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Landline and broadband
My parents are moving and I'm trying to get a landline and wi fi package from BT for them. After 20 minutes on hold and a carry on trying to get consent from my Mum to do this the operative said they can't offer wi fi and I need to contact open reach? When I try this it goes nowhere what an I supposed to do???
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Re: Landline and broadband
You can't deal directly with Openreach, they are not customer facing.
You need to call BT again.
Perhaps requesting WiFi rather than a broadband package confused the original person you spoke to.
Make sure you speak to the home mover team.
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Re: Landline and broadband
Although pretty rare , there are the occasional places where Openreach ( BT only ever use Openreach) were not allowed to build their network by the developer, the developer chosing to use a different network provider or in some cases the developer installs their own network and anyone living there has no choice but to use whoever the developer did a sweetheart deal with , so anything unusual about where they are moving to ?
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome
put the new address in here , it shows what products are available, post the results
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Re: Landline and broadband
check if they have good 5g mobile reception in new location, if they are retired they probably don't need anything like the speed of fibre and a 5g router with a data only sim might save them a fortune.
Look at ISPreview web site.
Look out for price doubling in very very fine print.