TalkTalk Broadband Reviews

Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for TalkTalk.

Recent Customer Ratings for TalkTalk

  • Satisfaction
    2.9 stars
  • Customer Service
    2.8 stars
  • Speed
    2.9 stars
  • Reliability
    2.9 stars

Based on 640 customer ratings since 2023-05-09 (Show all time ratings)

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Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.

7,010 Customer Reviews over 176 pages

  • Reviewer
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    United Kingdom
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    TalkTalk
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    Worst decision of my life going with talktalk!! I was seduced by the cheap rates and wish I had read some reviews on here myself before getting the contract!! It would of saved me a lot of trouble and frustration. Like so many others on here i have had my fair share of being overcharged and bad customer service but the thing that has really done it is that I have now just been charged £145! When I demanded rather crossly why? I was informed it was because of the 22 HOUR CALL I apparently had just made!! Needless to say that I doubt it is even pysically posible to be on the phone for that lolg the answer I got was that I must of not hung up properly!! Well I then attempted to "not hang up properly" and found that jt was quite impossible to do because of the way the phone slots in!! Am absolutly fuming
  • Reviewer
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    TalkTalk
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    DO NOT CHOOSE TALK TALK.
    Absolutely abysmal service and treatment of vulnerable people.

    For 2 weeks my 80 year old grandmother who lives alone 4 hours away has been without any telephone service. Her friend lent her a mobile phoneto contact Talk Talk customer service and the waiting time alone ate her £10 credit. I have been on the phone to talk talk overseas call centres 4 times over the past week, which have a poor line and staff speak very basic english. Each time I am promised something will be done tomorrow and it has not been done.

    I am still waiting for my 80 year old grandmothers telephone line to be fixed.

    Please do not chose this provider especially if you are setting it up for someone vulnerable or you yourself are a vulnerable individual as they have a complete disregard and lack of care.
  • Reviewer
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    Coventry
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    TalkTalk
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    DO not touch! Worst service I have ever received pushing the date back over 4 weeks and then refusing to let me know escalate a complete- ABSOLUTELY rediculas
  • Reviewer
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    Gloucester
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    TalkTalk
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    No internet for 2 days
    Rubbish
  • Reviewer
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    scotland
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    TalkTalk
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    appalling, terrible terrible customer service. They lie and make promises, its just all about the money and how much they can screw you for . Have endless amount of truly abysmal support and help. Just gave up after again chasing complaints about broadband and wifi. Maybe that is what they want anyway. Lop of one head and they grow another, endless frustration
  • Reviewer
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    Cambridge
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    TalkTalk
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    This is a terrible network. Never try getting it because even after an hour of trying to trouble shoot, nothing was possible with their tech support. Please don't go for this crap.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
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    TalkTalk
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    Shocking service. After waiting for 3 weeks and taking a half days holidays from work so I could be there for the installation - they never showed up. No message, no email, no notice. I called them and was offered no explanation and then told I have to wait another 15 days for installation. Horrendous service, horrendous customer service.
  • Reviewer
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    STOURBRIDGE
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    TalkTalk
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    TalkTalk
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    I have been on the phone for over an hour trying to talk to someone about an issue and have now been transferred 5 times between duffearnt teams 3 times back to the same team! They don't have a clue what they are doing and should not be a broadband provider absolute scammers!
  • Reviewer
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    Landon
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    TalkTalk
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    To be honest I don't think customer service is to be blamed for TalkTalk's incompetency. I had a chat with one of their agents who explained to me that whatever they tell you is a scripted system. And if they do not follow the script they are penalised and their salaries cut short. TalkTalk is a slave driver which takes from the poor South Africans. The agents are working U.K hours and to expect TalkTalk to value their efforts and pay them at list U.K's minimum wage, they pay them change.£229 for 180 hours including weekends and public holidays. TalkTalk does not only offer rubbish service they also treat their own employees like rubbish. They are only worried about what comes to them and nothing goes to their customers and customer service employees.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
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    TalkTalk
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    Worst broadband ever. It’s been 1.5 years with talktalk and I never had a reliable connection even for a week since day 1. I am tired of calling them and even made formal complaints but they were not able to fix my broadband. 2 times they cancelled my contract and charged me early cancellation fee with me calling them. But I am very happy my contract is finishing next month and I am leaving this rubbish provider with rubbish service. I will never ever go back to them not even in my dreams. I wish I could minus stars from them. I wonder who gave them more than one star.because they worth nothing and should be sued for giving wrong information about their broadband if you are getting 0.5 mbps then you are the luckiest man on earth.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    cambs
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    TalkTalk
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    no t.v. service for 8 weeks talked to technical team what a hoot everything they told me to do I had tried myself.Telephoned main office still waiting to hear from them even though they said they would call back. for the record talktalk service TO THEIR MAIN OFFICE IS BT.[need I say more.]
  • Reviewer
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    scotland
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    TalkTalk
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    appalling, terrible terrible customer service. They lie and make promises, its just all about the money and how much they can screw you for . Have endless amount of truly abysmal support and help. Just gave up after again chasing complaints about broadband and wifi. Maybe that is what they want anyway. Lop of one head and they grow another, endless frustration
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Wrexham
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    TalkTalk
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    Talk talk what a load of rubbish . After being on the internet on chat to them for two hours to try and sort out why our phone would stop working after a couple of minutes and broadband . They said they would send a bright sparks engineer out to fix our problem but would cost £50 . On the chat they asked if the box inside the house has BT on it we replied yes . Ok we will send him out . The night before the appointment the bright sparks man phoned and asked if it was a BT box we replied yes again . When he arrived at my house the next day he looked at the box and said I carnt touch it it belongs to BT and went . After a big argument with talk talk I have now cancelled what a con . Going back to sky
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Warrington
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    TalkTalk
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    Well.. Where do I start?

