Text EE for a call back
Text PHONE to 66033 (charges may apply at your standard rate).
- We’ll run tests on your connection to find out what’s going on.
- If you need an engineer, we’ll text you in 15 mins to book a slot.
- If you don’t need an engineer, our brilliant UK and Ireland based team will call you within 30 mins to help solve your issue.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 8am to 9pm.
Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 8pm.
Check your service is active
Your service may not be active yet if you've moved your home phone service to EE or you've placed a home move order.
Your home phone service can go live at any time up to midnight on your activation day and we'll send you a text message letting you know it's working.
If you think we may be having problems taking payment for your home phone service, you can check your home phone bill to see if a payment has been made.
To check your home phone service is active
- Log into the EE app
- Go to Menu then EE Home and then Track an order.
- You should see details of order and when it’s due to complete.
Check for a dial tone
When you lift your phone's handset, you should hear a steady or, if you've got voicemail, interrupted buzzing.
If you can't hear a steady or interrupted buzzing, check:
- your phone is plugged in: it might have been unplugged by accident
- your phone isn't faulty: try a different phone if you've got a spare or take your phone to a friend's house to check it works
- extension sockets and doublers: remove these where possible by testing in your main BT socket
Using a cordless phone
If you're using a cordless phone, it's also worth checking:
- your phone is charged: put it on charge to check
- your phone is still in range of its base station: try moving closer, check the base station is plugged into the power and phone sockets
- your phone isn't broken: for example after a thunderstorm
If you're still having problems, find out how to check your internal wiring >
A noisy line
If you're getting noise on your landline, it's worth checking the following:
Do you have a broadband filter set up?
As well as fitting a broadband filter to your router's phone socket, you'll also need to fit a filter to any extension sockets. For example, sockets used for telephones, TV (BT, Sky), answerphones and older alarm systems would all need a broadband filter.
Unfiltered phones or devices on your line can cause noise. To fix the problem, you should disconnect any unfiltered devices as a test or fit a broadband filter to the socket.
You might find your broadband becomes more reliable or the speed increases.
Is your phone faulty?
Try a different phone, if you've got a spare, or take your phone to a friend's house to confirm that it works on a different landline connection. If you're using a cordless phone, it may not be fully charged or it may be out of range of its base station.
Check for faulty equipment on your line
- Disconnect all your phones and equipment from your phone line, including phones, TV services (BT, Sky), answerphones, faxes, alarm systems and broadband filters.
- With a phone that you know works, connect it to your phone line and check if this has fixed the problem.
- If it has, reconnect each piece of equipment (starting with your broadband router) back to the line, one by one, testing each time. Leave any faulty equipment disconnected until fixed.
Possible interference on your line
Sometimes interference from other electrical devices can cause noise on your phone line. Try moving your landline phone away from any potential sources of interference like mobile phones, baby monitors, WiFi routers and wireless thermostats.
Using extension sockets and doublers
An extension cable or a doubler could be the cause of the noise on your line.
Problems making or receiving calls
- Try calling yourself from your landline phone, call a mobile phone to give a missed call.
- Return the missed call, so you're calling your landline.
- You should hear a ringing tone on your mobile and your landline phone will ring if your phone and line is working.
If you get a number unavailable tone, contact us.
If your landline phone does ring, check the landline number you called back on your mobile phone. It may be that you've been calling an incorrect landline number or your landline number hasn't moved over to our home phone service correctly.
Let us know if your number isn't correct
You'll need to have both your old and new numbers to hand.
If your landline doesn't ring, check the following:
- Your phone is plugged in (to a phone socket or through a broadband filter). If you're using an extension cable, check this is plugged into your main phone socket too.
- Your phone's ringer hasn't been turned off or put on silent.
- Try a different phone if you can or take your phone to a friend's house to confirm it works. If you're using a cordless phone, it may not be fully charged or may be out of range of its base station.
- If you've got more than one phone in your house, check the receivers on all the phones have been properly replaced.
- Don't connect more than 4 phones to the line. If you've got more, try removing them one by one to test which are working.
Have callers been barred?
Some phones have a call-barring feature, which allows you to block numbers. Check your phone's user guide for details on what to do if you've barred a number by mistake.