@peter2634wrote:
It all started on December 9th 2020 when I had a letter from my broadband and telephone provider informing me that BT had applied to take my telephone line and that they were happy for this to happen as I was nearly out of contract.
Sounds like you have a new neighbour, they asked BT to supply line/bb and gave the wrong address (yours), you received the standard working line takeover notification, at this stage you should of asked your existing supplier to block it, your service would of continued but as it was never blocked, the line was taken over.
@peter2634wrote:
I had no knowledge of this and when I telephoned BT they had no record of application for my line.
Unless you had the order number from the other person, BT wouldn't of had any contact info for you, if they searched using your info it would bring no results because you weren't a customer, BT didn't have your email address, they wouldn't of had your mobile number and the landline number wasn't active with BT, the new account was in someone elses name with someone elses contact info.
@peter2634wrote:
BUT BT TOOK THE BROADBAND ON DECEMBER 19th
You needed to contact your provider to stop it, not BT
If you never contacted the losing provider the takeover goes ahead.
@peter2634wrote:
I then asked BT to cancel this number and agreed a contract for broadband on my other number, not a very hard task???
You wouldn't be able to do that, you're not the account holder or an authorised person, your option would be to start a new order to join BT and then follow the takeover process.
@peter2634wrote:
I lost my other number on December 21st, leaving me with no telephone or broadband whatsoever. Cut off by BT.
This part is just a guess but the other person who took your line was most likely wondering where there service were, they would of had emails stating your broadband is now live 3 days earlier, they've checked and saw it wasn't because they took over the wrong line, so after noticing the error have ceased or moved the services to the correct address.
@peter2634wrote:
IT IS NOW JANUARY 23rd AND I HAVE SPENT OVER TWENTY HOURS ON THE TELEPHONE TO MORE THAN 30 BT EMPLOYEES, HAVE HAD FIVE OPENREACH ENGINEERS VISIT MY PROPERTY TO REPAIR LINES WHICH ARE NOT BROKEN, THREE DIFFERENT TELEPHONE NUMBERS, HAD FIVE CONTRACTS REJECTED AND STILL NO BROADBAND OR TELEPHONE. DESPITE TALKING DIRECTLY TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF BT.
This part is complicated, at this stage the issue should of been identified and a new order raised to provide the service, when you say it's with the 'executive branch of BT' do you mean the Executive Customer Resolution team ?
