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  • Re: State of the Phones

    From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to aus.comms,aus.electronics on Sat Jun 7 10:14:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: aus.electronics

    In aus.electronics noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
    On Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:07:28 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    They finally sent someone out to look at the exchange yesterday, three
    weeks after the second outage began. Apparantly they found the power was
    off to the exchange. They said they'd called an electrician in to look
    at it, and it was working again by the end of the day.

    Gotta wonder if the electrician just reset a circuit breaker and went
    home, and whether it was the same cause as whatever broke it earlier, or
    a faulty fix for that.

    But besides, three weeks to have someone drive out and say "it's dead".
    That's what it's become. And for mobiles they just lie and say there's
    equal coverage to before when there isn't, so it seems they'll never fix
    that.

    They know the breakers to reset, perhaps it was the RCD, techs are told reset it, if it trips right away leave and report it, old exchange,
    probably old shabby wiring, but to take 3 weeks to get a sparky out there
    is completely unacceptable, I'd make some noise, I know you live rural,
    but you must have a local sparky, maybe he/she wasnt available - away or sick,

    Actually they said it could take a couple of days for the sparky,
    but it was working by that evening. The three weeks was for someone
    to come out and poke their head in the exchange to see that the
    power was off!

    A local was talking about bringing it up with the ombudsman, but
    I'm not sure how much good it'd do.

    Cant trust AI :)

    https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was- actually-700-humans-in-india.html

    :)
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