Thursday, December 5, 2024

SPECTRUM CABLE: WE DON'T CARE. WE DON'T HAVE TO





Special to El RrunRrun

Hands down the slowest, least efficiently run cable franchise (monopoly) has to be Spectrum Cable off Pablo Kisel.

Even if you get there at the opening at 10 a.m., be prepared to spend the better part of an hour - sometimes more - to pay your bill.

One of our seven readers related his experience just today. He said he was on Pablo Kisel and passed by the Spectrum store, realized he had a bill, had some time on his hands, and walked in at opening time. He was the fourth customer on the list  

There were three clerks at their terminals and the waiting list soon grew to 20 or more as customers waited and the rest of the staff piddled around, joked with each other and generally ignored the clients. Job security?

Sometimes they went to the back and left only one clerk at a terminal to cut down on the now-26 customers on the waiting list, and growing. It climbed to 30 with only two clerks at their terminals, then just one. (See top photo.)

And if you want to use the kiosk where you can just pay with your debit or credit card, well, the machine is usually out of order. It would take currency, but would not give change. Sorry.

Almost exactly an hour after he walked in the door, he walked out with his receipt. It took an hour to service four customers.

Since the City of Brownsville handed them the monopoly/ franchise, they can be like the Ma Bell telephone monopoly used to say: "We don't care. We don't have to.")

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

The waiting time is normal. For Brownsville. Get used to the new work ethic: no more customer service.

Anonymous said...

pay online bruh.

Paul Cruz said...

I have it in McAllen. Works fast and great every day. No complaints.

Anonymous said...

Spectrum needs some competition. Maybe the local politicians can bring a new cable service to our area.

Anonymous said...

The down time is even worse. With the last few weeks, it was down nearly 24 hour to include phone service. I am going back to a restaurant I ate at last night, because last night Spectrum was down and they could not accept credit cards. I only had a 20 so I paid most of it.

It is very local restaurant, and the owners know we will be back. But there is a reason for the monopoly. Unless the city pays to maintain the system and then leases it out to different companies, who is going to pay for another system?

Do you really want the BPUB to be responsible for the system. ELON Musks Starlink will replace Spectrum and then you will learn what it really means to have no customer service.

Anonymous said...

Never have to wait more than a few minutes. How ? Set an appointment, offered usually 2 hours or more after your initial log in. be on time, problem solved.

Anonymous said...

the taxpayers that live here in browntown DO NOT HAVE, AND I SAY, DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHTS TO COMPLAIN, NONE WHATSOEVER. YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN AT THE VOTING HOUSE IF NOT, DO NOT, AND I SAY DO NOT COMPLAIN...
"VOTE EVERYBODY OUT "

Anonymous said...

ELECTED OFFICALS GET SPECTRUM FREE DAS WHY VOTE EVERYBODY OUT

Anonymous said...

Starlink is the shit! Awesome company.

Anonymous said...

The customer chooses to wait that long. Most people pay these types of bills online. Most people pay these types of bills online through auto-pay. Again, the choice is the customers to make.

Anonymous said...

Everything is better in McAllen. Browntown operates on Matamoros standards.

Anonymous said...

Soon the City of Brownsville will finish installing underground cabke so we may be getting fee internet.

Anonymous said...

I had good experience at Spectrum.
It required multiple visits but eventually got done.
Business was done professionally and in reasonable time.

Anonymous said...

How did the city hand them the monopoly?
Asking for a friend
Haber explica

Anonymous said...

Always bitching. Yeah, babosos, pay ONLINE!!!

Anonymous said...

most everybody don't care cause there are no jobs for local citizens here and they can wait all day.

Anonymous said...

mcallen is like el zumbido de sanbene, always, always doing something stupid. mcallen sucks just like sanbene sucks. take them out of el valle and they still suck... hahahahahahaaa sucksucksuck.

Anonymous said...

they started that 20 years ago, projection now is another 20 and forget about the price for the public.

Anonymous said...

Musk can give us free internet. He just needs to move his satellite.

Anonymous said...

There are a lot of jobs but people prefer to ask money on the street, next to mcdonalds, whataburger etc Working is hard.

Anonymous said...

New sanbene anthem - Suck Suck Suck, new song by the insectos escarabajos.

Anonymous said...

sespectnothing is now offering free connections to only one tv.

Anonymous said...

I got my brown paper bag and my autopay.

Anonymous said...

Time Warner used to have 4 offices in Harlingen. Now, there is only ONE office in Harlingen. Understaffed. Sign in, and wait. They advertise they are different from TMobile, same animal, different name.

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