Name: TalkTalk
Rating: 1.19

“Talk talk is undoubtably the worst service provider that o have ever had the displeasure of using or experiencing. I signed up for the super fast fibre broadband with an expectation of high speed internet, based on the promises that their sales team gave me. Despite repeated warnings from family and friends not to use them, I still signed. They told me I would receive an average of 62mbps but very rarely did I get anything above 16mbps. The router had to be constantly reset to reactivate services on the line and trying to challenge this with their customer services team (who aren’t even located in UK) was always a very long winded and unsuccessful effort to say the least. I have opted to change providers prematurely before end of contract and claimed that they did not provide the services that they advertised or promised me. Their only response was “it’s in the contract that you will only receive minimum of 16mbps) They made umpteen excuses about how their services are fed in to the property, inclusive of lines being a long way from distribution panel and cables not being sufficient for speeds that they claim you can get. In all, even other providers that use the same hardware to distribute there services, have much better tact and understanding on how to satisfy a customer that has justified concerns about what they are paying for v’s what they are actually getting. I cannot stress enough how much I would advise even my worst enemy not to go with talk talk. Any savings that they may try to offer is not worth the hassle and blatant disregard for customer support, services, satisfaction or value.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I am disgusted in Talktalk, they make a lot of promises, but nothing is real. It is a scam! I was trapped into the offer of their 30 day guarantee. Firstly the 30 days starts from the day you sign up. It took 12 days for them to actually connect me, however my 30 day guarantee started its countdown 12 days before. Then after I was connected on the 12th day of my contract, I received an email saying please give us 20 days whilst we fiddle with your connection until we make it perfect. BANG 30 days are gone and I certainly had no perfect broadband connection from day one. I cannot connect to Netflix, it is like the dark ages connecting to any website, and forget playing a game or ordering food online. 2 Months down the line and I still have the worst broadband I have ever known. Their customer services team and management customer services are based in somewhere like Thailand, so they are extremely hard to understand and they talk very fast, they have a strict guidelines of what they can say so you go round and round in circles and get nowhere. I have spoken to them maybe 10 times (8hrs wasted) in 2 months. No further down the line, no joy and no decent broadband, but sadly still paying for the privilege!!!! One of their own engineers told me that they are currently, for the past 3 months or so, giving out 3rd generation hubs that do not actually work, hence my problems and I am sure countless others. But in order to get a first gen hub that works, you have to pay more, I do not even want to pay them a penny after the stress and bad service they have given me. I may be stuck with these thieves for another 10 months, but I hope you do not have to. Had I have read the reviews I would have never signed up with them. Ugh! I may be stuck with them, but I won’t go down without a fight, I will be contacting CISAS – the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), an Alternative Dispute Resolution Provider, certified by Ofcom.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“The worest experience I have ever had with a company, if there was a rateing of minus 10 I would put that without any relactance. I had four appointments to install the braodband and all of them failed for lousy reasons, the engineers they work with at openreach are the worst kind of human beings. I have been waiting for more than a month now just to get a damn broadband installed”

