Hey guys I'm new here. I was wanting to get an nte5 fitted and was worried BT would charge a fortune and leave me with an external nte or something, I knew there was an Openreach engineer in my road and caught them coming out from their van. I explained that I wanted my LJU2/1A replaced with a NTE5 and she said if I called up and asked it'd be about £200 or free if I had a fault, she said she wished she got paid the call out charge and said I'd be better off doing it myself If I felt competant to do it and gave me a NTE5 (she said they only cost about 5 pence). I said I'd read that I couldn't interfere with BT wiring and asked if I could pay her cash in hand to fit it at her convenience, so we swapped numbers and she said she could come round Monday evening.
Before phoning BT try to find an engineer in the street, the lady I was talking to was going to a union meeting, BT workers are planning to strike, so they'll probably be more likely to take £20-30 cash in hand for a 10 minute job in their own time.