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Discussion topic: No landline and poor broadband

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This message was authored by Justin+Halls This message was authored by: Justin+Halls

No landline and poor broadband

We have had no landline for almost a week, and slow broadband as well.  We had an engineer out last Tuesday and he found a fault on the line between the cabinet at the end of the road and our house, but it will need Openreach to replace a length of cable.

In the meantime we have no phone (but callers get a ring signal so they thinkk we are just not answering) and slow broadband.

There appears to be no way in which we can find out if/when Openreach are likely to fix the problem, or by which we can push Sky to chase them up.  Our neighbours (not on Sky) are elderly and need their phone.

The Sky website is abysmal.  If I want to claim for slow broadband it says "login to My Broadband and select Learn more about my broadband speed" to find my guranteed (Superfast) speed, but there is no such link.  I have comacross a page that show speed history, but the site is so convoluted that I cannot find it again.

If I go through the 'Help' (ha ha) I can check my broadband and it says there is a fault and it is being worked on 'this might take a few hours'.  Not helpful.

How do I find out what is going on?

 

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This message was authored by Daniel0210 This message was authored by: Daniel0210

Re: No landline and poor broadband

Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more

@Justin+Halls 

You will have to call Sky by other means and see if they have an update from Openreach. Communication Workers Union which includes some Openreach staff have been taking industrial action recently which is obviously impacting any installations or repairs. If the work entails digging up the road/pavement OR have to obtain permits from your local council and arrange a team to then carry out this work. 
No consolation at the moment but see this link re auto compensation for when there is a total loss of Sky Broadband or Sky Talk. https://www.sky.com/help/articles/auto-compensation

If you have a total loss of service and it isn’t fixed after two full working days from when you first report the fault to Sky, you will become eligible for it once the fault has been fixed. It will come in the form of a credit appearing on your account.


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This message was authored by Justin+Halls This message was authored by: Justin+Halls

Re: No landline and poor broadband

Thanks for that info @Daniel0210

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