Phone Line dead but Broadband working

[Ant88ant]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can help with this - phone line is dead since yesterday but broadband is working.

Upgraded to fibre 6 days ago. Had phone line fault about a month ago, Engineer came, found a fault at 24m, replaced the 25m (ish) of phone line from the master socket.

I'm thinking this may be an issue at the cabinet connection perhaps, since that was the latest change that took place? 

Anyway we can do some line tests and see where the fault is? 

Thanks in advance. 

[KeithFrench]

I have asked one of TalkTalk's OCEs to pick your thread up and investigate it for you.

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[Ant88ant]

Thanks for the quick reply! Much appreciated.

Best Wishes 

[OCE_Chris]

Hi Ant88ant,

Sorry to hear you're experiencing problems with your service

Line test is showing a potential issue, a fault ticket has been raised so I'm chasing it up with our network team

Thanks
Chris

[Ant88ant]

Ok thanks,

Best wishes,

[OCE_Chris]

No Problem 🙂

[Ant88ant]

By any chance do you know where the detected fault is? Just curious - we have this one tree that the phone line passes through and it's always causing trouble in the neighbourhood, wondering if that's the culprit!

[OCE_Chris]

Sorry, no the line test doesn't tell me where the fault is

Chris

[Ant88ant]

Alright, no worries!

Best Wishes

[OCE_Chris]

Hi Ant88ant,

We've had an update from our network team, they've raised this to BT Openreach as a non-appointed task, we should have an update within 72 hours 

Thanks

Chris

[Ant88ant]

Ok thanks, what does non appointed task mean? 

[OCE_Chris]

It just means that an engineer visit to your home hasn't been arranged. Openreach will investigate and maybe send an engineer to the exchange, check the line etc.

Chris

[Ant88ant]

Ah ok, that's fine, thanks again,

Best wishes

[OCE_Chris]

No Problem 🙂

[Ant88ant]

Hey,

I know the 72 hours isn't up yet but I thought I'd check if there's been an update since we might not hear anything from Openreach over the weekend?

Thanks,

[brandyman]

If you reported this on Wednesday and it has not been repaired by the end of two working days following the day on which it was reported you should now be getting £8 a day automatic compensation. 

You should not need to claim and it should appear in your account as a credit.

You should be getting this until the fault is repaired and it matters not whether it is Talktak or Openreaches fault.  The onus to pay automatic compensation lies with the ISP.

[ferguson]

@Ant88ant You won't hear anything from TalkTalk until after the weekend either I'm afraid, the team here won't be back online until tomorrow.

[ferguson]

@brandyman You are right that compensation will apply after close of play tomorrow, but just to clarify it will then be automatically paid with 30 days of the issue being resolved.

[brandyman]

@ferguson

@brandyman You are right that compensation will apply after close of play tomorrow, but just to clarify it will then be automatically paid with 30 days of the issue being resolved.

Why do you have a need to mis-quote people.  I did not say the above. I said the person should now be getting Automatic Compensation not after close of play tomorrow.

From Ofcom

"Compensation would be paid if the fault is not resolved by midnight two working days after the fault is reported by a customer"

So customer effectively reported fault last Wednesday so repair needs to be completed by 23.59 on Friday.  If loss of service not restored by this time then customer entitled to Automatic Compensation from Saturday and any subsequent days until loss of service restored.

It is interesting to note that Talktalk information on their website says that compensation will be on a case by case basis.  It is as if they have not bought into the Automatic Compensation scheme which they amongst others agreed with Ofcom.

[ferguson]

@brandyman I didn't mean to misquoute you, I did point out that you were right, it was just that you seemed to be suggesting that automatic compensation would somehow be paid after two working days, note that Ofcom cite "two full working days." I was merely trying to clarify that compensation is not paid until after the issue is resolved, it can't be quantified until then. 

TalkTalk have signed up to this scheme, unlike some other providers. Why you felt the need to post this at this stage in an individual problem topic only you of course could explain.