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ICL1960, Do us a favour and take a really deep breath of the glue you are sniffing- and see how long you can hold it. You obviously know next to nothing about the copper network and equipment used, also sad you would wish death on retired employees (my former colleagues).
Alavib, probably a good idea to not sniff glue before posting....
Still plenty of MU/CJ cables in the ground (exchange to exchange), although mostly out of use but not recovered. I see them every day and sometimes bring sections of them back into use to provide a solution for a cable fault as a last resort, also regarding the E sides cables- we have been reliably informed they will still be needed for at least another 10 years (should see me almost to retirement). Finally recovery of large cables does have an inherent risk of causing damage to other services it shares duct space with-particularly the lead sheathed variety that are of the highest value.
Are we talking about the trackers that used to provide "day plus one data"?....that don't anymore as BT/OR can't/won't pay the bill?..Poundshop sorry I'm allowed a day off every week-(but still work the same or more hours than most on a 5 day week), I feel awful now and won't sleep for worrying about my negative impact on the company...
So if mobile networks will be the standard in 10-20 years time, why bother with fibre? . Never understood this obsession with fibre over copper for most users- speeds attainable over copper are more than adequate. It's a bit like complaining the water pipe to your house is black, but you would prefer it to be blue- as this would somehow make the water better.
Got tunnels under Notts town centre-council owned and requiring full confined spaces provision to access-escape breathing apparatus, radios and rescue onsite,it costs thousands just to mend a fault. Also hot humid and full of rats.
I commented, recovery teams regularly cut live cables by mistake and cause massive problems-I spend half my time sorting the aftermath, any cabler worth his salt will tell you the dangers to other line plant associated with pulling out old lead cable in shared duct. Old trunk and junction cables share the same ducts and manholes as local D and E side cables-the only "tunnels" I work in don't belong to BT or Openreach. Did I mention that I am an ex MU/CJ (main underground cables and junctions) jointer with 30yrs experience and still counting? ....
Bit of a daft comment, they cut and pull out live cables....so like they give a to$$ about collateral damage.
Correct, start pulling the old copper and copper/lead out and it will destroy anything in tbe same shared duct....
You sound like an ex exchange TO widebandman?, The over inflated ego and lack of respect towards your former colleagues being the clue.....
Ofcom is more like the ******** tbf.....still massive problems if not working correctly for everything else.
Thinking this could be the time to top up- as the current Sp is pretty low- and being BT group employee I could save tax and NI, so a potential saving of 50% as long as I keep them for 5 years.....Sadly can only buy �1800 per financial year.
If your an ETG Saitoman-like me not much chance of compulsory redundancy I think, also started in 1989-another 5 or 6 years would do me anyway.
Just tried the new BT pensions calculator which launched today, have to be honest all the previous information explaining the proposed changes may well have been in Mandarin for the sense it made- So now employees can finally see in pounds and pence the likely impact based on their specific information/position given the choices offered. On a personal level mine looks little changed- given a few minor tweaks regarding contributions etc ..... If others are in a similar position it maybe looking positive for the ballot ( April 19th-May 2nd).
I suspect rodney couldn't run a bath let alone his own company....
Lol , what a sad pathetic individual you are rodney, Don't be too bitter tho, the higher rate taxes us older engineers avoid by buying shares in the company with all our ill gotten gains and spare income because we don't have mortgages to pay etc must surely help prop up the sp for the handful you hold.....
I'm 48 with nearly 30 years service and one of the younger ones on my unit! most are in their 50s some 60s, still of value as we have skills no longer taught.....and almost always excluded when any redundancy packages are on offer (Obviously too useful). So I don't see many of us leaving anytime soon.