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Spectrum Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects significant dissatisfaction among customers, primarily due to poor customer service and escalating costs. While some users acknowledge stable service performance at times, many express frustration with frequent outages, billing inconsistencies, and unresponsive support. Common complaints include difficulties in service cancellations, lack of transparency regarding equipment ownership, and inadequate resolution of issues. The sentiment is largely negative, with customers feeling undervalued and misled. This feedback indicates a pressing need for the company to improve its customer service practices and address billing transparency to enhance customer satisfaction.

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747
value
723
shipping
388
returns
428
quality
651

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California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Money Hungry Company
August 15, 2018

If I guve negative stars to to this company I would give it a -5 for lack of customer service non satisfaction and for late installation fee also for the miscommunication that they have going on now. Lying Leeches wallet money sucking company.

Date of experience: August 15, 2018
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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IF I CAN GIVE NO STARS THAT WOULD BE TOO MANY. THEY FORCED ME TO GIVE A RATING AND A 1 STAR SEEMS TOO GENEROUS.
HOW CAN SPECTRUM DARE TO OFFER "SPECIALS" TO NEW CUSTOMERS AND SAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER THAN FIOS AND OTHER PROVIDERS, WHEN THEY RAPE THEIR LONG TIME CUSTOMERS AND NICKEL AND DIME THEM TO DEATH! I'VE BEEN WITH BRIGHTHOUSE/SPECTRUM FOR 15 YEARS. I AM PAYING $200 / MONTH FOR LOUSY SERVICE, LOUSY CHANNELS, CABLE TV THAT HAS THE SOUND GO IN AN OUT EVERY FEW MINUTES AND 2 TECHS WHO CAME TO MY HOME TO SAY THAT IT'S FIXED, INTERNET AND PHONE THAT GO OUT AT LEAST A FEW TIMES A MONTH AND THEY TELL ME NOTHING'S WRONG! NOW THEY TELL ME THAT EVERY TV IN THE HOUSE MUST HAVE A BOX AS OF 9/5/18 OR THEY WON'T WORK. OF COURSE, IT WILL COST ME AN EXTRA $5.95 A MONTH PER BOX TO GET THEM. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE! ON HOLD FROM 30 TO 45 MINUTES MINIMUM! SHAME ON SPECTRUM!

Date of experience: August 14, 2018
Ohio
1 review
8 helpful votes
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PROBLEM TAKEN CARE OF... SO FAR
August 15, 2018
Updated review

After sending an e-mail to Spectums Customer Service, I received a reply the same day saying a manager would be calling me to set up a time to come to my house and check for issues. I received 2 calls the next day and a Supervisor came out today and spent over 2 hours checking connections inside and out of my house. He replaced some old equipment and so far everything is working.

Date of experience: August 14, 2018

ON DEMAND STOPS IN MIDDLE OF SHOWS
August 15, 2018
Previous review

On Demand stops in the middle of shows and gives a Error Message saying: This show is no longer available". I have made 3 calls concerning this and received 3 different answers... the problem is still happening. This time they said it was because my payment is late. My service is not shut off ---- they are basically slowing it down for payment (?). I tried to leave a "Dis-satisfied" Review and their system WOULD NOT LET ME! I have been a loyal Customer for 30 plus years. Now I am looking for another TV and Internet provider.

Date of experience: August 9, 2018
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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1. The DVR/Receiver either stops or resets itself when there is thunder and lightening and we loose our signal.
2. When I attempt to call customer service I am on the phone listening to terrible music for at least 30 minutes or more. I am with Spectrum about 3 months. I have lost count of the times that I spend on the phone waiting to talk to a live person to her my complaint.
3. I switched to Spectrum from Direct TV. I am now considering switching back to Direct TV.

Date of experience: August 13, 2018
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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The absolute worst
August 13, 2018

Unreliable, horrible service... Internet cuts off several times a day. If you work from home or a student trying to do your assignments, it is absolutely hell. Would rate a 0 if that was an option.

Date of experience: August 12, 2018
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Enough said really! Its gotten worse than brighthouse, way worse!
Dvr dont work right, t. V. buffers, and internet gaming? Forget that, will be cancelling soon anyway. Ridiculous customer service! They dont care AT ALL!

Will not recommend, instead i will warn people not to try SPECTRUM.

Date of experience: August 12, 2018
West Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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AWFUL SERVICE
August 12, 2018

Yikes! Now vcr and dvd recorders won't work. I called and they offered me a DVR. It came by FedEx and I located it the next day; There was no way I could attach it to my old tv as there was not a correct type of cable included. I never took the unit from the box and returned it 3 days later. My bill came and I was charged for the 2 days left in the July billing period and $25 for the DVR service which I Had; never set up nor activated. They had offered me a technician to come and set it up for $40!
I have written 4 letters to customer service and never had a response, and telephone and chatline communication has been far from helpful..

Date of experience: August 11, 2018
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I'M CONFIDENT OUR GOVERNOR WILL KICK THIS EVIL OUT OF NYS AND NOT SOON ENOUGH FOR THE PEOPLE OF NYS.
BAD CABLE TV. BAD INTERNET. BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE, CONFLICTING INFORMATION FROM THE COMPANY AND IT'S MAINTENANCE WORKERS. I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THIS ISSUES SINCE THEY TOOK OVER FROM TIME WARNER. IF I DID. THE BOOK WOULD BE BIGGER THAN WAR AND PEACE. GET OUT OF NYS YOU MORONS!