    This company is SH*T!! And that's putting it nicely.
    We moved house and asked for the broadband and phone line to be transferred... Since then, we have had no broadband AT ALL...nothing!
    Pointless calling the company and speaking to the so called, customer service advisors, they sit there twiddling there thumbs telling you the problem will get sorted, has it? NO!!
    No call back as PROMISED??!! ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME.
    I will not waste another second of my time with this pathetic company, absolutely shocking!!!
    Take my advise- if your thinking about joining this company - DONT!!!!!!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    York
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    TalkTalk
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    Awful company - we have now been without internet for 3 weeks, both my partner and I work from home and have been out of work for 3 weeks due to this!!! No support was given, appalling customer service... each time I call, it cuts out. Each time I email, they apologise but do nothing about it. Will never go with this company again, they have caused me so much stress these past 3 weeks. Severely lacking in communication and customer service skills! Steer well clear of this provider.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    norfolk
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    TalkTalk
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    Just changed from BT to Talk Talk, DON'T DO IT their service is a non starter, twice the engineer was suppose to have come and not turned up, and they billed me. How can I get back to BT who I thought were bad.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Sussex
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    TalkTalk
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    These people are liars, cheats, and totally disinterested in achieving customer satisfaction. They lie from the moment you sign up with them to the time when you are finally able to extricate yourself from their evil clutches. Even after they have failed to deliver broadband to you, and lied about the reasons why, they refuse to let you cancel. They will go on billing you completely disregarding your wish to cancel and threaten debt collectors if you don't pay up money they are not owed. People warned me about them before I signed up and I wish I had listened. When they failed to deliver any service to me as promised and I finally cancelled they hounded, threatened and harassed me to the point that I was unable to work, eat or sleep for weeks. In the end I complained to their CEO and said if the continual harassment didn't stop I would issue an injunction and contact the police. I cannot emphasize enough that for the sake of their health consumers must give this evil collection of crooks and charlatans a complete miss. Go anywhere, but avoid Talktalk like the pernicious plague they are.
  • Reviewer
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    Tamworth
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    TalkTalk
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    I hate talk talk, it is so slow, it takes
    ages to go on to a new page; they rip you off and when I called up talk talk they sounded like they didn't give a damn, I highly recommend not to spend the £28 a month and choose a different company!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Huddersfield
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    TalkTalk
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    Talktalk broadband is CRAP
    Always running slow or going off
    Internet channels freeze spoiling entertainment and games online take ages to load then broadband drops out during a game
    TALKTALK IS A JOKE
    My advice.........
    DON'T EVEN CONSIDER TALKTALK

