Gigaclear Broadband Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for Gigaclear.

Recent Customer Ratings for Gigaclear

  • Satisfaction
    2 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.1 stars
  • Speed
    2.7 stars
  • Reliability
    2.3 stars

Based on 136 customer ratings since 2023-04-28 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

192 Customer Reviews over 5 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    Charndon, bucks
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      3 stars
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    OK for new customer deals but you'll need their WiFi boosters as their primary hub is crap
    Once your contracts ends expect to pay 3× your sign up price.
    And as they operate in rural areas their often isn't a simple alternative.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chastleton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Advised June 2022 problem with broadband. Two engineers eventually arrived on a Sunday morning around September 2022. Advised incorrectly installed and need to be reinstalled. Heard nothing until around December, when received email to advise they would rectify problem. Still nothing - rubbish broadband and would advise to steer away from Gigaclear!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    CHEPSTOW
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Comments
    SHOCKING CUSTOMER SERVICE
    Installation of boxes was fine. However, following the internal installation the technician said "All finished now" It was not, since neither internet nor phone line worked. After a week the internet was mysteriously restored but not the landline phone. I have since contacted Gigaclear endless times by email and hone but to date, after 29 days without a phone line, I have yet to receive any acknowledgement that anything at all is happening. No message to say the fault is logged. No phone call to discuss the fault. Simply a great stone wall of silence. I am on the edge of cancelling my contract and returning to Talk Talk who, at least contacted me. Absolutely hopeless customer service. If any.
    Christopher
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chepstow
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    Comments
    Just out of interest has anyone got a good review for them if it did not work first time or mended an issue fast? To me they do not seem able to fix anything!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chepstow
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Total waste of time! No service after 3 months and are now saying they would need to replace 50 meters of the conduit they put in to make it work! Stay with who you have if it works for you!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cherington
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    The customer service of this company is terrible, they are condescending and patronising. I have been without my broadband from them for a month now with just excuses and no action. They hold a monopoly in rural connections and act as though you should be grateful. I Cancelled my contract with them as I can not be without reliable Internet as I need it for work.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chipping Norton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    We had a service engineer come out to inspect our property to install the fibre connection in July 2019. Despite a number of emetic emails saying that they were busy with our enquiry and that they just needed the approval of engineering we have heard nothing more.So 8 months of waiting and chasing and a very poor response. I think that their management team of Delivery Director, Nathan Rundle and Drew Ritchie as chief operating officer needs rebooting. But one should ask their CEO Gareth Williams why they cannot deliver.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chipping Norton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I've seen the promised 300Mbps using the BT Wholesale Speedcheck tool on about 3 occaisions. Other occaisions it's been really consistently below 100Mbps and often below 20. Service desk are extremely unhelpful, simply trotting out the same mantra "we only garauntee 300Mbps on a hard wire to our router" In the last week it's been so bad I've been dropped out of conference calls (without video) on three occaisions

    This morning I have barely 10Mbps wifi standing right next to their router.

