jane2005

Can anyone give me some advice. My telephone has not been working for over 3 weeks, I have been into Turk Telekom almost on a daily basis trying to get an engineer out to have a look. The engineers eventually turned up this morning, had a look at the little box outside my house, then told me it was MY problem not thier's! Apparently the underground cable needs to be replaced, patio dug up etc etc, all at my expense. Surely this is not right, after all I only rent the line, I pay line RENTAL. But they say it is my cable, I don't think they would be too happy though if I started messing about in THIER cable box looking for MY cable. Of course all the time the phone is out of order they are still billing me for line rental. I also have ADSL down the same line and that is working perfectly.

Any ideas?

Anyone like to buy a brand new super duper DECT Panasonic phone with answering machine, never used and I mean never used. Sorry I have no pictures.

leylaasena

We had the same problem - ie ADSL working but phone not working.
It turned out to be the connection inside the house that 'splits ' the line between the computer and the phone.
Sorry I can't be more specific but I'm not very technically-minded.
Both had worked fine for the last year then one day nothing.

It might be worth you getting this checked before you dig up your patio.
If Telecom wont help maybe your computer man will check it for you.

jane2005

Nope, done all that. Took the ADSL/PC out of the equation altogether and plugged line directly into the phone, nothing. I think it's a case of Turk Telekom being very lazy. I am going down there this afternoon to shout and probably cry.

Martyn

I'm not a phone engineer and know nothing about the way the lines work but the obvious thing to me is if the underground cabling from the outside box to your phone is at fault just get it bypassed and run it on the surface as a new line. That would work out a lot cheaper and less inconvenient. If you get a line installed in the uk they don't have to dig up the road etc.

Just my tuppence

jane2005

Thanks Martin, that makes sense to me too. The engineer plugged his phone in on our line outside and was speaking for ages. Seeing as it's MY line I can do it with or without them I suppose.

immac

Have you got a 'splitter' between your phone and the wall plug? ADSL connection requires that the telephone (irrespective of whether the computer is plugged in) has a little box to make it work - called a splitter.
Ian