    TOTAL GARBAGE
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Manchester
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    I wich i could give 1 star. Really avoid don't use them. We canceld direct with them after 1 month. Internet broke down every few days. And customers or technical support is extremely useless. Every time they said we don't see anything wrong it should work! Or they say its normal because your internet connection is new it needs few weeks to get the highst speed!!! That was most nonsense thing i have ever heared. Never heard that or had that from any provider before. And they speek extremely bad English i couldn't understand so much when i had them on the line. Back to my previous internet provider.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Lancashire
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    TalkTalk
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    Absolutely appalled by the broadband network. It’s been over a month and the connection and speed to WiFi is disgraceful!!! Each time you call them they ask you irrelevant questions and end up sending you a ‘new’ router which does not help!! Not helpful at all. Will be switching to something much better.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Oxted Surrey
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    TalkTalk
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    Dreadfull service.
    Signed up in April 2014 for phone and Superfast Braod band.
    Broad Band very slow.
    Finaly died 4 weeks ago beginning of September. Called Talk Talk Service line and Talk Talk Engineer came out after about 7b days, and said fault was in the road with BT Open Reach. Open Reach engineer came out, and siad Talk Talk had not connected up in the house correctly, and also had broken the portal connection out in the road, and there was no room for another connection, So open reach coulf not give me Broad Brand.
    I subsequently went back to Talk Talk at the telephone every night for nearly three weeks asking a question, cold thye give me braod band ' yse or no'...they could not say either, they just blamed open reach.
    I asked to terminate the contract because they could not supply me with the service after nearly 4 weeks. they asked for a cacelation fee of £380.0?
    After 4 weeks on constant telephone calls, i now have a broad band connection. But the speed is less than 10MB...noy suoper fast.
    I am now back again with Talk Talk at the telphone most nights, asking when they are going to fix it and give me Super fast. They say they need to get Open REach back for an inspection.POn reach say the fault lies with Talk Talk who have not instlled correctly!!???
    Im still waiting and still paying for a service i have not been supplied with.
    In my world If i gave that sort of service the company would have been fired and face proabale legal action.
    The sercice is not fit for purpose, and is missing selling.
    Dreadfull service!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Norfolk
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    Talk Talk have been selling Fibre optic broadband with customers confidential details safe; or we thought so, for some unknown reason just after taking their package on a Scammer telephoned asking the home owner to check their computer because there was a Trojan on it; and in some cases; the home owner let these scammers remotely control their computers and install bugs and also issue an no screen invoice to take payments. Someone at Talk Talk is passing on customer's details to thse scammers; otherwise how else could anyone obtain the customers tel no and details. Talk Talk don't seem botheres; so I would suggest you stay away from them and go elsewhere. Hundreds of pounds are beig stolen by these scammers by remotely issuing invoices for large sums of money; the scammers we believe are somewhere in Asia; Be Warned if anyone telephones you and you don't know who they are PUT THE PHONE DOWN AND NEVER LET ANYONE REMOTELY GET INTO YOUR COMPUTER; THEY COULD STEAL EVERYTHING INCLUDING BANK DETAILS.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Stevenage
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    TalkTalk
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    Talk Talk took over the Tesco service and transferred it to the TALK Talk system last Friday. The internet works badly and we are unable to receive telephone calls. We can make phone calls.
    It was ok until then.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Blackpool
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    TalkTalk
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    Disgusted and appalled with this company ! Got talked into upgrade to fibre after upteen faults , openreach engineer turned up to install.
    When he left I noticed my card reader was not working in my shop , (the master socket for broadband and phone is in the staffroom )the engineer had called the cable to the card reader in the shop thus unabeling us to except card payments ...
    Talktalk after numerous noncence phone calls just asking for an engineer to come out and fix what he broke ?? Your answer was .. and I quote ... " THATS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN " with a smug attitude !! Wtf
    If I can't take card payments without embarrassingly asking customers into the staffroom as opposed too the till ( in the shop ) err talk talk err business ? .. think I will be seeking action .. loss of earnings etc....
  • Reviewer
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    TalkTalk
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    Absolutely terrible, WiFi never worked awful customer service, when trying to sort issues with the service they hang up on you or move you from place to place no one actually helping. Wouldn’t use them again if you paid me
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Croydon
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    TalkTalk
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    Absolutely appalling Words fail me. AVOID at all costs. Can't wait for them to go into administration. I"ll probably throw a party to celebrate. Pay bit more with BT, Skype anyone bar Talk Talk.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Oxford
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    Always broken. Do NOT use talk talk.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    The worst company I have ever dealt with in my life!

