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Related: About this forumAnybody else a victim of FIOS to Frontier switch-over?
I was feeling pretty smug, my service - internet, TV, phone - switched without a hitch on April 1. Friday night. Banshee premiere. My son tried to watch it on Showtime online, and was told we were not subscribers. Yes, I get Showtime, HBO, and Cinemax, although that will change if I lose my Verizon retiree discount. Anyway, he called customer service, they said all would be fixed April 11. Today.
So - now he can watch HBO GO, but not the other two onlines, and I cannot get any channels whatsoever on my TV. Starting midnight last night.
Argh.
Just wondered if anyone else has this problem.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)google: Frontier Verizon switch over complaints.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Customer service is clueless.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Are you purposely moving from fiber optic to cable or satellite?
Instead of saying superior service I should say superior picture, it is my personal experience nothing comes close.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I pay for fios but they refused to put fiber optic in my house unless I paid a bundle, they jsut hooked it up to regular cable. and that was verizon.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)One of the best places to get results is here: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/frontiernet
Also, no wonder you couldn't see Banshee, because that's a Cinemax show, not Showtime.
djean111
(14,255 posts)And I know that Banshee is on Cinemax - channel 420! - but was kinda hurried when I typed. We could not get Showtime OR Cinemax online, just HBO GO.
djean111
(14,255 posts)The tech who came out to my house said that Frontier did not really know what to do with digital voice. And everyone from Verizon had digital voice. And they were working on it, nothing to do at my house.
What happened - everyone who either called support or did some troubleshooting on their own - if they reset their router, they lost their digital voice. Or if support bounced the ports, anything at all - lost their phone service. So the guy came back a second time, grandson and I were in the kitchen, the phone rang, and we jumped and looked at it like it was possessed. It was the Frontier tech, he was outside in his van, his job for the day was driving to everyone who lost their phone service, and calling them to tell them it was back.
As far as not having the online access - they basically said all packages we were paying for, and all movies we had purchased, would be available online on May 1. So my son caught up with Banshee and Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley.
Plus, looks like I still have my retiree discount. Or most of it, the bill is about 2 or 3 dollars more, I think. Hard to tell because my son bought Revenant - I hate buying movies! - and I think that, with taxes, was the difference.