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    <title>topic Customer Services Drop in Account &amp; Billing</title>
    <link>https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Account-Billing/Customer-Services-Drop/m-p/5283395#M293464</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;As a long-term Sky customer and Sky VIP member, I’m deeply disappointed by the decline in customer support standards over recent years.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One of the biggest concerns for me is the move away from UK-based customer support. I understand companies outsource services, but the overall experience now feels far less personal, far less helpful, and far more focused on sales than actual support.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some of the issues I’ve personally experienced include:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Communication difficulties during calls (due to customer service representatives' Indian accents) can make resolving problems stressful and time-consuming.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Feeling pressured to upgrade or buy additional products instead of receiving genuine help with the issue I contacted support about, by the Indian support people.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Situations in which product problems were not seen to be taken seriously unless additional purchases were involved, by the Indian customer support people.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;A general feeling that customer care standards are no longer at the level Sky used to be known for.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’ve been with Sky for over 20 years and currently use multiple Sky services, including Mobile, Broadband, and Sky TV. Years ago, Sky's customer service was one of the reasons I stayed loyal to the company.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sadly, I no longer feel the same level of trust or confidence in the support experience, and it has genuinely made me reconsider which services I will continue to keep with Sky going forward.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope Sky seriously listens to a long-term customer who feels the quality of support has declined.&lt;BR /&gt;I miss the cheerful Scottish accents, which were much easier to understand than Indian accents and, of course, the pure English accents.&lt;BR /&gt;I am not white, so I feel safe in saying what I am saying because I am not racist and have friends of all ethnic backgrounds.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>sky20yearsplus</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2026-05-26T19:35:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Customer Services Drop</title>
      <link>https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Account-Billing/Customer-Services-Drop/m-p/5283395#M293464</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;As a long-term Sky customer and Sky VIP member, I’m deeply disappointed by the decline in customer support standards over recent years.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One of the biggest concerns for me is the move away from UK-based customer support. I understand companies outsource services, but the overall experience now feels far less personal, far less helpful, and far more focused on sales than actual support.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some of the issues I’ve personally experienced include:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Communication difficulties during calls (due to customer service representatives' Indian accents) can make resolving problems stressful and time-consuming.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Feeling pressured to upgrade or buy additional products instead of receiving genuine help with the issue I contacted support about, by the Indian support people.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;Situations in which product problems were not seen to be taken seriously unless additional purchases were involved, by the Indian customer support people.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;P&gt;A general feeling that customer care standards are no longer at the level Sky used to be known for.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’ve been with Sky for over 20 years and currently use multiple Sky services, including Mobile, Broadband, and Sky TV. Years ago, Sky's customer service was one of the reasons I stayed loyal to the company.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sadly, I no longer feel the same level of trust or confidence in the support experience, and it has genuinely made me reconsider which services I will continue to keep with Sky going forward.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope Sky seriously listens to a long-term customer who feels the quality of support has declined.&lt;BR /&gt;I miss the cheerful Scottish accents, which were much easier to understand than Indian accents and, of course, the pure English accents.&lt;BR /&gt;I am not white, so I feel safe in saying what I am saying because I am not racist and have friends of all ethnic backgrounds.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Account-Billing/Customer-Services-Drop/m-p/5283395#M293464</guid>
      <dc:creator>sky20yearsplus</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-05-26T19:35:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Customer Services Drop</title>
      <link>https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Account-Billing/Customer-Services-Drop/m-p/5283438#M293479</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4692508"&gt;@sky20yearsplus&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;One of the biggest concerns for me is the move away from UK-based customer support.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Perhaps worth mentioning that Sky Group is no longer a UK company: since late 2018 it's been a division of the Comcast Corporation.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To what extent that's changed the approach to customer services is of course speculation, but everywhere else is overseas from the top of a skyscraper in Philadelphia.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:14:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>TimmyBGood</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-05-26T20:14:27Z</dc:date>
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