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Re: [LUG] Record time for ADSL install?

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:

Maybe not, but phone line went live at 10am today and Internet was live at 5pm this afternoon...

I know that in-theory, you can do a simultaneous phone & ADSL provision but this involved 2 separate companies... (3 if you count BT!)

However this was due to a shocking cock-up by the phone co-op.... Client of mine wanted to cancel 2 lines of a 3-line incoming group, so asked the phone co-op, who are their line rental company to do so... Which they did. Then, a month later they cancelled 2 other lines - both of which had ADSL on them. First we knew was when I got notification from Entanet of a line cease - on Sunday afternoon which would cease their ADSL service.

And to cap it all, client is a school. If it hadn't been half-term, then I'm sure stress levels would have been much higher all-round.

Phone co-op managed to get the lines re-instated, but not until this morning and I pushed an expedited ADSL install via Enta. (Which costs a lot more, but they needed it)

So panic over, but not a good start to the week!

Gordon

I guess hopefully with any luck the phone co-op will be footing the bill for cease and activation?

Still that's good, shame service isn't always like that, but saying that in the past when I've had line activations it's only been a few days (best one was when I was with Freeserve and the line was activated and they were adamant it wasn't live for another week, good old call centre monkeys).

Rob

Rob


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