    DON'T BUY
    Utterly disappointing
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chipping norton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    Fine when it works but the true test of a company is when things go wrong and how they deal with it.
    Here Gigaclear fail miserably. We are now 6 days without internet despite 6 online chats, emails and several calls all they seem to do is kick the can down the road with no communication to the customer.
    Our latest correspondence is that the issue will be passed onto the relevant department next week!
    That will be 8 days since reporting the fault before they even action on it.
    Having read other reviews of this company i doubt very much this issue will be resolved anytime soon.
    Unfortunately I recently renewed our contract as we are in a rural area and they appear to be the only company to offer fibre broadband, I can assure you we won’t be renewing with Gigaclear again.
    Appalling customer service and shoddy way to treat your customers.
    Shame on you Gigaclear!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    CIRENCESTER
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Terrible customer service experience, no communication within the company, after a weeks spent on the phone with them and an engineer visit we're actually worse off than before I called them. Months later, after we are told well get an upgrade due to all of the issues, no such upgrade materializes but they still set up a monthly charge for an extra router? I'm sorry for one or two helpful people I spoke to on many many calls but I'd stay away from Gigaclear!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Claydon
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Do not use this company got told id be installed on 3rd of march, took day of work , no show from giga clear no contact made by giga clear , i contacted them to see why i wasn't installd they had no idea its the 21st of march still had no contact and have on internet. They are the worst
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cote Oxfordshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Comments
    Still waiting for connection that was promised for August. Now put back to May. Internet speed is awful in our village. Come on gigaclear live up to your promises
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cotswold
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      3 stars
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    The customer services element is shocking. In fact I not sure they know what Customer Service is.
    Nobody can help you, you get passed around and around and just told the same story.
    Our village recently got fibre installed, over 100 houses can get it, yet 6 houses in the village cant. They ay we have to wait around 2 years for them to test...…. just doesn't make sense
    Plus nobody will ever call you back, exploring other options
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cotswolds
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      4 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    Broadband speed good but customer service poor.
    Big increases in price at the end of contract. We gave Gigaclear the required notice to terminate our service & we received acknowledgement from them.
    However a month after the end of contract & use of their broadband we are still being charged £54/month. They refuse to stop charging us or respond to our emails even though our broadband service has been terminated.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cottingham, Northamptonshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      5 stars
    • Customer Service
      5 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    Gigaclear have delivered on all their promises. I am on the 300Mbps package. This speed is delivered consistently when connected to the router via an ethernet cable. The wi-fi signal from the router is less powerful than you get with BT hence the poor reviews seen elsewhere. My stone-built house is challenging for wi-fi and I have therefore installed several wi-fi access points connected to the router by ethernet. I get around 100 Mbps where I have a decent wi-fi signal. I was on BT Infinity 2 and my telecoms/broadband is costing me significantly less than BT for a very much better service now that I have transferred my landline number to Vonage. Customer service has been much, much better than BT: rapid access, helpful advice, and Gigaclear actually deliver what they promise. I had a total failure when the fibre snapped 2 days after installation. Their engineer arrived the next working morning and spliced the fibre. No problems since then.I would thoroughly recommend their service if you have access to it but check their online guides on optimising your wi-fi before taking the plunge.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Cullompton
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    How could a company compete for prime installation in my area, and then run the show like a cowboy outfit. I was told several weeks ago my service would go live, but they sent an engineer 2.5 hours away from me to carry out the install only to be told they needed specific permission from the property owner to make a few little holes to route the cable into my flat? Now several weeks on, I am still in limbo with some guy calling me from a mobile phone seeming to understand perhaps a little bit more than the call centre but even he has gone cold turkey on me! I am not impressed and a lot of hype, major roadworks impacting locals and for what???
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Derbyshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Without doubt the worst company I have ever had the misfortune to deal with. Absolutely dreadful customer support. Like banging your head against a brick wall.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Derbyshire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Horrendous Customer Care – PLEASE stay away!!

    In Jan 2023 I had a call from Gigaclear to say that full fibre would be installed in my area in May/June. I said that I was interested.

    In February 2023 I contacted them and said that contract with my existing supplier does not expire until February 2024 and I would have to pay a cancellation fee to change. I proposed that they help me pay the cancellation fee and in return I would change supplier. They said that they could do better than that and give me 6 months free full fibre to trial Gigaclear and run it alongside my current broadband. If, after the trial, I was happy, then I’d change supplier. This seemed like a good deal as the trial would expire at around the same time as my current contract. Assuming Gigaclear proved to be successful in the trial I would swap. I agreed and Gigaclear sent me a contract and I was welcomed to the customer portal.