Date of experience: August 11, 2018
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Lousy service. Always having outage. If they pay me every time we have an outage I will be a million. Don't promise 200 mbps give 50 consistently. If you can provide service return our money close it shop and run away.

Date of experience: August 10, 2018
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Price Increase
August 10, 2018

Get a notice of a $20 price increase, for what type of service has an increase that high? I called to complain & they where the just out right rude, they just didn't care. My S. S. didn't increase that much ( I which it did) they just flat out told me to leave there company. (yes I will go to AT&T) have no choice in this area. I just wish that people get together & boycott Spectrum. If there was a negative star to rate this company I would vote for that

Date of experience: August 10, 2018
North Carolina
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Spectrum work when they want to. How can you pay your bill, then all of a sudden there is an so called "power outage" in your area. If the rating starting with zero that would be my rating for them. Sorry company! Sorry service! Especially when you work from home! You can't count on them not to lose any money!

Date of experience: August 9, 2018
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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If there was a negative star rating, I would give them a five. Bundled phone, internet and cable service to save money and each was equally disappointing. No doubt the worst service provider I have ever encountered. If you have another choice of providers, take it. Spectrum is the absolute worst hands down. Disgusting!

Date of experience: August 9, 2018
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I just stopped into our local Spectrum Cable Store (Brittain Rd., Akron, Ohio). Their service rep (Felicia) was rude, clueless and no help whatsoever. There is no "service" in customer service with the company. I wouldn't even give (Her) therefore them any stars. Akron would be better off for them to close up shop ~ I'd rather have no internet or cable than to have spectrum. Felicia was adding notes to a 96 year olds account rather than mail a form to the 96 year old ladies address to prevent her from setting up auto pay. GREAT JOB Felicia at Brittain Rd Spectrum. Don't make life any easier than it has to be for someone pushing 100.

Date of experience: August 8, 2018
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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That is what customer service at Spectrum told me. They said that their On Demand provider is working on a fix and patches. For 8 months! Examples of what happens: try to access on demand and it says not available at this time, some networks are available while others won't work, it looks like on demand is working, but when you select a specific episode, it sends error message to screen, while watching an on demand program it just stops working and boots me off. When I complain that I'm paying a high dollar amount for cable and surely this could have been fixed by now, they tell me that on demand is free with my paid cable. That's an out and out lie. Since on demand is provided by a third party to Spectrum, they are paying for it. Even though I don't see a line item charge for it, I'm paying for it through my high cable charges.

Date of experience: August 7, 2018
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Vorst service
August 7, 2018

What happened whit spectrum was very good service now worst customer service ever worst than frontier i have problems with my phone lines for 5 days and im pizza shop my business is based on phone lines and nobody can fix for 5 days and nobody can give my answer when they gonna be fixed i call technical support department about 20 times no answer from them very rude employs they tald just seat and wait when i get tired to talk to just employs i ask to transfer to supervisor or manager they just hang up on me they did 3 times one guy left note for supervisor is told me supervisor call back in 45 min but supervisor never call me i placed 3 work orders on aug2 aug3 aug 4 for technician to come to my restaurant to check for the problems al those 3 days nobody show up and was placed 3 work orders on sat i receive call from dispatch and she told me technician comes sunday in the morning i ask her maybe i can change the time and o y god i heard from her what i never dont heard in my life she was so rude looks like she want to fight my on the phone i was paying $200 a month for the service HORRIBLE SERVICE what HAPPEN whit spectrum they have to bring back bright house back

Date of experience: August 6, 2018
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Because I felt they couldn't provide what I needed at a fair priced, I asked to disconnect 12 days out but they disconnected a few days later. I called and was put on hold twice for a total of 54 minutes. After talking with several people they couldn't fix it so the resolution was for ME to disconnect everything and take it to a store in another town. It felt like punishment for cancelling my service. They did admit that no one could fix it and restore my service. IT department really needs to work the bug out where when their employee selects seasonal suspend and cancel at the same time no one can fix it.

Date of experience: August 6, 2018
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They mislead a bit saying they have all these HD channels. While technically they are HD, most are of lower quality like 720p and 480i. Not the 1080i that everyone has become used to.

Date of experience: August 6, 2018
Washington
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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About every 3rd time I log onto the Live Spectrum TV Ap I get a very limited screen with NO on demand, NO my library, nothing but the basic guide saying what's on the channel it's pointed to. I can't even begin to say how sick and tired I am of being in the middle of watching on demand, and all of a sudden getting kicked out and not being able to get back in to see the next episode. I pay over $200 a month, and this is the service I get? Plus, I lose my internet A LOT! I work from home, so it's a disaster when my internet goes out. Sometimes 4 and 5 times in an afternoon.

Date of experience: August 5, 2018
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Spectrum SUCKS!
August 5, 2018

Over priced for what you get. Customer service is terrible. Went to online billing they send bill every two months and charge a late fee. After 3 times yes 3 times. So I went back to mailing. And now they don't recognize my email address either. My bill is do in 8 days still haven't got my bill. AT&T here I come!

Date of experience: August 5, 2018
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Freezing, stuttering and dropping Netflix so its unwatchable. I'm sure if I chose to add their overpriced streaming service it would work just fine. I dropped Directv due to rising costs and I am ready to drop Spectrum as well. Service quality does not match up to their cost which creeps up too. Gave a 1 because 0 is not an option.

Date of experience: August 5, 2018