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Need to get connected to new fibre cables - currently running on very old fibre cables

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I was on the phone for literally just over three hours on the phone last time trying to get through to the right person. I have just spent another 2 hours on webchat getting nowhere. Here is my situation. I have been a talktalk customer for many many years and never had a problem, with brilliant customer service and prices to match, so recommended you to my mother and father in law as well as other family members, all of whom did move over to talktalk.

Here is our problem: my mother and father in law, who are elderly, are having huge troubles trying to get decent speeds. They live in a remote area on a farm and are paying for your 36MB service, joined end of June 2019, but are constantly only getting 4 to 5MB. They are currently using very old fibre/copper wires which have been there for years. Due to being a very remote region, as part of their national roll out scheme BT have installed new fibre lines/wires installed by Open Reach over a year ago, to their property and all their neighbours, which Talktalk are unable to see for some reason despite it being over a year ago. There is a BT Openreach box on the outside of their house and Openreach who installed them at the time specifically said all that needed doing was to get your current provider, TalkTalk to arrange to send out an engineer to connect a cable from the inside of the house to the outside of the house to where this box is situated, about three feet length. I have spent literally hours and hours on the phone with TalkTalk trying to help my mother in law. It was the whole reason I got them moved over to talktalk, because I explained the whole situation about being on old not-fit-for-purpose fibre wires, to the friendly person in talktalk who said they understood me and that as soon as it was possibly my mother in law would be moved over to the new fibre wires.

I feel bad for recommending you now after all the trouble I have caused for recommending talktalk to them. My mother in law is becoming very ill through all this stress. An engineer was sent out by you back on August 13th but he said he was not qualified to connect a cable to the new fibre lines but did admit he could see what needed doing and that TalkTalk would will in touch with my mother in law to get this sorted out so another second qualified engineer could visit at no cost to get moved over to the new fibre wires. TalkTalk never did get back in touch. My mother in law therefore rang them up again and TalkTalk said they would send out an engineer in the next three days. My mother in law waited in the house for three days but no engineer showed up and no phone calls or communication.  To top it off, a neighbour who runs of the SAME cabinet, with the new fibre wires, who is with BT provider, has been connected on to the new fibre lines yet my mother in law on TalkTalk hasn't yet.

Each time I phone up or chat on the web chat I keep being passed through technical support where I have to repeat the whole story again and again (you need a CRM to store your customer notes) and go round in circles explaining what is required. They keep running the same line checks and fault checks and then at the end keep telling me there is no fault and that I will have to pay for an engineer visit. Of course there is no fault. It is running fine other than the fact it is running at 4 to 5MB when my mother in law is paying for up to 36mb. She is getting less than six times less than the advertised speed. She is getting awful speed and the solution is right there in front of you: new fibre wires ready to be connected. We just need an engineer to come and connect it.  I don't mind paying £40 for my mother in law if I know they are going to come and do the work to get it fixed but I don't get any answer which fills me with confidence, especially after the last engineer visit where I was told he would come and sort this all out for my mother in law and he turned up and said he couldn't do it. Luckily there was no charge with that. We just need this fixed please for my mother and father in law! Sorry for the rant. I and my mother and father in law are at our wits end. As you can imagine we have been waiting since end of June to get this resolved and have been getting nowhere, despite hours and hours literally, on the phone speaking to people in talktalk, repeating the same situation each time.  Thank you for reading this and for any help. 


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