New build property, horrible BT phone line install...

Hi all.
I am writing here because I have been thrown around by BT and the phone line installation team over the past one month, and I have just run out of patience.
The entire experience started in late May, when I phoned BT and told them that I was moving house in 2 weeks and that I would need a new phone line installed at the new property, which is a new build. The BT sales team was more than happy to take my order, and since there was a charge of £130 for installation of phone line by itself, I decided to bundle both broadband and telephone line from BT directly to avoid that cost. I was a given an appointment on the 10th of June for my phone and broadband installation.
The 10th of June came and I took the day off work thinking all would be sorted by the end of the day. By the late afternoon no one ahd contacted me and there was no one who had come to the door. I called BT and had them check on my order and they said that "for some reason, the order says its still 'pending' and has not gone through..." After chatting with different people from different teams like sales, orders and them confrerring with engineers and seniors, I was finally told that the order could not be processed because I was in a new build and hence the system could not process a broadband order before there was an active phone line in the property, hence the failure of the order to go through. Next, I was given a date for the phone line order by itself to be done, and although I was frustrated here, I conceded and moved on hoping to get the issue sorted as quickly as possible. The new date was June 22nd for the phone line and then the broadband order to be placed thereafter. At this point I was not sent any emails or letter regarding my order with ym order number or any references, so I should have been sceptical, but I let it slide thinking it would be settled soon.
June 22nd came and I took leave off work again for the 8am - 1pm BT engineer visit. Once again, no one showed up or contacted me. I called BT again desperately hoping that this could not be happening again. When i asked the lady about my order scheduled for that day, she said that the order did not go through once again. It was still 'pending'! I was just shocked. I wanted to explode because twice BT had given me apppointment timings that could not be fulfilled and twice they left me in the lurch when they knew beforehand that the engineers would not show up, leaving me to take time from work which I cannot get back, much less the fact that I still do not even have a phone line. After much chatting with different people on the line I finally got them to book another order this time for July 9th for the phone line.
This time i called back on July 2nd and July 6th to make sure that my order was on track and I was assured that after checking with the 'openreach engineers on their side' that my order was on track and the engineer would show up definitely on 9th of July.
Then the 9th came and I took the morning off from work to wait for the engineer.Yet again, BT managed to show me how poorly they treat customers. No engineer showed up again, and as was becoming a habit now, I had to phone BT to enquire about my order and discover that the engineer was not going to show up today as well. When pressed much more the person on the other end finally relented that the cables from the exchange to my new build property need to be set up and are in the process of being done. I would then get a call when BT/Openreach finally finish this. I felt let down, especially when I asked how long that would be since I have already been waiting for a more than month for BT to carry this out and also agreed to pay the £130 set up charge for the phone line since they wanted to process the phone line order alone first. Her response was nothing more than a "I cannot tell for sure.." and at this point I could tell that meant it could be a really long while more before getting a phone line / broadband, if ever BT is interested in setting it up.
Is there any way to actually check and see if BT are setting up a connection from the exchange to the property for the phone line and how long it would take before I can finally get a simple phone line here?
Sorry if this was a bit of rant but it is rather draining and also costly for me having to deal with BT and wait for them when they could simply communicate with me better to inform me of their engineers' decisions.
Abi
*EDIT* I have also spoken to the developer of the property and they have informed me that the flat is ready for a phone line to be installed, and that BT is only currently fitting phone lines to the building across the road and not my block, so that means someone at BT/Openreach is telling me the worng thing and the engineer is just refusing to come out now. I have additionally spoken to some of the other residents who moved in before me in the same block and they have had phone lines connected to their property by BT so I think this problem needs sorting out asap by BT please.
Thank you.

Hi
It seems that I am caught in the same endless maelstrom of bt/open reach inability to meet installation obligations.
We have a new build home on a small private development. No cable available regrettably so all 6 of our neighbours use bt phone and std broadband.
Ordered both services end April to be told that install appointment was 30 May - seemed a long time but accepted. Had whole series of emails and texts from bt reminding of appointment and arrival of modem, but late evening 29 May text arrived saying order delayed and put back to 13 June. Called following morning and got the run around took 40 mins to get any answer of sense that said ,Line work was required and open reach we're dealing withi it.
13 June came and went no one called or advised that appointment would not be met. Again many phone calls but same answer line issues. My developer tells me that the lines are installed per spec, in fact we have a black network cable present through a conduit next our front door but no terminal box to join up to white phone line wires to inside phone points. Offered bt a photo of this but they will not accept it. Just keep saying line issues holding up install. Either way unless this work is done the it will be impossible to connect even if other work had rally to be done - not interested!
This week promised that all would be done, 16th the 17th and then 18th -nothing again and hence more phone calls.
Issue handed to resolution team who calked today to say work schedule for 12 July! More than two months since order - just don't believe them and asked them to escalate - no hopes up!
In the meantime our phone no rings out and people wonder why we are not answering! Complete shambles.
In 2014 this should be easy meat to BT who seem tied up in a complaint type process that resolves nothing.
I have no real choice but BT and their performance is just hopeless. Advised ofcom but don't deal with individual complaints - this is consumer hell and very very frustrating.

