In desperation here as ordered a phone line to go with the existing broadband I have and it's become a nightmare.
I confirmed that it was to run off the socket on the back of the router and was told all new installations do as they don't install traditional lines anymore. So I went ahead and ordered the line online. Then I get a message that an Engineer will call (which he did yesterday) which puzzled me if nothing required other than plugging it into the back of the router. The Engineer arrived coming in with a big bag of tools asking if I had a master socket and I said I had but as I had a DECT phone there was no need to wire anything in. He then agreed with me and plugged in the converter to the back of the router then plugged the phone into that. He made a few phone calls (cursing India!) then informed me that the line will be up and running with the number ported over later that day. Nothing happened!
This morning I rang Virgin and was informed, after a very long discussion, that the line would be enabled, working and the number ported over within 3 hours. Over 4 hours later and nothing had happened! I rang again and was passed from customer services to technical support saying that they would be able to sort it out for me but they then said that couldn't be done as it was down as a traditional phone line and asked me to plug it into their wall socket. NO! How could I when it doesn't exist? But took a long time to get this fact over to them. Now they said they couldn't do anything and only customer services could sort it out. This was quickly becoming a joke but it was real. So back to customer services who said they couldn't do anything in the usual broken poor English you can hardly understand. The girl then said I hadn't arranged for the number to be ported over. Untrue! So said she'd arrange it but would take up to 7 days from when I applied for the line so I told her it was then overdue so needed to be arranged immediately. After another long discussion not getting anywhere I was passed back to technical support who said they'd arrange for the line to be connected within 3 hours. Still nothing as the line still dead! They were going to arrange for the number to be ported over and the line went dead cutting me off and no one has rung me back so after over 2 hours of calls and speaking to numerous people I'm no further forward.
Does anyone have the contact details of someone I can speak to high up in this joke of a company to get this sorted? Also they need to get rid of the India call centre and bring it back to here where we can understand what people say.
