Last Friday (coincidentally Good Friday), BSNL's internet connection went dead. Being a public holiday, there was nobody even to complain to. The Net got alive only after a full day, sometime on Saturday evening.
On Sunday, even the voice network (both voice + internet in fact) went dead. Apparently, while doing the road expansion work in the village, someone somewhere cut the underground phone lines. Again! When I rang up BSNL's head office this morning (via the mobile), phone +91-832-2437500, the lady there (the PA to the GM) told me that the fault was with the guys doing the road expansion. Why don't you complain to them, she asked. I pointed out that it was BSNL whom I was paying, and therefore had a right to expect good service. When I visited the BSNL office at the Saligao tinto, they were on the job. Still it took the good part of the day, and the phones came back to life only sometime late Monday evening (after 5 pm). Apparently, they've gone putting about underground phone wires in the village, and nobody knows (or cares) where these are now. The markers for these lines have probably got lost by now! Given that there is a lot of road widening underway, isn't it the job of the telecom people to caution those working on the roads? Hope the panchayat authorities can also intervene in this matter... or should we just watch on as helpless bystanders? FN -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.co <http://goabooks.wordpress.com> -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
