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RE: Home Highway... (compensation)


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  • Subject: RE: Home Highway... (compensation)
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:01:05 +0100
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Sounds like it's worth a try...
 
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus [mailto:gcook@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 April 2001 09:26
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Highway... (compensation)


FYI

You are entitled to compensation for down time on your Home Highway - works out about £27 / day. You can only claim once the fault has been recitified.

I have mine installed in 99, and it was down for almost 4 weeks - my next bill (after I had asked for comensation - they won't just give it to you automatically) has a credit of over £450 - paid for it for 9 months.

So get on that phone !

G.
Gareth Cook
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----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus on 23/04/2001 09:25 -----
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"Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
Yesterday 17:48

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Yeah ... OK Colin, I can see this as a way of protecting the users ego but
it doesn't help when paying an extortionate £40 a month for an archaic
64kbit service which doesn't work. Being told that nothing can be done
because it's a weekend and it's "probably an exchange fault - we can get an
engineer to look at it next week" does little more than annoy me. I bet
they'll be a damn sight quicker to complain if I send them three-quarters of
a months payment for what may turn out to be three-quarters of a months
service.

I'm not happy that I've been forced to go to Home Highway anyway but the
line quality out here "in the sticks" (in fact less than 2 miles outside
Winchester) is so bad that on a decent US Robotics 56k modem I was getting
1.7kbytes/sec average. To have to go to the expense of home highway to get
any sort of reasonable connect and transfer speed and then to have to resort
to digging out my old analogue modem just takes the biscuit.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Bradford [mailto:colin@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 April 2001 15:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Highway...
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Phillip Harris wrote:
>
> > About an hour ago I finally got through and reported the fault
> to the Home
> > Highway fault desk, I was asked by the guy on the desk (who's
> name I didn't
> > take a note of much to my distress) to unplug the cable between
> the ISDN TA
> > and the Home Highway wall box and swap it end to end as
> "sometimes you have
> > to let the signals go the other way down the cable"...
>
> Actually, I've asked people to do this. It's a polite way of saying
> "make sure you've got the cable plugged in the right connectors", and
> makes the user actually check. Normally, when you say "is it plugged
> in?" you get "of course, do you think I'm an idiot?" as the reply.
> Asking them to switch the cable round often clears the problem, without
> the user having to tell you that they've plugged it in wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin.
>
>
>
>
>
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