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Weekend line installation?

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Hi there,

Does anyone know of a broadband provider that will send out an engineer to install a new line on a weekend? I'm a contractor so will not get paid if I have to take a day off in the week, adding a considerable cost to my broadband installation.

Thanks in advance

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  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    Doesn't matter who your Broadband supplier is, BT Openreach do the work, and probably not at weekends.
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  • brewerdave
    brewerdave Posts: 8,719 Forumite
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    In my experience faults are prioritised for any authorised BT Openreach weekend work -can't see them authorising for installations.
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    And you can't specify a date anyway.
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  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    Virgin will do a saturday install.

    But anyone else requires work done via Openreach
  • System
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    Broadband providers do not normally install, or arrange to install, lines unless you are getting the phone service from them as well.
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  • duchy
    duchy Posts: 19,511 Forumite
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    Penri1980 wrote: »
    Hi there,

    Does anyone know of a broadband provider that will send out an engineer to install a new line on a weekend? I'm a contractor so will not get paid if I have to take a day off in the week, adding a considerable cost to my broadband installation.

    Thanks in advance

    If you already have a phone line (eg BT line) it's self install anyway (or do you mean you need a BB line and need a line installed too to run it ?)

    If there's no existing line then Virgin is your only option for a Saturday install. I'd have booked it before I moved for moving day though as there's usually odd bits and pieces you need to be home for/make calls to that a day off is usually essential if you have no friends or family locally prepared to wait in for you for a day.
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