Welcome to the BT Fault Progress Tracking Service

3 A Detailed Fault Report

If you choose to view a more detailed report of a current fault the system will display a screen similar to the images shown below.

As the detailed fault report potentially contains more information that will fit on a screen, fig. 4 shows the top part of a detailed fault report screen and fig. 5 shows the bottom part.

Screen Shot4 - Displays details of fault reported
fig. 4 - Detailed Fault Report Screen (top)

The top part of the detailed fault report screen shown above contains the following details

  • The telephone number the fault was logged against.
  • The fault report number (this is how the fault is identified within BT)
  • The date and time the fault was logged by BT
  • The customer type the account of the telephone number is for
  • Date and times of any appointment for an engineer to attend the customer's property to deal with the fault.
  • If BT has failed to meet a commitment to deal with the fault or the engineer failed to keep an appointment an apology message will be displayed (as show in the image above, hi-lighted in red)
  • A text description of where line tests suggest the fault is likely to be located
  • A graphical representation of the BT telephone network with the likely location of the fault hi-lighted

The lower part of a detailed fault report screen is shown in fig. 5 below.

Screen Shot5 - Close look at the graphical display for faults
fig. 5 - Detailed Fault Report Screen (bottom)

This bottom part of the detailed fault report screen gives the following details

Under the graphical representation of the BT telephone network is
  • A key to the locations within the network where the fault may be
  • If an engineer may need to gain access to the customer's property to deal with the fault a warning of this will be displayed (as shown, hi-lighted in red)
  • The current status of the fault, whether tests have been completed and the fault diagnosed, whether an engineer has been assigned, etc.

Click to proceed to next page The next screen explains the BT network map and possible fault locations