Bell has an Executive Solution Center at 1-866-317-3382. This support center is based in Ottawa and this number was obtained by a client because they complained that the support given at 310-SURF (7873) was so heavily accented they had problems understanding them. This has been an issue for my clients more than once.

I have been talking with out of country Bell people everyday since Jan 8,2009 sometimes 3 hours at a time trying to get the security part of Sympatico installed. I keep getting the run around. I have spent over 20 hours just talking to India. You cannot seem to talk with anyone of authority a Bell. The management are completely invisible but show up for their pay cheque or try to sell the company. Bell used to be a company you could reach but not anymore. This company should be taken to task for the complete disregard they have for their customers and why do they have to go off-shore for support people. Do we not have anyone in Canada that could do the job as well or better. All comes down to dollars I suppose and to hang with the customer. I see Jimmy Pattison is on the Bd of Diretors. Did he build his empire on poor service, I think NOT. If he is on the Board does he not know what is going on?? Wish I had never heard of Sympatico.

Yesterday i sent u an email with requests.--So since u wont respond-u will when i stop paying the bills-then we will settle this fraud on ur part in court. And why can i not have ur email so i can have a record of this email.

I am filing a small claims suit against Bell for over billing and breaching a contract (promise by phone and Email). I will be filing the claim tomorrow and serving it either tomorrow evening or on Friday.

If anyone can post info that I can somehow substantiate, it would be much appreciated.

I am looking for stories similar to mine, over billing, broken promises, endless run-around (I spent more than 20 hours on the phone with over two dozen people), constant hang ups when certain questions are asked (for instance, I asked someone in Billing what they were going to write on my account, since so many things had NOT been written on my account and they promptly hung up), promises of refunds and then claims the promise was never made, promises of certain services (say, Internet speed) that were broken and disavowed, having to give 'name rank and serial number' over and over again on the same call, etc.

I will be filing tomorrow and have my own evidence and links to a CRTC decision about a rebate situation where Bell exhibited the same behavior. I would like to present corroborating material if I can. Scraping websites is better than nothing, but Emails confirmed by a phone call and/or letters in writing would be much more effective.

Whether or not I prevail in court, I will publish the process, evidence submitted and the outcome of the case so that others can follow suit.

In my case, they PROMISED not to take me off a 'plan' and send me back to 'base rates' in 2005 after doing it to me once. Sometime between then and now, I discovered (I don't see the bills) that they had broken that promise and were charging me as much as 78 cents a minute for North American LD calls.

The month I complained (Dec 2008) I actually used Skype for most of my LD calls. They cost me $3.00 for about 1100 minutes. The same minutes, had they been done on my home phone would have cost me more than a hundred times as much. Bell would have billed me 32.xx cents per minute versus Skype which I calculated cost me $.0029 cents per minute.

From Whenever they did their 'stealth switch' to bogus 'basic rates' until December 2008 when I caught them, they billed me at these crazy rates and they will not refund a cent. It took me three months and weeks of my personal time to get a firm determination that this was the case. I was initially promised a credit of over 400 dollars (not nearly enough, but something) in December, but they disavowed that in March and then proceeded to put me through further hell alternately saying they were investigating and not to pay the bill and then calling me to threaten they would cut off my service. Oh my.

Anyway, if anyone can help me gather and substantiate similar horror stories, I would much appreciate it.

I *was* actually given a refund in 2005. If anyone has fought and won, I would appreciate hearing that too, even if it was easy.

When I use "news1.sympatico.ca" I get a message cannot be found. Can you tell me the correct address to add newsgroups to my Windows live email Please and thank you Dennis

what number can I use to check my cell phone account with sympatico?

If you have any other choice for internet service then arrange for it over Sympatico. You will most certainly save yourself future aggravation.

If I were on a deserted island and my only way off was to send an email thru sympatico, well, I'd still be on that island.