Bt quiet line test facility -no longer working

Has any one else had problems when trying to perform a quite line test ? 
what happens in when i dial the 17070  is i still hear the recorded announcement message and the available options, i press the number 2 for quiet test and nothing happens  
 even if i un hide my CLI still nothing no selection of any options is available has this valuable service been withdrawn to the public now or is there some kind of fault with bt systems that is the cause ?

maybe wait until you get some more replies - I would be surprised if the quiet line test is exchange specific
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    Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux-ck root=UUID=06874255-7a5d-4968-8f09-1e53cb761f44 ro quiet init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
    Build Date: 17 April 2013 02:37:06PM
    Current version of pixman: 0.30.0
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
    Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
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    Initializing built-in extension SYNC
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    Remote=no
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    Type=tty
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    Last edited by dodo3773 (2013-05-19 06:34:44)

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