Customer Service Standards

Ohio Revised Code section 1332.26 (D)(1-8) requires Ohio’s video service providers to follow these customer service standards:
Restore Service and Provide Credits
- Restore video service within seventy-two hours after a subscriber reports a service interruption or other problem if the cause was not a natural disaster.
- Upon a report by a subscriber of a service interruption and if the interruption is caused by the video service provider and lasts for more than four hours in a given day, the provider shall give the subscriber a credit in the amount of the cost of each such day's video service as would be billed to the subscriber.
- Upon a report by a subscriber of a service interruption and if the interruption is not caused by the video service provider and lasts for more than twenty-four consecutive hours, the provider shall give the subscriber, for each hour of service interruption, a credit in the amount of the cost of per hour video service as would be billed to the subscriber.
Notice to Subscribers
- Give subscribers at least thirty days' advance, written notice before removing a channel from the provider's video service, but no such notice is required if the provider must remove the channel because of circumstances beyond its control.
- Give subscribers at least thirty days' advance, written notice before instituting an increase in video service rates.
Disconnection Notice
- Give subscribers at least ten days' advance, written notice prior to disconnecting all or part of the subscriber's video service, except if any of the following apply:
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- Disconnection has been requested by the subscriber.
- Disconnection is necessary to prevent theft of video service.
- Disconnection is necessary to prevent the use of video service through fraud.
- Disconnection is necessary to reduce or prevent signal leakage as described in 47 C.F.R. 76.611.
- The provider shall not disconnect all or part of a subscriber's video service for failure of the subscriber to pay any amount of its video service bill, until the amount is at least fourteen days past due.
Due Date
- The provider shall not establish a due date earlier than fourteen days after a video service bill is issued.