Your customer isn’t angry about the delay. They’re angry about the silence.
Customer Waiting-Time Anxiety is the quiet, invisible damage that builds in the gap between a missed promise and the next update that never comes. By minute 30, doubt creeps in. By minute 90, they’re calling support. By minute 240, they’re drafting a cancellation tweet — and your NPS hasn’t recovered yet.
Most ISP teams treat installation delays as a logistics problem. They’re actually a communication problem with a logistics trigger. The technician being late costs you minutes. The silence costs you the customer.
This free calculator turns that invisible cost into a number your team can see, discuss, and act on — before the next case escalates from “running late” to “find me a new provider.