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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 10:54 AM

“Planned” service outage, no notice.

Gang - this is unacceptable. At 1:30am pacific time, my tv, phone, internet go down. I logged on to the app that states there’s a planned maintenance scheduled. I have signed up several times to receive notice of planned outages, but my requests are rarely honored. What does it take to get notice? People have griped about this problem for years, but nothing happens. The bot assistant is useless and exists solely to send the user through an endless, repetitive loop of nonsense. It’s impossible to get through to a live agent when there’s an outage, which compounds the frustration. And to top it off, there’s conflicting messaging from the info bot: I suddenly lose connectivity; I investigate via the app and online and I’m told there’s a planned outage (and I experience an outage); but then I receive a text saying there’s no issue with my connectivity. AAACK! My biggest concern is the lack of notice for a planned outage, but I thought I’d add all of my concerns since I have plenty of time because all of my connectivity is down. I’d love to attach screen shots of the conflicting messages I received… I have them if you want to see them.

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3 months ago

Hello, @pamm2

Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re working hard to improve this experience, including our new proactive service interruption notification system. Using our network tools to identify impacted customers, we’ll now send text messages with information about the interruption. To receive them, customers must make sure their mobile number is associated with their account. To opt into receiving messages, send START to 266278. At this time, we're only sending proactive messages for certain types of events. We plan to expand this program to include more events.

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XfinityThomas, thank you for your reply! I’m happy to hear about this new program, but respectfully, what took so long? People have been upset with ambush outages for ‘planned maintenance’ for years now. How much lead time will the notification give us? Getting a notification 10 minutes before (or after) everything goes dark won’t be helpful. I’ve signed up, so we’ll see how it goes. I would love an answer to my ‘what took so long’ question if anyone there has the time. Also, what are the ‘certain types’ of events for which notices will be sent? Thanks!

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@pamm2  These are great suggestions and we will share your feedback. Our app also has a tab where you can leave feedback to our developers to add planned maintenances to receive text alerts. Currently we do send out alerts when there's an unplanned interruption in your service. 

I have a link to share in regard to our text alerts and some cool commands we currently have in place. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/comcast-alerts

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