Help! Urgent!

If you are with BT you can "live chat " with them on the Internet. They would then be able to test your phone line for you and find out what the problem is.

Some years ago this used to be a ploy by burglars. They would ring your No. and not replace the receiver, so that left your line useless. When they broke in you couldn't call the Police. ( this was in the days when they responded to a burglary)

Hello all,

So sorry, should have updated this thread .

When in the village shop on the Monday after we had first had the problem on Sunday afternoon/evening I discovered that half the village seemed to have the same problem, some had even been without landline since Saturday! The suppliers were various, but I suppose that whoever you switch your phone provider to, it comes down to BT/Open Reach who manage the actual physical service and connections etc.

Aaaaanyway, we were eventually back in the land of the telephonically connected by Wednesday afternoon.

Which reminds me, I must contact my provider and ask if we are going to get some sort of discount, after all we were without a usable landline for 3 days.