Telkom = Satan

BLIXEMPIE

BLIXEMPIE

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After fscking up my ADSL order numerous times and delaying the activation of my ADSL line, I today STILL don't have ADSL. I had my telephone line installed last week Monday already. I was told my ADSL will be activated within 2 days. When this did not happen I tried calling 10210. No answer after holding for over an hour. Went to Telkom shop in Menlyn. The guy tells me he put the order for the ADSL line conversion in. ADSL will work in 2 days. 2 days later I call 10210 again. This time they answer after holding for almost an hour again. The lady on the line tells me NO ORDER FOR ADSL WAS PLACED and then she said she placed the order. The next day I call again to confirm... Shocker! No order was placed for ADSL AGAIN! Now this guy places the order. Monday I call again, to confirm again, and they let me know the order is placed and that the line will be activated by Wednesday. So, it's Wednesday, and guess what... NO FSCKING ADSL!!!!! So I try calling 10210 again. I just held on the line for 1.5hours. FSCK you Telkom! Burn in HELL! All of you!

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When I first got ADSL in 2010... I ordered and within a few days they installed my 384kbps line. It was in the morning. I was sooo happy. ADSL line and mweb uncapped - man I was going to download the internet twice while watching endless hours of porn and youtube (between the wanks). Off I went to work with a skip in my step and a woody in my pants.

Get home and telephone line is dead. That is how it remained for weeks.

Moral of my story: Telkom have the ability to destroy your soul ...and they don't care if they do. They also have the ability to give you a phone line with internet connectivity ...and they don't care if they don't.
 
BLIXEMPIE who's your data SP? Let them do the application on your behalf. They should have better standing with Hellkom than a mere soulless mortal like yourself. :p
 
MartyMarts said:
When I first got ADSL in 2010... I ordered and within a few days they installed my 384kbps line. It was in the morning. I was sooo happy. ADSL line and mweb uncapped - man I was going to download the internet twice while watching endless hours of porn and youtube (between the wanks). Off I went to work with a skip in my step and a woody in my pants.

Get home and telephone line is dead. That is how it remained for weeks.

Moral of my story: Telkom have the ability to destroy your soul ...and they don't care if they do. They also have the ability to give you a phone line with internet connectivity ...and they don't care if they don't.
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Hahahahaha QFT

Wife says she seen a Telkom technician on the pole at the bottom of our garden from our neighbours side. you automatically know ***** is going down. a couple of days afterwards our internet goes for a ball of *****. find out that the dumb knob had crossed our line with the neighbours line. That happened on the 27th February and we still waiting for them to come out and fix it. We create a fault, escalate the fault and magically we get a message that the fault has been corrected. Phone the call centre and the only thing they can do is log another fault. I was so frustrated last week I even drove down the exchange and laid into one of the techies (not that it would help much).
I am even contemplating going to the hardware store and buying the biggest fcking chain I can find with the strongest padlock and going back to the exchange and locking their fcking gates with a note with my address on it and a message saying "send technician for key". when the techie comes to the house he can get the key when he puts his equipment to detect the lines on the exchange into my socket and then he can leave with the key. He can then come back for his equipment when he has fixed my fcking fault.

alternatively just burning down one of their fcking building will probably make me feel better as well.

Bunch of useless @rseholes
 
ISP cash cow said:
Hahahahaha QFT

Wife says she seen a Telkom technician on the pole at the bottom of our garden from our neighbours side. you automatically know ***** is going down. a couple of days afterwards our internet goes for a ball of *****. find out that the dumb knob had crossed our line with the neighbours line. That happened on the 27th February and we still waiting for them to come out and fix it. We create a fault, escalate the fault and magically we get a message that the fault has been corrected. Phone the call centre and the only thing they can do is log another fault. I was so frustrated last week I even drove down the exchange and laid into one of the techies (not that it would help much).
I am even contemplating going to the hardware store and buying the biggest fcking chain I can find with the strongest padlock and going back to the exchange and locking their fcking gates with a note with my address on it and a message saying "send technician for key". when the techie comes to the house he can get the key when he puts his equipment to detect the lines on the exchange into my socket and then he can leave with the key. He can then come back for his equipment when he has fixed my fcking fault.

alternatively just burning down one of their fcking building will probably make me feel better as well.

Bunch of useless @rseholes
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i think Chain +padlock = good idea, like seriously, on the note add all ticket numbers you loged for the fault.

it kind of feels like that is what we are left with. also OP I think you should do the same. no fooling.

think of it like a line of cars all stopping a taxi from pushing in. if one dumbass misses out the entire plan fails, we all need to work together to mess with them, let them know who pays the bills.
 
