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02 Aug 2017, 14:53

Bad for Business!

<p>We currently have a Telkom Business account comprising of 2x ADSL lines, various landlines and a PBX system to transfer calls. We started experiencing issues with the PBX system in December 2016, with clients reporting to us that their calls to our reception were going unanswered, although the calls were not ringing through on our side. We reported the problem, and Telkom came back and said they could find no fault. The problem persisited, and again Telkom found no fault. This happened a total of around 6 times over a period of 5 months, until a technician was sent out with a brain, who narrowed the fault down to the hunting line for the PBX, even though said technician had the tools and ability to repair the fault, he refused as we had not logged a fault on the hunting line. We logged the fault. On 2 separate occations, techs were sent out who were not qualified to work on the PBX, the third tech could only complete half the job, and left us with no hunting line. Eventually a qualified tech was sent and the fault repaired 6 months after inital report to Telkom. After the repair was effected, there has been such bad interference on the hunting line that it is unusable. Over the last few months we have been issued countless reference numbers, I have sent countless messages via Telkom's Facebook page, expressing urgency as this is our business line, and we are potentially losing business. I have had two calls from Telkom asking me about faults on numbers and addreses unrelated to our fault, and after both of those calls we have been told that the fault has been rectified when it has not been. We are unfortunately only halfway through the 5 year PBX contract with Telkom and strongly feel that Telkom is not holding up their contractual obligations. Telkom had thus far proven that they are bad for business, and will make no effort at all to rectify an issue that is now in it's 7th month.</p>

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's update29 Aug 2017, 08:59
Reviewer Update
Hi Luleka. Thank you for responding to my review above. Your response was sent on August the 4th, it is now August 29. We are still experiencing interference on our PBX hunting line. I have been in constant contact with your 'Social Media Special Forces' via the Facebook Messenger service with no result. I have expressed the urgency of this matter until I am blue in the face but Telkom cannot seem to resolve a fairly simple issue that is impacting our business. I need you to explain to me why in the three weeks since your reply to this review, and in the weeks leading up to this review, you and your team have not lifted a finger to attempt to resolve this matter? I keep getting promises that the matter has been escalated to 'urgent' but nothing happens. I have even gone so far as to send a mail to Telkom's complaints department, but unsurprisingly I have not had a response. I know that Telkom is a huge company and that you receive many complaints, but why must we wait over a month for a technician to be sent out for a fault on our business line? I stated in my review above that Telkom is bad for business, are you going to attempt to prove me wrong?