17 Jun 2012 10:33 PM:
I am a client of Teleast Digital and have my Telly and Internet with them, and over the past couple of weeks I have noticed my channels were doing odd things. I have also heard some verof weeks I have noticed my channels were doing odd things. I have also heard some very interesting things about the company. This made me very curious, so I decided to do some research (I have nothing else to do, so this was quite entertaining).
The first thing that caught my attention was that some channels were working, and some weren't. But the bizarre thing that caught my attention the most was that before the paid channels had a $ symbol next to them, but they now didn't. I know that if the encoding on the card was not activated, those channels would not work. So I took the card out to see if they would still work; they did. That's when I really noticed something peculiar. Firstly, that the card I took out, was not from Teleast, but from Torresatelit TV, S.A, I know this company and I felt like I was being tricked.
I phoned my friend, who is also a client of Teleast, and I asked him if he knew what was going on with the Telly, and he told me to first cancel my direct debit from the bank, and since it was not being encoded, I could watch the telly for free! Secondly, he told me to cancel any payments to Teleast, so I did. Thirdly, he told me to just ignore their phone calls for the moment.
I did what he told me, and to my surprise, it actually worked! I can watch telly for free and I got 42€ when I cancelled the last two payments!
I have carried on hearing talk about the company, and I don't think they are fully legal, I could be wrong, but something smells fishy with them. They are putting up billboards, putting leaflets on cars advertising their low priced TV, well now I know that is just not true.
If you are a client of Teleast, like I was, then try what I did and let me know how it goes!
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