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Originally Posted by scastle
In fairness to NTL, Pierre is right.
They have identified that the equipment in the customers' homes could possibly be dangerous, so have acted to minimize any danger as quickly as possible.
Even assuming they had the funds to do so, it would still take months to check and if necessary re-install equipment in 2000 homes. In the mean time, they would still need to warn the customers to turn the equipment off, or run the risk of a customer being injured or killed.
They are showing what I would consider a very responsible attitude, and have taken probably the best course of action.
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Yes, but as far as I understand ntl is the only Tellabs customer saying the equipment is unsafe, didn't I read there was something like 60000 of these units in use all around the world. I also heard a lot about the Southern Ireland systems when they bought them, they were trying to recruit engineers who worked on the old overhead systems in Wales because they were not happy with the contractors standard of work.
As I mentioned before, one guy who went over there and was heavily involved in the upgrades left a lot of problems behind in Wales from his bodging.
It has been said for a long time that the high maintenance of the system in Southern Ireland has made it more trouble than it was worth.
The bad PR, the state of ntl and the facts about the state of things there seem to add up to one conclusion
