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 672 customer ratings since 2023-04-18 (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 701 pages

  • Reviewer
    Location
    North Warwickshire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      2 stars
    Comments
    Very poor service. Just spent 1hour and 45 mins on phone only to be told hang up and we will ring you back. No call! Since May 2023 we have been waiting for an Engineer. We have been told each.month since (wenare now end of July 2023) our bill will be reduced (no it hasn't) we shall now start procedure to claim compensation re new contact being delayed (not our fault).
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Oxfordshire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    Comments
    This was the worst experience I have had with any company in my lifetime. (I'm 50).
    My router hadn't arrived. When I enquired where, the call operators were so rude I told them not to send the router and to cancel the order.
    Then:
    Spent over four hours on the phone and website during the 7 calls i made that day.
    I had the call dropped on 3 calls after staff claiming they don't know what to do.
    I was lied to by operators saying they couldn't cancel my order please I failed security.
    I was lied to again when they claimed they couldn't cancel it because I could not provide my talktalk home number even after I told them my package was not allowed a home number. (I know)
    All I could do was cancel my DD. Guess what? They re-instated it. I had to call the bank and sort that. Then I recieve an email saying my router is on its way......
    So... do you still think talktalk is a good idea.
    Apologies for writing a similar review previously but am writing this one the Trading standards Gov dep.
    You see an app on my device record all calls automatically and I think they will take a very, very dim very upon Talktalk.co.uk's operative tactics and behaviour.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Worcestershire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Lying customer service who are terribly trained and don't know anything. Don't go near them. Please choose a different service
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Gloucestershire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      3 stars
    • Reliability
      3 stars
    Comments
    Talk talk's customer service is inadequate.

    Chat service - the first time i used this facility we were cut off after 40mins and no one phoned back. Situation unresolved.

    Eventually, completed another chat only to receive an email confirming something not agreed.

    Using number in email i phoned immediately.

    I explained situation and got told i'd phoned the wrong number. I was transferred and cut off!

    I phoned again and exactly the same thing happened.

    On the third call i was transferred to someone who could help me.

    In total i have spent 3 hours of my life and spent £148 to cancel an account because my elderly parent has moved into a home.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Oxfordshire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    No at all happy with Talk Talk. Ongoing issues with broadband dropping out and speeds just above 1mbps which they seem to think is acceptable. There is clearly a problem with the connection as it's even worse when raining or windy. Couldn't get to speak to anyone on person, just online chat only. She was just going round in circles asking me the same questions over and over again. She finally ended the conversation her end after I asked for an engineer to be sent out to check why the line keeps going down. No wonder Talk talk customers are leaving on mass, I shall not be far behind them.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Staffordshire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      5 stars
    • Reliability
      5 stars
    Comments
    Where do I start with this review. It has to be as long as it is because there has been SO many issues with this company, just looking and seeing the words Talktalk fill me with dread and anxiety. I have asked them to ban me from their services so if I ever lose my marbles or forget what myself and partner have been through we don’t accidently try to sign up years down the line.

    So we had Talktalk at our old address, my girlfriend lived their first and it was in her name, initially I had no issues setting up here internet there. Easy as 1,2,3 guy came out, signed up for it online, no issues with internet, would of stayed with them for decades if what was to come never happened.

    So I move in with her after we get married, at this point she has had Talktalk for around 4 years, no issues, good internet, fast and reliable. Please do not get me wrong I am a very patient man and incompetence is rampant in 2023 so I expect some teething issues, but what I experienced left me literally insane.