ISP cash cow said:
Hahahahaha QFT

Wife says she seen a Telkom technician on the pole at the bottom of our garden from our neighbours side. you automatically know ***** is going down. a couple of days afterwards our internet goes for a ball of *****. find out that the dumb knob had crossed our line with the neighbours line. That happened on the 27th February and we still waiting for them to come out and fix it. We create a fault, escalate the fault and magically we get a message that the fault has been corrected. Phone the call centre and the only thing they can do is log another fault. I was so frustrated last week I even drove down the exchange and laid into one of the techies (not that it would help much).
I am even contemplating going to the hardware store and buying the biggest fcking chain I can find with the strongest padlock and going back to the exchange and locking their fcking gates with a note with my address on it and a message saying "send technician for key". when the techie comes to the house he can get the key when he puts his equipment to detect the lines on the exchange into my socket and then he can leave with the key. He can then come back for his equipment when he has fixed my fcking fault.

alternatively just burning down one of their fcking building will probably make me feel better as well.

Bunch of useless @rseholes
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HaHa yeah, soul destroying and can make you do regrettable things. It's amazing though - when your line is sorted and your internet works like it should, that pain and horror disappears almost instantly ...until the next episode :D
 
I share your pain man, my overhead line was snapped by truck, do you think Telkom understands how to fix this? It's been over a week without home interweb service, life is slowely draining out of me.
 
LOL, I got my Line installed on tuesday 25 Mar 2014.

I experianced the same. I took leave waiting for them to arrive last week Thursday , and they never arrived.
On monday they said a technician was dispatched, and will be there at 9:00, so i go home wait for an hour , phone them then said no they will never give a time to a customer. After about 20 phone calls to the support desk they said the technician was never dispatched. When you talk to them they give conflicting info its as if they dont work from the same system.

Tuesday comes, The phone and say the technician is waiting at my home, So i go home, guess what! no one there, come back to work, just as i got to my desk they phone and say the technician it there.

Eventually they installed the line, The guy said hes from nelspruid cus they dont have enough people in JHB/PTA.

Anyway 3 days later and i have wacked about 40GB worth of data already :-)
I'm teaching them a lesson Haha!
 
Back in the days when we still had copper in our area I often fixed our line myself after theft. Used to run my own cable (dropwire) all the way. Thankfully I had an extension ladder (ex Telkom stock) to do it with.
 
And who is god then?

BLIXEMPIE said:
After fscking up my ADSL order numerous times and delaying the activation of my ADSL line, I today STILL don't have ADSL. I had my telephone line installed last week Monday already. I was told my ADSL will be activated within 2 days. When this did not happen I tried calling 10210. No answer after holding for over an hour. Went to Telkom shop in Menlyn. The guy tells me he put the order for the ADSL line conversion in. ADSL will work in 2 days. 2 days later I call 10210 again. This time they answer after holding for almost an hour again. The lady on the line tells me NO ORDER FOR ADSL WAS PLACED and then she said she placed the order. The next day I call again to confirm... Shocker! No order was placed for ADSL AGAIN! Now this guy places the order. Monday I call again, to confirm again, and they let me know the order is placed and that the line will be activated by Wednesday. So, it's Wednesday, and guess what... NO FSCKING ADSL!!!!! So I try calling 10210 again. I just held on the line for 1.5hours. FSCK you Telkom! Burn in HELL! All of you!

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Telkom installed my voice line about 6 weeks ago and still waiting for adsl. I called them today and the ETR is set for 9 April 2017!! No ports available. Good luck!!
 
I don't have a phone line or internet at my house. Gave them a months notice too. Week has passed since that deadline and they only want to fix it next week Friday. The Telkom store in Hermanus has horribly rude and lazy employees as well, so they are unhelpful.

Struggling pretty hard now because I work from home, need the internet and phone for multiple important things right now (Lawyers, life, ect) and I can't do anything at all.

This is terrible -.-. How does this company still exist.
 
TELKOM. I hope the time will come where we do not need you to be the middle man for providing the internet. You, like Eskom and PetroSA are usless. Government owned entities are the worst in this country. Earning hugely inflated salaries for doing absolutely nothing. I mean you can not even provide an ADSL line. Why then do you exist?

I hope the systemic shock comes very soon.
 
Had issues with my Telkom Residential land line*no service* took Telkom over 3 weeks to come to my premises. Telkom seem to be understaffed cause their field technicians weren't from Johannesburg but another province... 3 of them came to my premises. Manager, trainee & qualified technician.
 
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