What connection do you use?

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  1. Jarinor

    Jarinor New Member

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    Well, in third world countries, only the rich people have computers, so they'd probably also have satellie internet access...seeing as cable is really expensive to lay down, and adsl requires phone lines. Satellites are more portable.
     
  2. farknl

    farknl New Member

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    Suck my blood and rape my corpse…cable beats dial-up hands down. I'm with the "other" option Jarinor. Optus charge me US$37.50 per month and have no download limit (well…they've got a little graphic showing "acceptable usage" and the trick is to stay below the red line J). Pity you can't get it where u r!
     
  3. farknl

    farknl New Member

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    Dear Cretins,

    I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your
    3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three
    month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not
    previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of
    monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so
    that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to
    rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can
    have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day
    smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office.

    My initial installation was cancelled without warning or notice, resulting
    in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your
    technician to arrive. When he did not arrive at all, I spent a further 57
    minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more
    annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful
    Website....how?

    I alleviated the boredom to some small degree by playing with my testicles
    for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and
    highly adept.
    The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although
    the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a
    drill-bit, and his cerebrum.
    Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After several
    further telephone calls (actually 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks) my modem
    arrived ... a total of six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay
    for it.

    I estimate that the downtime of your internet servers is roughly 35% ...
    these are usually the hours between about 6pm and midnight, Monday to
    Friday, and most of the useful periods over the weekend.

    I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 telephone
    calls on my mobile to your no-help line this week, and have been
    unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are
    it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.

    I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will
    call me back), that no telephone line is available (and someone will call
    me back), that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a
    telephone line is available (and then been cut off), that I will be
    transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is
    available (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that
    your office is closed), that I will be transferred to someone who knows
    whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been redirected to
    the irritating Scottish robot woman ... and several other variations on
    this theme.

    Doubtless you are no-longer reading this letter, as you have at least a
    thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of
    those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't
    care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations in
    print than to shout them at your unending hold music.
    Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.

    I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of
    god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more
    disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to
    their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't
    anyone else is there?

    How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable
    dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you
    truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum - incompetents
    of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine
    like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your
    seemingly limitless inadequacy.

    Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to
    receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you do likewise, and
    cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the
    services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver
    - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief
    although these feelings will quickly be replaced by derision, and even
    perhaps a small measure of bemused rage.

    I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cat's litter
    tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you, and
    your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become
    desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of
    posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not
    experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the
    very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and it's worthless employees.

    Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you
    irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.

    Yours psychotically,
     
  4. Jarinor

    Jarinor New Member

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    Ouch. Nice letter. Did you write it, or are you quoting someone else?

    It doesn't really matter though. Anyone offering that service should be taken out into the street and shot (any excuse to say that :smile:).
     
  5. farknl

    farknl New Member

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    Wasn't me Jarinor, though I've wanted to put thoughts to words in this way plenty of times...especially the cat offerings - nice touch I thought! I'm in Oz like you and the letter came from Fatman Land (BT should have given it away :smile:
     
  6. friend_al_23

    friend_al_23 New Member

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    And you have the time to actually read it.
     
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    friend_al_23 New Member

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    And you have the time to actually read it.
     
  8. Jarinor

    Jarinor New Member

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    Doesn't take that long to read al :smile:.
     
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