    So I try to switch to new address online, nope sorry online system cant do that (no reason why just can’t) so I try live chat, nope can’t do that. I hate doing things on the phone because it always devolves into a he said/she said type of argument down the line. Anyway I ask the lady to switch to my new address. She repeats what I say and what I want word for word, seems very competent sets me up a new account in my name for our new address and closes the account for my wife.
    Only issue with the call I would say is it took ages because they have to transfer me to 100 different departments no matter who you call will have to transfer you multiple times.
    No problem right? Well I check the email shortly after of the confirmation and I see a completely different address than the one I gave her, somewhere near to my address but I have never been there or even seen its name, so I cant of given it wrong.
    Luckily during our chat I remember that we got disconnected at one point and she rang me back, so I ring this number and get straight to same lady. She says she must of clicked the wrong address on the system and that she will ring me back tomorrow, no issue.
    Guess what, no call and then I get on the text, live chat, phone calls to get it sorted. I get assured that my address is changed and that I will get an email. I constantly get transferred I have issues verifying myself because obviously I have the wrong address on the system. Everytime I either get hung up on, disconnected or pass through dozens of departments because apparently no one there has the authority to do anything.
    So No email comes after being basically told I’m pestering them and that I should 100% be sure that its sorted. Guess what, no email comes, no confirmation. Still cant log on to my account (like all the emails say I can) because the address is incorrect and I don’t have all the details of the incorrect address.
    Eventually my GO-LIVE date comes, no text, no email, no modem. I get in contact with them again, hours of swapping departments, issues etc.
    Oh sorry btw we have delayed your modem because we are busy. At this point I ask to cancel, so I get told to ring up, so I ring up (all my calls are recorded automatically too so I have proof of all of these events) and tells me that I am cancelled now and that my services are over.
    At one point I got told by the live chat person to ring the cancellation line and apologising for their incompetence, she told me they are closed at 8. So I ring up as she has given me the number at 7, guess what? Sorry we are closed. This is the kind of incompetence I am talking about.
    So knowing full well that all these people just tell me sweet little lies I message/text and live chat to see if it is a couple of days later, no SIR your services are still active. So after going insane I managed to contact them a dozen more times until I get written confirmation in the live chat that its cancelled.
    I literally had to get some extra medication from my mental health dealing with this, as I must have spent a full working week dealing with this incompetence.
    So after it is cancelled I get a text about a week later from an engineer asking if he can pop over to install the TalkTalk, I text him no I cancelled it weeks ago, no response from him after that. Then a modem pops up. (I’m currently on live chat as I type this just trying to get them to send me a returns bag to return it and being switched through 100 departments to be told to ring up) I’m sure I’ll still get charged for it to because they can’t do anything right.

    So finally I think the nightmare is over, I turn up at my old address to pick up some mail and there is a Talktalk box there with my wife’s name on it? So they sent her a TalkTalk modem after she cancelled her services. Good thing I found it otherwise I’m sure they would send debt collectors after us and charge us £50 and damage our credit because cancelling a service to TalkTalk means send us a new modem too.

    Honestly I think I could work for TalkTalk now and know all their staff by name, I must of put in 40 hours in the couple of weeks before I started this service, I’ll surely probably be receiving modems for the rest of my life so I can start my own broadband company, I only have 3 to return right now.
    So no I will never be signing up with them again or recommending them, they offered me £40 off my bill and £100 in amazon vouchers to let them sort it out, I laughed, like ill ever get them and the issue will just sort itself out, no chance. I would not sign up to them again if they PAID me monthly to have it.

    If you have severe health problems like myself and get ill from stress, DO NOT GO WITH TALKTALK, I would of stayed with them for decades if it wasn’t for sales messing it up starting the ball of issues spinning.
    P.s Forgot to say at one point a lady on the live chat said she would get the complaints department to call me to sort out the issue, I got an email saying they would be in contact, that was over a week ago lol. Won’t hold my breath.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Leicester
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    TalkTalk is a complete disaster of an internet service provider. Their customer service is a nightmare, their internet speed is abysmal, and their relentless pursuit of your money is infuriating. Save yourself the headache and choose literally any other provider. TalkTalk will only bring you frustration and disappointment.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Scunthorpe
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Worse service ever. Please please don’t waste ur time or money going to talk talk. Been with them about 4 months and half of that I haven’t had a connection. Been self employed I have lost so much money. Please avoid at all cost. I will be sharing this to all my social media’s and reporting to ofcom also. Shocking service. Shocking company all round.
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Worcester. 33. Wr40nu
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Never in my life have I been do un happy with a service. Not worked in 5 months and still charging me for it. Try to cancel hundreds of times get put through to technical department then phone gets put on hold for over 30 minutes. Talk talk are thieves take money for a service there unable to provide... shocking do not use this service...
  • Reviewer
    Location
    Lancashire
    Reviewing
    TalkTalk
    Date
    Ratings
    • Satisfaction
      1 star
    • Customer Service
      1 star
    • Speed
      1 star
    • Reliability
      1 star
    Comments
    Bullies every time a contract comes up for renewal service drops, Don’t contact their customer service they will swear black is white you renewed even though you know you didn’t . They do this at every renewal . This companies practices need looking into.

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