Plusnet SoGEA

[Andy Burns]

My Plusnet broadband was due for renewal, I left it for a month after my
"deal" ended, but then I was paying £58.69/m for FTTC and E&W calls.

Sometimes their website would offer to let me renew with landline,
othertimes it offered me broadband without phone, for £21.99/m.

I decided to take the offer, knowing that would cease my number (in use
since 1990, though hardly at all since my parents' deaths) the switch
took place on 21st, though the phone remained working for 24h after the
supposed completion.

Today the phone was dead so I put in the porting request to my existing
voipfone account, Plusnet bills don't actually show your phone number
anywhere on them, so I provided a screenshot from their website, it has
been accepted and supposedly will take place on 29th ... we'll see.

[Graham J]

Andy Burns wrote:

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Post by Andy Burns
Today the phone was dead so I put in the porting request to my existing
voipfone account, Plusnet bills don't actually show your phone number
anywhere on them, so I provided a screenshot from their website, it has
been accepted and supposedly will take place on 29th ... we'll see.

When I did this I put in the porting request a couple of weeks in
advance, with the text added to the Voipfone form to explain the exact
date that the conversion to SOGEA was expected to take place. This had
to be done as text, because the option to specify an exact date caused
the Voipfone form to fail - not sure they've fixed it.

On the conversion date incoming calls arrived on the Voipfone ATA about
mid-morning and on checking I found the landline was dead. So no
detectable break in service.

[Spike]

Post by Andy Burns
My Plusnet broadband was due for renewal, I left it for a month after my
"deal" ended, but then I was paying £58.69/m for FTTC and E&W calls.
Sometimes their website would offer to let me renew with landline,
othertimes it offered me broadband without phone, for £21.99/m.
I decided to take the offer, knowing that would cease my number (in use
since 1990, though hardly at all since my parents' deaths) the switch
took place on 21st, though the phone remained working for 24h after the
supposed completion.
Today the phone was dead so I put in the porting request to my existing
voipfone account, Plusnet bills don't actually show your phone number
anywhere on them, so I provided a screenshot from their website, it has
been accepted and supposedly will take place on 29th ... we'll see.

I did this last month, moving from PN’s FTTC to FTTP.

Two days before the technician turned up to fit the fibre, I put in a
request to A&A to port the landline number. The fibre install went well,
and A&A ported the number when my FTTC contract ended seven days later.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Spike
moving from PN’s FTTC to FTTP.

It'll be years before they bring "real" fibre here ...

[Spike]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Spike
moving from PN’s FTTC to FTTP.

It'll be years before they bring "real" fibre here ...

:-(

[David Wade]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Spike
moving from PN’s FTTC to FTTP.

It'll be years before they bring "real" fibre here ...

You might be suprised. There are fewer holes on the map each week

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband

Dave

[Davey]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:21:43 +0000

Post by David Wade

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Spike
moving from PN’s FTTC to FTTP.

It'll be years before they bring "real" fibre here ...

You might be suprised. There are fewer holes on the map each week
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband
Dave

I live in the area bordered by Cambridge, Thetford, Bury St. Edmunds,
and Norwich, so not totally in the wilds.
I just checked that site, and got this response:

"Build planned between now and Dec-2026".

Yawn. At that rate, the 50m high electricity pylons will be here first.

[Andy Burns]

Post by David Wade

Post by Andy Burns
It'll be years before they bring "real" fibre here ...

You might be suprised. There are fewer holes on the map each week
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-
full-fibre-broadband

Local exchange isn't even on the "we're doing you sometime soon" list,
can't complain about reliability or speed I get from FTTC though.