Oh good
Record profits. Does this mean record investment in broadband infrastructure?
Lol jk.
BT is to create a Frankenstein business unit on April Fools' Day worth £5bn out of old parts of BT Global Services focused on the UK, BT Business and EE's newly acquired business unit, it announced during "record" third quarter financial results. The major restructure plans come days after the outfit completed its £12.5bn …
I'm not sure if you've tried to get a new service commissioned through BT that requires some OpenReach tasks, but to me it seems like OpenReach are on Mars.
Currently waiting for a phone number port to BT (from OpenReach), each submission takes 22 days before knowing if rejected or accepted (this is automated apparently). Currently had 3 rejections, fingers crossed aye.
Currently waiting for a phone number port to BT (from OpenReach)
I don't think that's Openreach but something like BT Operate.
I believe Openreach only deal in the physical cabling. Other divisions deal with the minor details of running ADSL or telephony services.
It's complicated :-) Porting numbers to BT SIP (OpenReach involvement) from a Virgin service half provided by OpenReach (Somehow). To be honest I hate phoning up, it gets more complex the more questions I ask. I've ported lots of numbers and moved lots of circuits over the years and it never ceases to amaze me the new problems that arise, I thought I'd seen them all.
Currently waiting for a phone number port to BT (from OpenReach), each submission takes 22 days before knowing if rejected or accepted (this is automated apparently). Currently had 3 rejections, fingers crossed aye.
Number porting is a nightmare. I've been waiting three months for a port, but I've heard of much worse. The pain is when the port request gets rejected, you rarely get a meaningful explanation of why the port request was rejected. (That, of course, is assuming they tell you that the port request was rejected, rather than you finding out on the day that it didn't happen...)
I'm still waiting for a leased line signed off in November and given an estimated completion date (after pushing for even that update) of 8th of January. No digging anywhere near us let alone near the exchange. Getting utterly sick of Openreach and their complete lack of interest and information unless you chase them for it.
I hope its not in Central London your waiting, documentation is all out of date. Our circuit install was all done within the building and to the street and needed connecting to a node, then spent 6 months of engineers going to nodes and there was no capacity unlike the documentation stated.
Ended up moving into new office on backup EFM circuit, fibre connected two month later
I suppose if Openreach is now a fully "at arms length" company, joe public will be able to contact them and arrange for a nice new fast, reliable internet connection.
Oh wait - that would be sensible, this is BT we are talking about of course we will not be able to talk to Openreach directly, after all why would we want to do that???
There was a consultation on that very recently. Openreach asked for the rules to be changed so that direct contact with end customers could be permitted, as having to do everything via the customer's Telco seems to be quite inefficient.
The telcos rejected it outright.
The same thing happened when Openreach was set up. There was an alternate proposal where customers could buy last miles from Openreach directly and then buy services from telcos and ISPs to run over the top. That was rejected too - the telcos add money to the rental charge from Openerach to increase profits. That couldn't happen if you rented the line directly from Openreach.
Alternative and alternate are different words.
One may have several alternatives to follow but only one alternate. Alternate is binary and alternative isn't. The latter allows for selection from one of a unknown number of possible states, the former allows only for the current state or a single other state.