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Megan Forbes

Paul Riley wrote: Try BT? :laugh: Now that's just cruel!

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benjymous

A few usenet searches suggest that One.Tel may have gone into recievership I don't know if the UK part is run independantly though -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

David Wulff

I was under the impression that it was when I queried this with the sales people when I subscribed, but then again I really wouldn't put anything past a telesales team. :suss: One.Tel Australia went into liquidation last year well before I subscribed to the UK service. I hope they are (were) not related financially...

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David Wulff

Paul Riley wrote: Try BT? You are one sick sick puppy. X| Paul Riley wrote: Probably a coincidence but I've been having trouble with Pipex Dial today. Once you get connected, it's not too bad, just a little slow but getting connected can be a struggle. Probably is a coincidence then because I have no problems at all connecting, just doing anything once I'm connected it proving troublesome.

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Paul Riley

David Wulff wrote: You are one sick sick puppy. :-D I try. David Wulff wrote: Probably is a coincidence then because I have no problems at all connecting, just doing anything once I'm connected it proving troublesome. :laugh: Fair point, doesn't sound like quite the same problem does it? Thinking about it, I do seem to remember hearing something about OneTel UK being in trouble recently (hell, all comms companies are in trouble, this was a bit more than that). I wasn't aware it had gotten this bad though. :suss: Paul Pleasently caving in, I come undone - Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows

David Wulff

I couldn't find what I was looking for (I think it may have been on the One.Tel UK site, d'uh) but this is basically it: "One.Tel UK May Split From Australian Parent Company sources have told ZDNet that Britain is the only country where One.Tel is making a profit -- thought to be in the region of £14m per year. Senior company officials told employees on Wednesday that the profits made in the UK meant it would be possible for the UK office to go independent. Currently, most of the UK profits were being used to support the loss-making Australian operations."

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David Wulff

Paul Riley wrote: I do seem to remember hearing something about OneTel UK being in trouble recently How recently is recently? If it was mid-2002 then it may have been when One.Tel Australia went bust, AFAIK One.Tel UK was still viable and carried on independantly. If it was more recent then that... uh oh... :~

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Paul Riley

David Wulff wrote: If it was more recent then that... uh oh... Much more recently, probably November. But again, I didn't think it was that bad, don't start panicking yet, I'm thinking more along the lines of job losses (much like BAE today; that's hardly reason to think BAE are going bankrupt). There doesn't seem to be any news around, if it was that serious, I'm sure there would be. Paul Pleasently caving in, I come undone - Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows

David Wulff

Ah ha, all that talk of One.Tel going the route of it's Australian father had me scared for a while, but it is a harmless (in comparison) problem that is cauisng this outage: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/showthread.php?s=975d065cac5f4c8b2a51b051aa60af19&postid=53673#post53673[^] When will people learn - just because you are qualified as an IT Technician that doesn't mean you are qualified to go round pressing buttons just because you can! If it works leave it be.

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Chris Meech

David Wulff wrote: If it works leave it be. I've always liked, "If it ain't broke, why waste time fixing it?". :) Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.

Ted Ferenc

see:- http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=89[^] Evidently their firewall is down!

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Ted Ferenc

I believe that was OneTel Australia, the UK operation is totaly separate

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

At least it's something "normal" (if anything in IT is remotely normal). I've just found the phone number for you too - 0800 9571100. Now it's just a matter of where to put the post-it for next time...:rolleyes: Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk

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- Marcia Graesch

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carrie

Yeah, absolute bastards. Well maybe not because shit happens, but it really had to happen when I was doing a test of my game online that took me 3 weeks to arrange. Picture the scene, me sitting there chuffed that 30 people had taken 2 hours out of their day to give it a good thrashing and to pick out bugs then all of a sudden "Connection to Host Lost". Oh bollocks, I managed to miss all but the first 10 minutes of the test session. Now I've got about 400 emails of bug reports sitting waiting for me to trawl through them whereas I was planning to play a little and spectate and take messages on the bugs and keep everyone updated throughout the session. I got lucky because someone that was testing managed to co-ordinate the whole thing when I disappeared so it didn't turn into a total disaster. Bleh, back to reading some emails, listening to people discussing it in IRC and cursing the really unfortunate timing. Got to give them credit though, OneTel have given great service for no fuss since I signed with them, they piss all over the f***ers at BT.

David Wulff

carrie wrote: Got to give them credit though, OneTel have given great service for no fuss since I signed with them, they piss all over the f***ers at BT. I hear you! I hear you! :-D I bet one pissed off One.Tel employee will be going home stinking of cheap whiskey right about now faced with explaining why he just lost his job and cost his company tens of thousands of pounds. I almost feel sorry for him... almost. Web traffic is going through again now, though the mailboxes are still unreachable (not that I actually use them). Hopefully everything will be sorted in the morning.

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Gary R Wheeler

Hey Dave - Is your sig sensitive to the CP forum you're in? It just posted a soapbox-only limerick. (just curious; it's cool to watch you web jocks play)

Software Zen: delete this;

David Wulff

Yes it is - when you're in the Soapbox or John Simmons' profile message board you get mature rated quotes and limericks. :-D

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