    The fibre infrastructure was completed on our street in July and a week or so after I received an email welcoming me and thanking me for the order. A separate email arrived with a link to book an installation date. Before I could use the link I received a call asking me to pick an installation date. A date was set at Friday 11 August. I was told that I needed to keep the whole day free as the installation could be any time between 09.00 and 18.00 but an engineer would call me approx.. 30 minutes before arriving at the property.

    Arrangements were put off, furniture was moved for the drilling into walls and we duly stayed home all day on 11 August. NOBODY ARRIVED, NOBODY CALLED TO APOLOGISE!!

    I emailed Gigaclear on Monday 14 August and expressed my annoyance. I received a response apologising for the unfortunate event and stating that it was unclear why the installation didn’t happen! I should enter the portal and book another date. I booked another date on 29 August.

    Once again, arrangements were put off, furniture was moved for the drilling into walls and we duly stayed home all day on 29 August. Trying to learn from the previous experience I called Gigaclear mid morning to confirm that installation was due on that day – just to make sure. Yes, everything is fine to go ahead I was told. Yes, it would happen. You guessed it...NOBODY ARRIVED, NOBODY CALLED TO APOLOGISE!!

    At the time of writing, 7 days after the last scheduled installation date, still nobody has called to explain, apologise or otherwise attempt to keep me as a customer. Really!!? Do they not have any systems that check through the scheduled installations and follow them up? This is a company that would like my business and hopefully tell others about a good experience so that their sales will expand and the company will prosper. Based on this terrible experience, and I can see from others who have reviewed Gigaclear, the company will not be around for too long and people should stay away from them.

    To say that their customer service is poor is a vast understatement. They are terrible, disrespectful and rude.

    I sent this review to Gigaclear a few days ago hoping that they might react and call me on an urgent basis. NOTHING, THEY REALLY DON'T CARE!!

    By the way, this review is a reflection on the company, not on my initial contact with the company. I'm assuming he realised what type of company he was working for and is now long gone.
    P.S. I gave 1 star for speed and reliability but never got as far as actually having an installation!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Devon
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Dreadful company. I would go as far as to say they are a scam company. A bunch of scammers. Do NOT go with this broadband provider. They will promise speeds which it will never reach. And the wifi will constantly cut out and lose connection when I’m not that far at all from the router. Then they have these times where they will completely cut the internet due to ‘maintenance’! That is something I cannot deal with as I work from home. This maintenance is pathetic and I’ve never had something like that with other providers. Then there’s the way they keep you in the contract like the bunch of SCAMMERS they are. Your wifi has to not work/not reach the speeds they promised for 28 days until they allow you to end the contract. I simply cannot be without a connection for that long. Awful company. AVOID.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Dorset
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Booked two all day appointments. The second after the first no show.
    A no show on each occasion. No message from Gigaclear to give a reason or say they weren'tcoming. Sat in all day. Two whole days of my life wasted waiting for these clowns who haven't the decency to inform you. A big sales team but no customer service or commitment.
    Avoid
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Dorset
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Having agreed to change to gigaclear, the cable to the house was installed, then an engineer came to the house and installed what I think is a large black box on my lounge wall which I was not expecting. Then he told me there was a fault somewhere outside my house. I accepted that as he told me it would be sorted within a couple of days. That was 3weeks ago. I’ve called them twice. Was told the 1st time it would take longer than two days and I asked him to find out what was happening and inform me. I phoned again yesterday and he said he would be in touch today. I told him if he didn’t then I want the black box removing and holes in wall repaired and forget gigaclear. I have heard nothing. I shall be on the phone again tomorrow and finding out how I stand legally as they’ve now damaged my walls for nothing. Cowboy company.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Drayton Parslow
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Service randomly stops working then starts just as.randomly sometimes a day or two days later very frequently. My wife and I both rely on the service for working from home and we are loosing so much revenue from these outages that I have had to have BT Install a service as a back up for when Gigaclear fails.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Dunmow
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Been trying to get this installed for the last 6 months and every time the same excuse very bad at keeping customers updated about Installation, so finally after 6 months of the same excuse have decided to cancel the whole deal sorry but I would never recommend this company, also my friends who I told about gigaclear are having the same problems
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essendine, Stamford
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    Recently moved to an area supplied by Gigaclear. All set up fine and wired speeds to router are superb.

