topic Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee?? in Plusnet Feedback

Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

cyprus2005 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:07:47 GMT

Openreach visited the box outside my house on 31st December, same day broadband connection lost. Now Plusnet say,
A. They cannot contact Openreach to find out what they have done.
B. They want me to sign up to a new contract to get a new router....
C. After heated discussions and hardwired laptop to reset router (later they said the router was fine) I have decided to give notice, now they say they have 'recently introduced' a £30 cessation charge???
All of their own doing and the customer is paying for their gross incompetence....
your thoughts on this please

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

rongtw — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:45:20 GMT

Thsi maybe one for the staff to look at @Gandalf

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

Strat — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:46:34 GMT

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Topic moved to Plusnet Feedback.

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

Baldrick1 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:35:22 GMT

A. If you have a fault then you have to jump throught the hoops and do the normal checks before reporting it, then of course Plusnet will put the wheels in motion to get Openreach to fix it.

B. As Openreach have not 'fried' your router you don't need one.

C. The cessation charge is clearly spelt out in the Terms and Conditions.

Openreach may well have accidently disconnected you. If you go to another ISP you will still be disconnected (unless you go to an independant cable based ISP). Openreach will reconnect you if it is reported to Plusnet. Such incidents are unfortunate and irritating but these things happen.

My thought on this is that having 'heated discussions' with Plusnet agents is counter productive in getting problems sorted.

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

cyprus2005 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:35:12 GMT

Thanks,
I keep saying that loss of service started just after Openreach had been outside the house but they refuse to accept this and say that it is IMPOSSIBLE to contact them.
That is absolute rubbish, how do they function if that is the case....

oh, I think I've answered the question..... they don't 🤡🤡🤡

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

Baldrick1 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:27:47 GMT

Maybe something is being lost here in the translation. You cannot contact Openreach to ask them what they have done. You have no contract with Openreach. However you can report a fault to Plusnet who are contracted to supply you broadband and they will contact Openreach to get it fixed.

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

cyprus2005 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:27:34 GMT

Actually Plusnet tech support said they could not contact Openreach

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

ejs — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:09:07 GMT

If it's for broadband, Plusnet will be contacting BTWholesale, not Openreach.

Re: Openreach have fried my router, £30 cessation fee??

Mustrum — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:16:30 GMT

Is it just broadband that is down or is your phone also not working? If so then this will need to be sorted first before your broadband will work.

What checks have you done so far?