Power Outage Leaves Phone Off

ntluser · 23-06-2005, 08:56

Hi,

Just had a rude awakening this morning with all my neighbours' burglar alarms going off because of a power outage. Couldn't get on the Internet for about half an hour as there was no power for my PC.

One weird thing is that although my TV and broadband came back, the telephone still remains dead. Tried to ring Customer services on my mobile but came up with this message that calls are not free. Anyone else in South Manchester have the same problem?

Perhaps one of the mods could take my details and relay them on please?

purenuman · 23-06-2005, 09:54

Same here but phone was OK throughout and BB OK once power returned...

ntluser · 23-06-2005, 10:47

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Originally Posted by purenuman

Same here but phone was OK throughout and BB OK once power returned...

You are one of the lucky ones. The NTL message is that customers in Manchester may be experiencing a loss of telephone service but that it is a "local fault" and it is being dealt with. Looks like we'll just have to wait.

Good thing we all have mobiles at our house.

Kliro · 24-06-2005, 01:25

When did this happen? I noticed that my alarm clock time was all messed up when I woke up, phone and internet have been fine though.

ntluser · 24-06-2005, 07:40

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Originally Posted by Kliro

When did this happen? I noticed that my alarm clock time was all messed up when I woke up, phone and internet have been fine though.

I think it was about 6.45am as that's when all the burglar alarms in my street sounded off together. It lasted about half an hour, but when the power came back on telephones in South Manchester were off for a while.

Neil · 24-06-2005, 08:17

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Originally Posted by ntluser

I think it was about 6.45am as that's when all the burglar alarms in my street sounded off together. It lasted about half an hour, but when the power came back on telephones in South Manchester were off for a while.

Is your phone still off?

ntluser · 24-06-2005, 08:49

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Originally Posted by Neil

Is your phone still off?

Thanks for the thought, but we found the phone was working about 11.30am.It was a "local fault". It definitely affected Altrincham, Carrington, and Sale and possibly other areas too.

chaokusc · 26-06-2005, 09:28

Didnt last long for me, Im in Peel Hall, but power was only out for a max time of 2 minutes, only 1 person has an alarm in there house, and it was going off for an hour... headache...

But my tv, bb, and phone all worked after that 100% fine... wow im lucky eh

bluetide · 22-07-2005, 01:53

when our local army camp where having power issues our ntl was out tv bb and telephone. went to go up to the telephone box to call ntl saw the engineer adding some big batteries into the big grey cab up the road and our phones where working