{"id":42,"date":"2004-10-21T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=42"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"ntl-no-telephone-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/ntl-no-telephone-line\/","title":{"rendered":"N.T.L. (No Telephone Line)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>NTL Ireland withdrew its Dublin phone service 12 days ago without notice or even a supporting cust care line, many customers listening to the Saturday evening news learned that the service had been withdrawn, there was a &#8220;health &#038; safety&#8221; issue with the installed device&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Many shocked users, will their house burn down if they don&#8217;t plug it out now!<\/p>\n<p>Well thats a dramatic way to cease a service, will analogue TV service go that way too?<\/p>\n<p>Then today NTL send the first of 3 letters to customers that they say they were told to send by ComReg. The letter is all about Modem Hi-Jacking, a bit difficult to get your modem hi-jacked if your phone provider is (was) NTL, expect ex NTL customers to telephone their complaints in 6 weeks time when Eircom reinstall lines for stranded customers.<\/p>\n<p>The company that made the unit Tellabs Inc. has shipped 600K of them, and claim the cause of fault to be poor installation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmoney.com\/news\/on\/index.cfm?story=ON-20041012-000926-1739\">see this link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent uk NTL recorded msg said<br \/>&#8220;Hello. You are through to NTL customer services. We don&#8217;t give a f**k<br \/>about you. We are never here. We just will f**k you about, basically,<br \/>and we are not going to handle any of your complaints. Just f**k off<br \/>and leave us alone. Get a life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTL Ireland withdrew its Dublin phone service 12 days ago without notice or even a supporting cust care line, many customers listening to the Saturday evening news learned that the service had been withdrawn, there was a &#8220;health &#038; safety&#8221; issue with the installed device&#8230; Many shocked users, will their house burn down if they&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/ntl-no-telephone-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">N.T.L. (No Telephone Line)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}