TalkTalk bleeds punters, revenue in Q2

Customer Service... right...

... their "sales" team is a crap as the rest of their company. They phoned me up (on a TPS registered number) the other week. They asked to talk to the "Telephone Account Holder" - so they obviously had NO idea who they were actually phoning. The person at the other end of the line didn't seem to understand that I didn't want their crappy phone service, or their crappy internet service and I eventually had to put the phone down on them when they refused to accept that I wasn't interested.

You can't complain to Talk Talk via their website unless you provide your full name, home address and telephone number (which I guess they can then pass onto their sales team so that they can hassle you some more).

Another part of Talk Talk is still sending threatening letters to my parents telling them that if they don't pay TT some money they will take them to court for non payment of bills.... my parents had actually overpaid on their account and so TT own them money, but that doesn't seem to have registered with TT.

Something to hide?

"We are pleased that we are delivering a better experience for our customers, demonstrated by the continuing reduction in calls into our contact centres and a significant increase in the number of customers' queries being resolved first time,"

If you resolve more queries on the first call of course you will have fewer calls. Instead of two 1 minute calls, you have one 2 minute call - and rosy metrics to feed the gullible shareholders! The most sensible metric would be number of unique customers calling, which they will know, so why not disclose it?

"The company is investing heavily in YouView - a next-generation set-top box jointly owned by Blighty's terrestrial broadcasters." ... but which BT seem to have given up on going by their BT Vision+ advertising.

Virgin Media are just as bad

Just to keep some semblance of balance.

If any el-reg reader knows how to get Virgin to stop sending me letters addressed to 'The Occupier' I would be greatful. They seem to know that I'm just about the only person in my street not on their service yet they have to send 'Get your free Tivo Now' stuff to the Occupier to get round the MPS rules.

I've even tried sending three months worth of their crap back to them in an unstamped package yet it still comes two or three items a week.

I have FTTC. The Cabinet in question ir right outside my front gate. 40Mbits down 2.5up. Why would I want anything else especially when mext door are lucky to get 5Mbit down during the evening on theor supposedly 30Mbit service.

Anon. I don't want even more stuff from them.

No demand for FTTC or FTTH

The lack of demand couldn't be down the fact that the FTTC and FTTH are only available in a very small part of the country and those of us who live outside (in my case just outside by about 3 miles) a major town can only dream of such luxuries.

I would love FTTC and the promise of a decent bandwidth to replace my current 3mbps. The idea of HD streamed movies is something that I really want. The ability to allow my kids to watch one streamed movie whilst the wife and I watch something else would be heaven. My chances of every having it without moving, well the kids will have moved out and I'll be blind due to being over a 100.

Are they all a bunch of shysters?

TalkTalk actually increased their prices on me BEFORE my first bill! Didn't even think that was possible ..

That's after I switched from Virgin because they increased their prices by 70% over TWO years!

They were charging me £38 a month for broadband and the most basic, hardly-more-than-Freeview, TV .. well, I say TV, I mean of course a storm of extra-loud advertising with short, barely noticable, interludes for shows (how anybody can argue that the license fee is anything other than the bargain of the century ..)

Is there any ISP out there that's actually good?