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Reece W

1 reviews | Active since May 2016

25 May 2016, 16:50

Telkom new landline installation

<p>I ordered a landline a few weeks ago and after multiple technicians from both Telkom as well as Bytes Technology Group (subcontracting I'm guessing) have come on site and none of them have resolved the matter, the next technician seemed to know less than the previous one and they schedule a day and then rock up on a random day when no one is home and I have to drop everything at work to open for them because God knows when they will randomly pitch up again without warning/organising with me. They all had no idea how the infrastructure of the complex works they went to multpiple peoples houses around me and tested and they all had no idea where the line was being terminated. They kept requesting access to houses around mine and then I have to organise with my neighbours and hope that the point to terminate on will be there. The problem with this is that my neighbours cannot always be at home and when we requested today that they come between 4 -5pm in the WEEK they simply said "No we go home then" but they rock up here unannounced on a Sunday morning at 7AM to fix a landline. Another problem is that if their is a fault on the line we will have to organise AGAIN that they are home when Telkom/Bytes randomly decides to pitch up without warning as per usual. What needs to be done here is the infrastructure needs to be ammended so that people are not inconvenienced when there is a line fault as if that happens in the future we will struggle to get assistance from Telkom as once again we will have to make arrangements and my neighbours are not always available whenever Telkom/Bytes decides to pitch. PLEASE can the infrastrcuture of the lines be amended so that you can terminate from a point outside of someones residence so that issues can be attended to without having to inconvenience multiple people unnecessarily . Almost 3 weeks now and I am seriously considering cancelling. Telkom/Bytes service is a joke and no one knows what is going on and no one seems to know how to make an alternative plan or a workaround to get the infrastructure up to scratch and provide the services they offer in a timely fashion. My confidence in Telkom has been shattered dealing with them in the last few weeks, all smiles and promises but absolutely no solution. To add to this the Telkom shop did not even process my application, I only found out sweet ****** all had been done phoning Telkom a few days later and hearing that the application had not even been processed. PLEASE MAKE A PLAN HERE AND GET WITH THE PROGRAM.</p>

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Telkom
Telkom's reply27 May 2016, 06:51
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Hello vanwykra

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Your reference number : SM237351
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Reece W's update14 Jun 2016, 12:51
Reviewer Update

Hi, I am happy I did not reply when they finally got the line installed because once again USELESS service from Telkom, absolutely ridiculous. They called last week and said my ADSL line was now active and I could inform my ISP. It worked for one night and then nothing, for over a week now. I call telkom LAST WEEK and they inform me there is a line fault, over the weekend they tell me the line is now fixed, come home Sunday and guess what the line is STILL DOWN. I contac them and they say there is STILL a fault on the line, what the hell??? it has been resolved, still a fault? I have talked to my ISP and my acc with them is 100%, Telkom keeps changing their story and not getting to a solution, what an absolute joke. I need this fixed, I am being charged for installation now but it is unusable!?? Can Telkom just WAKE UP! There was recently a post online about how your turn around strategy has worked, really? what a joke! I connected to the online chat today and they just kicked me off before confirming anything and said they have to RELOG the fault, what the heck happened to the "line fixed" or even the "fault pending" ??? I am utterly disgusted.