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Sara68
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3 engineer visits later...

I am into the third week of waiting for my business broadband to be activated. After 3 engineers “visits”, we appear to be no further down the line.
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Welcome to our community forums @Sara68 

I'm sorry for the delay with your order. From what I can see the engineers who have been out reported back advising that the pole is on the edge of a fast flowing river so it's a health and safety risk to climb the pole. 

Notes advise that they'd need an engineer who's trained to work close to water and got the proper kit. As this is happening on more than one occasion, I've raised an escalation with Openreach so we can try to ensure that the next engineer who goes out is able to safely climb the pole with a view to install the line and activate the services. 

I'll provide an update as soon as I know more, this should be either tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Thanks. I hope this doesn’t go on for much longer, as we really do need the broadband ASAP. Each engineer has reported the hazard, yet it doesn’t seem to filter down to the next one. Frankly it’s farcical by openreach. If it’s not done soon, I’m going to have to think about cancelling the order.
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

No problem @Sara68 I'm taking this on personally moving forward and I'll make sure we get this sorted as soon as we can.

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

I’ve had another email stating that there has been another delay to my order. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? We were expecting another engineer before the bank holiday, one who we were told would be trained to access the pole and connect our service. I’ve lost count of how many engineers have been out now and said they can’t do it. This is getting farcical now. If I don’t get a satisfactory answer soon, I will be cancelling the order.
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Hi @Sara68,

I'm sorry to hear this is the case. I'm afraid that we've not received a further update from our suppliers regarding this as of yet, however as @Gandalf is away from the office at the moment, I'll take a look into this with a colleague from the provisioning team on Monday and get back in touch once an update becomes available.

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

It matters not which ISP you chose it will be the same farcical BTOR who installs the line, so there is no mileage to be had by cancellation and trying a different ISP. Some of their H&S practices are bonkers. I’ve had similar issues - repeated engineers turning up with the wrong colour of ladders (dual service poles), followed by lone engineer with a cherry picker, only to realise that two cherry picker trained engineers were required, one to do the work and one to watch in case the one in the bin became incapacitated.

I would expect that this scenario will also require two engineers, one to do the work and one trained to watch.

Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

No, I guess not, but my frustration levels are through the roof at the moment,
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

I can sympathise. I went 3 months trying to get a line installed whilst BTOR prattled around with H&S excuse after excuse. In the end I wrote to the CEO of BT and BTOR which gave Plusnet access to escalation (DSO) not otherwise available.

It does beg the question of how high this is escalated within BTOR - usually BTOR inhibit ISPs from escalation, particularly to DSO ... but emails to CEOs do open doors.

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Hey @Sara68

 

Thank you for reaching out and I'm sorry to hear that we're still waiting on your connection going live. Due to some system issues on our suppliers' portal, and the fact that I've not been able to contact them today due to the bank holiday, I've updated the Ticket on your account with an internal note, and Anoush should be back in to review this soon.

 

 

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I hope so. I really needed to get this sorted before I go away on holiday next Monday.
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Thanks for getting back to us @Sara68 

Notes from our suppliers on the order indicate that an engineer's carried out the work at the pole on the 28th, but the order's not yet completed in the systems which is preventing your broadband service from activating. 

I've emailed the escalation team to chase this up and I'll provide an update as soon as I know more. This should be within the next 24 hours, today or tomorrow at the latest.

In the meantime can you plug a phone handset into the master telephone socket and confirm the line's actually working?

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

No, there’s no dial tone when a known working phone is plugged in.
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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

Thanks for checking @Sara68

I've passed this onto Openreach and I'll get back to you once they've emailed me back

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Re: 3 engineer visits later...

I don’t suppose there’s any news on what the problem is?