Kiss my ass TKS

TKS sucks. They are the German reseller company for cable, phone and internet services to the troops here in Germany. When you first arrive here in Germany, your sponsor will likely take you by the TKS offices as part of your orientation.

When all was said and done in our case, we were carrying a TV cable bill of 40 euro a month, a phone bill of 40 euro base plus long distance (which usually ran another 50), and 99 euro for the internet. This internet got us a 3 MB down/512 K up connection (on a good day). That's a fuckload of cash to be connected to the outside world... But we paid it- as we didn't have much of a choice. We didn't think we did.

Then TKS took away the one good bargain they had- it was a price deal that all the calls back to the states were .05 per minute. They just decided that they could make more by cramming the American service members up the pooper. After me spending several hours on a "Fuck that, and Fuck them" tirade, we got Vonage. We still had to pay for the German phone, but it was a little cheaper, and I didn't use it for any long distance.

Then K2 started doing some digging around. Our buddies offbase were getting 16 MB DSL from T-Com, (The parent of TKS) for 60 Euro a month- and it included the phone- a phone with all calls in Germany to land lines for free. As I looked back and saw TKS still ramming it's money grubbing dick in my ass, I got a little pissed off.

The best part was? We could get this fast fast service directly from T-com, here on base. No one had told us that before. We called TKS- they offer DSL too- half the speed- for about the same price as we were paying them for our cable modem service. It took them a week to tell us that as they had to "test the line". Deutche Telekom tested the line based on our phone number- immediately- no waiting... And we about shit our drawers- 16MB?! I think I got wood.

Woo Hoo!! So we jumped through the hoops to open a German bank account for billing, and set up DSL/phone. When I went down yesterday to turn off everything, I almost had to spring over the counter and beat the fuck out of the woman on the other side. Not only did she force me to pay through the end of the month that I don't want to use- as Germans do not believe in pro-rated anything ever- but she said my last payment wasn't there. I digress.

IF you live on base in the KMC, and are getting ass raped by TKS, you have options. The shtick is, they buy what you can get directly from T-Com for yourself, triple or more the price, cut the service in half, slap an english bill on it and resell it to you... no vaseline included...

So for the last 4 years of fucking us for a shit ton more money then we could have gotten from Deutche Telekom- I hope you fucksticks drop dead of scurvy, or leprosy, or sepsis. I know everyone needs to get theirs and all- but taking that much advantage of the military members is bullshit! FUCK OFF AND DIE, MUTHA FUCKERS!