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I moved house on 28/07 and after a huge amount of problems with Orange and after managing to cancel my account with them I ordered BT Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls on 07/08/12.
I get 3 emails confirming my order, thanking me for choosing paperless billing etc.
My initial engineer appointment was on 14/09/12 which is 5 weeks and a long time. To quote BT: “It usually takes 15 working days from when you order. It can take longer but this is very rare.” (http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8317/~/how-long-will-it-take-to-install-a-new-line%3F)
I get a text and an email on 12/07 to remind me of my appointment between 1pm and 6pm. So far so good.
The router gets delivered at 12.30am. This is promising.
The engineer comes at 13.30pm, installs the BT Open Reach box in my flat and then asks me if I can open the electronic gate next door as he needs access to my neighbour’s pathway to activate the distribution point. I tell him I cannot as it’s not my building. We try the trades button on the door system. It doesn’t work. We try pressing random house numbers on the door system (there’s no flat numbers on the building) to see if someone’s home. Nothing works. I phone my landlord who tells me this is a council building. No one is coming in and out of the building/gate. After about 30 minutes of trying and waiting I tell him just to use his ladder and climb over the gate (it’s about 6 foot) and activate the distribution point. I’ll take the blame if someone complains. It shouldn’t be a problem as I live next door, I’ve got a BT Open Reach engineer with me and we have a perfectly valid reason to do it. He tells me he can’t do that because of health and safety riles and trespassing laws. Fair enough.
The engineer leaves but before he does he tells me that when I’ve got access to the pathway BT would be able to send an engineer within 24 hours to activate the distribution point. He also tells me there is no need for me to be there the next time as all the work inside is completed and the only thing that needs to happen is for someone to activate the distribution point which is located on a wall on my neighbours building accessible from the pathway. He points it out to me and there is indeed a black box on the wall which can be reached using a ladder in the pathway.
I phone BT to see if anyone can find out how to get access to the pathway as I assume that if BT has installed a distribution point there they must have a way for them to get access to it. Especially as the engineer told me there are 3 lines in my building so this must have happened before. I was wrong. I have to argue with the customer service person with a very poor command of the English language for 30 minutes. He doesn’t know what “the council” is and doesn’t understand whatsoever why I –and I quote- “Can’t just ask the neighbour to let the engineer in when the next appointment has been made”. I try to explain to him there is an electronic metal gate with a call system and I am unable to call anyone as there are no flat numbers on the outside of the building and asked if he was suggesting that I wait all evening after work until someone comes out and that even then, surely I can’t ask my neighbour to stay home to let a BT engineer onto his pathway because I am trying to get a phone line installed. He then presented me with another option: “We can install a new line from the road but this is chargeable by £350”. After 30 minutes of this and asking to speak to a manager several times –which was refused- I had enough and hung up.
Determined to get the problem resolved I rang again and got someone else on the phone. She was quite sympathetic and advised me to phone the council and see if they can help. She confirmed that I didn’t need to be there for the next appointment if someone could give the engineer access to the distribution point as all the work apart from the distribution point activation was complete. By this time it was 4pm on a Friday and she promised to call back at 4pm on Monday.
I called the council right away but they said the caretakers had gone home as it was late on a Friday and advised me to ring back on Monday.
I get a text from BT: sorry we missed you appointment etc.
BT calls me on Monday morning 10.30am asking if I’ve sorted it. I tell the person I was expecting a call from them at 4pm and therefore I hadn’t rang the council yet. He promises to ring me back on Wednesday at 10.30am.
I call the council later that day; they’re not very helpful and advise me to call them again on Tuesday.
On Tuesday they log the call and lo and behold. Wednesday at 8.30am, the caretaker calls me, gives me his mobile number, tells me the trades button on the call system will work before 9.30am and they can give them access remotely. If they’re coming after 9.30am, the engineer needs to ring him an hour in advance and he’ll come to open the gate. We’re getting somewhere.
I don’t get a call on Wednesday 10.30am.
I call them myself that afternoon and explain the above. The guy says he’s written it all down, everything will get sorted and I’ll get a text with the new time and date.
Someone with a very poor command of the English language phones me on Thursday. I asked why she is ringing me. She says it’s to makes an engineer appointment. I tell her she doesn’t need to ring me as I don’t need to be in the property and they should all the information needed as I called them the day before. She doesn’t have a clue what I’m on about. I tell her to read out what she has on her screen under the notes as I now don’t trust that the person the day before has written it down properly. She once again doesn’t have a clue what I’m on about. I ask to speak to her manager. She says he’ll call me back. 5 minutes later he does. His English is excellent and he seems to have found the notes and knows exactly what’s going on. This is encouraging. He says the first appointment they have is 03/10 (it is now 20/09) but he’ll make sure they get it earlier and he’ll ring me back. The first person that hardly speaks English calls back. She says the appointment will be on 03/10 between 8am and 1pm. I tell her that her manager told me he was going to make sure it was going to be earlier and ask her why he lied to me. She doesn’t understand what I’m saying. I try to explain to her that trades button on the call system will work before 9.30am and they can give them access remotely but if they’re coming after 9.30am, the engineer needs to ring him an hour in advance and he’ll come to open the gate. She doesn’t understand what I’m saying. I ask her to get her manager to ring me back as he speaks English. She says he’ll call within 15 minutes. I get a text 5 minutes later confirming my appointment for 03/10 between 8am and 1pm.
