Since 6th April migration of Onephone to EE our phone system has been inoperable. We have had to direct all calls to an O2 simcard means we operate on a very reduced service. We need our phones for our business 24/7 in and away out of the office because we are funeral directors. BT have offered to put us on thier Cloud system, but insist on a new 5 year contract. We don't want to stay with BT but we need the phones. Extending our contract by over 2 years from our Onephone contract seems extremely unfair and bad business practice. Our only way out is to pay £4800 penalty! Is anyone else left in this position, basically being manipulated by BT into a long contract for a service we don't really want but having no choice because a poor phone system would wreck our business?
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Simon we are in adsactly the same boat but since October 23. Told we had to sign a 60month agreement as our old contract was about to run out. Reluctantly we did and since until May 24 we had no land line & in April our mobile was cut off because we refused to migrate until we had a land line sorted. The sad reality is regardless of how many calls, emails & complaints we raised know one gave a hoot & all we get is 'sorry to hear this'. Ironically as well we are still continuing to pay our old BT contract that ran out in October 23 on top of our new one at £500 but again 15 calls later & emails nothing gets any further forward & we didn't even get the equipment we asked for but hay ho we will keep paying for a service we are not getting. I found out today on phone have also been billing us for 6 sim cards in the 1 mobile phone they supplied us? We now have a land line but no business as we have to be sat by the phone if it calls as we have no mobile to divert to. The migration sim cards sent out yesterday don't work either because 'they were sent out in error & more are on their way. You couldn't write a film on the mess we have been left in with 10's £1000 of lost business but we are royally shafted with nowhere to go.
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Hi, We are having the exact same issue. The phone system has never been flawless, however, since the migration to EE in April they are terrible. We have 4 sim cards and all are exactly the same, we answer a call, the customer will state their name and where they are calling from and the line cuts dead. I dread to think how much business we have lost because of this. I have spent in excess of 5 hours on calls to all of the 1 customer service number that BTOP have, i have had to do this on my personal mobile as i have had times where i've been on hold for 40 minutes for my line to cut off using the onephone, so i've racked up around £180 in my personal bill to the wonderfully helpful 0845 premium number customer service line. I have raised several tickets explaining the faults, at no point has anybody rung back to assist with any issues, or any resolution been offered as to how to fix the issue, i'm essentially calling, telling them there's a major fault that is causing me to lose business and they are just logging it and nothing goes further. We had bill in excessof £1300 for January where apparently we were making calls to Egypt of 1st of Jan, where the offices were shut and all the phones left on the premises, but nobody has come back to us on this. We're also being overcharged every single month for paying for a cloud system which we are no longer on, nobody has come back to assist with this. roughly around month ago i stated i wanted to terminate the contract, i was told somebody would contact me back in 2 days, 4 days later i had to ring again and state this again, to be told someone would contact me back in 2 days, a further 3 days i had to ring and refuse to get off the line until i was put through to someone who could deal with this, they reluctantly put me through to cancellations where i was told i would be given the details via e-mail over the next week, this eventually came through (longer than a week) stating that i would need to pay £7800 termination fee......for a system that doesn't work.......with a customer service that fails to act on any issues that i raise with the faults on the system. I'm expected to pay near £8000 to cancel a system that is costing me money and that BTOP have done nothing, not even a phonecall from any sort of fault department to say "i understand your having some issues, let us see what we can do", even if they did that and took it no further it would have been more than we've had. I question the legality of making me pay to leave a contract when they are not providing the service that i signed up for. I would argue, and argue quite strongly that BTOP is not fulfilling their part of the contract to which we both entered. So.....even after receiving a termination figure, i have been onto my IT guys to get a new system installed, i need the number for the business as we have been established for near 40 years and losing the number would have huge ramifications on our business, but we cannot get intouch with anyone to get this moving, so we are left in a stalemate and i am at my whits end!
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We have exactly the same problem. Signed up for BTOP end of last year to be then migrated over to the EE Sims which give us about 20 seconds of call until one caller end up sounding like a Darlek. 100's of phone calls to BTOP and BT Local business but their response is that if it doesn't work then we can terminate at a fee of £30k. This is not acceptable - system is not fit for purpose and BTOP do not care. The reasoning they give is that we are based in a type of building (shed) that blocks the signal. I have explained that this is not the case as it happens regardless of where we are making our calls. We moved from EE prior to this contract only to be moved over to EE after a few months, which was not our doing. We have over 50 mobiles which i cannot afford to loose, but we are basically being blackmailed as we cant port them without agreeing to the early termination fee. I really need some advice. I have contacted my solicitor today for help as this is not acceptable.
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I'm sorry to hear your BTOP phones are still not working properly. Can you please send over a private message with some account details so I can look into this for you?