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Crackly phone line but charged engineer fee?

Hello all. We had a crackly phone line 2 weeks ago. Phoned talk talk to explain this issue, we have been in both times an engineer has been and was told this was sorted by the engineer. Upon receiving our latest bill we have been charged a £75 fee. W...

Home phone goes fuzzy and Internet is dropping out.

When landline is in use [not very often these days....] the call starts relatively clear, but quickly deteriorates with annoying fuzzy noises and causes the Internet to drop out. All the rest of the time, the Internet is fine, so this is nothing to d...

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CRACKLING LAND LINE

the land line supplied by Open Reach is crackling and high pitch squeaking checked all internal ports since yesterday after men working on the line in our road

Landline noisy, phone won't ring most times.

Could it be arranged for Openreach to attend as my landline has become noisy and the phone refuses to ring most times when the line is called. The line is very noisy. I have done the usual of plugging straight into the test port of the NTE5. I have e...

Sidious by Enlightened One
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Landline not working correctly, if at all

Hi, for several weeks I have been unable to use my landline properly. If I try to make or receive a call the person on the other end either says that I sound as if I'm speaking under water or, at worst, they can't hear me at all. Twice now I have bee...

CindyW by Popular Poster
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Phone doesn't work when plugged into Wi-Fi hub

Hi. Can somebody please confirm that I have the digital phone service activated on my account? I still have my DECT base unit plugged into the old BT type wall socket (via an adapter), and though it works, the line is often very crackly. I've reporte...

JJ1950 by First Timer
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My phone line is just absolutely terrible... again!

A few months ago I asked for you guys to check on my phone line as it was just awful... There seemed to be a fault and it improved... until now.I wish I could send you a recording of the noise on the line.... buzzing, crackling and even a "dial tone"...

Constant crackling on line

Hi thereThere has been a constant crackling on our line. I have tried 3 different handsets and it still the same.Hard to have a conversation

Gantocks by Team Player
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Landline phone crackles while talking to someone

During the past week, I’ve noticed when I’m calling people. My phone makes a crackle noise that makes it impossible to hear anything they are saying.Its on my end and they can hear it too.I have checked the wires and everything is connected.Has anyon...

Regan2 by Popular Poster
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Recurring line noise

My phone line has got a lot of noise on it. I had the same trouble a few months ago and it was rectified by Open Reach at the exchange. The fault has now recurred . Could you please look into it and maybe contact Open Reach again Thanks Dodge08

Dodge08 by Team Player
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HOME TELEPHONE

THE TELEPHONE LINE IS CRACKLING SO BADLY THAT I CANNOT HOLD A CONVERSATION. CAN SOMEBODY FIX IT AS I AM EXPECTING A TELEPHONE CALL FROM MY DOCTOR?

issue with home phone line

Hi, We have been having severe crackles on our home phone like for a couple of months now. This has been reported to talktalk who have sent an engineer out (wall mounted box replaced but problem not resolved) and then an openreach engineer was sent w...

Phone only rings once on incoming calls

Hi folks, I've had such a palaver switching my broadband service to TalkTalk. Firstly, they completely messed up the port over from my previous provider. After the switch, they terminated my service and I had to re-order, which left me without broadb...

Land line

Hi, I have tried to check on open case for landline. it says fixed on 4/11/2024.Fault still same but I cannot run connection test as case is open? which is correct . fault still exists, and cannot reach anyone in chat. Phone no use as I have hearing ...

newboy by Chat Champion
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Home phone number

It seems our home phone number has spontaneously changed! We've not received any calls for a while so decided to phone our home phone from one of our mobiles. The home phone didn't ring but the mobile said line was busy. Then dialled the mobile from ...

MrsAB by First Timer
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Well it lasted a week - Phone line not working properly

OK. Openreach came out and messed about with the phone line got it working and now I am back to square one. When you dial my home you will hear one ring and the line drops there is no ringing indoors. The line crackles when making an outgoing call. O...

fedup57 by Popular Poster
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