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Posted 6 years ago

“on boxing day in 2018 i was not eble to get on line asusual so i call them to get this up & running again then i was was on line but on the 28/12/18 it was down again all day asusul so i call talktalk again to sort this out and do u know somethink ? thay lie to me on the phone telling me that i was on line when i was not on line at all so thay sat there and told me a pack of lies as this happend 2 times in one one day as i call tham back to tell them i can`t get on line. as thay told me i am on line as thay say to me that at there end its on but at me end its not on at all as what a poor service thay give to u all the dam time as this is not good at all so when i was on the phone again to them to get this up and running again as now i am back on line at last but for how long. as what a bad s**t service thay give to u all out there as long as thay get your cash of u that don`t care what u land up with at all.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I signed up to Talk Talk Broadband at the begging of August this year (2018) as a new customer. At the time I was promised a £75 Amazon voucher if I signed up on line. After signing up I received an email informing me that I had to wait for 90 days before I received the voucher. Almost 135 day later, still no voucher. I contacted them again and again, they eventually said that it would take up to 60 further days as they need to open & escalate a claim. Just found out from a customer service manager that the claim needs to be closed as they no longer offer the voucher scheme, it was a 3rd party who offered this NOT Talk Talk. So in short... no voucher on its way, no help from Talk Talk other than fobbing me off. Very very disappointed customer. NOT EVEN AN OFFER OF ANY FORM OF COMPENSATION.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I've been with talktalk for a number of years and the only reason I've stayed with them is because their international calling charges were cheap and they had given me a FREE boost for that. Now they've taken that away WITHOUT informing me about it and charged me 60 POUNDS for international calls. I emailed them an official complaint and they still have not responded. Very frustrating”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I have no internet and never have had internet since activation on Dec 4. I suspect the issue all comes down to an authorization/hold issue on the line, but TalkTalk seems totally unable to resolve this issue. I am leaving the country on Sunday to visit family. If my internet doesn't work by Saturday I will be canceling and moving to BT. At least they understand the technology they sell. Timeline of my issue: Dec 4: Activation date, no internet Dec 5: Spoke to TT support via phone and chat. Went through tests while on phone with support. Nothing worked. Engineer visit booked. Dec 7: Engineer visited home. Stated a visit was needed from Openreach and I would receive a text within 72 hours to confirm their visit. Text never arrived. Dec 12: Spoke with TT support via chat. Support wanted to go through home checks again. I told them to refer to the case notes as we had already done this and an engineer had visited. Why the agent didn't read the notes and know this is beyond me. Agent did addtl tests and determined that another engineering visit was required, which I already knew, as the engineer who'd come on the 7th said so and implied that it would be booked. Dec 13: FTTC3 tech visited box outside home, apparently. I then spoke with TT via phone and confirmed another tech visit would be required, inside the home. Scheduled for Dec 14 between 8 am and 1 pm. Dec 14: Engineer did not arrive. Spoke with TT support via chat. Here are excerpts of our chat: ME: an OpenReach engineer was supposed to come between 8 am and 1 pm. they have not arrived. what is the status of this issue? Since we have confirmed that the issue seems to be not within the home environment through the findings of the Openreach engineer he sent a notifcation via SMS which you should have received that no entry to the premise is required. May I know if you have received an SMS notification? ME: no. i have not. an engineer supposedly came yesterday and checked the box outside and then decided OR would need access to the home that's why there was an appointment booked this morning RICOJACOB: this has been escalated to an FTTC1 engineer which is a type of an engineer that does not require to access the premises of the customer since it is proven that the fault is not within the customer's premise. Let me send you the exact engineer's report. Modem not in sync because DSL port at DSLAM is deactivated. Checked In EMS and the Port was Deactivated. Reactivated the port and Ran In Life Fault Test. Test passed with Outcome Modem is out of sync and fault is not within the home environment. An External Engineer will be Working on this job i.e MFL of CA. ************Customer Milestone End ****************** Nonetheless, the case manager allocated on your case is now closely working hand in hand with Openreach to coordinate with them and get the real time results of their checks to compile them and have this discussed to you by the case managers once they contact you within 72 hours... But our case managers do work as well during weekends so you can be confident still that we are closely monitoring your case. Dec 15: Received a text saying "we're sorry our engineer wasn't able to resolve your service issue. This has been escalated and we'll be in touch with next steps as soon as possible." Ignored this since it seemed to have no relation to the conversation I'd had one day earlier. Dec 17: Chatted with TT support. No further movement regarding the FTTC1 engineer. No call from anybody. Took my number again. Made a formal complaint. Also Dec 17: Billed for service I have never received. Dec 18: Posted on TT support forum. Told I would need an in-home engineering visit. Dec 19: Still waiting on booking that engineer”

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Posted 6 years ago

“THIS IS THE WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO DEAL WITH. THE BROADBAND IS ONLY 1.5 WHEN WE WERE TOLD IT WAS THE SAME AS SKY. HOWEVER, TALK TALK ARE WORKING ON THE PROBLEM - ONLY INTO FOURTH MONTH NOW SO SHOULD BE RESOLVED BY THE END OF THE CONTRACT. MY MUM IN SOUTH AFRICA WAS DYING AND THE INTERNATIONAL CALLING DID NOT WORK SO HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO USE THE TALK TALK MOBILE PHONE AND TALK TALK SAID THEY WOULD CONSIDER A REFUND WHEN THE COMPLAINT WAS RESOLVED. OF COURSE STILL NOT DONE AND HAVE CHARGED US PENALTIES. IF YOU PHONE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST 2 HOURS TO SPARE AS THEY REPEAT THE SAME QUESTION AT LEAST FOUR TIMES.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Very bad service and Customer service”

