Posts by orangehand

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Re: Clearly a maintenance schedule issue

The problem is that everything they do costs a fortune. One of their blokes told me that to make a concrete plinth for an FTTC cabinet, put the cabinet on the plinth and run a mains supply to it 'costs' £50,000. The total lack of value delivered by these clowns is amazing.

BT bets farm on consumers: Announces one network to rule 'em all

Re: BT Plus

Sorry if I missed a reference, but where do you find those EE offerings?

Germany to roll out €100bn gigabit internet network

Re: Or is the government listening...

LA matched funding = same public pot, different name. UK get your sh*t together please - it's embarrassing. (I live in rural Dorset where there are no FTTC plans, andI have a client in Soho who still cannot get FTTC)

Re: The €100bn project

And that is one awful bloody waste of money. What on earth are they on?

Re: The €100bn project

Despite being an unapologetic tory, it was the privatisation of BT. If I could see ANY example of privatisation having improved things I would be a little more positive, but I simply haven't. Trains, Gas, Electricity, BT etc etc - it's all a clusterfuck with rampant price inflation for no real benefit other than to the shareholders.

BT agrees to legal separation of Openreach

Out of interest is there a chart of different countries line rentals anywhere?

BT customers hit by broadband outage ... again

Re: Zen down as well

My Zen-in-the-middle-of-nowhere is UP.....