Scammers! Unethical and obtrusive business practice.

Stay away from this company!

What an awful experience we had with them when they came to our school today.

Firstly they falsely introduced themselves as being from Telkom, not Advanced Telcoms.

Secondly one of the two salesmen or technicians (not sure what they were), refused to wear the compulsory mask everyone who enters a school's promise MUST wear during the Covid-19 pandemic. He put it on once or twice, but then took it off again immediately. He also refused to keep a proper distance from anyone around him and kept walking up close to everyone he spoke to.

Both of these guys refused to stay behind the plastic screen we installed to protect our staff and kept on walking into the office with our financial secretary, even going behind her counter a few times. She closed the door to the office on them, but the one guy just opened it again and walked right back in. She then explicitly told him not to come inside, but he still did.

Thirdly they just demanded that we present them with our school's audited financial statements and Telkom account statements, neither of which we are allowed to hand over without consent from the School Governing Body.

Furthermore, they said they are going to transfer our telephone lines from Telkom today still. This while we had no chance to even look at their quote or discuss it with the SGB first as we are supposed to do when making financial decisions.

I asked them who instructed them to come to our school and the one guy said a letter was sent from the Department of Education to all schools, which is a lie.

So, basically, they endangered our lives by explicitly refusing to adhere to the Covid-19 protection measures we have in place and they tried to scam us into signing a contract and handing over private documents without allowing us to time to follow protocol.

In retrospect, I should have called the police. If they come to your premises, for your own safety during these unsafe times, do not let them in.