The offer seemed straightforward. In early January 2026, a Bell chat agent promised Vicki Sloot that if she upgraded to a new Bell Fibe TV box, she could keep all her specialty programming sports channels like TSN and Sportsnet. Plus, she’d be paying $5 less a month.
The next day, her new equipment arrived — but she was missing the speciality channels. She went back to Bell, who told her she only had a “basic starter plan” and that it’d be an extra $25 a month to get them back.
So began an eight-week odyssey through Bell’s customer service department, consisting of hours spent live chatting and on the phone with different agents, and an eventual escalation to Bell’s resolutions team.
“It’s impossible to get a single right answer that is consistent throughout each support agent,” said Sloot, who lives in Toronto.
I swear this article could have been written 20 years ago and barely changed a thing. Bell is absolute garbage, and this incompetence is a deliberate tactic to screw customers because they often have no recourse.
I had to switch from Bell to Rogers because my SIM card died and the only way to get a new SIM card activated was by receiving an activation code via text. I couldn’t receive texts because the card was dead. Rogers also sucks ass though.
“We are experiencing longer than normal call volumes”
I have never once had them not say this. Maybe the world is just perpetually abnormal?
Pack all that equipment up, put it in a box, ship it back (take pics), get a refund. Spend refund on 5 years worth of a debrid service like Premiumize, and watch all your shows without ads.
Like, what did you think was going to happen?
