Sky Broadband Issues/Dodgy Comms Company

Hi all,

Just wondering if anybody else in the Hawkesfield/Perry Hill area is currently having the same issues with their Sky Broadband - as Sky have mentioned it could be affecting quite a radius?

Something fishy seems to be behind the whole thing - a couple of weeks ago workmen from a company called “Zim8” were doing something with the internet cables in the box in the road and at the exact same time our broadband went down. We called this company about it they were overly vague about the work they were doing and outright refused to believe they might have caused an issue and ended that discussion promptly.

Sky then sent round OpenReach engineers who have checked in the box and found there to be damaged cables for the Sky broadband and are now having trouble fixing it. Suspiciously, since then we’ve had BT sales people knock and say “people are having issues with Sky in this area would you consider switching?”

All seems a bit suss to me. Has anyone experience this kind of thing before? We’ve now had no internet for almost two weeks and it’s very frustrating :expressionless:

Zim8 being the telecoms fibre splicer & van rental company!?!

I have a feeling Zim8 are sub-contractors for Community Fibre, but it does seem a bit like where they have been a flurry of Open Reach activity follows :frowning:

Oh wow - quite a broad range of services then. This one didn’t mentioned van hire but looks like the same logo as the one we saw outside.

Have you seen mention of the company causing problems before then? There’s barely anything to be found when I Google them :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Just an observation that these guys seemed to be around a lot, then Open Reach the next week. Of course, they could be working together I suppose, or Zim8 could be sub-contracting to Open Reach.

I can’t say I’ve noticed them around particularly. We mentioned them to the Open reach engineers but they didn’t recognise them as having anything to do with Openreach - just said it was “interesting” and that they would feed it back.

Just can’t believe that it could be coincidence that after never having any problems with our Sky that it would cut out the same time they appear outside.

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