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Get help with your TalkTalk landline and calling features.

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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 Repeat Guest
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Interference on home phone

We only have a home phone connection via Talktalk as broadband (full fibre) with another supplier.The home phone line is really poor with constant crackling and mushy background noise such that it is virtually impossible to hear the content of a call...

sal2305 by First Timer
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extremely crackly landline

hello, my landline has been extremely crackly for days now, please could someone tell me how it can be checked ? thank you (also broadband been dropping intermittently too these last few days)

huw38 by Participant
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Line Noise

Over the last few weeks we have been experiencing more and more frequent broadband interruptions (although our broadband is with another company). We have also found phone calls are getting more and more filled with crackling and noise.Eventually tod...

JamieB25 by First Timer
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Buzzing on calls

There is a buzzing on my landline on every call, heard by me and the person I'm speaking with, which quickly gets louder as the call progresses. It's been going on for weeks and is very annoying! Thank you.

JanetJC by Popular Poster
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buzzing noise on landline

Good morning. There is a constant buzzing soung on my land line which can also be heard by the person I am speaking to the other end. I havetried plugging in a different phone but this does not work. I can barely hear the other person. Any suggestion...

LaurelB by First Timer
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Connection quality and issues with grans phone line

Heya,As stated in the title, this is WRT my grans home phone line. She's been having on/off noise on the line, when it happens it's like there's a load of static on the phone line. She's also had her phone calls drop. She has no internet, no router a...

Franco_B by Conversation Starter
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Home landline not working correctly

High amount of noise nearly drowning out dial tone.Cannot dial out.Phone rings once on incoming call then stops, when phone is picked up can only hear dial tone.NTE 5C MK 4 main telephone socket, all testing done from the test outlet within NTE 5C MK...

igmit by Popular Poster
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Phone display says Check Phone Line

My fibre connection is fine.My copper landline to my home phone is now dead after many days of loud line crackling making it near impossible for a conversation. A few days ago phone display started to say "Check Phone LIne"TalkTalk connection test te...

Brady49 by First Timer
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crackling

bought new digi phones gave my digi phones to my daughter she says there nothing wrong with them testead my old digi phone in master socket with router unpluged and still loud crackling can hardley hear any one calling in or out only happened in last...

hood2 by First Timer
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poor service !!!

I have an elderly father, 88, who has just been discharged from hospital and is very vulnerable. His home phone has played up for a while ie. difficult to hear him or he hear us, constantly giving engaged tone, or not ringing his end.We thought it wa...

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Tupset by First Timer
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Crackling on landline

There is persistent crackling on my landline, a test run shows no problem. I have had this problem before and takes a few emails to get it resolved. Very frustrating!!

LizW1971 by First Timer
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Crackling on line before dialling and during calls

All power off in the house.Using a new BT Big Button 200 phone.As soon as I press the first number persistent crackling is heard and persists as I press more numbers. This phone is powered by the landline from the exchange.This crackling makes some c...

Faulty land line

My landline has been faulty for several days now. There is a constant engaged tone and although I can phone out I cant receive incoming calls. Last week you set up a call divert to my mobile which was acceptable for a few days but is now very inconve...

Noisy phone line

Phone line is crackly, broadband is fine. The problem is clearly the line entering the house; this has happened before. I need an Openreach engineer. Must I go through Talktalk to get to Openreach?

nicpow by Popular Poster
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Home phone faulty

Have reported this previously, and TWO engineers said problem was outside the home.Noisy cracking noise then silence.It appeared fixed for a few days now it has gone again same problem noisy line then nothing.

Rondo2 by First Timer
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Resolved! When will my home phone be converted to VOIP?

My internet is City Fibre, but my home phone is still connected to Openreach copper. The home phone has started to have crackly interference. I tried to get line tested via th talktalk account, but got a message saying that the automatic test was dis...

Pedant by Problem Solver
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Crackly phone

I have a terrible phone connection the line crackles! I have messaged for help and I'm told the line seems OK. ITS NOT!!! The line is crackling over the dial tone and makes conversations impossible! The help page tells me they cant test the connectio...

Landline

My landline has been down since Tuesday 5th December. An engineer came and said he couldn’t fix it and was handing it back to BT. I am 82 years old and here on my own. My internet is working some of the time. I have a fault ref 13726645. This is maki...

Crackling on line when making calls

Afternoon all we are experiencing lots of cracking when making calls from the land line in inward and outward calls, I was wondering if the line could be checked thank you

Fizza by Chat Champion
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