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They Should Be Left Out on a Log to Die!
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- I am still holding with RCN and it has been 53 minutes so far waiting for a sign of intelligent life. I had my wallet stolen and called RCN to change my credit card number with them so they would automatically charge me each month. It was my misfortune that I spoke with remedial woman who screwed something up and I fell out of auto pay and lost my monthly billing rate and now they are trying to charge me almost twice as much for service as well as a $10 penalty for their incompetence.

When I signed up for RCN internet the lying sack of crap told me that their wireless router was the only one that would work with the RCN system. I was one of the Carnival suckers that believed her and have since learned that that was a bold face lie.

Several times I had called the RCN office because I kept getting an error message from Netflix that there was insufficient bandwidth to steam a movie. The unsound mind of Frankenstein kept running tests on the modem telling me it was working well and that it must be Netflix. I had a friend take me to get a different wireless router and I have never had that problem again. For four months I had lived with this problem.

Once this problem was brought to their attention I was issued a credit for what I had spent on the router rental. This would have been fine except that they keep forgetting to credit my bill and was given every excuse in the book as to why they were unable to refund my money. So here I still sit on hold clocking in 64 minutes waiting for the next idiot to try to insult my intelligence. I only can hope and pray that Comcast will be better. It feels good to dream.

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Billing Dispute
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DARBY, PENNSYLVANIA -- I have been with RCN since 2003, I change from basic plan for phone services to Unlimited Regional and Unlimited Local package in 2006. With the basic plan I was charged for every local call I made, so in an effort to save money I contacted RCN and sold on the bundled package which included *UNLIMITED REGIONAL & UNLIMITED LOCAL* calling.

I have made several calls to RCN complaining about the service. The problem, I am unable to dial my cell phone number or my daughter's cell phone number from my home phone. The cell phone numbers are within my *UNLIMITED CALLING AREA* - I have spent more than 6 hours trying to correct this issue.

I was able to get a tech service rep who was willing to listen to me and the CODES that are required to make the *UNLIMITED REGIONAL & LOCAL SERVICE* work were added to my account 01/2008 - the codes should have been added to my account when the service was changed in 02-16-2006. I was told to contact the billing department and report the findings and that my account would be credited.

I contacted the billing department and was told by ** that there was nothing that could be done. The mistake was discovered more than 30 days later, which will not allow them to credit my account. However, I have been billed for more than 2 years for a service I did not have. I am sure that there are others out there that are paying for this package and not getting the service. If you are one of them send me an email.

I am in the process of writing a letter to all the RCN executives, the following information can be found on the following link which is open for the public: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=rcni. The only address that I could find on-line is: RCN Corp. 196 Van Buren Street Herndon, VA 20170. Phone number: 703-434-8200.

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Rcn - Quality of Service
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HERNDON, VIRGINIA -- RCN Web Mail is simply terrible. I have been a customer for 15+ years - (Before RCN) purchased Erols. The past few years web mail service has been literally atrocious. About 1 month ago, I got into an email conversation with a customer service representative who finally relented and said she knew of the problem because many customers were complaining and that they were aware of the latency problem for some time and were working on resolving it.

It got so, that I recently mailed a letter to the President and CEO complaining about the so-called "service." In the letter I told him RCN's service was literally driving me away to another ISP. I got a phone call back from his assistant who said they were working on fixing the problem. No Cigar!!! After being a customer for 15+ years, I'm gone!!!

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RCN Illegal Charges and Technical Support
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On the 24th of September I made a payment arraignment with RCN also known as Starpower Telecom: I was going to pay $119.00, which I did with an electronic check in their website. Before I made the payment I confirm with the RCN billing or financial dept who assure me that if I pay the same day the $119.00 my service was not going to be disconnected or interrupt and that I was not going to be charge any reconnection fee.

Four days later I found out that I was charged $290.00 from my checking account to cover the past due balance I had in my RCN account. After endless calls and discussions with supervisors they that “they did not know what happened.” I find out the same day talking with a supervisor that in addition to the illegal money they took from my account, they charge me $20+ for the disconnection of the system.

I work at home so I know that the internet and or the telephone was never interrupt, but according to the supervisor from RCN, I was disconnected and immediately connected again and charge $20.00 behind my back. Even if I had payment arrangement with the company.

While this was happening two technicians, in different occasions, were trying to work on how to repair my internet and phone system, because it did not work properly and was constantly interrupted. This technical problem occurred at the same time that RCN was taking the $290.00+ and also was charging me the $20+ for the "disconnection" of the system that never happened.

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Embarrassing New York City Ineptitude
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Hard to believe but several hundred customers have had serious internet problems for DAYS in the heart of New York City. They don't tell you anything about what is or will be done. After the long outage they tell you that they will be gracious to not bill you on these days (wow, as if I needed to call six times to know I wasn't paying for these days!). They don't have any plan to fix the Internet in any expeditious fashion - in New York City? Are you kidding me? Try to cancel service - they have limited hours that this department is open, M-F only, of course.

I've never seen anything like it. Shocking but true. This is why I have to run out now and get broadband cable because RCN has no clue when the problem will be fixed. They are offering to send people out later this week. A week outage?

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Worst Service
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MASSACHUSETTS -- I ordered RCN internet five months ago and everything was working fine until two week ago. It was down for one weekend and then it is occasionally down for night (I am not at home during the day time though). Even when it is working, the speed is slow (~800K out of claimed 1.5M) and doesn't support the VPN connection to my company any more. While the worst part is that you can't find people to help.

I called the tech support number (1-866-832-4726) three times during 6pm-10pm in three days and had waited for 20, 50, and 30 minutes respectively but only heard the recorded message and no live person picked up the phone. I have given up my hope for this company to fix my problem. The only worry I have right now is whether I could find a live person to cancel the service tomorrow.

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Be Warned: RCN Cable, Internet and Phone Are TERRIBLE
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- I had the unfortunate opportunity to use RCN internet, cable and phone for this past year.

RCN Cable: During this past year, I was never able to watch a movie on demand. My weekly routine.. I would select the movie and the system would freeze. Then I call RCN, wait at least 45 min to speak with someone. Finally, after waiting, the tech support would reset my cable box (I lose all my movies I had saved on DVR). After rebooting, still nothing works. I ask for a credit, they tell me that the "on demand" service is free, therefore no credit. Again, I did this weekly.. I guess I thought (wished) sooner or later it would finally work.

RCN phone: They "accidentally" cancelled my service today. (This actually prompted me to write this review). My wife works from home. We called RCN this morning. After waiting for 55 minutes, we finally spoke with someone. They don't know what the problem is. They want to send tech support here to see what the problem is. We asked for a credit, the Manager said she will credit us $1.55 for our troubles. The good news.. I cancelled the service today! If you choose RCN, just remember... You were warned!

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Don't Trust Their Cancellation of Internet via Phone Service
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Before moving, I canceled the internet service three months ago via their automatic phone call, after pressing this button or that for almost 10 minutes. But I still get bill from this great company for the past three months! And they told me not to use their phone cancellation! And they can't do anything for that. It is really...

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Terrible Company
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MASSACHUSETTS -- They do their best not to provide reliable service. Tech support in a foreign land fake names included. Not to mention hold times exceeding 30+ minutes. Buyer Beware.

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Godawful Service, Terrible Customer Service
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- Don't call tech support unless you want to hear that there are no outages (first call), still no outages (second call), okay, outages but only on my account (third call), and finally system-wide outages (fourth call) but they have no idea when they will be fixed. You also get to spend huge amounts of time on hold and get put to people who don't speak/understand English that well.

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