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Posted 6 years ago

“A fortnight after Joining TalkTalk, and at least 20 hours on the phone I still did not have a working internet or access to my account. I had two visits from open reach both informing me the line was in tip top condition, and that the signal to noise ratio was badly wrong, in other word TalkTalk were restricting my internet, I even listened to one of the engineers telling them this. I had no choice but to leave as I had no usable internet and it was unlikely they would resolve the problems caused by them. Over the last couple of months they have started demanding money for cancelling and moving to a supplier that instantly gave me internet. Now they are going to send this “dept” to a dept collector and were keen to tell me this would seriously affect my credit rating. TallTalk are an evil company who will go to any lengths to make money and have no concern for the way they treat their customers, you have been warned!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I’ve joined talktalk, with their fastes broadband on 15th of november 2018. From the very first day, the internet speed I was getting 40-54Mbps was way below the minimum guaranteed 66.6Mbps. As every broadband provider, talktalk says that the first 7 days, the internet gets stabilised and the speed settles, however after 2 weeks, i was still getting 54Mbps and below. I’ve contacted talktalk several times, they’ve sent out an openreach engineer, who looked to the settings, line quality and identified that nothing is wrong with my line and setup, just talktalk is not providing the promised speed. Today, 2.12.2018 I’ve contacted talktalk, that I’m not happy with the service they provide, and as they have the “Great Connection Guarantee” i’m still in the cool down period to freely cancel my broadband with talktalk. After requesting the cancellation on their online chat, my internet stopped working for 15 mins, and i got disconnected from the chat, after which I’ve received an email from talktalk, that i need to pay £359 as for early cancellation fee. (Still inside they great connection guarantee cool down period). Also just to mention, that when I opted to go with talktalk as my broadband provider, I've signed a contract for £26/month. Without any notification from talktalk, they raised my monthly bill to £28/month, this way my first bill ended up being £29.9 (£1.9 was the fee, that they took over my service from ee 1 day before my service month started) Conclusion: talktalk offers are just an illusion, they have a lot hidden costs which they forgot to mention and also their “super fast service” is terrible.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“The worst service in England. During the contract, they raise the price. Also I bought from them for the better speed Faster Fibre, but never get it. They sent to me Opensearch engineer and he found cable damage, reported to Talktalk but company nothing to did, just carry on charge extra money, I three days chatted to them and they said me: "We provide to you Faster Fibre and we will not return money to you." Maaad! Yesterday was frequent breakages of the connection and I contact to them again. (I played poker online and lost some money, not too much, but it is unpleasant) They offer me to send engineer for inspection again, but I have to pay for that 65 pound charge. I was indignant, began to explain the situation as a whole, but he just closed the chat. Now my internet connection speed 8.01 Mbps Thanks TalkTalk!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I terminated the contract with TALKTALK in June 2018. To be honest, I began to regret about it. My life with a new provider has become boring. During the last 4 months the Internet has never shut down. I miss so much the time when I was a customer of Talktalk, when every day several times I had the Internet disconnected, I endlessly overloaded the modem, called and wrote to Talktalk, spent many hours in chat. But Talktalk did not leave me, today, 4 months after the termination of the contract, Talktalk sent me a bill, I again owe them money. Moreover, without informing me, they independently activated Direct Debit and took my money. Phenomenal”

