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telephone engineer

Postby PeteS » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:15 am

Does anyone know a telephone engineer please? I need some wiring done and, at the moment, my home phone's dead. Thanks.
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby Grahame » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:20 am

You don't need an Engineer. You need a technician.

Engineers design and create. Technicians install and maintain.

It's like asking for a surgeon because you need a blood sample taking.
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby PeteS » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:33 am

Grahame, thank you for your useful advice. Now, does anyone know a good pedant?
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby John the old'un » Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:58 am

[quote="PeteS"]Grahame, thank you for your useful advice. Now, does anyone know a good pedant?

Yeah, I'm a good one of them.
No bl**dy good as a telephone "tech eng" tho. :lol:
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby Keith » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:07 am

[quote="Grahame"]It's like asking for a surgeon because you need a blood sample taking.

Or asking a urologist if you need to take the pi$$? :roll:

Sorry Pete, I'm no help either. :oops:
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby Dombo » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:15 am

Is it definitely a wiring problem and not the phone? Modern ones have a very short lifespan.
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby PeteS » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:58 am

No, the wiring was messed up when the windows were replaced, BT did send an engineer ( at least that's what they call them on their website) a year or so ago and did a bodge but warned that the job needed to be done properly. The line has been fuzzy for a week and is now just dead.
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby Dombo » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:08 pm

Hmm, dunno then. But if your car needs fixing perhaps ask Grahame again. As I recall, my Mech Eng chums at uni always liked being asked that :lol:
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Re: telephone engineer

Postby Jon H » Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:48 pm

[quote="PeteS"]Does anyone know a telephone engineer please?

If you need a 100km fibre-optic cable and a satellite back-up link from an offshore gas platform to the beach I know just the man.
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