Broadband working (kinda) but phone line is dead

First of all, BT is the worst company I've ever delt with in my entire life. They are sloppy, inept and not sympathetic in the slightest.
This entire problem started with me unable to get phone/net for near 3 months due to a mistake I made on my order. From there, BT messed up the entire thing and I spent WEEKS getting this sorted, only to be palmed off with a 'Goodwill Geasture' of £10 (which as of yet, still hasn't appeared on my bills). I had to get onto Citizens Advice and go through their Consumour Helpline to get the entire mess sorted out, because ringing BT was like trying to knock down a wall with a rubber mallet. The amount of times I had to explain my situation made me so angry and I suffered from several panic attacks out of pure anger at being dicked about. I found out my entire phoneline had been, leaving me with no phoneline for 7 days, from the service station and I was told personally by an Openreach Enginneer that the box is the worst kept box in the whole of Penzance. WHY HASN'T BT ADDRESSED THIS PROBLEM WITH THE BOX AND FIXED IT COMPLETELY?
Since the 16th April, I've been using the Broadband every day and it works fine! YAY! All that hassle was worth it.
Oh no, it **bleep** wasn't.
As of the evening of 4/5/2014 my broadband began to flash orange and cut out intermittantly. I contacted Tech Support who did line tests, I plugged in a spare home hub and suffered with the orange flashy light of doom until about midday 5/5/2014. I was promised by Tech Support I would be rung between 12.45 and 14.45 with an update. BS! No phonecall, because they never do ring you back and its complete BS that we're paying all this money and getting a **bleep** service.
As of tonight 6/5/2014 internet is working, but sporadic and quite slow, funny as it was working FINE from 1pm to 5.30pm.
I REFUSE TO PAY £130 FOR BT TO TELL ME THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY LINE. I am a Carer and I can't afford to be spending that much money for BT to tell me 'the line is working fine' when evidently it **bleep** isn't.
I have tried the test socket, I've tried line tests, BT tech support has tried line tests and I am beyond P-ed off that BT is willing to take your money but not sort anything out. This should not be happening 20 days after being connected!
Tomorrow, I will be contacting the Consumer Line again and get their help. In the meantime, is there any advice I can get about this issue? I've read other people who have had the same problem, so repeat of information is no good.

Hi TigerMoran,
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Using Broadband Talk as main phone line

Hi there, just looking for a bit of advice/guidance.
I've got a Home Hub 2.0 and the Hub Phone 2.1, so I'm pretty impressed with the set up, despite only using the phone on occasion.
All the phones in our house (about 5) are knackered and need replacing. I've been considering making a switch towards the BBT, by getting another 4 Hub Phone 2.1s (not paying BT prices mind...) and subscribing to the Anytime BBT calling plan. Currently we have the equivalent landline calling plan, so that could be cancelled.
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I have the original home hub, and have four hub phones dotted around the house.
Broadband talk does allow you to make a number of simultaneous calls using the same number, and also answer incoming calls on your normal phone line as well.
You can only make one outgoing call on your normal phone line, by dialling "5" from one of the phones.
As we make most of our calls in the evening or weekend, they are free, so we have no need for any extra calling plans.
Overall it works quite well. We do have a normal phone if there is a power cut, but we also have mobile phones anyway.
Remember also, you have a phone socket on the home hub which is connected to BBT.
I suspect that the new hub phones are probably better than the original ones, which can be a bit quiet.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Broadband drops out & noisy phone lines.

