RE: Re: Fibre to the premises - US

["LeeUKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had two 'experiences' of the NTL installer kind at my last house.

1) They 'installed' the cable into a 6" deep trench. Not really a
problem,
but it was also across my gravelled driveway. Did the 'installer' scrape
back the gravel before digging the trench? No, he just started digging and
produced a small mountain of mixed soil and gravel. Then laid the cable and
then dumped the mixed soil/gravel back into the 'trench'. And then wondered
why I was livid at a having  2 foot strip of mud across my driveway and an
8
foot by 8 foot muddy patch... what a numbskull...

2) Was nearly fatal for the second 'installer'. I had a second phone line
installed, so "I'll put the second socket next to the first
Guv"... He
drills straight thru the wall before I can say 'Look out the elecy
distribution board is on the other side of that wall!'. He missed the
cooker
ring main by 5mm but managed to smash a big hole in the architrave
instead.... muppets...

My closing thought for this email is that my wife's best friends boyfriend,
(a chap whose major previous career was pizza delivery) became an 'NTL
Installation Engineer' after a ten day course....

Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 October 2004 09:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Fibre to the premises - US


What understreet trunking would that be?

I caught the NTL installers trying to run the cable over the top of our
flowerbeds, and then across the drive in a shallow gulley covered with
loose
gravel from the drive.  Their response was "well is anyone going to
drive
over it?" (as if anyone would do something as daft a drive a car on a
driveway)

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised to see their cables duck-taped to
the
road surface.

Mal

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