Posts by Bob the Skutter

Fibre broadband uptake in UK lags behind OECD countries

Re: BT replacing copper with fibre

My exchange started taking FTTP order almost a year ago, and stop sell issued for copper. However think there are only 3 house on the street out of over 50 that have upgraded.

When go for walk around the neighbourhood at lunch time try to spot the fibre boxes outside houses and definitely less than 10. I'd say take up is well below 1%.

You can provide FTTP but can't make people buy it.

It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine

Re: Friday rule

Depends on the system as to what time do IT Deployments

Our IT department have done deployments at 2am on Sunday mornings. With full regression testing during the day to allow for rollback in case things go wrong so that system is working on Monday.

When you have automated order and billing systems have to do when quietest. As have to put hold on through put

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it

Re: Nice set of options, but Ethernet?

The T14 on my desk has a standard Ethernet port on the right hand side.

(just realised this is a different model thought was plural at first, rather than model)

Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site

Re: Copper won't get switched off for a long time, only WLR

Openreach have issued a number of stop sell for copper at exchanges where initial rollout of full fibre has started.

There is also plan to switch off about 4600 exchanges as part of the move to fibre and switch off of copper. So will be left with just 1000. The first of these due to be switched off by 2030, before a rapid closure of remaining exchanges.

They are estimating just 1million copper lines left by 2025

[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?

Re: BT headsets

Brought my Jabra headset home when lockdown started, Did a test connection and got all the way to other side of the building through restaurant still connected to base, must be a good 75/100M with a couple of walls in way

Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits

I was late this year doing mine, only submitted in October, done around June/July time normally.

Given tax year ends in April and got 10 months to submit surely no excuse not to complete

When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames

Re: Dolt

Yes but does it include sausage?

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Agree if you've got 3 computers at home and buy the office 2019 for them that's £360 for each. So will cost only cost in if you don't upgrade again for almost 5 years. Plus you get to use the O365 apps on tablets/ phones.

Oracle robbed just about anyone who wasn't a pasty white male of $400m, says Uncle Sam

Re: Oracle are cunts

Actually water isn't wet. It's what makes things wet.

Continental: We, er, tire of Whatsapp, Snapchat on work phones. GDPR, innit?

Does GDPR cover having people in your contacts list in your phone so that can ring them or send them a text?

USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' – says Salesforce supremo Marc Benioff

Not sure why down votes I'm equally impressed at how they can report next year's figures

Facebook announces ad revenue reroute: When Irish eyes are crying

Reducing profits

Wonder how much loaded it will run up to make these changes?

Openreach boss says he'd take a burning effigy on the chin

Re: £7Bn Pensions defecit?

Because the Bank of England base rate has been next to nothing for the past 8 years.

A decent rate rise would get rid of most pension schemes deficits. Also don't forget Gordon Browns pension tax raid.

Black Horse Down: Lloyds Banking Group goes TITSUP*

Was using lloyds banking app fine this morning and Halifax one has just let me in ok

Customer: BT admitted it had 'mis-sold' me fibre broadband

Re: Cable?

Openreach should know the capacity but are they allowed to tell BT Retail that?

Do other CPs have access to this information?

Catastrophic 123-reg VPS cockup deletes Ross County FC website

Re: And where was...

I'm confused as to how so many people lost websites.

All mine are edited locally and then uploaded to live server.

Who maintains only a live version of a website?

'Apple lures labels from free streams – and why is no one doing anything about it' shrieks group

Re: Sense of self entitlements are not good...

I believe that radio pays out about £40 in royalties for a song, if you have 100k people listening that equates to £0.0004 which is less than Spotify per listener.