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7 <br /> <br />Past Peformance ‐ Customer Service Issues <br /> <br />The performance review conducted by The Buske Group was done in the Fall of 2011. <br />Had it been done in 2013, it would have told a very different story about Comcast’s customer <br />service. Historically, the NSCC office would receive two or three customer complaints per <br />month, but in January 2013 the complaint calls spiked. The staff quickly discerned two primary <br />causes. First, beginning with the January bills and with ineffective notice to subscribers, <br />Comcast began charging $1.99 for the digital transport adaptors (DTA’s) that the company had <br />been providing at no charge since it began its transition to a digital cable system in 2010. <br />Second, Comcast’s Western Division had implemented a restructuring of its call centers, going <br />from regional call centers that handled the full range of customer issues to call centers that <br />specialized in specific issues, such as billing, installation, retention, Internet service, etc., and <br />the transition did not go well. The result was long wait times to talk to a customer <br />representative, with many calls routed to off‐shore contract call centers unprepared for the <br />influx of customer referrals and many of whose staff did not have adequate English language <br />skills. <br /> <br />Although the call center transition should have been resolved by now, the NSCC office <br />still hears from customers, in addition to their primary complaint, about long wait times and the <br />English language skills of the customer service representatives. Generally, by the time <br />customers call the NSCC office, they are extremely angry and frustrated with a customer service <br />system that provides different information everytime they call, that seems more intent on <br />blaming the problem on the customer than accepting responsibility and fixing it, and whose <br />pricing is less than transparent, from DTA fees that include both equipment and “service” to <br />annual service rates that seem to go in $3 to $5 increments. In contrast, the PEG fee about <br />which Comcast complains has gone from $3.75 in the early 2000’s to $4.15 in 2014, an increase <br />of only $0.40. <br /> <br />In determining the needs and interests outlined in the Staff Report and the RFRP, the <br />NSCC strongly considered the lack of any subscriber complaints about the PEG fee and the <br />constant rate increases for cable services to substantiate the inclusion of a request for Comcast <br />to voluntarily continue operational support payments that would allow the NSCC to continue to <br />meet the historical and future needs and interests of the communities. The NSCC cannot <br />recommend the adoption of Comcast’s proposal regarding its PEG commitments. <br /> <br />NSCC/NSAC Financial Operations <br /> <br />Comcast consultant Andrew Elson of E‐Consulting Group has questioned the allocation <br />of the Executive Director’s time as reported on the NSAC’s IRS Form 990 in 2011 and 2012. The <br />report is prepared by the NSCC/NSAC contract accountants and auditors, Harrington Langer & <br />Associates, and reviewed by staff, who simply missed this error. While an error, it has no place
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