For the past couple of months there as been crackling on the phone line, sometimes intermittently. I used the quiet line test and can hear the crackling. I can hear the crackling even over the dial tone on the phone.
After doing the standard checks before reporting the fault i.e. using a corded phone in the test socket and still hearing cracklings, I was able to arrange an OR engineer visit.
All that the person did was change the master socket with them saying "yes, this is definately the problem. We've had a lot of issues with these". As far as I could tell they never checked the line after changing the master socket. Because it was an OR engineer, and I've never had any complaints with them in the past - they are the gold standard, I assumed that must have been the problem.
The next day I had to use the phone to call someome, and the moment I picked up the phone and heard the dial tone I also heard the crackling again. It's continued to crackle on every call since. So the problem hasn't been fixed.
So I went back to the BT site to put in another fault request. But it seems I wasn't allowed to do this for some reason and instead I was re-directed to the old fault case, like it hadn't been closed, even though on the screen it said they had fixed it. In the summary section at the top of the page it says;
"Please check your service.
We need you to check your service to check to confirm that everything is now OK. If it's not, please get in touch.
Contact us".
The contact us is a link. When I click the link it just takes me to the standard help menus. There is nothing related to my fault.
So I can't;
1. Mark the fault as not fixed.
2. Close the current fault.
3. Make a new fault.
Meanwhile I still have the crackling on my line. Can someone advise me what to do?
