My first experience with V4 was more positive, but after a few months of being with V4, our Internet kept failing.
I got in touch first in late February 2025.
The first engineer from Openreach could not find a cause, at the second visit I was told to change the cable. After some pushing, we got sent a new rooter from V4, unfortunately the problem still persists.
Communication was at least satisfactory, until we scheduled the first phone call from V4 to discuss further options, and I was not rung at the time promised to me.
Last week we learned that, through a different company, full fibre is available at our address.
On phoning V4 I was told that semi-fibre was offered through Openreach now, I agreed to stay - but subsequently that information turned out to be incorrect. V4 claims that the order seemed to go through at first but was then declined.
This might well be true, but I was not informed about the fact until I rang again. A second scheduled call was arranged and again, I had an apologetic voicemail three hours later.
I asked to be let out of my fixed contract and to be contacted - in writing- by a person authorised to make such a decision. I was told via e-mail that someone was going to ring me at a certain time, when I was working. In the voicemail left by the head of complaints I was promised an e-mail, I am still waiting for that e-mail to come through. I have now set a deadline of contact in writing for tomorrow, and if I don’t get the e-mail, I will take the matter to Ofcom.
This is shocking service, and I am only
giving it two stars because it was better before.
There is another issue with the contact via e-mail. The e-mail address the response comes from is different from the support address to write to, and it is a no-reply address called “customer success”, so one has to actively generate a chain of communication through copying and pasting their answer.
The e-mails sound quite artificial, like they are generated through AI and direct questions have actively been avoided, both over the phone and in writing.
I should be possible to give me information about the cancellation process in writing, in a productive manner.