As one who had dealings with this company when we first arrived, let me just confirm what has been said above.
We applied for a phone line through telefonicainenglish back in Nov. 2006 and we were informed that the line would be installed within 20 days. The company extracted 115 euros from our bank account as soon as I hung up the phone.
We sat back and waited; 20 days came and went then thirtydays; we contacted them again and they came out with some weak excuse but promised to chase up our order. They then phoned us back and said our oorder was definitely confirmed and that the line would be installed within twenty days…
Again we sat back and waited…again 20 days came and went, no phone, no contact.
Again we chased them up, again a weak excuse, but no phone, again they promised to chase up the order, again they phoned back to say the line would be installed within 20 days…
We waited…no phone, no contact.
We got in touch again and canceled the order, demanding a refund of the ‘Administration Fee’ under threat of legal action.
At the same time we contacted Telefonica directly and they informed us that they had not received any order for a phone line via telefonicainenglish for our address.
We then ordered the line through Telefonica; they promised the line would be installed within 20 days, (where had I heard that line before…), but we sat back and waited.
Two days after placing the call we had a call from a Telefonica engineer asking us to confirm our address since he was en-route to our house to instal the line.
He arrived about 30 minutes later, installed the line, checked out the connections, installed the router, and set up the ADSL facility. He advised us that the ADSL facility would not become active until the following day.
At 8am the following day the ADSL became active and touch wood, we have had very few problems since.
It took another two phone calls to telefonicainenglish before our prepaid fee was refunded.
Ours is a fairly typical story; there are stories all over the forums about telefonicainenglish all very similar to ours.
Anyone thinking of getting a phone installed would be well advised to avoid them like the plague and only use Telefonica. They have English speaking sales staff so there really is no reason not to!
BealerDSB; if you use telefonicaonline.es/adsl you will be taken to a page where you can input the phone number and see whats available