hi, 

What are those standard SLA conditions? On swisscom website, search for "SLA"
gives about a dozen of pages, but they don't give a clear picture.

If reading your contract formally, what would be your expectations for the 
line to be fixed?

Thanks,
Stan


--- Viktor Steinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Girls and Boys
> 
> Let me tell you a fairy tale. Once upon a time, it was summer and the birds 
> were singing in the trees, there was a telco, who chose to replace some 
> cabling in their telephone exchange. Unfortunately, they made a mistake and a
> 
> leased line service went down. Suddenly, the birds stopped singing and the 
> sky was overclouding.
> 
> Since it was a friday afternoon, and the SLA for that leased line was just 
> "standard", this telco wasn't aware, that they had made a mistake. 
> Fortunately, the guys who were impacted by this outage, made the telco aware 
> of this failure and asked them politely to fix the problem as soon as 
> possible.
> 
> The telco agreed to fix the leased line immediately. Of course, they would 
> charge 1'600 gold pieces to the stupid guys who dared to ask, to do it 
> immediately. Remeber - it was just a standard SLA. And why would anyone use a
> 
> leased line on a weekend? Some poor telco engineer had to travel far, far 
> away to that exchange and fix the line on friday evening, when he could have 
> spent some quality time with his wife and children.
> 
> So, dear girls and boys, what can we learn from this? If you want to get rich
> 
> quick, you have to break stuff, and then let someone pay you to fix it in 
> useful time.
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> Viktor
> 
> 
> -- 
> Viktor Steinmann - System and Network Engineer
> Easynet AG, Hardturmstrasse 135, 8005 Zuerich, Switzerland
> Phone: +41 1 560 32 00, Fax: +41 1 560 32 01
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