Digital voice "Service not ready"
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03-09-2024 09:55 PM
When I got moved over to EE, my digital voice phone wouldn't pair with the EE router. After a long-ish phone call, I got through to someone who did some kind of resets his end. I restarted the hub and phone and got it working.
Now, after I found out that DDNS is not available on the new EE router, and 2 hybrid connect's won't pair, I chucked the EE router in the bin and went back to the BT Smarthub 2. Unfortunately, I had the same issue with digital voice "Service not ready"
I called over a week ago and was assured it will be fixed, although I don't know why one of these co-called resets couldn't be done?
It's still not working, and I have spent over 2 hours in a phone chat with someone who isn't qualified for their job and ignored everything I was saying.
6 times I told them I didn't use an EE router, I use a BT smarthub 2 and the phone was a BT digital voice connected via DECT, but they kept on asking if the phone was connected via Ethernet or was the adapter light green. Again, I told them it was DECT, but they say that was "impossible with their kit" which proves that they just ignore most of what you write.
They didn't even know what DDNS was when I said I refused to use the EE router because it was missing from it.
10 days and I still have no phone service!
I still have two separate accounts for mobile and broadband because the broadband was set up with an email address that is not mine, so I don't know the password for it. I called about that twice, the second time I was told they would merge them and it would take a few days. Well, a week later, nothing has changed.
There seems to be a lot of liars working at EE, as a lot of false information has been given.
I've had more issues with EE in 10 or so days than I had with over 20 years with BT.
Is that really how far we have come?
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04-09-2024 05:22 PM
Hi @CeeJayTee
Welcome to the EE Community.
If your Digital Voice was working with the EE hub it may still be paired with the EE hub, which will be why it is not working with the BT Hub.
You'd need to contact Customer Care to change the device it is paired to.
Have you performed a factory reset on the hub? That would be the first step.
Following that, you may want to try a factory reset of the phones, but just be aware you may lose any content stored on the devices.
If that still doesn't have your digital voice paired up you'll need to call through to customer Care again to check the background settings.
Ali
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04-09-2024 05:46 PM
I've done all of that and called them multiple times. We go around in circles because they ignore everything I tell them.
Nobody seems to know what they're doing.
This whole EE move has been a nightmare and stressful, and it's still not over.
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05-09-2024 01:39 PM
@CeeJayTee
Your Hub would require SIP REGENERATION CREDENTIAL to be sent to it for the Digital voice to be linked. If this is not done Digital Voice will not work.
Digital Voice requires a lot of background systems to operate. It's a very particular service that can face delays if any service or provisioning gets stuck where the systems haven’t communicated correctly between each other, even for the smallest reasons.
Using the BT hub rather than the EE hub could be a cause of the Digital voice failing.
The SIP Regen are generally hub specific so it may not work with the BT hub anyway, as it will be sending the instructions for an EE hub. That said it's still worth a try. The Customer Care team will be able to do this if you ask.
Before you contact them, can you try these steps in this order-
Deregister all handsets from the base.
Factory reset the hub (fully factory reset ,ensuring enough time is given for it to complete correctly)
Re-pair the handsets to the hub.
Ali
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05-09-2024 10:15 PM
@Ali_A wrote:Using the BT hub rather than the EE hub could be a cause of the Digital voice failing.
It's now working after speaking to someone higher up the chain.
I'm not sure why you're saying that using the BT Smarthub would cause digital voice to fail?! The phone and Smarthub were sent together when I got fibre back in 2021 and are no different on EE.
The guy I spoke to earlier was reading the notes from all of the useless prior conversations I had; He said that he didn't know why any of them were telling me that it was a problem with the equipment, or that it wasn't compatible. He said it was nonsense.
Not my words, but his, and I totally agree.
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15-09-2024 08:10 PM
@CeeJayTee Reaching out to you, trying to find your current Router status and DV, did you settle and return to the BT smarthub2 as your router, and using DV on the landline. Also if both are correct, are you having any issues DV wise or all running smoothly, hope you do not mind me posting to you, not a lot of user's on DV with the BT router, and remembered your posting!👍
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05-11-2024 08:07 PM
It’s an absolute disaster.
Had digital voice with BT for two years.
Switched BB to EE, and now no digital voice!
I’ve spent hours on the phone, but they can’t fix it.
In the end I told them to cancel it
I really don’t have the time or patience to spend hours on the phone every day

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