FreeTDS Development Group

[Martin Spott <Martin.Spott AT uni-duisburg.de>]

"ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" wrote:

> :) I remember a similar situation in Italy. I always though that these
> thinks couldn't happen in USA :)

In Germany things usually still are a bit different: The German Telekom
owns most of the wires but in several cases they simply don't know how
many wires they have at a certain location (they'll have someone to
visit you in order to figure out).
After they managed to find out they often have severe difficulties to
connect 'your' wires to the correct ports at their local hub. Sometimes
they connect you to a working, but not configured (wrong) port on the
telephone switch, in other cases they simply _forget_ to connect your
line to the DSL port ....

Not everything in Germany is _that_ bad, but the Telekom is an
outstanding exmple of how things _could_ go wrong. The appear to have a
subscription on Murphy's Law  :-)

Martin.
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