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Posted 6 years ago

“DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE PROVIDER. The worst customer service I have ever experienced, the staff seem are incapable of answering any question (or even saying their name), without 30 seconds of mental buffering leading to hours, and hours spent on the phone to them without a resolution to even the simplest of issues/queries. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE PROVIDER The one thing they are supposed to provide to my household, the internet, has been faulty pretty much the entire time they have been supposed to be supplying it, for one reason or another, and yet they have not allowed us to leave, even though there is a mandatory 28 day period in which they have to if an issue has not been resolved. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE PROVIDER. The worst experience I have ever had by a huge margin. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE PROVIDER.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Be it on your own head if you use this Company. Totally failed to transfer me from Sky to Talk Talk. Totally failed to notify SKY about the change over. Advised use of a power adapter even though engineer could only elicit a signal that was one tenth of advertised promise. I cancelled agreement. Now hounding me for further payments (I cancelled my direct debit). Will not answer questions and will not elevate complaints to a superior manager. DO NOT USE !!!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I was a Talktalk customer for 4 years. The last 6 months it was a real nightmare. Internet dropped every day, several times every day. I wrote many complaints, spent many hours in online chat, but everything was useless. Then I demanded compensation. Can you imagine what Talktalk offered me? a £5 goodwill gesture!!! I paid £150, did not receive service, had to spend about 20 hours trying to fix Internet. They did nothing and offered me a £5 goodwill gesture! Sadistic bullying! Usually reviews on this site help to improve the service of companies. But not in the case of Talktalk. I specially looked for information about Talktalk and found that poor service and bullying are the main characteristics of Talktalk since 2009. TalkTalk were even fined £750,000 for "dishonest and misleading" sales practices following an Ofcom investigation. Since Talktalk ignores all our complaints, does nothing to improve the service, I think we, the customers, who received all this terrible service and numerous bullying, should set themselves the goal of getting Talktalk out of the market. To do this, we must describe in detail and objectively all the cases of the disgusting service of Talktalk, put the likes of other similar feedbacks, share experiences when it was possible to obtain compensation or successfully leave Talktalk. I hope that we will be able to attract the attention of the Ofcom to prohibit the activities of Talktalk.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Absolutely disgusting company. Provided a service which was completely unusable for several months and failed to improve it despite numerous calls to their customer services and on their help chat. They never once bothered sending an engineer despite me requesting this several times. They have a 'minimum guaranteed speed' on their contract which states: 2.3 We’ll try to ensure you get the estimated speeds; however, we can’t guarantee this. It may take up to two weeks from installation for your speeds to stabilise. If, after this period, you’re constantly getting significantly lower speeds, contact us (see paragraph 19 above) so we can try to help. If there’s a fault, we’ll take reasonable steps, and you must take any reasonable steps we ask you to take, to correct such fault. If, after this, for the broadband or fibre service your speeds are still below the ‘minimum guaranteed access line speed’, you may cancel the service without liability. So when the service never improved after several months on me complaining and taking speed tests (always below minimum guaranteed) I tried to cancel. Firstly they wouldn't let me without trying to charge an early leaving fee. All they wanted was me to agree to this fee so then i would owe them. I didn't and i sent them the router back. Now they are claiming they have still been supplying the property (with no router) and have actually go debt recovery onto me!!!! after the disgrace of a service they provided. I am so disgusted this company is allowed to even trade. PLEASE DO NOT JOIN TALKTALK. Their prices are low but in the long run you're out of pocket as the service is so bad, it offers no value for money! In addition, they don't even adhere to their own contract and when I raised a complaint on condescending manager just argued with me the whole time. They were supposed to be resolving my complaint. PLEASE don't join this mess of a company. Thanks”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Absolutely disgusting company. Provided a service which was completely unusable for several months and failed to improve it despite numerous calls to their customer services and on their help chat. They never once bothered sending an engineer despite me requesting this several times. They have a 'minimum guaranteed speed' on their contract which states: 2.3 We’ll try to ensure you get the estimated speeds; however, we can’t guarantee this. It may take up to two weeks from installation for your speeds to stabilise. If, after this period, you’re constantly getting significantly lower speeds, contact us (see paragraph 19 above) so we can try to help. If there’s a fault, we’ll take reasonable steps, and you must take any reasonable steps we ask you to take, to correct such fault. If, after this, for the broadband or fibre service your speeds are still below the ‘minimum guaranteed access line speed’, you may cancel the service without liability. So when the service never improved after several months on me complaining and taking speed tests (always below minimum guaranteed) I tried to cancel. Firstly they wouldn't let me without trying to charge an early leaving fee. All they wanted was me to agree to this fee so then i would owe them. I didn't and i sent them the router back. Now they are claiming they have still been supplying the property (with no router) and have actually go debt recovery onto me!!!! after the disgrace of a service they provided. I am so disgusted this company is allowed to even trade. PLEASE DO NOT JOIN TALKTALK. Their prices are low but in the long run you're out of pocket as the service is so bad, it offers no value for money! In addition, they don't even adhere to their own contract and when I raised a complaint on condescending manager just argued with me the whole time. They were supposed to be resolving my complaint. PLEASE don't join this mess of a company. Thanks”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I’ve only been a customer for less than a month. Their broadband and tv is completely not fit for purpose. Complaints fall on deaf ears”

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Posted 6 years ago

“After 4 years of constant buffering never being allowed an up to date router I'm finally freeing myself of these vermin waste of money oh and don't expect anyone English to talk to you when things go wrong your on your own”

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Posted 6 years ago

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Courier, Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Over 7 Days
On-time Delivery	Greater than 40%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 84%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult

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