    However, try getting in contact with them and you get nothing. Emailed them once to ask about extra wireless nodes - no response. Second email to say how rubbish the router and wireless mesh is - no response.

    And the Linksys Velop is rubbish. Constant drop outs and buffering when it’s supposed to serve the whole house flawlessly. Recently spent the money on Netgear Orbi and it works so much better.

    So, if you never need to contact them, you’ll be happy. If you do, be prepared for a hugely frustrating experience.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I signed up with these guys just over a month ago on their biggest package which states I would be getting an average speed of 900mb up and down... 3 days after it went live I was still getting speeds less than their smallest package (150MB) - I was getting 109mb up/down. Now I know that the speeds are not guaranteed to be 900mb being a home broadband service but when I was with Virgin I always got close to the specified speeds. Then the line was down for a day and half due to a damaged fibre cable which they can't be blamed for - but no compensation offered, as with virgin media or BT when there is a significant outage.

    Anyway, I raised a support ticket which I explained everything in detail and all the necessary steps take at my end (I've worked in IT for 18 years). A rep from the company replied 2 weeks later - not even having read my initial support request properly and asked if I had tried all the things I had already stated... I replied instantly and have heard nothing for another 2 weeks.

    On top of that, the line is grossly unstable and often hangs when watching YouTube or other streaming services. The same services work fine when using my mobile phone's 3G connection...

    I've since swapped out all the equipment they supplied (Linksys VELOP) with my own enterprise equipment and the line speed is significantly faster, but still very up and down in terms of speed and stability. As an example back-to-back speed tests will yield between 100mb to 300mb - the results always grossly different even when tests are performed one after another.

    As for the customer services - I've read other pre-lockdown pre-covid reviews that also have the same experience of no response. I would not recommend this company at all based on my initial experience. I am really disappointed with the service or lack of..
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      2 stars
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    AWFUL!! We waited 7 months for installation, when they told us it would be 6 weeks. The installation got booked on my birthday but as we were so deseeoate for WiFi as myself and my partner work from home, we cancelled our plans to be home for the engineers to put the WiFi in, but they never showed up!! And didn’t even tell us they wasn’t going to show. We phone them at 7 pm and then they noticed us when we called them!! So then becasue they just didn’t show up our installation got pushed back another month!! It was finally installed on 16th June (7 months since we purchased!!) but it’s slow, always drops out and our extender has never worked. Today our neighbour had their WiFi fitted by this awful company, they have been fitted into the same box as our WiFi, and ever since our WiFi has been down!! We’ve now been told it can’t be fixed until 3 days!! So again we both work at home and have been lefter with no WiFi. We were promised 12 months free WiFi for the 7 month delay, but the person that promised this has left and there’s no record of him saying this so we’ve been charged for the months we’ve actually had WiFi. Awful customer service, the agents have no idea how to deal with customers, no sense of urgency what so ever!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Never showed up for the install. Fed up waiting so cancelling the service.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Probably the worst experience encountered . Been waiting 6 months now for WiFi. They installed a connection in my house , drilled through my walls but couldn't connect. When they installed the points outside the houses they missed a house so my house didn't have a point. Was reassured it was fixed. Still no router boxes sent to me, but I get someone call every day asking to book an install date. ( this was done 6 months ago) . Customer service is a joke. Its uncoordinated chaos, no one internally speaks to anyone, I still have no WiFi, no routers and probably still no connection point outside the house. I do have some ugly drilling through my walls and a box that is completely useless. Absolutely shambolic. I'd avoid with a passion and stick with BT or another WiFi provider. 6 months of stress, endless calls and still nothing.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      3 stars
    • Customer Service
      4 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    The service has only been available for a short while, locally. I have to say, the' sales and installation have been fine so far.
    The installers were not 'over qualified', I'm afraid. The inside guy was confused about installing the 'land line simulator'; he was new to it and had never seen my ordinary (emergency) handset which I suggested he should use to test the system. There was a delay in connecting the phone gizmo but the internet connection was there and the speed is what I'm paying for.
    I have read a few "avoid" comments but what can one do to 'avoid' when there is only one supplier?
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I wouldnt even give this company 1 star if it let me choose 0. I've never experienced service like it in my life. Ive lost count of the days my wife has waited in for their engineers to turn up and 90% of the time its a no show with no phone call. You call the office and nobody anwers, you email them and 1 in 3 get a reply. Its absolutely disgraceful this has been going on for 3 months now and I still dont have a live connection!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS COMPANY THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A JOKE AND WILL NOT LAST LONG!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Awful from installation to customer service.
    Customer service is absolutely disgusting it's beyond stressful, complaint department never responded or resolve the matter, full of excuses, speed isn't stable and kept dropping out then, customer service advisor do not listen to anything you tell them, they cannot cancel anything correctly, nor have the ability to correctly update contact information when you given it too them hand full of times.
    The installation was absolutely appalling it definitely wasn't professional service.

