Don't use the landline much but I do check it at least once a week for messages. Went to check it today, totally dead. Just plugged a standard phone into master socket totally dead, no dial tone, no buzzing, no clicks, nothing at all.
As an ex telecoms engineer ( not BT or Virgin ) I know what I am looking at and my conclusion is that it has been disconnected.
Last Monday we had a complete Virgin outage. We were notified by text this was happening and at around 7.00am everything went off TV, broadband etc , although I admit didn't check landline. Took the dog out at 8.00 an found the area flooded with contractors van's ( counted at least 9 Van's) and guys in Virgin hi-vis with heads in cabinets, even had one in my local distribution box three houses down. By 11.00 broadband and TV back up ( did not check phone ). Later received text say all done in area, on the face of it very effcient.
Don't know what they were doing but it would appear they managed to cut my line. I can call the number but whilst my mobile says its ringing, nothing happens on land line.
Virgin service status says my line is ok, any ideas other than spending hours trying to get an engineer out or is this part of the plan some service providers have to drop landlines and have IP only phone services.
Emog
Oxfordshire
