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janipewter 19-11-2010 15:04

Phone line totally dead
 
Just noticed in the last couple of days my phone line is totally dead. If I pick up the phone I can't hear anything except a really really feint static sound. Can't call out, there are no dial tones or anything, no sound. If I phone in from my mobile it just rings and rings and nothing happens on the home phone. Tried to access my sky account from Sky+HD box (which is free but uses the telephone line) and it fails.

Can't call Virgin as the phone is down, what can I do?

Ps. have broadband which is working fine.

Peter_ 19-11-2010 16:15

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If you call Virginmedia on your mobile they will call you back as it is a phone fault and that is part of the diagnostics that they must follow so call up now or it will never get fixed.

arcimedes 19-11-2010 16:54

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Or if you know someone with a Virgin phone line phone use theirs

janipewter 19-11-2010 20:50

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Doesn't it cost £1.50 a minute to call them from a mobile. I don't want to be on hold for 10+ minutes before I even get to talk to someone...no thanks.

Peter_ 19-11-2010 23:17

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Quote:

Originally Posted by janipewter (Post 35124533)
Doesn't it cost £1.50 a minute to call them from a mobile. I don't want to be on hold for 10+ minutes before I even get to talk to someone...no thanks.

It should be the standard rate for a 0845 number and they will call you back, try just after 0800 tomorrow morning.

Mr Angry 20-11-2010 02:24

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Quote:

Originally Posted by janipewter (Post 35124430)
Just noticed in the last couple of days my phone line is totally dead. If I pick up the phone I can't hear anything except a really really feint static sound. Can't call out, there are no dial tones or anything, no sound. If I phone in from my mobile it just rings and rings and nothing happens on the home phone. Tried to access my sky account from Sky+HD box (which is free but uses the telephone line) and it fails.

Can't call Virgin as the phone is down, what can I do?

Ps. have broadband which is working fine.

What colour is your home phone?

janipewter 20-11-2010 03:49

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Black. Are you racist?

jb66 20-11-2010 08:37

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Baa Baa black sheep, am I racist?

Arborlinden 02-12-2010 11:53

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My phone has been dead for nearly a week. Reported fault by email and received confirmation that the "engineers were on the case". Heard no more until I send a request for progress report and received an email saying that they had "checked the line and it was OK but if I was still having trouble I should reply to email giving times when I would be available for service call. did this 24 hours ago.: no response.
In the past when I have had phone trouble, it has gone dead before, NTL has either fixed it externally or arranged a service call quite quickly. Now that Virgin Media provides has taken over it seems to me that their customer service is much worse that NTL's used to be. To be without a phone for a week can be very serious especially if you are old with a medical condition it could be a matter of life or death. Of course i have a Virgin Media mobile so the longer they delay fixing my land line the more £20.00 top-ups I am having to make to my Mobile and since my mobile reports "limited service" half the time trying to use it can involve standing outside the house in my dressing gown
Any on else find that Virgin Media is any but a "service"

jb66 02-12-2010 11:58

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Arborlinden (Post 35131278)
My phone has been dead for nearly a week. Reported fault by email and received confirmation that the "engineers were on the case". Heard no more until I send a request for progress report and received an email saying that they had "checked the line and it was OK but if I was still having trouble I should reply to email giving times when I would be available for service call. did this 24 hours ago.: no response.
In the past when I have had phone trouble, it has gone dead before, NTL has either fixed it externally or arranged a service call quite quickly. Now that Virgin Media provides has taken over it seems to me that their customer service is much worse that NTL's used to be. To be without a phone for a week can be very serious especially if you are old with a medical condition it could be a matter of life or death. Of course i have a Virgin Media mobile so the longer they delay fixing my land line the more £20.00 top-ups I am having to make to my Mobile and since my mobile reports "limited service" half the time trying to use it can involve standing outside the house in my dressing gown
Any on else find that Virgin Media is any but a "service"

A little over the top, if your elderly and need the phoneline you can register with virgin as a lifeline customer where they have to respond to your phoneline in 4 hours. If you asked a neighbour to use their phone or used your mobile to call the 0845 number you'd have saved yourself alot of time and money

Arborlinden 02-12-2010 12:13

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Originally Posted by jb66 (Post 35131280)
A little over the top, if your elderly and need the phoneline you can register with virgin as a lifeline customer where they have to respond to your phoneline in 4 hours. If you asked a neighbour to use their phone or used your mobile to call the 0845 number you'd have saved yourself alot of time and money



