{"id":113,"date":"2006-09-04T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/04\/the-wonders-of-bt\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T12:58:04","slug":"the-wonders-of-bt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/04\/the-wonders-of-bt\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonders of BT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you think I&rsquo;ve been quiet, that&rsquo;s not quite true. I&rsquo;ve been hopping mad \u2014 with British Telecom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As I reported on 25 August, I moved house and office. BT promised to have me on line on 30 August. Fair enough, I thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The man came on 30 August. He spent 5 hours around the office. A new line left the office and went to a poll. A cable came through the wall into a nice new router. It&rsquo;s 99% done, he said. And then added the caveat. The 1% to do is under water. What, I asked? Where? Oh, between here and the exchange he replied. There&rsquo;s a flooded duct and your new line is broken in there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By Friday they reported they needed a frogman in breathing apparatus to make it work. Now they say the original man filled out the wrong form and he&rsquo;s now on holiday so I have to wait for a few days for a new man to fill out the right form so he can ask the frogman to come and enter the duct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It looks like I&rsquo;m offline for a while. Which means the internet caf?\u00a9 I&rsquo;m in and I might get quite familiar with each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And I&rsquo;ll quietly fume about the wisdom of granting a complete monopoly on telephone supply in the UK to a private company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right;\"><small><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\">Qumana<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think I&rsquo;ve been quiet, that&rsquo;s not quite true. I&rsquo;ve been hopping mad \u2014 with British Telecom. As I reported on 25 August, I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/04\/the-wonders-of-bt\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}