Mark Twain Rural Telephone Company Reviews

Mark Twain telephone company has been sticking it to people for years via mandating ALL CUSTOMERS MUST PAY FOR A LANDLINE IF YOU WANT INTERNET. Their explanation was always that their internet used the same copper line as their phone service and would not work without a landline.
Well guess what!? We now have fiber internet being installed by this company. I asked if the fiber required a landline to work. The answer was "No. But you will still have to pay for a landline", which is $30 and change. When I asked why, she said management had a meeting and they decided that everybody will still have to pay for a landline no matter what.
My question is how can you LEGALLY CHARGE somebody for something they do not want, and do not require, in order to obtain the service that they do want, which in this case is internet service?
The FCC thought this was an interesting question as well, and encourage me to file a complaint, which I will probably do. I'm glad I have internet out where I live, but I'm not going to be taken advantage of through unscrupulous business practices. I feel it's time to address this problem. What do all you think?

The Internet never works and when it does its the slowest thing in the world and now I can't do my homework at home. Thanks alot.

Internet is horrible.... prices are way out of wack and your required to have a house phone just to have internet that you have to pay an extra fee to have.... if I could rate 0 stars I definitely would..... not to mention they are the only DSL provider in the area so they can charge those ridiculous rates and get away with it.... so sleazy it should be a crime...

Excellent customer service. The service techs are the nicest and most knowledgeable that I've seen.

I'm going to say this and say it loudly. The day Elon Musk brings internet to Northeast Missouri is the day I shout hallelujah. Mark Twain Telephone is nothing but a flat rip off charging $35 for a phone line in the year 2020 for internet service. It is a FLAT OUT SCAM. Complete Monopoly of the area. I am a staunch supporter of local business but when that local business betrays its users year after year they lose all respect. All of my friends are on board. 2021 is the year of Starlink and Elon Musk.

I love giving people free money for nothing. Especially for internet speeds that rival those of the early 2000's. They don't care. We are cash cows for the company. Keep on sticking it to us MarkTwain. It feels great.

almost $90 dollars for "almost" 6mps, you can get the full 6 after editing some of your routers settings, most of the bill is for a land line. who uses land lines anymore besides businesses? either way its not an option you HAVE to have it racking your bill sky high. People are baffled by how much I tell them I pay for our internet, its robbery. Fix your prices guys its 2018 how the hell are we not getting at least 40mbps by now yet 2 miles down the road you can get high speed internet....

Cons:
Meh. They've seemed to upgrade their speeds a little more over the past year for the ones in the middle of no where. The price is still insane, 96 bucks for 15 mbs...ouch. you're forced to pay for a phone line which is what costs the most. Theyre slowly getting decent upgrades out in country though so I'll give them that. If you live out in these areas this place is you're only option. Skip satellite as those companies are way worse and you're limited on internet time.

The customer service is nice and the guy that takes care of Durham area and around route p is as awesome as can be. I mean seriously that Mr. Glover need a massive raise. The guy went above and beyond to try and get our internet a little faster since we moved to an area that was still in the 6mbs, not long after we had finally had a huge upgrade at our old house. It's been a long time since I've had an experience where an employ really went out of their way to please a customer. Everyone should take lessons from that guy.
With a kid and wife on YouTube a lot and myself on a laptop, even with 15mbs we still done have too many issues all running at once. It won't be too long though because by the end of the year, I think it was, route p area will have 60mbs or near that.

I call and tell him I internet's not working they don't even try to help me out they just give me a phone number for customer support.

The internet service is great but we have to pay $30/month for a land line that we have no need for! Why can't we just pay for internet by itself without being bundled?

Poor internet connection services. Always goes out and doesn t stay connected. Be in the middle of doing my school work then the internet service goes out and I have to constantly reset the router! Not gonna be taking this service with me when I move!!

