Moving to FTTC "Waiting list" Area

JJ_Egan

As you are anti BT suggest you just take your chances .
Either with your current supplier or choose one from the BB checker top of the page .Most contracts are the same as BTs 12 month 18 month 24 month depending upon services and price .
Or you can just pay the standard BT 30 day no contract price for a couple of months .

Which one does not matter as the cabinet and number are owned by OpenReach .


I would ask the owner not to close the account until you have moved in . Move in and open new account .

The_Fat_Controller

@brewerdave

OK, I guess the rules are different from my ISP then....

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ConfusedOfDevon wrote: »

Thanks for all of the advice so far.

• I understand that the current owner just has a residential line - even though the T&Cs say they shouldn't.
• They are moving out of the area so they can't keep the phone number.
• We are not currently BT customers, because in our past experience their customer service has been awful, their products expensive and their contracts too long. If the only way to keep the fibre connection is to continue with BT then we would sacrifice all of that, but my fear is that if I just call BT then the customer service representative will tell me......of course you'll keep the fibre connection (because most of them don't understand what they are selling), they'll sign me up for 18months and then when it comes to moving in we will lose the connection, join the back of the queue and be stuck on an ADSL line with BT for 18 months.

I've seen no mention of Virgin as an alternative?

Mister_G

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

I've seen no mention of Virgin as an alternative?

That's because they don't cover North Devon

Croft12

Well they do record BT cals so their ought to be a record of the promises they make. Alternatively does the B&B get 4g reception? as you can use that