Hi,
Not sure whether this needs to be posted here or in the phone section as both areas are effected.
My property is pretty old and the internal phone sockets/wiring is also quite dated. I've always had issues with my phone lines being very noisy to the point where i have simply done away with having a house phone (not ideal).
I use my internet for many hours every day - its an essential part of my life and income. I had a new internal socket fitted about 2 or 3 years back exclusively for my internet use to help improve the connection which had been fine until recently.
I had new windows fitted which required the socket to be moved & ever since then my connection has been unreliable and drops out.
Ive reported the fault on the line earlier today and am waiting to hear back off BT but thought i'd post here in the mean time.
I use a Belkin router and have spoken to them but they were unable to help. After running a few tests they said it was most likel a phone line fault. I have also tried a different router and experienced exactly the same issues.
How do i go about identifying the fault & getting it fixed? With it likely being an internal fault, is it likely to cost me money? What are the terms & conditions with this type of problem?
Also, how would i go about getting new sockets installed in my house so i could get a working house phone? How much is this likely to cost?
Thanks for any advice.

was the new socket you had fitted like this if so any extension sockets in your home should be connected to the back of the bottom half of the socket NTE5. It may be that moving the socket has moved some of the wires and they are loose.
BT are responsible for the wiring up to the first socket in your where the cable comes in from outside. if the problem is found to be your internal wiring after the master socket then you will be charged at least £130
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Do VOIP systems work with regular phone lines?

Hey there, I'm an old phone tech and I'm looking to expand from regular telephone systems into the VOIP market.
What I need to know is whether a VOIP system can be hooked to regular dial-tone?
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I need to be able to connect anywhere between 1-20 phone numbers and 1-60 telephone sets.
Can anyone help me out or point me towards a model that will do this?

Always good to see an old PBX tech embracing the new and wanting to understand this sort of technology.
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Best way to connect PBX's and VOIP systems is using E&M ports as they give end to end answer and disconnect supervision, but these are not all that common on smaller PBX's and key system.
You can trunk via FXS and FXO ports, but these may cause issues with disconnect supervision, especially if the PBX does not support battery reversal or disconnect tones.
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Bandwidth per call - codecs used between sites
DTMF relay - passing digits over the IP cloud
Interface types (E&M type 1,2,3,4,5) , FXO, FXS, Loop start , Ground start
Disconnect supervision - battery reversal, tone based, power denial
Hookflash control of features
There is a lot of good material in the Cisco Press book on VOIP. Check out Amazon or one of the on line booksellers.
If you give us some more details about what you are proposing we could give some more pointers.
You may want to consider becoming experienced with CallManager Express as this is an ideal way to get started with VOIP, IP telephony and IP based voice mail systems. This book covers it very well -
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Phone line not working but Infinity is Fine

We had a huge thunderstorm last Monday, which caused a power cut.
Since then, our phone line is dead (it just makes a clicking noise), although if you ring our number, it appears to be ringing (which it isn't).
However, BT Infinity is working even faster.
I did the on-line check of our service and it says there is no fault, and so if I call out a BT engineer, it could cost me £130!!
I'm sure it isn't working, as I've tried an old cordless phone (which I haven't used for years) and I still get the clicking.
I've read that one of the wires may be dead, but I don't know what course of action to take.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
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RichRolls wrote:
I have checked our telephones in the test socket, and they work fine, but not through the normal socket!!
Then there is a fault in that socket, which Openreach will charge to replace. They go faulty quite often, but you can replace them yourself.
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Phone line and broadband dead, tearing my hair out...

Can a mod help here please. My phone line went dead yesterday, just as my neighbour had a fault fixed. This is not the first time this has happened. Spoke to 3 different people in India on 3 separate occasions last night, but unable to get any sense out of them. One promised to call back but never did. Another insisted on changing my BT Internet password for some reason. Completely and utterly useless. I eventually spoke to someone who described himself as a senior supervisor who promised to look into the matter of speeding up an engineers visit (been told Tuesday which is just redicuous) and said he would call immediately after he arrived for work at 11.00 am UK time. Still waiting!

