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    Is this why no engineer has been sent to plug my back-up ADSL modem into the wall? They needed to wet the ink on a new contract?

    Seriously I've had an ADSL filter in my office for about 4 months (maybe longer). An ADSL modem sitting in it's box for nearly as long and the line was finally put in about 2 months ago. I got all the pieces just no one to plug it all in!

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    same here don't know what they are playing at.

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    dear me, £40m sterling seems a hell of lot money to the British Telecom!!!, can't understand it. They are are not that great when it comes to infrastructure, really they are not.

    Ash.

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    unfortunately for us and due to the rurality of Norfolk BT is the only provider with the infrastructure to provide our services. It went to a european tender and I think they may have been the only ones to bid.

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    Isn't the £40m to do with the low water table and they have to run waterproof cables everywhere for when this happens?

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    bt's underground cable is sealed anyway

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    Quote Originally Posted by plexer View Post
    It went to a european tender and I think they may have been the only ones to bid.
    Indeed they were. We had a choice of BT or nothing.

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    Our backup router is slowly making its way around the many different uses I can find for it until BT/ICTS can be bothered to come and plug it in. Currently it is enjoying life as a monitor stand although it did have a few weeks as a paperweight

    It'd be nice if they would hurry up a bit some they can find out there isnt enough cable to plug it in with and send me some of that, but I suppose thats next years job!

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    Would be nice if they'd come sort our back up router out as well...

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    Then again it'd also be really nice if Norfolk lifted the 10MB cap off our internet connection. It was a 10MB connection before but it's now slower than ever!

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