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Luke3000
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We woke up this morning to find our internet connection is down.

Long story short, we received an e-mail on the 28th November that I was thinking of leaving vodafone (I'm not) and that my service would end on the 12th December. A phone call to vodafone didn't reveal much or give an explanation of why this has happened. I was then offered a black friday upgrade to a full fibre 150 which turned out to be £3 a month cheaper than what I'm paying now so I thought why not? 

I set this up over the phone and got an e-mail confirming the upgrade and that my new service would be activated on the 29th November. 

A couple of nights ago Royal Mail knock on the door trying to deliver a new BT hub. I rejected it as it was addressed to the previous occupant (over 8 years ago) of our house and phoned BT to ask what was going on. I was told not to worry and that if I had told vodafone that the service transfer is a mistake then this information would be shared with BT. 

I've contacted vodafone today to ask why my connection is down and mentioned the strange issue I've had. I was transferred to the activations team and told there's a delay in activation at Openreach's end and that it could take up to the 20th December to resolve! I was given some jargon on online chat that the reason was something to do with a "FTTP Phoenix smc failure" or whatever that means. 

Obviously I'm not happy about this and I asked for this to be escalated to a manager as it's caused nothing but a complete ball ache. 

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Effie
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Hey @Luke3000 I am genuinely very sorry to hear about the experience you have had with this issue so far. As we have no account access on the Forum, we would be unable to look into this further for you here. If you would like an update on your case, please reach back out to the Broadband Teams on 0333 304 0191 or via LiveChat. If your complaint has not been raised and escalated yet, please drop the Social Media Team a message so they can get this arranged for you.