Re: BT Wayleaves


"David P" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1dcc7b19f525722698969e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <sMoM$yB1YdYDFwiP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Those of you with active memories may recall that I intended approaching
>> BT with regard to payment for various bits of telecom stuff scattered
>> round the farm.
>>
>> This crop has fruited in the sum of 3K!
>>
> Sounds like a good return on *your* investment <g>
> --
> David
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Got to be careful with BT, they are a law unto themselves. We had to wait a
good while for them to come and mark where there cable lies down our private
road that feeds us and two neighbours. The surveyor got it wrong (easily
done as it turned out there was an old cable not on his rough plans) and we
knackered the cable. The one line is to an automated high priority system
but it took 10 days to get an engineer for a 10 minute fix. In the meantime
we had a hell of a job as they were going to charge us for the job even
though their own surveyor said it was their mistake.
Lots of their cables are just inches deep in the verges and cross inside the
edge of some fields, seems we are liable if we dig up any of their unmarked
cables. Mind the local engineers are fine and it is just BT's lack of public
access to management that causes the trouble.
Mick (59% N)


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