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Jacques P

1 reviews | Active since Oct 2017

31 Oct 2017, 11:51

Slow LTE

I had Telkom LTE installed middle 2016 and had brilliant speed >70mbps UNTIL Oct/Nov 2016 when the speed fell drastically <5mbps. I phoned 081180 and they said they would check it out. 8 March 2017 relogged a fault, this time using FB Messenger and got a case nr ********** 6 assigned to my problem. Since then I have only been receiving apologies and empty promises of escalation. I post to messenger everytime the line is virtually useless <1mbps and still I get apologies and empty promises of escalation and "our team is working on the issue". Bulldust, how can it go from >70mbps down to <1mbps and nobody has even visited my house, except that one time when a consultant came and found that my self purchased poynting antennae will not connect to my your closest tower, instead it connects to a further tower. This bloke said he would escalate my case, once again nothing has been done! When can I expect to get better speeds than <5mbps as you promise speeds upto 90mbps?

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Telkom
Telkom's reply02 Nov 2017, 10:14
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Good day

Thank you for making contact with us. Please be advised that your query is being attended to and feedback will follow.

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We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Moenieb.
Telkom Social Media Team.

Best regards,

JP
Jacques P's update02 Nov 2017, 13:37
Reviewer Update
Hi Moenieb, The contractors were here but couldn't do much as they didn't know where the LTE tower was to point the antenna that way ie: they had to guess which way to point the antenna. Basically all they ended up doing was setting the frequency down from 2300Mhz to 1800Mhz and they mentioned I was running TDD and not FDD. The speed is at times better since they left but still nowhere close to the advertised 90mbps. I asked them which tower I was connecting me to and they could only give me a PCI nr. The Safari Spar tower is a short distance away but unfortunately I still don't know which LTE tower I am connecting to: Safari Spar (closest) or the Boschdal tower (2-4km away). I really appreciate the contractors effort but as you can read my LTE speed is nowhere close to the 90mpbs. I was lucky to achieve 15-20mbps when the contractors were here, my speed now is back to 6-8mbps download with the upload close to 20mbps.
Telkom
Telkom's reply22 Nov 2017, 14:54
Official

Hi ***,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Please do not hesitate to contact us again.


Regards
Caroline
Telkom Social Media Team.

Best regards,