Haha, i emailed ceo@tm.net.my. Here's the letter i sent:
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With reference to reports 870xxx and 108xxxx;
Report 870xxx was filed a few months ago, reported after extremely frequent disconnections faced on my side. It took tremendous amounts of complaining and constantly dialing the helpline to follow up on my report, before anything was actually done to solve my problem. About 2 weeks passed, and a team of technicians finally came to my house to inspect the problem. Upon asking them why they hadn't come earlier, I was appalled to learn that they had only just received my report in their mail that morning. It was then blatantly obvious that streamyx workers do not work at the same speed of broadband that they falsely advertise. Only after coming by my house and checking the SM unit (subscriber module), did they realize that the main Canopy Wireless AP (access point) was struck by lightning, and was fixed the next day.
Report 108xxxx was filed 26 days ago, and I believe, until now, is still pending and in progress. After a severe storm struck Shah Alam a month ago, strong winds caused a misalignment of the SM unit. And thus, I was experiencing significant disconnection issues. I filed a report, and waited and waited. 5 days passed, and I did not receive a call from a customer care representative. In short, I was really pissed. Paying rm99 a month, and not having service for 5 days, is unacceptable. Adding insult to injury, is that I just had over 2 weeks of downtime the month before. I began to daily, to follow up on my report. Over 2 weeks had passed, and I was reaching the end of my fuse. NOTHING HAD BEEN DONE, in the 2 weeks after my report had been filed. It was on the 24th of March, that my fuse burnt out. I called the helpline, and the customer care line rep told me that she would put me on hold for about 5 minutes to check up on the status of my report. The 5 minutes turned into over 20 MINUTES. Further more, I'M BEING FORCED TO PAY TO CALL TO COMPLAIN FOR LACK OF SERVICE. See how this doesn't add up? I hung up, can immediately called back, demanding instantly to speak to the respective supervisor on duty that day. I spoke to a Mr.Raj, who calmed me down and promised that he would personally oversee my case. The follow Monday, a team of wireless technicians did come over, and solve my problems. The TMNet speedometer no longer showed the abysmal 10KB/s (KILOBYTES PER SECOND) that it had for the past 3 weeks. Had I not demanded to speak to the supervisor that day, god knows how much longer before my report would have finally be passed up along the chain.
I demand a rebate for the downtime I had experienced, and the terrible service I've had to put up with. I'm a busy man, and that I have to put up with nonsense from a government linked company such as TMNet is unacceptable. Upon filing the report, we're promised a reply within 24-48 hours. I know damn sure for a fact that this is just bullshit; 2 weeks had passed, and I had not received a call from a customer care rep. If not for the monopoly TMNet holds, I would have switched long ago.
I'm sure the press would love stories like mine.
Your's truly, and looking to hear from someone very soon,
Izuan Izham
I emailed this on a friday night, at about 7pm, and at 9pm got a reply, detailing my rebate! Haha, rm118, woot! I then wrote back, saying that this rebate alone is insufficient, and i DEMAND a reply from Mr.Lai himself.
The next morning i got a call from Mr.Azrul on my handphone, he asked for additional details, assured me Mr.Lai reads all emails, and action would be taken. He also asked me to call him directly incase I had issues later on in the future, which I did and he got them fixed in a day!
This post has been edited by altie: Oct 21 2006, 04:08 AM