£10 for a new one off ebay if it really bothers him. They do just clip on so easy.

Like many I suspect mine is bolstered by a bit of sellotape.

I agree though it is all a bit weird. You would think there would be a form or something and BT would send you a new one? But no. How anyone is meant to get them if its all self install? Not to mention sogea, how are people expected to get their extensions out of the master socket and into the back of the router port? My neighbor was sneakily sold sogea by SKY with no warning. We worked out what had happened but there was no warning not to plug your phone line into the master socket any more? Its all a mystery.

Well, I wasn't suggesting that Openreach retrospectively fit 20 million NTE5Cs with filters, but rather from this point on when they do find themselves fitting an NTE5C at a new provision, then do it.

However, then again once the analogue circuit is switched off, you won't need a filter at all, just a BT431 to RJ-11 adaptor, or better still a BT431 to RJ-11 cable for your router, so problem solved

Won’t need a filter once there’s no longer PSTN on the circuit…a little way off.

Edited by Pheasant (Fri 27-Aug-21 20:17:15)