Ofcom Reviews 197

Ofcom, It is the most us/less organization I have ever dealt with by a country mile. The staff don't know what they are doing. In my opinion, Ofcom acts against the public interest in its poor regulation of the post. I contacted them because I posted a parcel with Royal Mail worth £437, and they damaged/ruined it. I wanted to go to court only to be told you cannot take parcel companies to court because of Ofcom actions and a court ruling called tort. I rang Ofcom the staff member was u/less I knew more than him about the post service, THEY DO NOTHING!!. You only find this out after they screw up your stuff. I am out of the money after paying a premium for Special Delivery in good faith This is a dammed disgrace. I only gave 1 star because I could not give minus 10.

Got robotic response to my two grievances about the vulgar trailer of changing ends. Alan Carr can be his usual foul and vulgar self in his programme, I don't have to watch it but I take a great deal of offence when he uses the word 'ar**' in the trailer during daytime hours when children are watching!! Ofcom have not responded nor have removed the trailer! I initially complained to the advertising standards who referred me to Ofcom, what a waste of time!

Cant complete complaint form. Freezes ! We have to start taking out these corrupt regulators. Absolute waste of time. Corrupt scumbags.

Completely useless and pointless organisation. They can't be bothered handling individual cases. Talktalk provided me with a service that was down 80% of the day for a month I tried to cancel but was 1 day late and they forced me to stay for another month while they fixed it, they proceeded to do absolutely nothing, didn't even contact me. They almost destroyed my business as we can't function without it. And then after 2 months I was finally allowed by talktalk to leave, with my business almost in ruins. They have now passed me to a debt collection agency for the 2 months that they provided no broadband and the financial ruin of my business. Ofcom won't even lift a finger to help. The government are mostly to blame, they allow every company to just give your details to a debt collector who chase and mentally torment you until you pay, the government allows this and actively backs it. Scum and thieves the lot of them, they all need to be in jail for the things they do to people. Why is there zero fairness or honesty in this country!?

No point to them what so ever

It’s surprising that there are so few negative reviews here. When your mobile network is broken or most of the bandwidth available to you has suddenly been sold to a telco that you don’t have a contract with, or the masts in your area are under a state of constant maintenance. When your telco ramps up your fees mid-contract or refuses to accept that you wish to move on. Who’s to blame? that’s right… Ofcom.
Get rid of the revolving doors, give us a proper regulator please, for Pete’s sake. This shambolic mess does a great disservice to the term regulator.

I'm not surprised that Ofcom get such bad reviews.
I just I've read mobile providers reviews in Ofcom and they've been no resemblance to any of the trusted reviews on the internet.

your obviously not investigating all these complaints your getting about Onecom.co.uk?
why?

They dont investigate individual complaints?
Why the hell would anyone want to report failings to an organisation that is supported by the very companies we complain about and on top of that do nothing about it.
These companies can lie to credit reference agencies to damage you score ie Equifax even if you have damning evidence that the company is lying.
It seems the only way is through the Courts.
Get rid of ofcom it has no real use.

It's bad when someone needs to regulate the regulator. I'm sure everything is made so time consuming to deal with that in the end you decide not to bother and count your losses. It's a joke

I requested a PAC code from RWG Mobile last Friday. Requested via mobile, email and using the number that reports them to Offcom as not providing my PAC code.

Ofcom response:



It is not clear from your correspondence what exactly has occurred, so the advice I can offer is limited; however, we would expect service providers to deal with all enquiries professionally, ensuring that they aim to resolve any issues within a timely manner. Ofcom regularly publishes information on the number of complaints received against each provider, and this puts further pressure on companies to provide a high standard of service. Further details can be found using the following link:

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If you remain unhappy with the service received from your provider, you can refer the matter to an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) scheme. An ADR scheme is a free and independent service which can rule on financial and contractual disputes. Companies must abide by their decision; however, you can consider legal action if you are not happy with their ruling.



The two ADR schemes are detailed below:



CISAS
Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution

100 St. Paul’s Churchyard

London

EC4M 8BU



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Communications Ombudsman

PO Box 730

Warrington

WA4 6WU

You lot should really get on top of the gushing reviews of energy companies on this site. Apart from the fact that only cerebrally challenged people would wax eloquent about utility companies who are ripping them off, most posters have so few reviews, it could be said they are employees. I could not possibly comment. The funniest review is the cringeworthy lickspittling one of Octopus energy aired on the radio at the moment…Worthy of an Oscar!

Not good enough, I'm afraid. Ofcom agents should be doggedly pursuing complaints, and holding to account those companies who exacerbate the cost-of-living crises by employing bad business practices. I saw none of that.

this important body make it impossible to contact, being disabled I'm restricted to either chat or emails but Ofcom appear to not accept either which I find atrocious how am I able to make a formal complaint if I can't email them,? they don't accept individual complaints so its impossible to bring anything to their attention I assume all part of their ignoring their liabilities

Thank goodness for Ofcom!
Dreadful problems with Vodafone and Openreach refusing to instal essential Fibre for vulnerable man because he had a Telecare device. They said it was an Ofcom ruling (a lie). We removed the Telecare but Openreach wouldn't change their records. Weeks of screaming at them were fruitless, putting him at great risk. I ventually found and phoned Ofcom helpline. It was answered very promptly by very knowledgeable man (sorry I didn't take his name). In the space of a few minutes he clearly told me that they were lying about Ofcom regulation, what ofcom regulations actually said, what our rights were, what Ofcom regulations we could quote, what the providers' obligations were, who was responsible for correcting the situation, how much compensation we could expect and how to escalate if Vodafone didn't respond to Ofcom's instructions appropriately. He then sent instructions to Vodafone. Vodafone still didn't comply, so after a week he sent another. I still had to spend hours screaming at Vodafone to make them comply, but without the knowledge I gained from Ofcom, they could just have fobbed me off permanently with lies. Today Fibre is being installed. Thank you Ofcom adviser- absolutely wonderful

Don’t understand the point of this outfit. The advisor constantly interrupted me, wouldn’t let me finish and was defending the mobile provider I was complaining about. This prat couldn’t wait to end the call and is obviously in desperate need of a career change.

Lee extremely rude and patronising we dangerous work in our drive from bt
Yet even though open reach were great at demanding this us sorted as it’s dangerous the resolutions terminated our contract
In July 22 had subcontractors taking s poo smoking on the diggers
Once again bt didn’t care bt sold us full fibre we never received it we were supposed to get £12 ee bill never got that either
These absolute not fit for purpose place hasn’t cared a stuff
They are changing us £525 they terminated us what is going on ofcom wake up !!!

Absolutely useless. Complained to BBC about the banners covering lower 2/5 of screen between Sept 2023 and Jan2024 making BBC programmes unwatchable. They did nothing, referred me to Ofccom who sent a response saying they had received my complaint, nothing else. Rang them. They said nothing to do with them, so TV licence paid for no BBC progs, which is why we have to pay the licence fee.

Spoke to Lee from consumer contact team !!! It was a disgusting experience I have had with Mr Lee..
Asked me to summarise and explained what has happened and when I was explaining he interrupted me few times stating that it's a lot information!!!! Already stressed out with nasty XLN broadband and when you raised the issue with higher authorities they treat you even worse!!!! I don't understand why people like lee work for this organisation when they can't even listen to you and provide you with some sort of support!!!!!