On 02/10 I phone the caretaker in the morning to let him know they’re coming on 03/10 between 8am and 1pm. I also called BT once again to check everything was clear, confirming they have the correct mobile number of the caretaker etc. They say they have all the information needed and promise that the work will be done.
I phone on the afternoon of the 3rd to check the work had been done and I am told that it hasn’t as the engineer needs access to a flat roof and the caretaker can’t provide him with that. I explain that the original engineer had been on the flat roof already and told me they only needed to get through the gate to activate the distribution point so I don’t understand why they now need to get back on the roof. The roof can be accessed with a ladder (which they all standard have with them) from the pavement anyway so why do I need to be there? They tell me that the engineer has tried to call me but my phone was switched off. I am 100% sure that my phone has been on all day and I haven’t received any missed calls. Also, after all of the above, I wouldn’t switch my phone off on the crucial day. The engineer is lying. After being on the line for 15 minutes (as it takes at least 5 minutes to go through the automated menu every single time you call them and it literally takes a minute for the information to come up on their screen every time they need to access a file) that I don’t have time to discuss this right now as I have an important teleconference with an overseas client and ask for someone to call me back that evening to discuss this as I am busy at work all day.
I receive a text 10 minutes later saying the next engineer appointment is 12/11 between 1pm and 6pm.
This is 14 (!!!) weeks after ordering the service. I phone back when I have a short break at work to discuss this and request a call back. Someone calls me back 5 minutes later and asked for my account information which I don’t have handy so I ask to hold on while I’m looking it up. She hangs up on me.
I stay late at work to write an email on the email form on the website with a watered down version of all of the above and I get a confirmation email that it’s arrived.
I get another text that evening at 8.40pm as well as an email saying -once again- that the next engineer appointment is 12/11 between 1pm and 6pm.
Someone calls me at 8.50pm saying that the next engineer appointment is 12/11. I tell him I know this as they’ve sent me 2 texts and an email already and that this date is unacceptable and ask to speak to his manager. He tells me I need to call the Order Management Department. I ask him what the number is. You’ve guessed it: 0800 0800 150.
Someone called Chris XXXXX calls me the morning after to discuss the email I’ve written the day before. He gives me the usual “Open Reach controls the engineers” story and tells me the appointment will not be earlier than 12/11. I tell him this is unacceptable and if the appointment can’t be moved forward I want some compensation for all the expense and inconvenience caused. He tells me that since I haven’t been billed yet I’m not eligible for any compensation but as a gesture of good will he will give me £10 which I’m normally not eligible for as this is only given to people whose engineer didn’t come on time. I try to explain that if the engineer would have called me as he said he’s done (and not lied like he’s done) I could have explained where the distribution point was and I probably even would have rushed home from work to finally get it sorted. We argue a bit about compensation in which he tells me he’s already doing me a favour by giving me £10. I stop the argument to discuss more practical issues and ask him if I now need to be home on 12/11. He says I do. I now need to take another day off work it seems. I ask him if the caretaker needs to be there as well. He says he does. I ask him if I should invite anyone else and provide tea and biscuits for everyone. I don’t think he gets the joke. We argue a bit more about compensation, we get nowhere. I’m now getting upset. He says he’ll call me back at 1.30pm.
He does and immediately I ask him for his direct phone number. He says he doesn’t have one. I ask him for his email address. He says he doesn’t have one. I ask how to get in touch with him. He says through the 0800 call centre or the form on the website. Now the line gets really bad and gets disconnected. There is nothing wrong with my mobile or signal, I have 5 bars and 3G showing but I can’t hear him and the line gets disconnected. This happens 2 more times. I get him back on the phone and I ask him to call me back on my work landline. He does and a number shows up on the phone (not the 0800 one that showed up when he called my mobile). I immediately write it down and tell him he just lied to me about not having a direct line. He says it’s a desk used by many people. I tell him that if I ring that number and he’s around there’s chance I could get to speak to him surely. He says it’s only used for outgoing calls. I haven’t tried to ring it and can’t be bothered to be honest. I stop this argument and bring the conversation back to compensation. I ask if he can at least give me a few extra months free or upgrade my account for free for a few months maybe by throwing in some telly or something. He says he can’t do that and they can review compensation once the line has been installed. I tell him that’s not good enough and that this whole story is going online and hang up.
Worst customer service I’ve ever experienced and it seems that I’m stuck with it because I’ve already got an appointment and cancelling and going with another provider will result in an even longer wait.
I’ve been offered £10 compensation for taking 2 days of work, hours on the phone, massive mobile phone bills, a lot of stress and 14 weeks without a landline or internet. Truly unbelievable.

