PHone line Installation, Is it difficult?

jeanbrads69


Joined: 15/09/2011
Posts: 78

Message Posted:
21/10/2011 14:43

Looking at having a phone line installed in my villa, there are already installed sockets, its it very difficult to get a line installed

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
21/10/2011 14:49

Well, our house was built with phone sockets in every room. 7 years ago we made enquiries and were laughed at. To the best of my knowledge the nearest phone is 1Km away from our house i.e. on the main Lapta - Girne road. You maybe be luckier than most.

stellasstar1



Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 1519

Message Posted:
21/10/2011 16:29

Try and get a Cypriot to go with you to the telephone exchange, I got mine in 2 weeks, 4 years ago.

Agobard


Joined: 20/08/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
21/10/2011 16:33

Nobody can advise you on this one except for the telephone company. Go to the phone office in Girne - almost opposite the post office, go round to the side entrance and ask at the enquiries office on the ground floor. Take your land plan/kocan or whatever with you so that they can identify accurately where your property is. If there are phones near you in Lapta, it will not be difficult to get a line but, if you are some distance from the nearest existing phone it will be a different story!

littleme


Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 299

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 06:54

we done ours it took a week as a 2 doctors next to us needed phones anyway girne phone office round the side & up the stairs they speak english & are very helpful. you will need to put a deposjt down ours was 200 th 5 years ago. we also had to do the cable from the box in the road to our house ourselves

kittyfun


Joined: 11/04/2011
Posts: 181

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 08:04

If youre lucky enough to live close to existing phone lines you will probably get one but dont bet on it

Enrico


Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 209

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 10:07

We ( 10 houses) were told that to get parcellised, we had to have a fibre optic phone line fitted. A new law apparently. We all paid £650 each, for the provision of this cable 2 years ago.

We are still waiting.

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 11:33

mm fibre optic thats a new one was it your builder told you that or the phone company ?

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 16:10

Impossible where i live although all cables and house sockets are in place. Telecoms say we are to far from the nearest connection point and they dont have any spare numbers.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 17:25

Msg1 The Phone socket on the Wall is simply a Phone socket on the wall.Similar to the "Street Light Cables" sticking out of the pavement.or the TV Ariel sockets .........Be thankfull that your Electric sockets have electricity ,except when the power goes off.... After All,in the TRNC, "One out of THREE Ain't bad"...

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 18:16

Reminds me of the day we moved into our house. "Why isn't thre electricity on" says I. You haven't got a pole that's why. "But the contract says the property will be connected to the electricity" says I. Well it is, those are the wires sticking out of your surrounding wall. If you want electricity you must now pay for 2 poles in the road. Over and year and two electricity poles in the road plus £4000 a pole, we actually had what the contract said we had!!! The same goes for phone sockets............they are there and very nice they look too.

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
22/10/2011 18:21

Why get a phone line ..



A laptop computor Skype & you can ring anwhere in the world, plus it's much cheaper ..