Copper wire socket to be left marooned !!!
We are having building work and the wall with the copper wire phone outlet for our Virgin landline will cease to exist soon. So I want to move our phone to other room and plug it into the router, and hence need our line switched to VOIP. In an email from Virgin in September 2024 concerning switch over to VOIP it said “Ready to switch over now contact 0345 454 1111”. Call centre menu just goes round in circles with no option to request this, before cutting me off and sending me a text about my TV!! The Web chat call handlers are hopelessly uninformed, even after one gets handed over from the bots; first handler didn’t even know what VOIP was and 2nd chat handler told me Virgin are not implementing VOIP anymore. When I sent her all the links to the Virgin web pages concerning VOIP switch she then told me I’d have to wait for rollout ( no apology for earlier misinformation) . Is there anyone at Virgin who can perform this simplest of requests please?
New digital "VOIP" service not working
Hi I noticed about a week ago that our Virgin landline was not working. There was no dial tone and if you try to call the landline you just get a message saying the call cannot be completed. I also tried calling the landline with the phone removed from the wall socket in case the phone was faulty but no difference. I called VM and a very helpful gentleman said it was because my area had been switched over to "digital VOIP". I was a little surprised about this because although I had received emails about the switch over I had not received anything indicating that it was actually happening to my line, but the Virgin rep assured me that this was the reason. Just as well I do not use the phone line for any emergency services!! After asking a number of questions to verify that I qualified for the switchover the Virgin rep said that he would send out an adapter and when it arrived just plug it in to port 1 (upper port) of the phone socket in the router and then power cycle the router and the phone should switch across. The adapter arrived yesterday and I followed this procedure but nothing has changed. No dial tone at the phone (I've tried two separate phones) and if you dial the landline number you still get the can't connect message. Checking the router the status overview indicates that telephony is disabled, so my guess is that VM haven't enabled my router for telephony. I was wondering if someone from VM could check into this for me. Thanks WillCan't get VM to switch me to VoIP
On 26 August 2024 I got an email from VM on the switchover which said this: Ready to switch over now? However, if you’d like to do your switchover now, please contact us on 0345 454 1111 I didn't do anything for a while but contacted VM by WhatsApp on 24 June and an agent said: "Roger, I have escalated the switching to the standard VolP to our relevant team which they will reach our within 24 hours for teh confirmation for the same. And in case you don't get confirmation, then I would request you to reach us out and we will take teh required action for you." Nothing happened so I contacted again on 19 July and was told: "I apologize for the inconvenience caused Roger, I will take this as my responsibility and make sure everything is taken care". Still nothing happened and as it happened my phone died today (no dial tone), called to report it and asked to get the migration done in preference to fixing landline, was transferred three times but nobody could process this. I've lost the will to call VM again. How anyone gets migrated onto VoIP is beyond me.I would like to cancel both broadband and phone and port my phone number to a VOIP provider
After many years with Virgin I'm moving abroad and so I'd like to cancel all my services (broadband+ and phone) but I would also like to port my phone number to a VOIP provider so that I'll still be able to check on it from abroad in case someone calls me on that number (rare nowadays but who knows). What is the correct procedure to be able to do so? Reading other discussions it seems that I should just cancel the services and then, during the 30days notice period I should activate the portability request from the new VOIP provider. Is this right? Can anyone from Virgin confirm it? Unfortunately most other messages are from people moving to other UK providers but in my case I need to cancel the broadband for good. Many thanks, CharlieLandline switch to IP
Hi I am still on a standard landline but I know that sooner or later I will have to switch to an IP landline and rather than have telephone cables routed around the house from the router I was wondering if there is a recommended DECT type solution. Ideally I would like a small DECT base station (with no phone) that could be plugged into the router, as I do not want to move the router (for many reasons) and there is not a lot of space around it. Alternatively since this is now a VOIP system I was wondering if it is possible to simply use an app on my mobile phone (I have this facility with my work phone). My understanding is that this is not possible but thought I would ask just in case. On a separate note again since this is an VOIP system are services such as voice mail available or would it still be necessary to have a separate answer phone. If so this would need to be remote from the DECT base station since I suspect the answer phone would be too large to fit in the space I have. Thanks for any advice WillVOIP switchover
My elderly parent, 85, was told she needed to switch over to broadband phone. There was not an option or told that she could wait until the deadline. She was informed that the area was moving over. She was not alone. Since moving to VOIP, she has had no end of connection issues with a very intermittent service. She has now had a BUU installed, as she does not have a mobile. This unit is fixed downstairs. So now she has no reliable service in her upstairs bedroom, to call for emergency help. What does Virgin customer service suggest? Well your answer was contact the council to get an emergency button installed!!! Although the transfer to VOIP is not mandatory till December 2025, they refuse to transfer an elderly vulnerable person back to the old reliable service. Instead they are suggesting that she looses more of her dignity and independence by paying for an additional council service- rather than ensuring that she has a reliable service that she can access from her home 24.7 that she pays for!- Disgusted & outraged Please if you have elderly relatives ( who are not tech savvy) do not encourage them to switch over, the new technology is not reliable and will prove to be more of an issue for them
