German Telekom and the last mile, a joy

‘waiting most of the day for some German Telekom technician to show up, wire up the landline of our new flat. Of course they did not come–got an automated SMS in the afternoon informing about the fact. Listed reason: “unknown”.

The joy of the last mile all in one companies hand. At least O2 3G allowed me to continue with work over the air™.

Bets taken, will they come next Monday (the supposedly next possible target date)?

Update: The story get’s more “funny”. As the 19th is the my father birthday -and while my parents are visiting us for some days here in Berlin- we cancelled their proposed day. Just some days ago we finally go a confirm that it’s cancelled and they would give us another date. Now guess who was standing at our door, ringing, this morning 7:30 AM? Yeah, right–a Telekom technician. At least we now have the signal on the landline, …

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