---------- Post added at 11:13 ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 ----------

How would I have saved money by calling the 0845 number? I used the email to report the fault and got a fault report number. Would calling the 0845 number have got a quicker service call than an email fault report? Please read posts properly before making nonsensical replies

jb66 02-12-2010 12:50

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Originally Posted by Arborlinden (Post 35131290)


---------- Post added at 11:13 ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 ----------

How would I have saved money by calling the 0845 number? I used the email to report the fault and got a fault report number. Would calling the 0845 number have got a quicker service call than an email fault report? Please read posts properly before making nonsensical replies

You wrote

Of course i have a Virgin Media mobile so the longer they delay fixing my land line the more £20.00 top-ups I am having to make to my Mobile

Read your own posts

So while your topping up waiting for an email reply, if you called up in the first place a technician could have been deployed an en-route to you today, also you could have claimed your 0845 call costs back from virgin once your phone is re-connected.

P.s have you seen the weather lately? Could explain why its taking longer to get a reply as staff cant make it to work or they are re-arranging appointments missed by technicians

Peter_ 02-12-2010 12:54

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Arborlinden (Post 35131290)


---------- Post added at 11:13 ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 ----------

How would I have saved money by calling the 0845 number? I used the email to report the fault and got a fault report number. Would calling the 0845 number have got a quicker service call than an email fault report? Please read posts properly before making nonsensical replies

They appear to attached you to an outage, but that is not always correct, so being advised to call in on another phone using 0845 454 1111 is sound advice as you will then know if an engineer is required rather than it being an area fault.

You can also check the service status by clicking the link in my signature for your area as well.

Arborlinden 02-12-2010 13:58

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35131332)
They appear to attached you to an outage, but that is not always correct, so being advised to call in on another phone using 0845 454 1111 is sound advice as you will then know if an engineer is required rather than it being an area fault.

You can also check the service status by clicking the link in my signature for your area as well.



---------- Post added at 12:49 ---------- Previous post was at 12:42 ----------

I always check service status when I have a problem and refrain from reporting a fault is there is a reported problem. There was none reported on we site last week. However I have noticed that there can be no problem reported on web but there is a verbal message on 150 which I use when it is broadband or television at fault.
Few people are happy to use their mobiles to call premium rate numbers such as 0845 but it look like what you are saying is that 0845 call are an effective fault reporting action where as filling the fault report on the Virgin Media web site is non-effective. Certainly seems so in my case.

---------- Post added at 12:51 ---------- Previous post was at 12:49 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by jb66 (Post 35131328)
You wrote

Of course i have a Virgin Media mobile so the longer they delay fixing my land line the more £20.00 top-ups I am having to make to my Mobile

Read your own posts

So while your topping up waiting for an email reply, if you called up in the first place a technician could have been deployed an en-route to you today, also you could have claimed your 0845 call costs back from virgin once your phone is re-connected.

P.s have you seen the weather lately? Could explain why its taking longer to get a reply as staff cant make it to work or they are re-arranging appointments missed by technicians



---------- Post added at 12:58 ---------- Previous post was at 12:51 ----------

Why should calling Virgin Media on 0845 result in a engineer visit when using the official web page to report a fault and receiving an email acknowledgement result in no further action. I have noticed the weather, however I have not noticed that the snow has significantly delayed my emails, they still seem just as quick and the snow might have delayed a call from Virgin Media to my mobile number given as contact details in my fault report but by a week! VM service could have used either service to tell me that the weather has rendered VM service impotent and they would get an engineer to me in the Spring.

Peter_ 02-12-2010 15:40

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Arborlinden (Post 35131357)




I always check service status when I have a problem and refrain from reporting a fault is there is a reported problem. There was none reported on we site last week. However I have noticed that there can be no problem reported on web but there is a verbal message on 150 which I use when it is broadband or television at fault.
Few people are happy to use their mobiles to call premium rate numbers such as 0845 but it look like what you are saying is that 0845 call are an effective fault reporting action where as filling the fault report on the Virgin Media web site is non-effective. Certainly seems so in my case.

We have a diagnostics flow which tells us to ask if you are on a mobile and to ring you back if so, many people ring from a neighbours phone as well.

Do you have any neighbours in the houses either side that are also on a Virginmedia phone line and if so is their phone line dead, if their phone is not dead then you need an engineer.


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