Broadband at Purchase Property

user1977

Weathergirl_76 said:

The ‘telephone receivers’ terminology was taken from the form the seller completed. For my sale,  I ticked it was included on my form, and understood this to be the telephone point you plug your phone into, or BT socket. 

No, it's the handset, not the socket. It's assumed that you're not going to unscrew the socket and take it with you!

If you want to know which utility providers they have, the relevant question/form is question 13 on the TA6:

https://prdsitecore93.azureedge.net/-/media/files/topics/property/ta6-specimen-may-2020.pdf

Greymug

One of my mates is a surveyor working in the Scottish Highlands and he told me plenty stories of people who did the trendy thing of moving from a big city to the idillic and very instagrammable Scottish countryside, taking advantage of them being able to work from home full-time.

They bought these nice wee cottages in the middle of nowhere, most of the times without even viewing them, overpaid them because of course they have a city salary so they could afford to, only to find out the internet was complete rubbish. Some of them sold their home already taking quite the financial beating and ran back to the comfort of their city.

Anyways, this post doesn't add much value to the thread, I just wanted to tell a story

Slithery

Greymug said:

One of my mates is a surveyor working in the Scottish Highlands and he told me plenty stories of people who did the trendy thing of moving from a big city to the idillic and very instagrammable Scottish countryside, taking advantage of them being able to work from home full-time.

They bought these nice wee cottages in the middle of nowhere, most of the times without even viewing them, overpaid them because of course they have a city salary so they could afford to, only to find out the internet was complete rubbish. Some of them sold their home already taking quite the financial beating and ran back to the comfort of their city.

Anyways, this post doesn't add much value to the thread, I just wanted to tell a story

Pretty much irrelevant in a few months now that Starlink is up and running, you'll be able to get 150MB/s worldwide.

Section62

user1977 said:

Sorry, I misread the OP - yes, "telephone receiver" means the thing you talk into, not the wire going into the house. In ye olden days (i.e. the 90s) people used to get inexplicably excited about whether or not the phones were included in the price. Isn't there somewhere else on the forms for their current utility providers?

Back then in ye olden days many people had a hardwired phone which belonged to BT and was rented.  Having that ripped out by the vendor when they moved (or having BT remove it) would have been quite a big deal as you'd then have to wait for BT to fit a master socket (or new rental phone) before you could use the line.  And (near) universal mobile phone ownership wasn't a thing then either.

In GPO speak the "receiver" was the part of the phone containing the microphone and loudspeaker and connected by a curly cable to the main body of the phone. The phonebooks of the day would contain messages urging you to "Always ensure you replace the receiver properly" to avoid remaining connected and being charged an even more astronomical amount for the call.

tooldle

I've gone the other way. Virgin at old house, BT fibre at new. I've moved a very short distance, approx a couple of mins on foot. the new place had a standard copper phone line and no internet service (probate property). We have gone for BT fibre with the 5G mobile back up option. So far it has been as good as, if not better than our previous Virgin Service. There is a slight delay between BB going down and the 5G service kicking in, but i am glad not to be at the mercy of far longer outages from Virgin. Virgin is not an option here as there is no coax to the property.

Weathergirl_76

I looked at the deals offered by VM, they go up to nearly double after 18 months. Incidentally, someone has posted this afternoon on a residents group on Facebook for the area I’m moving to, that they are having issues ‘again’ with their VM connection, stating no internet, no phone or tv since last night, or on and off.  

I called my current ISP who seems to think their engineer attending the property once I move in, will be able to sort it and re-connect. He said VM disconnect the line when they supply a property. He said it’s very rare that they can’t re-connect a service, and told me the speed of fibre internet should be the same as I have here (he did a test whilst I was on the phone). I haven’t been sent the TA6 yet, I only have the fixtures and fittings form as my conveyancer is waiting for a management pack for parking (property is feeehold) which is taking ages for some reason. 

And I have learnt that a receiver is a phone  ☎️ today. I guess I now have to leave one here 🙄🙄

martindow

Isn't a telephone receiver the thing you speak into?  I would also have ticked 'no' as I would be unplugging it to take with me when I move out.  There could still be a BT box on the wall in that case.

Drawingaline

I had the same issue with the receiver tick on the form. I panicked and emailed the EA as I thought it meant the actual phone line 🤦🤷 which means I probably ticked it as a yes on our form. Didn't leave a phone (haven't had one for about a decade) and buyer didn't chase me for one!

GaleSF63

Drawingaline said:

I had the same issue with the receiver tick on the form. I panicked and emailed the EA as I thought it meant the actual phone line 🤦🤷 which means I probably ticked it as a yes on our form. Didn't leave a phone (haven't had one for about a decade) and buyer didn't chase me for one!

To chase you, the buyer would also have needed to know the correct terminology. If it's a common misconception they probably thought the same as you. 

TimSynths

powerful_Rogue said:

If it's Virgin Media at the premises, then the telephones now plug into the router, rather then having a phone socket on the wall.

This^^^^^^^^^

I don't even plug a phone into mine as not needed but I do have a tel number. Been with VM 18+ years and have also been working from home last 2 years and find them totally reliable, albeit for one Saturday it went down and had engineer round by late Monday morning and I was back at work with just 20 mins lost in the end, great service. I do work from a hard wired connection though, less risk.