CITY TELECOM (H. K.) LIMITED
and
HONG KONG BROADBAND NETWORK LIMITED
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City Telecom
(H.K.) Limited is a fast growing and innovative provider of telecommunications
services in Hong Kong. Its
wholly-owned subsidiary Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited is a major fixed
telecom network services operator, providing broadband Internet access, local
telephony, IP-TV and corporate data services.
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Our Mission
is to build a strong future and lay the foundation through long-term
investments and aggressive business strategy to become Hong Kong¡¦s pre-eminent
integrated telecommunications services provider.
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Throughout
these years, our Group has developed a diversity of services including
broadband internet connection, broadband phone, IDD services and Pay TV for the
benefits of our customers. In
order to better serve our highly valued customers, we are dedicated to deliver
outstanding quality service to them by working closely with our partners, with
our suppliers and most importantly by introducing this Customer Charter and
living up to it. In our vision, we
believe customer¡¦s need is our utmost concern and our drive to excellence in
providing competitive solutions to suit their needs.
(1)
Service
Provisioning Time
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Once we
accept and confirm our customer¡¦s order and provided that the information
obtained from customer are complete and correct, we endeavour to deliver and
make available the use of the services to our customer in a prompt and
efficient manner.
On average, we will make available:-
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IDD service
within three working days* from the date when customer¡¦s order is confirmed and
accepted;
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FTNS
services within five working days* from the date when customer¡¦s order is
confirmed and accepted or on a later date agreed with our customer provided
that we are given access to customer¡¦s premises.
* Such
service provisioning time may be varied by factors such as the need to obtain
approval of or to give prior notice to the relevant building management office
to gain access to the building, customer¡¦s approval for giving us access to the
premises, availability of customer to allow our entering into his premises,
number porting arrangement, environmental conditions of customer¡¦s premises,
availability of network facilities and weather conditions.
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Furthermore,
whilst understanding customers may have different needs at different times, we
are there to provide flexibility by activating change of service plans or
otherwise promptly upon our acknowledging customer¡¦s request; on average,
within three working days for IDD service and within five working days for FTNS
services.
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We strive to
make necessary arrangements promptly with customers to agree on a date which
best suits customers for the provisioning of the services if the agreed time of
the appointment is changed or as a result of unavailability of the customer at
the time of the scheduled appointment.
(2)
Restoration
Time
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We endeavour
to be available around the clock for our customers to report any faults or
service difficulties which result in an impaired service.
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When a fault
is reported by customers, we will respond to customer immediately and
courteously and if such fault requires site visit, we will endeavour to make
necessary arrangement with customer and to arrange our trained technician to
attend the premises promptly. We
will restore the services for customer¡¦s use causing them minimum interruption.
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For IDD
service, excluding conditions beyond our control, we aim at restoring the
service within one working day^ upon receiving fault report from customer.
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For FTNS
services, if on-site maintenance is required, we aim at arriving at the
customer¡¦s premises (excluding outlying islands) by the end of the next working
day^ upon receiving fault report from customer or on a later date agreed with
the customer. Provided that we are
given access to the customer¡¦s premises and subject to the complexity of the
problems, we endeavour to restore the service to its normal function as soon as
practicable and in normal circumstance within the same day^ of the site visit.
^ Such
restoration time does not cover those inability due to planned maintenance and
may be varied by factors such as the need to obtain approval of or to give
prior notice to the relevant building management office to gain access to the
subject building, customer¡¦s approval for giving us access to the premises, the
environmental conditions of customer¡¦s premises, availability of customer to
allow our entering into his premises, complexity of the fault involved and
weather conditions.
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We strive to
make necessary arrangements promptly with customers to agree on a date which
best suits customers for restoring the services if the agreed time of the
appointment is changed or as a result of unavailability of the customer at the
time of the scheduled appointment.
(3)
Complaint
Handling Time
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If customers
are not satisfied with our services, customers can contact our service hotline
and our operator will endeavour to answer their complaints immediately, fairly
and courteously.
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If the
issues involved in the complaint is considered complex, we will provide our
customer with our preliminary reply within three working days after such
complaint is raised and if necessary look into the matter. We will report to our customer our
findings as soon as practicable.
(4)
Enquiry
Call Answering Time
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Customers
can obtain basic information of our services which includes customer¡¦s account
information, instruction on the use of the services and enquiry on billing
through our interactive response system.
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Under normal
circumstances, should our customer require the assistance of our operator, we
will respond to it promptly and on average within twenty seconds for IDD
service or on average within twenty five seconds for FTNS services after customer
opts to raise and discuss his enquiry with our operator directly.
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Under normal
circumstances, our operator will reply our customer on average within the next
three working days if customer prefers to leave message in our voice mail
system.
We aim to
enhance our service quality to meet our customer¡¦s needs. It is the feedback of our customers
that make us attain higher goals and work beyond our limits. In this regard, your comments are
warmly welcomed. Please feel free
to Contact Us for
further information in respect of individual services.
Updated on 31st December 2004