BT..Act of God?

Belnahua

I'd take it to your MSP, our MSP is good at rattling a few cages.

Icewytch

Thanks, that`s a good idea, our MSP is particularly good at getting involved for folks.

Belnahua

Is this what BT were over your way for?

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php (Quite a good site for exhange outages!)
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NORTH RONALDSAY, SANDAY, WESTRAY AND PAPA WESTRAY : LOSS OF SERVICE
Update Number 1
Detected 25/10/2008 14:00
Started 24/10/2008 23:25
Anticipated Clear Time: 25/10/2008 20:00
Area Codes 01857
Update Number FINAL Detected 25/10/2008 14:00
Started 24/10/2008 23:25
Actual Clear Time:24/10/2008 23:25
Area Codes 01857

Icewytch

Yup, looks like it. One of our post offices lost their phoneline computor thingies...:o (not good with techtalk, sorry...)
and they were here anyway, so got diverted after my phone call to fix my box...but this was after the guy on the end of the phone gave me the usual chatter about how, due to geographic location the chances of getting any engineer out to me within a week were slim.:rolleyes:
It was just sheer luck the engineers were stranded and managed to fit me in, I think. A quick look at the Orcadian online showed me that many places in Orkney were hit by the storms and phonelines taken out. I wonder how many more folks like me are getting charged for `acts of god`....