Lehaut Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Tapping away on the keyboard, happily connected to the WWW, suddenly all gone. Restarted the box, still no line, no internet. Wandered down to the village, man in trench lots of wires in hands "No line at our house" says I "yes" says he "I have cut you off, doing some maintenance on the line". No notice, nothing in the bakers, nothing in the letter box. There were two of us standing muttering darkly, his suggestion was to ring orange and complain, but of course no telephone!Back on after half an hour, but really is it too much to ask that they give at least some warning or has the orange www been replaced by telepathy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 [quote user="Lehaut"]Back on after half an hour, but really is it too much to ask that they give at least some warning or has the orange www been replaced by telepathy?[/quote]Well, I think you have just come up with a new word to summarise the general attitude of French telecomms companies:Telepathy = Telephone + apathy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 But wouldn't it be so boring to live in a country where everything was carefully planned and executed and nothing ever went wrong[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 [quote user="nomoss"]But wouldn't it be so boring to live in a country where everything was carefully planned and executed and nothing ever went wrong[:D][/quote]I have absolutely no idea, but I'd like to try it for a while, please. PLEASE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekJ Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 This isn't unique to French companies. I have Virgin broadband in the UK. Several times I've had need to call them when the service has gone down only to be told... "yes, we know about that, the engineers are doing some routine maintenance".Me... "so why didn't you informed me if it was planned".Virgin... "what", "don't know", "we don't do that" etc.Useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 And there was I looking for a thread on the mayor of Bretteville-le-Rabet :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 [quote user="SC"]And there was I looking for a thread on the mayor of Bretteville-le-Rabet :-)[/quote]Hasn't that been renamed Bretteville-le-RABOT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I also thought that the next topic, 20cms might have been what I was looking for.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Or even the one after that "Rather an unfortunate abbreviation, wouldn't yawll agree?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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