Ever notice that when a Cable Bahamas Employee visits your house, nothing is fixed, but for an added fee of cash, "It could be"?

Ever notice when you have a problem, it is never completely resolved?

On several occasions I have been approached by a Cable Bahamas Employee to help/ get it straight for CASH ONLY!!

One individual actually told me he would help in marketing, while on Cable Bahamas time for $100.00 per hour. Damn, I don't pay a private pilot that much.

One tech, while visiting the house to solve a problem, which I eventually fixed myself have the gaul to ask for $60 CASH extra to help in another area of computer work.

Anyone had the same experiences?

I AGREE

My Internet is Up one day and down the next !!!!

3 Techs were here ay different occasions all they did was change the splitter !!!

I keep calling and they can never fix the problem and they never return my call!

They keep telling me its my line a I need a line tech and I will have to wait 8 days to get one and it goes right back down!!!!

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Try DLS.

Originally posted by gman
Try DLS.

DSL?

What are Batelco Prices?

Rory

What we lack is real competition. We need a true market. In the internet and communications sector we have a skewed market. Cable bahamas was given a deal where they can sit on a monopoly, rake in huge sums of cash and have the financial muscle to run roughshod over the internet business. Batelco does not have the managerial competence to compete. They will never get it right with the complement of managers they have and government interference.

The only way to sort the communications industry out is to set standards for entry and operating and let whoever qualifies enter the market. Competition will bring better quality products and services.

I am looking forward to the day we have a viable option to Cable. I will switch even if it means switching back later. It is painful when your internet service seems "always off" or slow as a snail in winter. There was a time when Cable provided a fast service. Not anymore.

What is interesting is the newspapers never comment on how Cable Bahamas is ripping off the Bahamian people. They must be afraid of losing advertisements. They need to separate their advertising departments completely from their news departments. Fortunately now with the internet, one person can reach the world - if they have internet access.

Try Dsl Folks They Are Far Better Than They Were :)

Try Dsl Folks They Are Far Better Than They Were :)

That's what u think.....

Ever notice that when a Cable Bahamas Employee visits your house, nothing is fixed, but for an added fee of cash, "It could be"?

Ever notice when you have a problem, it is never completely resolved?

On several occasions I have been approached by a Cable Bahamas Employee to help/ get it straight for CASH ONLY!!

One individual actually told me he would help in marketing, while on Cable Bahamas time for $100.00 per hour. Damn, I don't pay a private pilot that much.

One tech, while visiting the house to solve a problem, which I eventually fixed myself have the gaul to ask for $60 CASH extra to help in another area of computer work.

Anyone had the same experiences?

l lil late to this thread... but i agree with this dude............am still waiting for cable bananas to come and get me sorted out in eleuthera ...............when you complain to them it takes about an hour holding on their toll free line.........for them only to transfer you to tech support, then they come on the line and tell you a technician will call you back shortly :liar: sometimes they never call you back.........if they do they tell you a technician will be visiting you in six days or a week..............i was waiting since hurricane jeanne to see one........thanks to mothers wits, knowing they will not come... i shake and pulled on the wires.. pulled out some plugs and put them back in.....bam i got it by my self :dancer: and am still gettiing a bill for $64:00 a month even if i don't get service..... the bill comes on time by the way

What we lack is real competition. We need a true market. In the internet and communications sector we have a skewed market. Cable bahamas was given a deal where they can sit on a monopoly, rake in huge sums of cash and have the financial muscle to run roughshod over the internet business. Batelco does not have the managerial competence to compete. They will never get it right with the complement of managers they have and government interference.

The only way to sort the communications industry out is to set standards for entry and operating and let whoever qualifies enter the market. Competition will bring better quality products and services.

I am looking forward to the day we have a viable option to Cable. I will switch even if it means switching back later. It is painful when your internet service seems "always off" or slow as a snail in winter. There was a time when Cable provided a fast service. Not anymore.

What is interesting is the newspapers never comment on how Cable Bahamas is ripping off the Bahamian people. They must be afraid of losing advertisements. They need to separate their advertising departments completely from their news departments. Fortunately now with the internet, one person can reach the world - if they have internet access.

I agree that competition is always a good thing, but how will that do anything about the deeply ingrained dishonestly of the average Bahamian worker? Cable men asking for money to fix what should be fixed for free. Workers stealing everything that is not nailed down. The list of dishonest acts goes on and on. I am not the first to say this. It is well documented by greater people than I.

Dreeve, Here is what I did when a Cable man told me he could come back, after five o'clock, and fix the problem - on his own time. The meaning was clear. I would have to pay him. I pretended that I did not see that and said "My that is very industrious of you. Let me call your manager and tell him what a great worker he has in you." he sucked his teeth and fixed the problem then and there. I still reported him. We have to report these matters - they will not go away by themselves.

Anyone had the same experiences?

Yeah! I hope every one take a careful look at what they sign, look carefully at the pink or yellow sheet of paper that they give you for receipt that you sign. If they damage anything part of your property while they are working they will not be held accountable. They make you sign that if you want cable, that is the power of monopoly and that is another reason why I no longer subscribe to cable.

I agree that competition is always a good thing, but how will that do anything about the deeply ingrained dishonestly of the average Bahamian worker? Cable men asking for money to fix what should be fixed for free. Workers stealing everything that is not nailed down. The list of dishonest acts goes on and on. I am not the first to say this. It is well documented by greater people than I.

Dreeve, Here is what I did when a Cable man told me he could come back, after five o'clock, and fix the problem - on his own time. The meaning was clear. I would have to pay him. I pretended that I did not see that and said "My that is very industrious of you. Let me call your manager and tell him what a great worker he has in you." he sucked his teeth and fixed the problem then and there. I still reported him. We have to report these matters - they will not go away by themselves.
CG what about the deeply ingrained dishonestly of the average Bahamian be he born here or not.In my field of work I receive atleast 4 offers of bribes a week,it's like nobody does anyting without money changin hands & I'm talking top 2 bottom.I've been bribed by CEO's, politicans,foreign & Bahamian businessmen,Pastors,haitians & the list goes on.Today I was offered $50.00 2 buy gas 4 my car :eek: ting is I drive a company car with clear markin's.

so Marichal, you admit that you take the bribes? i was to CB today and to my surprise there were four people in there with the same problem i had. modems that finally died. well almost all of us, one gentleman came to ask why he was left with a refurbished modem instead of a new one (turns out the insurance you pay every month only offers you half the price of a brand new modem)

so Marichal, you admit that you take the bribes? i was to CB today and to my surprise there were four people in there with the same problem i had. modems that finally died. well almost all of us, one gentleman came to ask why he was left with a refurbished modem instead of a new one (turns out the insurance you pay every month only offers you half the price of a brand new modem)
Ha Ha & I agree Cable Bahamas is the ripoff of the century.Does anybody remember who the originator's of the Cable Bahamas idea are?

CG what about the deeply ingrained dishonestly of the average Bahamian be he born here or not.....
That is true. It cuts both ways.

Honestly i can't say Batelco is any better than cable bahamas. It took them four months to come to get me back online after modem came off but when they finally came after weeks of saying they would come. Funny though when they actually came all he did was test the modem then went out to box on gladstone rd and did something and it was on. Took only bout half an hour. How sad though the next day there was a thunderstorm that took out my modem and network card I was stupid for leaving computer on. Anyway it took them a week to bring new modem and i had to put in new card but i guess they mostly know what they are doing at Batelco or at least wit my experience. :sarcastic
Dsl owns cable :dancer2: