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Good Morning,
We are at the end of a barn conversion, there is an old BT cable in situ but no socket attached . We want to get this connected and have broadband only .
Who do I contact to arrange this,
We are currently on EE mobile which is pretty poor at the minute
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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
Welcome to this user forum for BT Retail phone and broadband customers.
Assuming you want to use BT Retail, as you have posted on this forum, then you just place an order for broadband only.
https://www.bt.com/broadband/broadband-without-landline
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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
As you are posting on a BT Customer forum , it’s a reasonable assumption that it’s BT you want to use for service, if it’s not , you should be asking questions on the customer forum of the company you would like to use .
BT offer a standalone broadband, so no telephony service, that still requires a physical ‘line’ , unfortunately many people associate landline and telephony as the same thing , a standalone broadband service needs a ‘line’ to work , fibre or copper , it may say in the advert ‘no landline needed’ , it should really say ‘ no requirement to take telephony’

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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
There is no such thing as a BT Phone Line. The lines are the property of Openreach, who provide the network for many different providers.
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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
How does this operate a BT hub ?
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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
You need to have a broadband package first. If a socket is needed, then that will be fitted by Openreach. You then plug in the supplied BT Smart Hub 2, into that socket.

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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
You do not contact Openreach, they only speak to Service Providers, and will not speak to end users. They will just refer you back to your provider.

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Re: Connection to disconnected landline
You can't contact Openreach, they are not customer facing, they only deal with ISPs.
Any existing wiring you have is entirely irrelevant. You just order whatever service you want from whichever provider you want.