ADSL in non active BT line

Friend is just moving to house with a BT line that has a dead tone, he is
trying to get/find out what was the number as it was disconnected and not
taken away, the line or number.

Is it possible to have non BT ISP ADSL connected without the voice line
being activated?

He don't need BT voice just ADSL!

No!

> No!

Yes!

You could have a fault condition; no dialtone, no 48V battery feed but ADSL
working perfectly.
But of course BT would never provision such a service deliberately as a
matter of policy and that's what you are eluding to.
So I guess your answer is right.

73's

Graham.



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"Graham" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > No!
>
> Yes!
>
> You could have a fault condition; no dialtone, no 48V battery feed but
ADSL
> working perfectly.
> But of course BT would never provision such a service deliberately as a
> matter of policy and that's what you are eluding to.
> So I guess your answer is right.
>
> 73's
>
> Graham.

Interesting! reason I ask is I have a disconected BT line that still has BB
running on it.

Is that a BT mistake!

DH <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: Interesting! reason I ask is I have a disconected BT line that still has BB
: running on it.

: Is that a BT mistake!

Yes! ADSL charges never cover the basic line rental (they could, in theory,
do so - but currently don't)

A simple answer would be to have adsl you have to pay line rental as well.

Dan

"Graham" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > No!
>
> Yes!
>
> You could have a fault condition; no dialtone, no 48V battery feed but
ADSL
> working perfectly.
> But of course BT would never provision such a service deliberately as a
> matter of policy and that's what you are eluding to.
> So I guess your answer is right.
>
> 73's
>
> Graham.
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>
>
> %Profound_observation%
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>
>

> Interesting! reason I ask is I have a disconected BT line that still has
BB
> running on it.
>
> Is that a BT mistake!
>
>

more like work scheduling, the BT engineer has to go to the exchange to
disconnect the ADSL, it will happen eventually. So best pay the bill before
you have to reconnect both, phone reconnection is around £25 and ADSL the
full fee of £55 ex vat, add on any ISP admin charges for it as well and you
have a nice summer time bill and no ADSL coming

>
> Interesting! reason I ask is I have a disconected BT line that still has
BB
> running on it.
>
> Is that a BT mistake!


I suspect this happens quite often!
As Gus suggests, your telephone service is cut off at a call-centre maybe
hundreds of miles away with a few deft key strokes
For BT to cut off your ADSL requires an engineer to remove the jumpering to
the DSLAM on the distribution frame.

Graham.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:52:36 +0100, "Graham" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>>
>> Interesting! reason I ask is I have a disconected BT line that still has
>BB
>> running on it.
>>
>> Is that a BT mistake!
>
>
>I suspect this happens quite often!
>As Gus suggests, your telephone service is cut off at a call-centre maybe
>hundreds of miles away with a few deft key strokes
>For BT to cut off your ADSL requires an engineer to remove the jumpering to
>the DSLAM on the distribution frame.
>
>Graham.
>
>%Profound_observation%
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So in theory one could tell BT what to do with their (from next month)
expencive phone line and still keep ones adsl connection !.
Grant .

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> So in theory one could tell BT what to do with their (from next month)
> expencive phone line and still keep ones adsl connection !.

Only until a BT engineer goes to your exchange and physically disconnects
your line from the DSLAM - as per the automated "work order" that the system
would have generated when BT disconencted your voice line..

Maybe a week or two ?

Regards
Sunil