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stonechucker
Mayor / Maire
Status: Brand new

Over the past 30-40 days, I've witnessed in the forums, various regular issues that should not be occurring as frequently as they are.

 

Plan Changes

 

I have seen countless community members, myself included, setting up an end of cycle plan change, so many of us have come to our renewal to find with the correct funds available by autopay or voucher loads, etc... simply having the previous plan renewed, and the end of cycle request lost.  Due to this system glitch, error, whatever, the forums have been flood with the same requests for the fantastic moderators to assist in fixing the problem.  I understand glitches happen, but when I see moderators saying its a known issue day after day for 30-40 days, it tells me the technical people either do not know the system is failing (badly), or they are just ignoring the issue,

 

Friend Referal failing

 

ive seen multiple cases for various reasons around the referal program.  For instance, my friend attempted to list my phone number as his referal, but the system came back saying my number was not a valid public mobile number.  I ported my number in, so it leads me to believe the system is not looking a active accounts for current phone numbers, but rather at a list of numbers updated when someone complains, or at an interval that needs to be reduced.

 

Add-on errors

 

i have also seen community members continuing to purchase add-ones which require certain options to be already in a base plan, without a system flagging them to prevent this customer support nightmare from happening.

 

In Province phone numbers not completing

 

Too many in-province calls not working due to new and expanded area codes, not being updated in system database.  I'm assuming there is a list of area codes, grouped by province, that is searched for each phone call made on a provincial talk plan.  This list should be updated as soon as the powers that be outside PM/Telus make announcements.  At the minimum, a call from area code XYZ should not have any problems calling within the SAME AREA CODE.  Area codes do not exist in multiple provinces.

 

This list of problems is long, but the frustration for community members, both old and new is tremendous.  These issues NEED to be fix much quicker in the system backend.  Moderators shouldn't be fixing them daily.

 

 

3 Comments
daredogg
Mayor / Maire

Regarding Friend Referrals failing... When I registered my wife's phone yesterday, I put my number in the referral field (that was ported over earlier in the day), and the registration seemed to go through fine. Moments later, I received a text message from PM saying, "one of your friends has left us," so your reward next month will be less. I included the screenshot from my phone, but what's odd is that my wife's account is now showing two autopay credits of $2. I'm wondering if the system subscribed her, but cc didn't go through, then it tried again, and the cc did go through?  Either way, I thought I'd mention it, as there seemed to be some sort of glitch.

 

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@stonechucker it seems to me your profession is in some sort of IT job?  Good idea to let the technical people know, just in case they're not aware.

 

 

srlawren
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@daredogg please send a private message to @Mary_M and @Shazia_K with your phone number and your wife's phone number and they can get this resovled for you.  Unfortunately this is another common issue, as identified above by @stonechucker, and has affected many of us (myself included) in recent history.  There is a resolution, but you need to reach out to the ladies I tagged above via private message.

kav2001c
Mayor / Maire

@stonechucker Ottawa region is a bit odd in that LCA does cross provincial lines. We never got an official reply from Public regarding this though. 

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