'An update to my previous message. Just as I pressed post, the promised call came through. They are trying to contact the local exchange, so at least something seems to be happening.'
Mate, I used to work in the Call Centre for BT (Repair) then out in the field as an Engineer for some time.
What they told you is basically **bleep**, they're fobbing you off. For a start the majority of Exchanges aren't manned. Engineers just come/go when they need to run a frames jumper or change/alter the switching.
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Crackly phone line and broadband disconnecting

For a month or two i have been having problems with our phone line and broadband connection. The phone line is extremely noisy (interferance) and when you make a call or recieve a call the broadband disconnects. I have tried different filters, routers and wires but no good. I have conducted a quiet line test and the result was i could hear nothing on the line. When i unplug the hub and just have the phone connected to the socket the noise on the phone has gone and their is no problem, connecting the hub make the noise come back. As a result of all this my broadband speeds are very low.
Here is my hub stats and a bt whole sale speed test.
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 00:36:05
Downstream:
6.75 Mbps
Upstream:
448 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
19.7 dB / 22.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
7.0 dB / 3.0 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
13.9 dBm / 12.2 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
7077 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up):
12 / 0
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
HEC Events (Down/Up):
19 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
131 / 114
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Download Speed
0.81 Mbps
0 Mbps
2 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
Download speedachieved during the test was - 0.81 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 0.4 Mbps-2 Mbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :6.91 Mbps(DOWN-STREAM), 0.45 Mbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 1.25 Mbps
My dsl connection rate can get as high as 7.9 Mbps
Any advice would be helpful thank you
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your drops in connection have at one point reconnected with a far lower speed than normal resulting in the low ip profile. if you stay conencted 24/7 for 3/5 days the profile will correct itself for your current connection speed
I would as john46 suggested connected to test socket with a new filter and see if that helps
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BT Phone Line Order – 9 months of total failure – ...

