TalkTalk taking over Post Office

NEH

Found out this morning that TalkTalk are taking over Post Office broadband. Well that's enough for me after a 5 month battle on behalf of my mum to get shot of them and them threatening her I really don't want to go through that again.

So are there any other companies that I should avoid that are part of TalkTalk?

deklan99

It's a wholesale deal with Talktalk Business/Fujitsu/Capita/MDS, nothing to do with the Talktalk Retail that we all know and love.
The actual product is good, I use it myself via Xilo/Uno, all depends how the change is going to be managed. If it's similar to the Tiscalli debacle you would be wise to move, otherwise maybe wait until the details are published.
No doubt customers with both voice and broadband will be migrated to full LLU, possibly those with just broadband might be put on shared LLU similar to Be/O2.
Drawback of course is trying to migrate from full LLU since the Post Office was one of the easy ways of getting a new line with low contract lengths.
If your looking to move then usual advice, check out http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search for LLU Operator presence.

NEH

deklan99 wrote: »

It's a wholesale deal with Talktalk Business/Fujitsu/Capita/MDS, nothing to do with the Talktalk Retail that we all know and love.
The actual product is good, I use it myself via Xilo/Uno, all depends how the change is going to be managed. If it's similar to the Tiscalli debacle you would be wise to move, otherwise maybe wait until the details are published.
No doubt customers with both voice and broadband will be migrated to full LLU, possibly those with just broadband might be put on shared LLU similar to Be/O2.
Drawback of course is trying to migrate from full LLU since the Post Office was one of the easy ways of getting a new line with low contract lengths.
If your looking to move then usual advice, check out http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search for LLU Operator presence.

Anything with that name stuck on it then I won't touch it. The distress they've caused over the last few months. We'd had them many years ago and then thought them worth another shot, how wrong could we be... several years later and they're customer service is disgusting.:mad:

Just don't want to move to another company that TalkTalk have by stealth..

nilrem_2

NEH wrote: »

Just don't want to move to another company that TalkTalk have by stealth..

Avoid AOL! I was with them over 10years, good service and a good deal.......until Carphone warehouse (owners of Talk Talk) took them over.

In the short time of CW ownership my BB access with AOL went from a reasonable £9.99 per month to £14.99 then £19.99 and a month ago to a massive £25 per month all for a poxy 2Mb service!

AOL were pretty good till CW took them over!