Pure incompetence
How is it possible that such an incompetent company is in charge of the fiber-optic infrastructure and installation in NL? I understand that they have too many customers for their company to deal with. They need to fix this. I seriously have been busy more than a year trying to get fiber-optics installed in my flat. Even with a "time out" because I just couldn't take it any more. Can I sue them for psychological damage and wasting so much of my time? Let me try categorize their incompetence:
1] The current monteur has absolutely no clue what the last monteur has done. Yes you can end up with monteurs coming and saying something else needs to be fixed first, by a monteur of the same company, and each one saying the same thing. This is no joke. I'm not talking about a mix up with kpn provider. No, kpn-netwerk is unable to communicate with kpn-netwerk. Monteurs of kpn-netwerk telling me other wires/connections first need to be installed by other monteurs of kpn-netwerk and so the cycle continues: each monteur not knowing anything about the current status.
2] I mentioned kpn-provider above, because this is my internet provider. What type of information does kpn-provider get from kpn-netwerk? 'That everything is ready to go and working'. Yes you wouldn't believe it. I've had a couple of kpn monteurs here from the provider, unable to do anything because of no connection.
And kpn netwerk refuses to do anything without an 'opdracht' from the a telecom provide. It's absolutely insane. The absence of actual fiber optic wire to an appartment they dont consider incomplete work, but a 'storing' that the provider has to deal with.
Fiberoptic wire running through the 'meterkast' of my apartment without any branch to connect with, they dont consider incomplete work but a 'storing' that the provider first have to deal with.
Seriously how incompetent is this company? How incompetent is their workflow?
3] And where are we in september 2022, more than a year later since my tragic encounter with kpn-netwerk? Work now apparently is outsourced to "Roamler-kpn". I'm unable to make any appointment with a monteur. I first got an email to make an appointment online- there was a nice booking system with not one single available slot for a appoinment for the coming year. After a few weeks I looked again and did manage to make an appointment. This was cancelled by them. The next appointment was also cancelled by them. In both emails blatant lies that they tried to call me. I mean how tech-stupid are they to think customers wont know whether they have been called by them? I know its just a small stupid lie, in their standard automized emails, but illustrating again just how incompetent kpn-netwerk is.
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Lets face it, for kpn-netwerk the customers arent people. It's a failed automized system they have which doesn't care about the customer and does everything to block feedback from them. 1 star is seriously too much. Should be -4 stars for the damage inflicted.
UPDATE: so a monteur from Roamler came, and ofcourse was unable to fix the problem. I was told KPN netwerk could only fix it. What a complete waste of time. Why is kpn netwerk outsourcing jobs to Roamler, that only they can fix? Kpn netwerk = beyond insanity.
Update 25 april 2023. I'm glad to announce that twee weeks ago I finally had a fiberoptic connection. Sadly none today, with the alarm light on. Kpn netwerk ofcourse refuses to do a thing. First a monteur from the provider has to come by and do nothing. What is this all about? The provider can do nothing to solve the fiber optic connection. Absolutely crazy. But then again 'crazy' does pretty much summarize kpn netwerks organization.
*There is one more annoyance to add about this company. And that is the 'threat' that the old telephone adsl connection will be terminated. It basically says that in places where there is a fiber optic connection, the adsl connection will be removed. But kpn-netwerk lies about where the fiberoptic connection is working. I've been trying get a fiberoptic connection in my flat for 2+ years without succes. And you know kpn -network has a 'postcode check' to see whether the fiber optic connection is available and working at a location. For this whole time it has indicated it is working and available in my flat. Even without physically having a fiber optic connection going to my flat.
Insane company and kpn provider is not any better.
17 September 2022
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