I've been trying to get a phone line and internet connection from BT installed into a London flat since the 07th of January 2012.
This email/letter does not contain every contact with BT in the last 9 months – as I have not kept records of all the dozens and dozens and dozens of calls, texts, and emails but it is a good enough list to show the general theme of total failure from BT in all aspects of both technical and customer service.
(I have re-written this and removed my 5 or so BT account numbers, the various fault numbers, the dozens of VOL numbers and removed any surnames of people in it in the hope that this will get posted.)
07 Jan 2012
Place first order for phone and internet. BT.com reference: <removed for forum post>.
You can only do Mon to Fri installs. My next day available day off work is 19 Mar 2012 so the line engineer’s appointment is made. 8am to 1pm. I am self-employed and it is not easy to take time off work. In fact it costs me money every time I have to take time off work.
19 Mar 2012
The phone line engineer is late. Arrives after 1pm. He looks at job and says he can't do anything. It needs a new line installed even though there is already a line installed? New line involves a cherry picker and another visit by the line engineer. More time off work. New phone is line installed into flat.
27th Mar 2012
I am informed that the new phone line does not work. Order is cancelled? I get no details on what the problem is and why I can't get a line or what to do next. I have no phone at home so I’ve not tried to use the line; yet BT has already cancelled my Order.
I called ‘BT help; somebody tells me the line is connected to the wrong exchange. I spend lots of time and many calls talking to people in India and I think other parts of the UK. People tell me they are going to call me back and don't. I tried to speak to supervisors in India but nobody returns calls. I’m getting nowhere for weeks and weeks. I give up; it all seems too hard…
7th June, 2012:
Over the internet I place a new order with BT for phone line and internet:
Your order number is: <removed for forum post>. Phone number: <removed for forum post>
6th July:
BT infinity engineer appointment. 8am to 1pm. He is late. After 1pm. He arrives, looks at job and says he can't do anything. He says the phone line does not work.
I inform him the order I placed with BT is for a phone line and internet. He says there is nothing he can do as he does not ‘do’ phone lines. Another day off work. Lost wages, lost time.
No phone & no internet.
Fault is raised:
Date closed: 6 July 2012
Fault/VOL number: VOL012-<removed for forum post>
Open Product affected: Phone fault
Telephone number: <removed for forum post>
Lots of calls to BT. But getting nowhere at all. They tell me there is no fault on the line but will send an engineer that I might have to pay for.
8th July:
Phone line engineer arrives 8am to 1pm. He is on time. He informs me all the existing work is incorrect. They have connected all the equipment to the wrong exchange. It should be the Putney exchange but they have attempted to hook me into the Wandsworth exchange - which won't ever work. Still no phone & no internet. He raises a fault number: LS6 W80 <removed for forum post>
10th July:
9am call from Open Reach engineer. This is not a scheduled appointment. I've had no contact from BT. I am at work. He does not know the problem or the fault number. I give him the fault number and call him back 90 min later. He confirms that I have been connected to the incorrect exchange and cabinet? He can't do anything to fix the problem.
I want somebody to call me with a solution.
I don't want to talk with more people in India who can't help me or even understand the problem. How can this be such a failure?
I use website to email in a letter with the entire listing of existing fault details/number, order numbers etc.
Thank you for your enquiry. We will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible. Please make a note of your enquiry reference number and use it in further correspondence.
Your enquiry reference number: 120710-<removed for forum post>"
One of the issues I am finding is that BT does not link previous faults with new ones, or previous Orders with new ones, or previous Customer Numbers with new ones. Every time I speak to somebody they cannot find any details of the history of these problems so far. BT keep on cancelling my Orders and placing new ones; raising new faults etc. But nothing is linked and when I speak to people for help they can’t see any of the history of the line, faults, address, etc.
19th July, 2012:
I get an email from BT. They have cancelled their own Order again.
Order cancelled. Your order number is: BTCAA6<removed for forum post>
Dear Mr HUNTER, We confirm your broadband order's now cancelled.
23rd July, 2012:
Email from BT as they re-raise a new Order:
Your order number is: VOL012-<removed for forum post>
Check out your account and more about your service
Phone line starts(SL-N)
Phone number: <removed for forum post>
24 Jul 2012 before midnight
Track your order - you'll need order number VOL012-<removed for forum post>.
24 July, 2012:
Email from BT as they re-raise a new Order:
Good news Your order number is: VOL012-<removed for forum post>
Dear Mr. HUNTER, Your phone service is ready for you.
BUT IT IS STILL NOT WORKING..
Sometime around this date BT Priority Help gets involved and lots more phone calls ensue.
27th July, 2012:
After I talk to priority help line and say please don’t waste our time anymore with line engineers that come around and say ‘we can’t do anything’.
BT Priority Help book another engineer visit & we need more time off work again.
The next line engineers visits and he says it is the same problem. He says he can’t do anything. He says it is connected to the wrong exchange. And leaves.
He says his manager will call me. Fault Number: LS6 WPE <removed for forum post>
28th July, 2012:
Call from somebody from BT asking about my street address.
They say the address might not be correct.
29th July, 2012:
Next day call from Franz’s, fault line engineer manager.
He says:
A new order is going in.
Equipment might not be installed in correct place. Correct place should be CAB7 PCB 7 Putney.
Some part of the equipment might still be pointing to Wandsworth.
A new order to the exchange is being place to do it all again.
The address BT has for this flat will not be the problem as it is a new line installed by BT.
I need to wait till Tuesday and see if it works.
A New Order is booked; again.
Monday 30th July, 2012:
I call the priority help line and COMPLAIN again that BT are getting nowhere.
I explain that whatever you have been doing since MARCH 2012 to get this line working HAS NOT WORKED. I repeated what one line engineer told me that it might need to be connected to another exchange. Not WANDSWORTH & NOT PUTNEY but one called PUTNEY/CHISWICK???
I explain to somebody from BT Priority Help Care the days and days and days I have lost trying to get a phone line and internet installed into this flat…
I get a call back 30 min later.