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How difficult can it be to get a phone line instal...

First of all, for a communications company, BT are shockingly bad at communicating with their customers!
We ordered a home move for our phone line and Infinity services back at the start of Dec, and had an activation date of 19th Dec. The engineer duly turned up on that date and set about the install. The single socket in our house was not where we wanted it (no power socket close by for the broadband router), but he would see about moving that and all was good so far.
However, the engineer was struggling to get a tone on the line and after much to-ing and fro-ing and calling another engineer who was nearby, decided that the actual wires to the house were damaged somewhere between 30m and 250m from the house and as he was not qualified to do any underground works, he was going to pass the job onto another engineer. The next engineer duly came next day (on a Saturday no less!) to get us up and running. No dice. The engineer could not find the break, and we would have to get a new cable put in.
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A call to BT at the end of last week resulted in a promise that we would be fully installed by yesterday at 8pm.
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The only saving grace is we do have an internet connection (pretty vital for me as I work from home!) although I do have an extension cable running across my hallway and we have not been getting charged for line rental for the past 2 months.
I was told today that we should be getting compensation, but to be honest I am not bothered about that - I JUST WANT A PHONE LINE INSTALLED!
Rant over (for now!)

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I am sorry about the delay in getting your phone line on. It definitely sounds like you have been going through the mill lately with all the work being done and still no phone line.
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Can you help please, we have built a new house and run the black cable under the house and it comes up in our utility room, will the Open Reach engineers fit there master socket to it in there do you know? Thanks as they are coming tomorrow and want to make sure everything is in place
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So , with this in mind , when do you think BT would hurry around to install a job that they should have done at the start of June - the 29th June.
Totally disgusted - I've been let down badly by a company that I've put all my phone and internet requirements through since I've been a homeowner. And whatsmore they couldn't give a toss.
My response was that this was their problem and that they needed to resolve it immediately - "it's the soonest we can do" At the risk of sounding like a self important oaf - I went on to suggest seeing as I'd been let down so badly that surely getting a phone line installed in our home was a priority over others.
It is not.
British Telecom , I am just sick of your lack of customer focus/ services.

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If possible could some one please check my order as I would like a refund for what I cannot use and terminate any further payments until my services have been installed (which could be anyone’s guess knowing Openreach timescales). I have no use of BT WIFI or BT Sport and as nothing is within my range.
Regards
Chris

Hi
I am sorry to see you are having problems
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New phone line- can I ask to be connected to speci...

