After being a Swisscom pre-paid customer for one year, I decided to apply one of their bundle services to my life and home, you know, cable television, internet and mobile phones. Having a spouse and a child, my subscription included two mobiles on contract and an extra cable-box, all totalling to a whopping near four hundred francs monthly.
Like most service providers, services over the years have never ran smoothly, hiccups of absent services often occur with Swisscom, followed by apologies; still, my payments were more consistent compared to Swisscom services.
Over a four or five-year period of affiliation, I was tardy twice, in paying my bills on time, but it was nothing to write about considering that Swisscom’s professional customer service reps understood that delays were likely in people’s month to month economic involvements.
But for years, my colleagues who spoke on the subject of service providers have always resented the cost of Swisscom, saying it is far too expensive compared to other Swiss service providers, but bearing in mind that Swisscom and I had a fairly smooth relationship, I continued to be loyal, despite learning that a change could have saved me a few francs.
Two years ago, I fell a month behind in my payment when I traveled to London and wasn’t available to pay on time; still, my services were uninterrupted, good ‘ol Swisscom stayed true like a loyal girlfriend, and of course received my admiration and praise.
Our relationship continued for another two years, with the usual interruption of services, on occasions, from Swisscom, but never a delay in my payments; that was until May of this year, when again circumstances caused my second, ever, payment, in four years, to be delayed; it was also right around the time when I was due for a new handset from Swisscom.
Being a fan of the Samsung Galaxy Note, I was hoping to have a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or 6, but after learning that it was not guaranteed to be available at Swisscom, I quickly reverted to iPhone, my initial love; so, now I had my eyes sat on an iPhone 6s Plus, as a matter of fact, two of them.
This excitement of a flame was quickly drowned when Swisscom told me that I will not be able to have my hands on those beauties until I settled the outstanding one month’s bill; I was appalled by this information, declaring my years of loyalty and impressive payments.
It then suddenly became clear, to me, that it was time for a new girlfriend.
In my opinion, Swisscom was no longer a fair trade, and immediately I contacted UPC Cablecom, who offered me a better bundle service than Swisscom.
UPC Cablecom offered me Horizon Super Trio, a package of Cable TV with more than 190 channels, 500 Mbits of Internet, a fixed phone line, with free calls to 33 countries, two contracted mobile phones (iPhone 6 Plus, of course) and a saving of two hundred and eighteen francs, compared to my usual Swisscom’s monthly bill.
But, like in any legal relationship, I had to wait. Before I could marry UPC Cablecom, I had to be legally divorced from Swisscom.
My TV and internet services with Swisscom had already ran their courses and could be legally terminated and changed at any time, so that’s what I did; I immediately ordered and received my Horizon HD Recorder unit, installed it and had cable TV, internet and a fixed phone up and running in less than 24 hours.
It is fair to say that I am currently engaged to UPC Cablecom with marriage pending.
But like a sore-losing girlfriend, Swisscom was not going to sit to the side and watch its man move in with another woman, without creating some type of displeasure, and that was exactly what Swisscom did.
Two months before our contract was expected to be legally terminated (like a divorce) and after realizing that initial steps had already been taken to commit to UPC Cablecom, Swisscom prematurely disconnected my phone services, on the technical grounds of being one month behind in payment.
Swisscom is like a tantrum-throwing baby, who throws toys out of their strollers when they are not in control.
Swisscom has proven to be very unprofessional, furthermore petty and nasty.
I would never recommend Swisscom to anyone and regardless of how the relationship with UPC Cablecom results, I would never ever consider a return to Swisscom.
Ian T. Sebàs © 2016