After 18 months of nightmare phone trouble, Open Reach finally dug up
the pavement and remade the 70 year old joint for my line. Turns out
that digging up the pavement for other services at least 8 times in the
past few years had corrupted the cables and my line was shorting to
other phone lines. I now have a phone line which appears to work, but
the worrying comment was made, that we don't know if we have cut off
other people! I'll now wait a month, before I believe that the problem
is solved, I just don't have faith!

I had this with Virgin a few years ago.
The cables apparently had been compromised due to tree roots having cracked
the green tubing the cables ran in, and the guy told me I was lucky to be
just across the road from the green box., looking at the tests on other
pairs in the cluster as yet unused, half of them had shorts already!
Brian

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After 18 months of nightmare phone trouble, Open Reach finally dug up the
pavement and remade the 70 year old joint for my line. Turns out that
digging up the pavement for other services at least 8 times in the past
few years had corrupted the cables and my line was shorting to other phone
lines. I now have a phone line which appears to work, but the worrying
comment was made, that we don't know if we have cut off other people! I'll
now wait a month, before I believe that the problem is solved, I just
don't have faith!