Hi there,
I hope someone can help. We have an intermittent fault with our home phone. Sometimes there is no dial tone, sometimes the line goes dead half way through a call, sometimes during a call I can't hear the person the other end at all, but they can hear me. I have done all the tests that Plusnet/Openreach require. Currently I have one single corded phone plugged into the master socket (Openreach VDSL MK3). All the internal house equipment other than this one phone is disconnected. I have tried three separate corded phones plugged directly into the mastersocket and still get the intermittent fault.
I had an Openreach engineer booked for Wednesday who failed to show up, The rescheduled appointment was for this morning. This morning I checked the phone and there was no dial tone. I got a phone call at 8.20, but I couldn't hear the caller. I guessed right that it was the Openreach engineer telling me he was on the way, and he arrived shortly afterwards.
The engineer has carried out all the tests they are meant to do, and all the tests checked out. During his visit we got a phone call, and again I couldn't hear the caller, so the engineer had evidence of the fault whilst he was here. The engineer has concluded it's a fault with my handset, despite the fact that I have told him we've tried three separate corded phones, and the present one is actually brand new.
The engineer is now going to close the fault because apparently he has done everything he is obliged to do.
I still have the fault. What am I supposed to do now?
Many thanks for your time.