    Terrible connection!
    Even worse customer sevice - passed around from pillar to post. Very rude. They don't kow anything. On hold no less than 2minutes at a time. I have never had a call that has lasted less than 45 minutes.

    Dooooo not buy talk talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I wish someone had warned me.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
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    TalkTalk
    Date
    Comments
    AVOID if you care about your time and money.
    Purchased a plan. They send the router, plugged in and no Internet connection.
    Reported the issue, they said the technician sorted out the issue. Told to wait 2 days. After this still no connection.
    Asked for a cancellation wich is my right within 30 days... After long debate, they tried to push me to wait for 29 days for them to fix the issue.
    I told them they couldn't activate a phone line within 2 weeks and I suppose to wait for them 29 days?
    You judge for yourself.
    The contract was cancelled eventually.
    Avoid a major disappointment.
  • Reviewer
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    TalkTalk
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    Terrible service! On the day the engineer was suppose to arrive they sent me a message that he will be there between 8.00-13.00. However no one turned up! They took the money 2 weeks before!! No apologies or anything... Ridiculous!!!!!!!!
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Warrenpoint
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    Couldn't be worse. Internet constantly breaking. Customer service basically doesn't exist. They make a mess of everything then charge you for their mistakes. Avoid like the plague
  • Reviewer
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    Halifax
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    TalkTalk
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    Worse broadband provider out there problem never gets resolved no matter how many time you call about it . Costumer services have about as much skills as a 2 year old . Then again that's a insult too a 2 year old they would offer better broadband
  • Reviewer
    Location
    London
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    TalkTalk
    Date
    Comments
    They are a bad broadband we pay the 32 pound internet plan and only nearby the router is when we get actual wifi
  • Reviewer
    Location
    ABERDEEN
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    I have had the worst experience with a broadband provider to date. I have been messed around for the last 6 months with very little broadband speed, often falling below 1mbps. I have been on the phone more times than I count to no avail. I contacted talktalk to say that I am leaving at the end of May and was told that I simply had to contact talktalk and my contract would be terminated on that day for no extra charge. Contacting them today, I now find I have to contact the company 30 days prior to the cancellation date and I now have incurred a cancellation charger. I would absolutely never recommend talktalk to anyone. The customer service has been completely unhelpful.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Chorley/Lancashire
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    TalkTalk
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    My rating for TalkTalk is literally ZERO. I don't think it deserves any ratings at all. Ever since I have changed from BT to talktalk I keep calling them to complain about how SLOW and TERRIBLE the internet is. The reason I am using my mobile data to give this review is because my wifi and internet are both so slow that the page is not even getting loaded. This is the worst broadband out there and I will be making sure no one I know will be using this broadband.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Hyde
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    TalkTalk
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    I took out an 18 month contract with Talktalk and after 12 months I moved house and contacted them to have the equipment installed at new address. They said that they would do this if I agreed to a brand new 18 month contract, I said no because I was only going to be living in the new house for 6 months, they refused to do anything and advised me that I needed to carry on paying until the end of the contract which I did, even though I wasn't getting any service from them, I made it very clear that I was not happy to pay but they said that until the contract finished I had no choice. They are now chasing me for additional money for the month after the end of the contract. DONT GO WITH THIS COMPANY, GO WITH SKY THEY ARE REPUTABLE AND NOT CONMEN
  • Reviewer
    Location
    hackney
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    TalkTalk
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    disgusted customer, paid my bill on time, on talktalk accou t but talktalk deny recieving it even though it is on my bank statemnet as having been paid,now trying to continue billing me for a bill i ahve already paid, greedy moneysuckers ,will not recomend this company to anybody am now looking for a new supplier
  • Reviewer
    Location
    hampshire
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    TalkTalk
    Date
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    It is The most appalling service ,how i it is still allowed to trade is beyond me . My advice would be to go somewhere else for BROADBAND PHONE AND MOBILE anywhere else but talk talk ,you have been warned have a look online ,google up talk talk reviews and see how bad it is ,i can say that those reviewers are not exagerating in anyway ,i am getting out myself i have had to pay a high price but cant stand anymore. any where i can post a review and get peoples attention to steer clear i will do so .

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