The cul de sac I live on has 46 properties, 20 of which are new builds ( 6yo ) and these new builds have their own small BT cabinet,(mine is one of these new builds).
The existing houses on the street are connected to a cab which has just had a new FTTC cab installed next to it, the cab for the new builds isn't getting fibre, obviously it is uneconomical for just 20 houses.
My house is the last new build property at the end of the cul de sac and next door to me is one more existing old property which is connected to the 'FTTC' cab. If I got a new line installed could I ask to be connected to the 'FTTC' cab? If my next door neighbour is, is there any reason why I can't be either? I can see this cab from my front window and it is only 100 yards away. I'd be prepared to pay for any costs involved.
Any advice greatly appreciated!

I've not seen a PCP like that in all the time I have been working in them but then again you do get different types of PCP's in different area's.
All the ones where I live a either Krone, Strips Cross Connection or Quante, we don't have any Bix, Mox or PC100.
Anyway, usually an SCP will be linked to one specific PCP, hence it will have the PCP number on it followed by the number SCP, i.e. PCP 54 and SCP 54/1 or if there is a second SCP 54/2 and so on.
But then again it could be an SCP because different Openreach work patches seem to run things there own way, not a universal Openreach way you think there would be.

New phone line and broadband

Hi,
I hope someone can help me.
I am due to move into a flat on the 4th of June, at the moment the flat does not have a phoneline though i checked on the BT website and at least one of the others do have one.
I would like to order a BT line installation with BT option 3 broadband, someone told me that it will cost £50 if i order both of these at the same time, however i can't find on the website link where to do it, the site just assumes i already have a phone line installed, Can someone point me in the right direction?
Daz

Hi Daz,
Thanks for posting. You can place an order for line and broadband here . Check it out and let me know how you get on.
Cheers
David
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New Wireless Router Shut Down the Phone Line

Just to clarify, I'm not the homeowner or the billpayer at the address that this post concerns. The home and phone belong to a relative who isn't particularly experienced in this sort of thing. She relative is away for the next two weeks, and I promised to try and figure out what was the problem.
A landline fault notice has been filed with BT, but I've been informed that they might not be able to make it out here until this coming Wednesday, so it would be convenient if I could troubleshoot it from my end and safe the technicians a trip.
My information on the issue is limited, having only briefly spoken with the relative about it. As I understand it, she upgraded her wireless broadband with Orange in order to attain speeds of 14MB and to have an unlimited data allowance. Upon recieving the new wireless router, she removed the previous one and correctly wired in the new one. Immediately after this, the landline and internet ceased to work. I've spent the last hour poking around and trying different phone ports in the house to no avail. The phones all say 'Check Phone Line'.
This is all extremely puzzling. I have no idea why plugging in a new router would cause the phone line to shut down. Does anyone have any insight into what might have caused this?

Flytch wrote:
I just went up to the 'main box' in the attic and plugged in an older phone. The line was still dead, which I guess means that whatever happened when the modem was plugged in happened outside the buildings.
Did you unplug the modem when you did the test in the main box?
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New Build House Issues

