I received the following email back today: Dear Mr Chickencow, With regards to your recent correspondence regarding your Notice of Dispute query, our investigation is now complete and the outcome is outlined below. 02 We have received no response from the Client in relation to the information under dispute on your Credit File. We have therefore, temporarily removed this information from your Credit File, you will be notified if we receive an update from the Client. Please note that the Notice of Dispute previously loaded to your Credit File has been removed. For further information on all aspects of your Credit File, please visit our website at. I'm quite happy with this result, and as O2 have not responded to either my email or letter to them, I don't expect them to contest this at any time soon! If anyone else is in the same boat, then I'd definitely suggest trying this - after all, what do you have to lose?

I have now had an email back from Equifax as follows: I'll post any replies I get

Thanks!

Good luck with all this! I am in a similar situation with O2 who registered a default against me in January 2004 without ever providing me with a letter of default notice. I gave them 14 days to respond about 10 days ago, so fingers crossed I get a response. Have you got the email address at Equifax? I am going to contact them to see if they are able to do anything at their end. Keep us posted with how you get on.