Cancelled my iBurst today

Creed

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I joined iBurst in May 2005 and while this service was good value for money back then it is no longer the case.

They need a letter before you can cancel and here is mine:

I ##### ###### hereby cancel my iBurst account from today 28 February 2007.

Username: ########@wbs.co.za

This is a month to month contract and I want it cancelled immediately.

I have been with iBurst for a long time but in this time I have not seen any real improvements in the form of increased caps,reduced costs or improved speeds.I have experienced a massive reduction in speed due to congestion of the service in Kempton Park and this had a severe impact on my latency and speeds during the day.

When I signed up iBurst was a lot cheaper than Telkom but sadly this is no longer the case, while telkom has moved forward in pricing and technology iBurst is standing still.

I would like to thank Shaun Green for responding to my posts on MYADSL and for resolving the issue that I had.

Do you think this is justified or is my decision to quit a bit rash?

My 512 ADSL line + ISP(5GB) will cost me R50 more than my 3GB @ iBurst cost me.I get a free modem/router and installation is free.

I ordered my line on the 7'th of Feb so I didn't wait too long.
 
So is your phone-line installed in under a month? Thats damn good going.
 
Do you think this is justified or is my decision to quit a bit rash?
Not particularly, seeing as how they just insulting us with the 500MB extra it's high time I look for a better connection...

and with neotel's launch date moving further and further behind (I was told March the residental users can see something - now I get the mail stating that it'll be June) ****ING telecoms!
 
Second Quarter is from 1st of March to 31 May. not second quarter yet - wishfull thinking.

Anyway, Iburst have recieved my cancellation notice too. My ADSL line was installed in a week
 
I'm too far away from the exchange, so I cant be joining you boys with your cancellations...
 
I joined iBurst in May 2005 and while this service was good value for money back then it is no longer the case.

They need a letter before you can cancel and here is mine:

Do you think this is justified or is my decision to quit a bit rash?

My 512 ADSL line + ISP(5GB) will cost me R50 more than my 3GB @ iBurst cost me.I get a free modem/router and installation is free.

I ordered my line on the 7'th of Feb so I didn't wait too long.

I cancelled today and so did Loudshirt.

You are entirely justified in cancelling.
 
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I have cancelled my iburst today. I was one of the first 100 to join Iburst. I went and got a MTN data card this morning.
 
Its not a conspiracy, its just that at this point in time, ADSL seems to be the best way to go.

Who knows, when Neotel get themselves up and running in a few months time, they might be the best and if so, i'll happily move. Just bear in mind that neotel will only start offering services in April/May, they wont be completely operational and be able to provide a blanket coverage to everyone imidiately
 
I cancelled my account at the beginning of Jan and moved over to ADSL. Only one problem, IBurst debited my account for March! First they confused me with another subscriber and now this.

IBurst accounts department are idiots.

BTW I actually knew a temp who joined the accounts department, she left within a week because of the chaos.
 
I am canceling tomorrow if my ADSL has been activated.

No contract and hopefully I will only be with them until Neotel comes up with some better offerings. iBurst have stood still for to long now...
 
I canceled in December. The Fucs still forced me to pay for January, so I had iburst until end January.

Month to month means you have to give a calendar month notice, but if your next payment happens to fall in that month (which it will even if you cancel on your payment day) you have to pay again.

****ing assholes!!!
 
Second Quarter is from 1st of March to 31 May. not second quarter yet - wishfull thinking.

Anyway, Iburst have recieved my cancellation notice too. My ADSL line was installed in a week

The second quarter of a year would be 1 April to 30 June.
 
My month-to-month cancellation is on it's way for the End of April 2007.

Bye-bye iBurst.
 
Have ordered ADSL.... as soon as it is installed. Bye bye Iburst.
 
Username: [email protected] Name: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cell phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx Address: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Account number: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Package: 3Gig month-to-month xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tower: Northcliff
Area: xxxxxxxxxxx

I, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hereby give iBurst 1 month notice to cancel my 3Gig Month-to-Month account.

I have been with iBurst since they have started and were a loyal customer with iBurst.
I have never been in arrear with my payments; accept for the time that your account department screwed up at their side for not deducting my subscription for 3 months, from my account. In this case I gave them permission to deduct the outstanding amount at once from my account. I have been very accommodated towards your account department seeing that it was not my fault, but theirs.

I still have a letter from iBurst that they will, and I quote a letter from iBurst, on the 28th of July 2006;

“IN AN ONGOING EFFORT TO IMPROVE OUR SERVICE OFFERING WE HAVE UPGRADED OUR BACK-OFFICE SYSTEMS. YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT YOU NOW RECEIVE INVOICES BY POST AS WELL AS ELECTRONICALLY, AND STATEMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THIS MANNER IN THE NEAR FUTURE” end quote.

I have received Tax invoices up to the 15th of September 2006 and nothing after that. No e-mail invoice was send to me since the “DEAR VALUED SUBSCRIBER” letter on the 28th of July 2006.

I am very disappointed the way that iBurst is discriminating against me as a month-to-month user, for all these years doing business with iBurst, not offering month-to-month subscribers the same deal as for users with a 24 month contract. How can iBurst call me a “DEAR VALUED SUBSCRIBER” if I do not classify for the same deal as for 24 month subscribers. This is openly the biggest discrimination I have ever seen in my life.

I still have outstanding fault reports since September 2006.
1. Overload of tower in our area.
2. Slow connection during business hours.
3. Continuous dropping of connection.
Etc. etc. and the list go on.

iBurst had 3 Technical guys at my premises to test and see what can be done, and could not, until today come up with a concrete solution. They had the same problem as I have reported to the helpdesk.

Lastly, a technician from the towers was out at my place and he has showed me on his laptop that the tower is totally overload and congested.
I have stated right at the beginning to the helpdesk, that the problem does not lie with my equipment but with the tower that have to supply a service to this area.

No solutions or effort came from iBurst to solve the problem.

I’ve been informed by your advanced technical department, that iBurst is in the process of adding filler towers in this area to ease the overload of the Northcliff tower within the next 4 month. This is now the 6th month and nothing has happened.

I would like to express my thanks to the few, and I quote, “FEW”, staff members at iBurst who tried to help me with my problems. It seems to me that they are no longer with iBurst because I haven’t heard from them again.

Please send me a confirmation of acceptance of cancellation and the date on which the service will be ended.

Thank You.
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx.
 
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