Please help - suddenly no dial tone

Question

I would really appreciate any help please.
I just arrived home last night after being away for a few weeks on holiday. My phone and DSL (not with BT) were working fine when I went away, but now I do not get a dial tone.
My phone is a cordless one, so it was unplugged while I was gone, but I don't know if this would have caused any issues.
My internet still works fine, no problems there.
In an effort to solve this I have done the following:
1/ Unplgged everything from my one and only phone socket including DLS filter etc. I then just plugged in my phone, still no dialtone, so I tried another spare phone I have, again no dialtone.
2/ Then I removed the faceplate to the socket and triend both phones again in the test socket, still no dial tone.
What is weird is that if I ring my phone on my mobile, the phones will ring, but picking them up does not answer them, and no sound is transmitted along the line.
3/ I ran the online line test on the line and it came back saying there were no issues.
4/I spoke to someone at BT and have arranged for an engineer to come out next week, but obviously, does anyone here have any more suggestions of solutions as I literally cannot afford the rediculously expensive call out fee of £127 if there is something else I could have done.
I live in an apartment building, and no one else is having issues with their phone. The phone box for the building is located at the top of a piller in the back yard easily 4-5m off the ground.
Any help?

Answer 1

As long as you have tried a working phone into the test socket and still getting no dial tone, you have done enough checking.... sounds like a one leg dis/ HR fault, this can knock out your phone line, but your broadband can still work.... just wait for the engineer...you can try and get your incoming calls diverted to your mobile free of charge while you wait... hope this helps