    All in all by far worse company.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Essex
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    Comments
    Ordered a new installation via the internet & was contacted the next day for an appointment in two weeks time, a week later found a chap with a gigaclear van poking about on the verge in our lane who told me there was a problem as there was a blockage in the cable that needs to be sorted but had been refused a permit to dig, I said our installation is due next week what happens now, he said it would still go ahead, day before it was due I got a voice Mail from gigaclear to say it had been cancelled but gave another date for the following week he spoke so quick with a garbled message that it was hard to understand what he was talking about I think he was trying to blind me with science “ it worked!! anyway I looked on the portal & there was an appointment for the installation for when he said, I phoned the day before to get conformation that the installation would take place just to be told it was cancelled again with the same excuse as before & said it had been referred to Regional office (who ever they are) but couldn’t give me any time frame when it would be sorted!!!, if I hadn’t contacted them I would never had known so have lost a days work leave for nothing, that was two weeks ago & still haven’t heard a thing, all I can say it’s a good job I haven’t cancelled my BT internet service yet, as it stands my BT contract ran out the same day as my installation was surprised to be on so am now on a higher BT service…….think I may have to keep with BT as gigaclear doesn’t seem to be very reliable as with most of the reviews have stated.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Eveshamish
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    I can't honestly say what their speed or reliability is - they're still only just laying the fibre here - but I can't imagine using them as their customer support pre-sales is just... shocking. I mean months without a response, despite multiple nudges - and this is for a pre-sales, potential customer.

    I hate to think how they'd be post-sales. It's genuinely appalling: if this is what the industry is subsidising for rural areas, they should stop.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Fairford
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Signed up for 900mb in October. Installation was good, team were efficient and polite. The actual service is atrocious, on average we get around 10mb when it works, which is rare. Raised a fault, no update for two weeks. Locked in for 18 months, but have already started to look for an alternative to this falsely advertised rubbish
  • Reviewer
    Location
    FARINGDON
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Comments
    Avoid at all costs: Gigaclear don't deliver technically or in terms of customer experience. I haven't had any internet at all for over a fortnight now. I've queued on their helpline countless times, had numerous calls and emails, but they simply make promises and don't deliver on them. My advice: Go with another provider and save yourself a world of pain.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Farnham Essex
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    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Back in 2016, gigaclear promised us a network in our village in Farnham, Essex. They dug up the roads and laid their cables (in some areas the 'repairs' are beginning to break up). In December 2017 they wrote to us all stating:

    "We fully understand the frustration surrounding the delay to your village. Unfortunately, due to factors beyond our control we had to re-evaluate some aspects of the project before continuing the build. However, we are pleased to confirm that all residents will be live on our network by the 30th June 2018."