Good evening all.
I have come on here as a last means of trying to get my phone line sorted out. The story is very long, but I will give a (believe it or not) shortened version.
Way back on Feb 14th, I moved into my new build house. I phoned BT a couple of days before, who arranged for the service at my old house to stop and for a phone line to be fitted at my new property. The appointment was booked for late Feb. I took a day off work for the appointment, and nobody turned up. I phoned BT who said that some cabling work was required, and they would get in touch again. The next appointment was booked for 20th March. Another day booked off work, another appointment where no engineer turned up.
As you can imagine, I was not too happy at having booked two days off work for no reason at all. By this time more neighbours had started moving, and realised there were problems with BT also. Apparently, there was a 90 degree bend in some cabling work that was causing issues. They had applied to the council for road works to go ahead, but the process would take at least 3 weeks. During this period, my neighbour took to twitter to complain. He swiftly received a phone call from BT, who promised a ‘viper escalation’ to the case.
On 2nd May, BT sent a text saying ‘…we will contact you on 1/7/2014 by 8pm to discuss the delay in activation of your services...’ I confirmed this with a couple of separate people within the ‘Order Management Team’. However, my neighbour who now had a dedicated person at BT looking into his account (due to the fact he had taken to Twitter) said that everything should be complete early June. On the 15th May I received a text saying We've placed your order (reference xxxxxxxx) which will be complete on (30/5/2014).
So I called BT who had no idea about this text, and gave me absolute assurance that the text was a mistake. An engineer then turned up on my doorstep completely unannounced a few days later, and fitted a phone line. Fortunately my wife was in at the time to give them access. I called BT and asked for an update on my order (not telling them an engineer had turned up). They confirmed that I would hear nothing until 2nd July. When I told them I now had a phone line installed and an engineer had been round, they didn’t know what to say. My neighbour had mentioned this 90 degree bend to the engineer, but they confirmed that this had been fixed weeks ago (he had worked on it himself).
After many, many phone calls with BT they finally confirmed that an engineer would do some external line work on Monday 2nd June. Then on 5th June, and engineer would be round to finally activate the line. This was booked for the same day as 2 of my neighbours (who had moved in 2 months after me). It was an am appointment, and my neighbour said they would let an engineer in to my house if they turned up before 1030. (I took a day off work, and took the opportunity to visit the bank). On returning home, my neighbour met me and informed me that the engineer had sorted out their phone line, as well as another neighbours. This involved approximately 10 minutes work in each house. However, my house was not on the job list and therefore he wouldn’t activate the line. My neighbour asked the engineer if they could phone their boss or company number to ask if my line could be activated, as they were there with all the equipment and it was only a 10 minute job. The engineer refused, saying it was pointless – a case of ‘computer says no.’ That very morning I had received a text from BT saying my line had been activated. As soon as my neighbour told me that no engineer had been into my house, I knew it would be impossible for the text message I had received to be true. Sure enough my line was, and still is dead.
The ‘Order Management Team’ now refuses to deal with me, because my line has been put on to their system as being active. So I am now dealing with the faults team. They want to send an engineer out on a week day to fix a ‘fault’ with my line. I pointed out that I have already taken 3 days off work, and have no more days left to take this year. They are ‘sorry that I feel this way’, but there is nothing they can do. They refuse to send an engineer out on a Saturday, again, ‘computer says no’. They also refuse to send an engineer out at 1730 when I get back from work… ‘computer says appointments are between 1300 – 1800.’ Try to complain? ‘We have logged your call as a complaint, which will be reviewed at some point. We have no complaints department.’
In conclusion, an astonishing lack of communication between departments at BT has resulted in me wasting 3 of my precious days off work (I have my first baby coming along in September, and would have preferred these 3 days with them). My neighbours who moved in 2 months after me have lines and internet, I don’t. And I have nobody to complain to. This is the shortened version of my story; the long one involves several managers promising to ring back but not bothering.
I am hoping that someone at BT somewhere reads this and contacts me to solve this issue shortly. For anyone moving into a new build house: good luck.

Hi Frustartedphoneless,
I am very sorry that an engineer did not appear, this is unacceptable. I can see that Olga is dealing with your case. Olga is out of the office for a couple of days so I believe Robbie is looking after your fault in her absence, I have dropped Robbie an email and asked him to pick this up as priority.
Robbie will be in the office tomorrow so you will hear from us then.
Again I am so sorry that we have let you down again.
Cheers
Sean
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Can't place a broadband order - phone line not rec...

Hello,
I had a new BT phone line installed on Monday October 1st. I want to place a broadband order with another ISP, yet over a week later I'm still not able to, due to the line not being recognised as a BT line.
The ISP I have tried to place an order with have specifically told me the following:
"I've checked the number and can confirm that BT have yet to update their database to show the line as active."
All I want to do is get BT to update their database so that I can proceed to place a broadband order with this company. However, I am having a horrible time trying to convey this to anyone in a BT call centre. I've been put on hold for ages, passed around from department to department, told there are no faults on the line and that noone can help me, told that its not a BT line and that noone can help me (that was quite an amusing one!) and told it will be fixed in 48 hours.... which it wasn't.
Does anyone know what I can do to get this resolved? I don't think I'm asking for much... all I'm after is the ability to place a broadband order on the new phone line I had installed over a week ago.
Thanks,
Andrew

I think John has posted into the wrong thread.
I think this is what he meant to say.
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Getting Infinity in a new build

So, I am moving into a new build where other houses on the street/estate are showing as being able to get Infinity 2, howver my house number cannot. I believe this is because it doesn't have a phone line so it doesn't show up as available. I have booked to have a line installed and am hoping to then add infinity once it's activayed. has anyone else had experience of this? Am I likely to be able to order Infiity as soon as the line is active?
I can't believe its not possible to order a new phone line and infinity at the same time, but it seems like its a case of 'computer says no'
Solved!
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I don't know if it is always the case that you must order broadband before infinity but others on the forum have reported that is what they have had to do. It may of course be that Infinity was not yet available in their area so had to do that as a stop gap.
I am aware that you don't yet have a phone line, it was to use after you had the phone line installed so that you could check you could definitely get Infinity. Obviously you can't check before you have a line. The best you can do is what you have already done and that is to check it is in the area.

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