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Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
Hello All,
At the end of last year I agreed to have fibre broadband and home phone rather than the traditional copper. We live in rural Wales and my wife has dimentia, so in order to carry on working I need to have a reliable phone sevice, we have mobiles but sometimes she dosn't hear hers and sometimes there is no signal. We were having trouble with our broad band and I was assured that fibre would be the answer. I stressed to the representaive my wifes condition and they assured me that we would be priority customers and all would be well. On Feburary 18 2025 we went live on fibre, all seemed well at first, that was until I tried ringing my wife on the landline, it just cuts off. I have rang EE our provider, numerous times and had an engineer out but a month later we still have no phone. We can make out going calls but that's all. EE inisitally told me the repair would take 2 hours, after many 2 hour promises they increased it to 4 hours, then 2 days, then 5 days and today I am sat waiting for a phone call from them to my mobile because it is still not fixed. I am posting on here because in the end BT holds the key as it is BT's equipment failure that is at fault. The simple answer is to revert to copper for the phone but how do I go about being reconnected?
Jon
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Re: Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
No point you as an EE customer posting on this BT customer forum , as far as your observation that it’s BT’s equipment so that’s why you posted here , it’s not BT’s equipment, it’s Openreach , they are not interchangeable terms ……Openreach as dictated by the regulator Ofcom are not customer facing , you have to go via your provider, EE in your case

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Re: Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
Its nothing to do with fibre versus copper. It is analogue phone system versus VoIP. You would still be using VoIP whether your line is delivered by fibre or copper.
It is a fairly common problem that EE should be able to sort out.
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Re: Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
Thanks for the reply but it's been a month and stiil no phone and they blame BT

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Re: Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
as already posted this has nothing to do with BT. EE need to get in touch with openreach to sort out your phone so it can receive calls. BT cannot help you
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Re: Fibre we can ring out but we can't receive calls
FYI , you can’t go back to copper pairs for your phone service, once FTTP is in that’s it , plus even if you were still on a copper pair with ADSL or FTTC , you would eventually have to take DV ( digital voice ) so the phone connects to the broadband router , that’s the standard service, the telephone is IP ( internet protocol ) based …using the broadband.