Lady on the phone tells me that all the previous 5 orders have been placed with Wandsworth phone numbers. She has created a new Order, Order number 6, and it is an Order with a PUTNEY EXCHANGE phone number because all the other orders have been for a mix of the wrong exchange and all have used WANDSWORTH EXCHANGE phone numbers – which would stop this working even if the line and equipment was connected to the correct PUTNEY exchange…
1st Aug, 2012:
Text message from BT saying they are having "systems issues trying to correct and update data in the background, and exchange problems".
Monday 6th Aug, 2012:
Voice mail from BT priority care team: Informed "Problems with Engineering and Exchange. They will call back on the 08th of Aug."
14th Aug 201:
Emails arriving saying that your new line is now working.
But it is not.
6pm - ish I am called from BT Sunderland priority help care. Lady does not know the details of the case. She tells me the line should now be working.
I explain there isn’t a dial tone.
She tells me there is an address problem. Probably.
I explain the 8 months of issues I have been having.
She tells me to not get upset. She doesn’t know anything about this case.
She tells me “It can actually take up to 12 months to get a phone connected in London”.
She tells me “that it can be very complex to get a phone connected”.
She tells me there is a long winded email attached to my case. I tell her that the ‘long winded’ email she is reading was written by me in an attempt to show all the problems in the last 8 months IN ONE PLACE – something BT seem incapable of doing.
She tells me I have to wait 10 days until the address team finish their address checking.
I explain to her that the line engineers have told me it is not an address problem.
She tells me there is nothing she can do.
28th Aug
BT priority Care called me. Told me that they are still waiting for results from the Address Team.
29th Aug
BT priority Care called me.
Told me that it is connected to the incorrect exchange now. Wandsworth… The same thing I was told last March.
I got ‘annoyed’ and tried, again, to explain the entire story to the lady on the phone.
She told me she cannot see any records of my orders back to January.
She told me that she didn’t understand what the problem is, and that the records they have shown the line was working in Aug...
I asked her to get her manager to call me.
No manager called me; instead I get a call back from the same lady later in the day. She is trying to help but we are still getting nowhere. BT Priority Care are just trying to do the same things again, that have failed multiple times in the past. They have no solution because they do not know what the problem is?
30th Aug 2012
BT priority Care called me; lady might have been called Sharon? Another lady anyway.
She tells me a new order is going to be placed to get the line connected back to Putney.
I ask to speak to her manager. She says she will call me back.
She calls me back and tells me that her manager Kelly W<removed for forum post> a BT Priority Care Manager Sunderland(maybe?) is going to call me before 6pm. This is the 3rd time I’ve asked to speak to a manager at BT Priority Care. Nobody calls me back.
All I get from BT since March are people trying the same failed thing, again and again.
Now they want to check with the address team. Again.
Now 6 months later after getting it connected to the Putney exchange, they want to put it back to the Wandsworth exchange, where it was originally – and never worked? I question this decision? I ask why this is going to fix the problem if it is the opposite advice to what every line engineer (5 of them) has ever said. I get told that nobody can answer that question.
Friday 31/08/2012
Another set of emails and text tell me I have a new line that is working.
But of course it does not. The phone line is dead. No dial tone.
Phone number is: <removed for forum post>
VOL012-<removed for forum post>
Monday 03/09/2012
All the BT priority care line numbers with the PIN numbers I was given have stopped working.
I can’t make a call to get through to the BT Priority Care Team anymore.
So I phone the normal BT help number…
An automated system tells my phone number is on exchange that is having a high level of faults for the last 2 hours and then it automatically disconnects my help call.
I phone back again and I have to NOT give my phone number for about 4 levels of automated systems to get to speak to a person. This time get through to a person. In India.
I ask for help trying to get put through to the Priority Help Care Centre in the UK. I am informed by somebody in India that all BT Priority Help Centres in the UK have been closed for good – since last Friday. I have to explain, again, the now nine months of trying to get a line connected – to the Indian help desk. I told to wait while she speaks to her supervisor.
I get put through to a different BT Priority Help Centre in the UK. Not Sunderland.
I speak to a man. He says he will email the Sunderland Help Centre and Kelly W<removed for forum post> and get somebody to phone me.
I ask him for advice on what I should do to try to get a phone line connected – after 9 months of trying. He says he will try and escalate it but he does not want to step on other peoples toes?
I ask him to CC in the CEO of BT to the email he is going to send to Kelly W<removed for forum post>. He thinks I am joking….
It is Wednesday night of the 04th of September 2012
Still no call back from Kelly or anybody from the Help care team. This is the 4th time I’ve requested a call back.
And now my PIN numbers for the priority call number have been disabled so I can’t call them.
Of course; why would you expect anything less?
LETTERS OF LATE PAYMENT:
In the last 6 months I’ve got multiple letters from BT telling me I am late in paying for my line service. I get ‘account overdue’ letters even though I prepaid the 12 months line service in advance for a line that has never worked.
SADLY:
There are phone lines in the flats below me, either side of me, and all down this entire street.
There are phone lines all over London. There are phone lines all over the UK.
But sadly not one that works in my flat. I’ve been without a phone or an internet connection since I moved in. 9 months ago.
MARS:
The Americans have flown a Mars Rover, which weighs a ton, from the Earth to Mars, landed it, and driven it around a bit – all on another planet - in the same time BT has failed to install a working phone line into a flat in central London? I wish it was this funny..
GIVEN UP:
So now I give up. My endless frustration at BT’s total lack of anything even close to coordinated fault tracking or anything like co-ordinated customer care service isn’t worth the time or stress any longer. 9 months of stress, lost wages while I’ve waited at home for engineers, and countless hours and hours of my time wasted on hold or speaking to people that can’t help.
YOU SUCK:
BT you are the total pits.
I don’t think you could suck more.
Some of my account numbers have been GB 1084 <removed for forum post>, GB 1099 <removed for forum post>, GB 1038 <removed for forum post>, GB 1105 <removed for forum post>
Dozens of other reference numbers: <removed for forum post>

