found so many faults in the wiring in the house and also faults outside in the network. He worked tirelessly for hours and insisted he would fix the problem. He did, and my broadband went fron 15 MBPS to 69 MBPS. I wanted to give him £20 as a genuine thankyou which he refused but thanked me for the offer. He really is a gentleman and rare to find such ethical behaviour these days. Thanks Jerome.
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Posted 3 months ago
Ee let me down, the people to save me were Openreach So as not to bore, took 2 months via EE to get broadband. Finally, Openreach did everything they could (not contractor M J QUINN) to help. Shout out to engineer Zac, Matthew and Craig who went above & beyond particularly Craig who owned the problem from start to finish. Thanks so much for saving me from massive stress
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Posted 3 months ago
Terrible company, been 2 1/2 weeks without WIFI to be told multiple times it’s going to be fixed on certain days with the promise constantly becoming a lie. Terrible service, never thought that this issue would stretch on so long but this company has managed to make that happen.
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Posted 3 months ago
Waited throughout the allotted time of 08:00-13:00 for someone to arrive - nothing. Called BT, they called Openreach, Openreach had subcontracted to Kelly. I was told the engineer’s earlier appointment had over-run but someone would come “today” An hour later the engineer called to ask if I was home. At 15:00 he arrived At 15:05 he asked if anyone had already been and then said there was no fibre outside the house to connect to !? He drilled a hole stuck a connection box on the wall and left. 2 hours later I received an email to say he had arrived ! Let’s hope the internet is faster than the installation process 1/10 so far.
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Posted 3 months ago
Appalling service like most people here. Waited in yesterday ( boiling hot day ) from 12.30pm as the engineer was due between 1pm and 6pm. At 6.55pm someone called to say he had just received notification that he was meant to be at the flat and could he still visit? I ran late for my 7pm appointment. Took time off work like everyone here - incurred £22 worth of car charges as I had to leave the car on a metered bay, Called Openreach today talked to an advisor who was very helpful- he said the system showed that I wasn’t home when the engineer called. The invisible engineer must be. Terrible service. In the last hour they’ve sent me an email ( to an old email address ) saying ‘thanks for your order, the next engineer will be with you on August 5th’. Despite me telling the agent that I don’t want their service and I don’t want their wi/fi. AVOID OPENREACH…..in fact they should be called HARD TO REACH. Jokers.
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Posted 3 months ago
Requested a house move with Sky only to find that after I had moved house - 350 miles away from my office - Openreach had placed a cancellation order on my Sky account. Tried to get this lifted which took a week, then the date for my house move was scheduled for a further 2 weeks in the future. During this time I had no internet access for work, so was having to tether to my phone, and no TV or Alexa for music. I now have family coming to stay for a week and they will also have to use up their data if they want any kind of web based service. How this can be legal is beyond me as I am the registered account holder.....appalling company with no ethics.
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Posted 3 months ago
Last year, the village near where I live was connected to full fibre broadband. We had a visit from an engineer to do a survey, as our property is at the end of the line, and our existing landline goes underground, across a farmer's field. We were told that the work would be done before the end of last summer. It wasn't. In February this year, two more engineers turned up to do another survey. They concluded that the field was too muddy to work in. After several months of ordering full fibre broadband from BT, and the orders being cancelled by Openreach, a few days ago, yet another engineer turned up to do yet another survey!! This morning, the order was cancelled for a third time. BT advised me that Openreach will not do the work because it is too expensive. They also mentioned that they could ask us to contribute to the cost! I have read a review on here, from two weeks ago, saying that they contacted the "top man", and got their problem resolved! I had already considered doing that, so I definitely will now! Appalling service.
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Posted 3 months ago
The company was very helpful, they also called me 3 or 4 times regarding my internet connection, asking if everything was in order. I would like to thank them very much and wish them good luck.
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Posted 3 months ago
Probably the worst company I've have to deal with .They are a bunch of half wits who could not even spell customer service
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Posted 3 months ago
Rubbish company, they came to install broadband on behalf of Vodafone, they left the cable lose, outside, anyone can trip on it. Employees just wanna run the time down ,do nothing. Customer service inexistent, stay away from them.If you got new broadband installed, make sure it's not openreach who's gonna install it.
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Posted 4 months ago
Openreach is rated 1.7 based on 213 reviews