-Caveat Lector- >From http://cnnfntech.newsreal.com/story/19990908/11/30/5737359_st.html - City: Millennium bug dogs London Electricity The Daily Telegraph London LONDON Electricity's millennium bug is continuing to trouble the company. Several hundred householders were left without power at one stage and hundreds of others have experienced problems because new meter power keys designed to be year 2000 compliant, failed to work. The company has suspended the issue of keys designed to ensure meters could comfortably cope with tariff changes after January 1, and is continuing to issue the old, unbugged keys. The keys, charged with credit, enable 400,000 householders to pay for electricity as they use it. Software problems are being blamed, but London admits there have also been problems involving training agents issuing the keys. The bug struck last month when London suspended the issue of the new-style keys after being inundated with complaints and being forced to send emergency teams into homes to restore supplies and get meters working again. A spokesman said yesterday it was unlikely the new keys would be back on the market before the end of the month. Software programs, loaded into the new keys to make the meters bug-free, are being changed by the manufacturers Schlumberger and Siemens to ease the headache. London also discovered that the new- style key supplied by Siemens did not work because it was faulty. The German supplier is now supplying "a whole new batch of keys". The French-owned company is paying compensation to customers and trying to provide reassurance to householders that the bug will be under control when they get their next set of keys. A spokesman said that other electricity suppliers had experienced similar meter headaches, although conceded they were not on London's scale. "We have many more householders using meters because of London's different social problems," he added. (Copyright 1999 (c) The Telegraph plc, London) _____via IntellX_____ Publication Date: September 08, 1999 Powered by NewsReal's IndustryWatch -- Dan S DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
