Order delayed by exception

FTTP finally went live 10 ago so I immediately went ahead and placed my order through Zen. This was done on a Tuesday and I was told to expect further updates by the end of the week. Got the usual order confirmation email and shipping notice foe the router. Nothing else so got in touch on the Friday evening to be told there was an exception on the line at their supplier (OR I assume). Told that this would need to be removed manually and would take 2 working days. Checked again this week and told it is still there and has been passed to a team leader and would update today. Called again today and told still no further forward and has been passed to somebody else and not to expect anything before next Tuesday.
What exactly is this 'exception'? Anybody had this happen with a new order and what was the resolution? Appreciate any info.

Exception is just a generic error so it could be almost anything from an address mis-match to the checker getting it wrong and the FTTP is not actually ready yet.

Resolution involves provider keeping on the game and chasing Openreach to make sure things are not forgot.

Ok thanks for the reply. Zen said they were in a web chat with their supplier about the issue and have escalated it. Just a case of checking for updates I suppose. Just a bit frustrating not knowing.

In reply to a post by DrSteve:

Ok thanks for the reply. Zen said they were in a web chat with their supplier about the issue and have escalated it. Just a case of checking for updates I suppose. Just a bit frustrating not knowing.

BT call those 'exception' as a TAG and nothing can progress until the issue has been resolved and the TAG removed.

I had a TAG put on my line due to fibres coming out of our Splitter Node was all in the wrong trays, so the fibres at all the DP's didn't match their database.

So BT sent out their engineers out (5 or so) to cut and re-join the fibres correctly into the right trays, which took a couple of weeks for the work to be done, then for us due to the incompetence of our case handler a further 2 to 3 weeks for the TAG to be removed from our line, then engineer visits booked and job done.

Overall very happy.

Paul

Suppose I'll just need to learn some patience then. Seems that nothing moves too quickly. Each contact with OR seems to come with a minimum of 2-3 working days before ZEN are allowed to contact them for an update. Always seems to land near a weekend too!

In reply to a post by DrSteve:

Suppose I'll just need to learn some patience then. Seems that nothing moves too quickly. Each contact with OR seems to come with a minimum of 2-3 working days before ZEN are allowed to contact them for an update. Always seems to land near a weekend too!

Well BT normally say up to 5 to 10 days to get an update, I normally wait that time and then pester them every day until it gets resolved or I get an update.

But yeah, I have had issues near the weekend.

Paul

Another week and no further forward. Email update from Zen to say there is still an exception and not able to progress the order. To check back next week again. I'll get on with running some cable around the house in anticipation.

In reply to a post by DrSteve:

Another week and no further forward. Email update from Zen to say there is still an exception and not able to progress the order. To check back next week again. I'll get on with running some cable around the house in anticipation.

I was on the phone to my case handler at BT on a daily basis and kept on at them until it was resolved.

I also did loads of checks and got loads of information before phoning to counter their fob off.

Have you tried Tweeting BT Openreach asking what the issue is?
It couldn't hurt.

Paul

Well, another week has passed and still no progress. There's still an exception on the order so it's not going through. Has apparently been escalated to level 3 which all sounds very impressive. I wonder how may levels of escalation there actually are!

Didn't Dante have something to say about the levels of escalation?