Further onwards (actually downwards or backwards):
I did respond (last week) to the request to contact the forum moderators directly and was told that that they could not help because this is now being referred to Ombudsman.
Thanks for the offer of help anyway.
Two days ago I did receive another letter from BT. Dated after I was told that I would never get another letter from BT asking for payment for something that was never done. "You will never get another bill". I get another bill.
So more, painful, calls to BT in India. Have to explain the entire 9 month situation again. More wasted timed.
Asked to wait while supervisor is contacted.
Told she can't help but I should call this number: 0800 169 4109.
Which I did. But of course that number requires a number and a pin. And they don't give you a pin number. So they have effectively just cut me off.
So I have to start the entire 'call for help about this bill' processes again.
(Don't forget I've been talking to BT now since January 2012. 9 months, coming up to 10 months and I still can't get a working phone line and I still can't stop getting bills for something that has never worked).
Additioanlly on top of getting sent another late payment letter I’ve see no letter regarding the ‘Deadlock’ process between BT and I – as ‘promised’ by BT. I was told, verbally, the letter would go out last Monday. It is still not here. I want to know if the process has began. So I try to get help with that on BT Help Chat.
My goal in the chat below was to:
1. Get help with the Ombudsman process. I wanted to know why I had not received a letter from BT as I was told I was going to on the date I was expecting.
2. Get a phone number to speak to somebody about the Ombudsman process that BT had started.
3. Find out why I am still getting late payment changes for a line that has never worked - in the 9 months since the initial line order was created.
I was not given a number to call for help. Claire, the Help Chat lady, would not give me the number.
I was told I was going to be 'called back,' which I was not happy with as I know from 9 months of past experiences with BT that I will not be called back.
Sadly I was getting very frustrated by the end of the ‘Help Chat’. 9.5 months of tryign to get a phone line working in Central London has left me a little stressed...
Please note that today is the day after the chat transcript below. While Claire was trying to be helpful:
I was not called back. I received no help regarding getting details on what stage the Ombudsman process is at and what I have to do next.
9.5 months now. No phone line. No solution. Lots and lost of endless frustration.
Days and days and days of stress and my own time and hence money wasted.

