Openreach Reviews

1.7 Rating 136 Reviews
17 %
of reviewers recommend Openreach
1.7
Based on 136 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver, Postal Service
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Live Chat, Email
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Avg Email Response Time
22.75 minutes

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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
BT engineer supposed to be with me to fix a fault between 8am-1pm. Still not arrived at 4.15pm. Then I discovered the engineer had marked the job as started at 12.56pm. It had not. BT engineers are clearly lying about hitting targets. Couldn't care less about customers missing a day's work.
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Posted 1 year ago
Useless - took forever to get internet working. Very disappointed primary school children as a direct result. Very upsetting - Openreach are NOT to be trusted.
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Posted 1 year ago
Shocking failure to fix a simple fault, has been going on for six days now with no end in sight. Avoid this company, and any service providers that use them, at all costs.
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Posted 1 year ago
Have made multiple appointments over a two-month period. They don’t show up
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Posted 1 year ago
Did not turn up for broadband install then lied about having been here, I spent a day off work waiting. No communication as to why they did not come and engineer did not answer his phone. Totally useless and undependable, cancelled BT order.
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Posted 1 year ago
Awful. I signed up to a new internet provider and they rely on Open Reach to provide the fibre connection. But, they don't turn up, even when appointments are made, and they don't even contact us to say they aren't going to turn up. What a shame that this company is relied on by so many people for a basic service. Awful company.
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Posted 1 year ago
Have never know such lazy unqualified shamefully company even makes BT look bad
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Posted 1 year ago
We are experiencing incompetence of the highest order. We are moving our business and wanted to have all our services at the new location and quite honestly the staff interaction has been so below par that I have not a clue how to resolve it. please can a senior person reach out and help us.
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Posted 1 year ago
Booked Two appointments with them. Engineers did not turn up at the write time slot. Engineers turn up whenever they want. Managed to get a phone call off the engineer to be rudely told that someone must be in the house at all times. This was on a week day at 11am, do they not know people have work to go to? If it wasn't for the fact that they are the only the provider I would have switched to another company who did not use openreach.
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Posted 2 years ago
I am now 7 weeks without internet due to Openreach incompetence. I have had 6 visits from engineers who all say I need a hoist to connect a wire from the house to the telephone pole. they say a hoist is booked for the next appointment but they turn up without one. There is no system that allows you to talk to them so i have to communicate via live chat with Talk talk who also promise me that they have spoken to Openreach and they will provide a hoist at the next visit but they don't. Frustrated
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Posted 2 years ago
I had an appointment from BTOpenreach engineer last Monday. The guy came and told me that he needs another person for the job and he will come back in 2 hours. He never arrived. The was reassigned. The second guy came on Friday and told me he needs another person for the job and will come back "when he can". He didn't show up either. My time, my inconvenience and the service they provide mean nothing to these guys. I do not understand how this company is run when they cannot get a simple job of attaching a property to a pole on a quiet street done. And guess what, they do not have a complaint process. Why would one need it anyway!!! As someone said in a comment, "You are going to be very frustrated and regretful with using OpenReach."
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Posted 2 years ago
I want to praise my open reach engineer colin for such a brilliant service so polite and genuine really helpful 11/10 customer service ! -
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Posted 2 years ago
3weeks still waiting for engineer to come...
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Posted 2 years ago
My phone line and internet went down Tuesday I was told it would be Thursday A guy came not from openreach and said it was outside so would contact openreach I saw an openreach guy outside my flat and went downstairs he was fixing another flat but came up to look at mine And said it was outside and he would ask for a visit Friday I was out all day and when I returned I had a card left from the same openreach guy called graham And he had seen my job was now on the system so he took it And fixed it, but also left a very kind note explaining that he had taken the job this was worthing West Sussex and graham Went out of his way to help get my system back
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Posted 2 years ago
Been waiting since August 21 for our phone line to be moved about 10 meters to another pole, Still nothing, I have paid for this work but keep getting a different person each time they call me. I just want it moved. worst customer service ever.
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Posted 2 years ago
Myself and my 2 neighbours have been without any telephone line for 3 weeks.I have no broadband or Internet and my broadband provider tells me it's being worked on at the telephone exchange.Shocking service with no consideration by Openreach or priority to get the issue fixed
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Posted 2 years ago
absolutely shocking. I had 3 appointments and their so called "engineers" never came. I am without internet now for 1 month, and still not light at the end of the tunel. If i could rate the company -starts i would. If i had the option to use virgin media i would, but they do not supply to my area, and every other company is reliant on open reach. DO NOT USE THEM
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Posted 2 years ago
Engineer came to do work on a telephone pole in our ginnel in the Eccles area.The engineer did his work and left leaving neighbours bins scattered everywhere that he moved. Plastic strewn everywhere and left the gate wide open. Tried calling openreach but cannot speak to a human and they make it impossible to make a complaint. Looking at the other reviews looks like openreach are absolutely useless and one to avoid
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Posted 2 years ago
Today an engineer called Maksood Choudhury came to look at my telephone line. It has been a source of continued problems since January when I went over to Fibre. He has been professional, and informative in trying to sort the problem out, and although the problem hasn’t been fixed, he has made sure by speaking to bt that another engineer is coming with other equipment ti fix the problem, not only my telephone but to look at my tv which is also faulty, he has made sure that I’m not left wondering what is going on. Maksood is a very competent engineer!!!!
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Posted 2 years ago
Wish I could give -1 star 7 weeks no wifi for no reason other than Openreach wanted to disconnect us. We pay our bills on time and are always polite to them. 7 weeks ago an Openreach engineer came and disconnected my wifi for no reason. The first time an Openreach engineer came out after 1 and a half weeks, they disconnected the telecare alarm for the whole of my village when they were just supposed to put a wire back in. They then took another Two weeks just to come out and what I assume could only be on purpose destroyed our telephone line. We then had to wait 3 and a half weeks for them to just reject coming out for us. So we moved from Sky to Bt in hopes it might make some progress to working from home again and I'm dreading what they are going to completely mess up next Tuesday. I'm assuming they're going to find a way to burn our house down or cut the power to the village "by accident". Seriously do not I repeat do not trust this company as they are untrained and only make things ten times worse.
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Posted 2 years ago
Openreach is rated 1.7 based on 136 reviews