After years of waiting for fibre in our rural area the network was installed and ducting was run to the edge of our property but stopped 28 metres away from the existing BT duct leading into our property. On the 3rd December 2022 I placed an order for fibre and was give an installation date of 30th December. No-one appeared and no contact was made. I chased this up and was given a new date of the 16th Jan for an AM visit. Eventually an engineer appeared at 16:30 and said he couldn't do anything as he needed a hoist, on questioning his he said he need to run the fibre from a pole across the road. I pointed out this was an 11Kv electricity pole and he then said he had no information about the job!
I chased BT again and was told there will have to be a review. An engineer visited out of the blue on the 26th Jan and said they would need to extend the duct to meet with the existing duct into the house. This would need traffic lights and a civil team.
Every week since then I have been told by BT there is nothing they can do as they are waiting for Openreach. Each week the response from Openreach is that there will be a review the following week, next review is 8th March.
I contacted BT twice last week and on each occasion I was told they would escalate it with Openreach and I would be contacted in 48Hrs. Guess what? No contact!!
What can I do, BT say they can't help as it is an Openreach problem and they will pay compensation which is now 63 days worth. This is not the point, I require the service as we have 2Mbs copper broadband or 4G which is limited.
Customer service is appalling I can get no installation date. I am going to take it up with the Communication Ombudsman on Monday but I assume this will take ages. What course of action do I have?
