Telecoms nightmares
France Telecom is a nationalized monopoly and one of the best reasons I’ve come across for NOT having nationalized monopolies.
Merde.
Over two weeks ago I ordered a phone line to be switched on for the office. It was really difficult to even get to that point, because frankly - no one who works for France telecom actually needs to do any work to keep their job it seems.
So I got a call 2 weeks ago now. The woman gave me my new telephone number and assured me my line would be set up within 48 hours. yeh right. So 2 weeks later I ask another guy, a french speaking businessman in Chamonix to give them a call and see what the deal is. Apparently everything is as it should be and the line might take anything up to 2 weeks to get up and running. So in the meantime I’m paying rent on an office I can’t use.
Not to worry…. I’ve still got a solid connection at the old flat (I’ve moved into the new one now). No. The storm the other day knocked out 80% of the connections in the valley on Friday and that includes me. There are pockets of connectivity around town, and some open networks I can use to pick up emails and chat on skype for an hour or so here and there, but I can’t work. I need to be connected to the VPN in London to actually develop, and for that I need a lot of non-portable computer equipment.
God knows when it will all be back on. The gossip around town is Wednesday. Just bloody marvelous.
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well why not use it as an excuse to spend more time jumping off mountains, or head some where you can jump off boats for a couple of days?
Go on, you know it makes sense….