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Thursday, March 24th, 2022 9:22 PM

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Scheduled work for 'performance issues' that cause outage , without warning your customers of this possibility

Over the last 6+ months tech support comes to the neighborhood at LEAST once per month, of each of those months, works on neighborhood cable box, internet goes down. It was working until the trucks arrived. I look on phone at outage page, it says 'outage - work for performance issues' or something like this . Sometimes back up and down several times for a few hours. I can't work that way. Can we get fair warning? I work from home and today was a s#$t show and the last time I need to deal with this! If I'd known they were planning something I'd pack my stuff and work at my father's business until it was resolved. If you are sending trucks when the internet is still working you can give our entire neighborhood plenty of warning. That would be standard practice I'd hope.

Then to make me like the service less.. I can't find someone to talk with in person to file a complaint and request a corrective action and ask for refund for all the time lost. Instead I have to come here. Seems borderline illegal to operate this way. Can I please get a phone number with a living being to discuss how we can resolve future events like this and if not, let me know so I can begin hunting for a better service?  

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358 Messages

3 years ago

Hi! Thank you for your message and I can read the frustrations in the service and how it is being handled and sorry for this we do not intentionally pause or interrupt services. We do have planned maintenance work that we do but I'm not saying that is the case now, however, I can look and see what is happening and how I can help. Do you mind following the steps below to get started. To send a Direct Message, please click on the chat icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the bell icon, and then type or select "Xfinity Support" to initiate a live chat.

Visitor

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3 Messages

@XfinityMiguel​ Here we go again. I woke up, internet working. Trucks across street running lines under neighbors mailbox. No warning. DEFINITELY PLANNED. We are on our 3rd outage of the day. How am I supposed to work? I don't have time to spend on chatting I need a corrective action i.e. you send trucks you warn the neighborhood BEFORE. How is this hard?

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We can certainly understand what a bind it can leave a home in when services are impacted due to any type of interruption, whether it be planned or unplanned! Especially with so many relying on the connection at home for work, and more!
That said, we do our best to ensure that our Comcast family stays informed when any planned or scheduled maintenance is to happen. Service interruptions and maintenance can be monitored online via our Xfinity website, as well as the handy Xfinity My Account application where you can also sign up for text notifications and alerts regarding updates and restorals!
On the same note, we also offer millions of secure Wi-Fi Hotspots nationwide! So if ever needed, you can always connect on the go that way too! 
https://comca.st/3uE9NjK
I've included a helpful link that will take you to the website to find local hotspots to connect to! But also keep in mind we do have Xfinity Hotspot applications avaliable on both Android and Apple platforms too!
At that, if you'd like to join us in a peer 2 peer message, we'd be happy to check the status of the interruption and/or work ongoing in the area! Please feel free to send a message our way with your name and full-service address to begin using the steps below! 

To send a "Peer to peer" message:

Click "Sign In" if necessary

• Click the "Peer to peer chat" icon

• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon

• Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line

• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window

• Press Enter to send it

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Visitor

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3 Messages

Does the notifications include Planned maintenance? I am in my Xfinity My Account and the only alerts are for security and malware. I get alerts when it's down via text.. sometimes. If my service is up and running. I see trucks arrive on my block. Then it goes down. That helps no one. I'm going to guess how you code 'planned' vs 'unplanned' matters too. Like today. They were digging a tunnel underneath my neighbors mail box. That's planned. There's no f'n way it wasn't. Did I get an alert in my xfinity my account? Nope. Phone. Nope. This happens no less than twice a month. I have presentations for my job to clients. I do not want an xfinity app on my phone. Sorry. Just no. The system is capable of text alerts. Text alerts for trucks being sent to my neighborhood/area ahead of time would be helpful regardless of coded planned or unplanned because obviously that nuance doesn't mean a thing when I see it for what it is.

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637 Messages

We most certainly can appreciate any feedback so that services and support can improve, and we can grow! 
I've included a link here to some of our service tips and details regarding any work or service interruptions being performed.
https://comca.st/3JSv6nX
Please let us know if you have any further questions! We appreciate you taking the time today to touch base here with us! 

I no longer work for Comcast.

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