Phone line needs "waking up"

Followingmonths of trouble three years ago our problem was solved by an expert here and the Care Team sohoping someone can help here.
Our phone line went dead yesterday. Panic. But the broadband was fine. So we went through the usual in house test regime and all seemed ok. I called my daughter on the mobile to tell her and asked her to try and call in. Yep, it worked. My husband then picked up the phone and hey presto - dialling tone. This has happened several times during the day. Line goes dead - I call in on the mobile- answer my own phone - out line is restored. It's as if the phone line dozes off and needs waking up. Haven't called the fault in yet as it's Sunday and I thought maybe there's a very simple solution out there. And it does sound totally bonkers.
Hoping for a magic solution or failing that advice.

Hr (high resistance) fault on the line or a slight break in one of the wires. Dialing in causes voltage to be applied down the line to ring your phones. This can temporarily fix a hr fault.
Could be something else mind you like faulty exchange equipment.
Get an engineer out to check.

BT broad band and Phone line

Over the last few weeks I have had massive problems with noise issues on the phone at the same time my broadband keeps timing out.
I phoned BT who asked me to speak up over the phone because of the noise, they then checked the line and told me nothing wrong it must be your phone. So I bought a brand new phone and then tried again same again you have a hissing noise and I can hear faint noise of people speaking, then a loud click and the phone line goes dead.
At the same time as this my broadband keep taking ages to connect to anything it just goes on and on and on before telling me it's timed out, this is a long going issue, a few weeks ago it was suggested I try a cheaper method of broadband because it may be better, I agreed so long as it worked better, I lost all contact and could not get on to any site.
I contacted BT who told me today a line check it always came back OK.
Then I was told to take the front of the box off at the phone connection to look if the wires were connected I refused so they said you must have a bad phone so I bought another one, second one, still same problem.
I phoned BT 150 to get through to India who complained they could not hear me through the noise twice then I get cut off. After I phoned again they came up with another great idea I buy another phone.
I now started to lose my temper and asked to be put through so I could close my account while speaking to this nice lady who tried to help my phones line goes dead, phone up again get through to somebody else who says he will look into this, bang the line goes dead. I get a phone call saying they have looked at the line nothing wrong with it and he says he cannot hear any issues with the line. At the same time my Broad band starts to work.
So I get told they will phone me back to see if my line is fixed after three weeks of a nightmare with my phone and my broad band I'm tired to say the least, worse I do not like being made to look like a fool.
If there is issues with the line I expect people to say OK we will look at it fix it, not you may have to pay £99 to have an engineer look at it.
Being disabled my phone is my life line so is my broadband.

hi checking the phone in the test socket will eliminate any internal wiring problems and if the noise is still there then you would not be charged for the call out also closing your account would not solve the noise problem as it will follow you to any other provider
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No phone line for nearly a month with no human con...

Our home phone line went dead on 23rd December and whilst I will accept that we've had Christmas and some bad weather (although not particularly bad in this area) we still don't have a phone line. We have spent many hours talking to call centres whose only response has been "Someone will call you back" and no on human ever does.
We have been led to believe that this is a fault which is affecting many people yet none of our neighbours has any problems whatsoever so we feel like we've been 'spun a line' to get rid of us.
I am sure BT will hide behind Outreach saying that they are the company who repair faults but all we want is an explanation rather than a text every few days saying we need more time. WHY do you you need more time is what we want to know.
For a Company whose main business is communication it defies belief.

Hi peterrowlands,
Welcome and thanks for posting. I'm sorry you're having problems with the line. I can look into this for you if you wish. Drop me an email with the details. You'll find the "contact us" form in the about me section of my profile. Once I have the details we'll take it from there.
Cheers
David
BTCare Community Mod
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All data and messaging works on my note 4, but last night the cellular phone service just went dead. I can call people but the line is just silent, and people can call me, it rings, but I can't hear them. ?????

all data and messaging works on my note 4, but last night the cellular phone service just went dead. I can call people but the line is just silent, and people can call me, it rings, but I can't hear them. ????? What is wrong with it???? How do I fix it????

You aren't attached to a bluetooth headset or other device for some strange reason? Or even an automobile bluetooth, I have a friend that has this issue with his Prius because even when it is not running the bluetooth is still active and connects to his phone.

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