NTL ate my phone number?!

Meza · 28-05-2004, 11:14

I don't use my home phone for outgoing calls much. A few days ago a friend called me up on my mobile to say he couldn't get through on my NTL landline number. He was on NTL, when he called me got a message saying the number was unavailible. I couldn't make any outgoing calls - the line was totally silent, no dial tone.

I called NTL this morning, after the usual 20 minute wait I got through to faults. Someone spent 5 minutes checking my number, then came back to me and said I must have got the number wrong. I confirmed it was the right number, he sounded puzzled and said "well I can't find it on our switch - it doesn't exist".

F'in great, nice one NTL. Now go away and find my phone number please.

Anyone else had this particular problem before? (or even got any idea how it happened?!?)

Meza

Derek · 28-05-2004, 11:57

Where in the country are you?

There are a couple of reasons why it could have happened. Was the number originally ported over from BT?

poolking · 14-06-2004, 22:34

I've had a similar sort of problem, sorry to cross post. My number has been ported over from BT.

Full details in this thread:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=13453