I'm a long time customer of Mark Twain Communications even way back when DSL was in it's infancy and they absolutely refuse to adapt and change to reflect the current market. More and more I am very tempted to do away with their service and simply tether my no contract 4g. It is twice as fast download and upload and costs me significantly less. The simple fact that I am required to pay $30 a month for a landline connection that is never used and then on top of that pay inflated rates for slow internet speeds in 2018 is 1 star by itself. Even terrible CenturyLink that I had briefly in Canton when I lived there for a short time were smart enough to realize that charging for a phone line was insane. However the sad truth is that they have the DSL monopoly for our area and it's just throwing cash in the trash. Their customer service is really actually quite good and their technicians are generally helpful and knowledgeable but their business model is highway robbery.

I can not put into words how much these people suck at there job

Our technician is great: kind and professional. That s about all the good I can say about MTRT. It s very overpriced. Contract terms and customer service don t have the customer in mind. I m sure it s a very lucrative company, because they have a monopoly in most areas. If I had any other choice, I d be with a different company.

Just unusable internet for my business. A. Require a phone line. B. Their tech's literally know nothing. I hope it feels good scamming people of their hard honest earned cash. Thanks a lot satan.

I had an tech named Ashley come and hook up my internet. He was very professional and courteous. Everything works fine and I could not be happier.

We can put a man on the moon but can't put wifi in rural Missouri

September of 2016 signed my parents up for this service, which was installed the following week. The technician was unable to connect tv to Netflix at the time and stated to try again later and he would call Mon to see how all was going. My parents would not be back in town till Tues and asked him to call then, which he agreed too. NO CALL ever occurred. Since living in Florida I have spoken to customer service numerous times, tried to trouble shoot with both brothers, nephews, sister and brother in law, in last 10 months to no avail. The last conversation with Marktwain blamed it on Tv, stating signal strength was good. I have always insisted that the router/ modem was placed to far from tv to be effective, which they have always denied. Since being home July 14-17 my first order of business was to try and figure this out for my parents. So fired up iPad connected to Netflix working great at location of router, walk to tv and buffer all day long. Guess that answers the question of location problem? So being a Sunday, contacted customer service to see if they could have someone come out on Mon (my last day there) to move router. No way can they schedule that ,call customer service tomorrow. LOL so I went bought a WiFI extender installed and guess what no buffering. Emailed Marktwain to call on Mon to discuss. NO CALL! So Wednesday they spoke to my father and would be more then happy to schedule to come out and relocate for $ 50. Service fee and $ 100. Per hour for time. Seriously.!! I called spoke to Autumn and she agreed that service should have worked at installation. I asked for credit for WiFI extended of 2 months free internet service; which she can't authorize, but will speak to manager and get back with me, that was 7/20/2017. NO CALL as of yet 8/3/2017. As a health care professional, I can't over emphasize to my staff how important communication and customer service is in building customer LOYALTY. I have anywhere from 7-10 hours of time in phone calls to Marktwain, time with other family trying to trouble shoot, let alone cost to place WiFI extender to finally after 10+ hours get it to work. My hourly rate runs about $850. Hr in my business, so keeping inmind that their negligence costs me money should be important part of customer service. Apparently not! So to day I will call one more time. Then it's on to Joe Delaney President and or Jim Lyon General Manager. Will keep all posted. Autumn have your manager call me!

12/22/2017

So approximately 2 weeks after posting and 2 months after speaking with Autumn to have manager call me, John called from Marktwain.
He was very pleasant, listened well and immediately went out himself to resolve the problem. I appreciate him calling and following up to resolve parents issue. Hopefully in the future the staff will be more attentive in a quicker time frame to resolve client issues.
Thanks John truly appreciate you personally getting this fixed.

Highway robbery. 94 dollars a month for 6mbs ... then with the chance of it randomly going out for 12 hrs. They 're a scam and they know it. I can't imagine how loaded the people running this place are. Customer service is 10 the business overall is give below a one if I could.