Brring Brring – another call from BT, somewhat more apologetically this time, to update us on the great telephone line saga. It seems that our innocent request for a phone line was the metaphorical straw that broke the camel’s back, and not just the cable but all of the poles from here to eternity will have to be replaced, possibly by the end of this month. And sure enough, when we set out this morning, there was a great big BT pole-replacing machine, working its way up our road. All this big machinery for little me…
Coming back much later this afternoon, (having angered the TomTom woman by missing her carefully selected turnoff and being sent down smaller and smaller roads until we were driving down something with not just grass, but a fine crop of dandelions down the middle of it – a blog entry in its own right one of these days), we inspected their handiwork. Alongside the old wooden poles with arms sticking out*, were new wooden poles with no arms sticking out, presumably the upgraded poles although their improvements weren’t really visible to the naked eye. They had done two. There are a lot of poles.
This could be a long month…
*You’ll have to excuse the technical language here. I’d have taken a picture but I don’t have all week to watch it upload to flickr…
Phone them back. Explain to them that since they’re having to upgrade anyway that you want fiber. FI-BER. The repeating it with the sillybubbles stressed is for their benefit so they don’t get it wrong. Unlikely they’ll do it, but it can’t hurt to ask
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Moobs
New poles in the Merse have to be authorised by the BT outsourced call centre in Mumbai.You seem to making record progress-BT Seychelles possibly?
Pace Moobs I do not recommend Satellite Broadband. Satellites often seem to skip the Borders. Our neighbour had it but was ‘down’ as often as ‘up’
Dom, I may give it a go, next time they call me but for a telephone company they’re very coy about giving me a number to ring them back on
Moobs – it may well come to that. We’ll need a dish to get any telly as well
Huttonian – they’ve clearly perfected their Welsh accents in Mumbai, if the chap I spoke to was anything to go by