    It's now March 2023. Not one house has been connected.

    This is how they treat some of their customers.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Forest of Dean
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      2 stars
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      4 stars
    Comments
    They have a monopoly in our area. After the first 18 months their price went up 300%. When you first pressure their sales team are super friendly and helpful, the renewal team are aggressive and generally unfriendly. As soon as they no longer hold a monopoly I'm gone.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Gloucester
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Comments
    install team showed up will put router in front room? No router is in attic along side all cat 6 hard connections to each room.we don`t have a ladder do you have one. 2nd team did not show up tw#ts
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Gloucestershire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      2 stars
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    I should be fair and start by saying that for the past year the connection and speed have been great. But for over a month I've been trying to resolve issues with the quality of connection and it's speed. From what I've experienced, it appears nobody at Gigaclear takes ownership of issues and they are never followed up, relying on the customer to constantly contact them. They promise call-back's that never materialise and say they will send confirmation email's that don't arrive. To put it bluntly, it appears that this company couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery. P.M engineer appointments have arrived at 8:30 AM and A.M appointments have arrived at 7 P.M
    with no contact from Gigaclear whatsoever. They obviously think that their customers have nothing better to do than take entire days off work waiting for their staff to arrive. There is no communication between the engineers and the company, and no communication between the company and the customer. It actually transpired that the engineers are not given A.M or P.M appointments for customers, but are simply issued a list of calls for them to organise the order themselves. this was actually confirmed by Gigaclear's customer support department. Why on earth they give customers an A.M / P.M appointment, knowing them to be false is beyond me. I can only advise customers to assume an all-day appointment. Each time you call or live chat (which in my case, commonly gets disconnected mid-conversation due to the failing connection), you have to start the entire back story from the beginning, which is not only a complete waste of time, but also extremely frustrating. The hold time waiting for calls to be answered has risen incredibly recently, no doubt this will be blamed on Covid! I am currently paying for 400Mbps but on conducting speed tests last night (over a month from my initial reporting of the problem) using the Linksys app, which tests the speed at the modem and not the wireless network speed, my connection was between 68 and 87Mbps - although yesterday I was informed that the issue had been resolved. It's proving really difficult and extremely tedious to deal with Gigaclear as you speak to so many different people, all with different 'expert' opinions, none of whom seem to actually have the answer. I was advised by their customer services to claim compensation for the poor connection speeds, which attempted to do yesterday, only to be told that the problem had been fixed within the 3 days required by Gigaclear's service agreement. Somebody has a rather skewed concept of time at Gigaclear. Ironically, I was actually contacted by them last week to enquire if they can lay a fibre across my land, but due to my recent experience of their apparent total lack of organisational skills I'm extremely reluctant to enter into any further business with them. I'm sure l'll receive a gushing cut and pasted response to this review from Gigaclear, thanking me for my honest feedback, but please don't bother..
    ... just fix my connection. Anyway, to summarise, when it good it's very,
    very good and when it's bad it's horrid.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Gloucestershire
    Reviewing
    Gigaclear
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    If I could score lower than 1 start then I would. Avoid at all costs, this is a terrible company.

    Repeated failures by senior management and executives to provide even a basic level of customer service.

    • Failure in communications, both internal and external.
    • Systemic failures in business processes
    • Lack of accountability
    • Failure to manage subcontractor teams effectively.
    • Failure by senior managers to respond or prioritise clear breaches in agreed customer installation dates.
    • Lack of representation of senior managers during office hours
    • Failure to deliver on behalf of commitments and grants made by the UK Government to rollout faster broadband across the country.

    I suggest that anyone who has had similar experience lodge a formal complaint with OFCOM, write to their local MP in regard to UK Governments obligation to roll out of faster broadband and fibre and continue to post to their own negative experience on social media, so that other potential customers can avoid this incompetent company altogether.

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