BT GRRR!!!! AGAIN ! ! ! ! ! !

what did you expect

Gareth obviously made the wrong diagnosis so the Openreach engineer has swapped the wrong card. Customer service was excellent, it was crap advice that was followed.

When I was a cable jointer there many moons ago, people worked their way up the ranks. If you hit a problem you could call your boss and get help and so on, because they had done the same job as you before. Then they went the 'American way' in that a manager is a manager and they don't need to know anything about the jobs their staff are doing. The guys I used to work with tell me that their Level 1 manager used to be a storeman in a Vauxhall dealership and the Level 2 manager used to be a baker at Sainsburys! Neither one of them has even a remote understanding of telecoms engineering and the problems that can be encountered.

No-one needs to be told that a real manager is a manager.

That is quite quick - they have up to 3 working days to respond.

Have you registered them with BT as a vulnerable customer?

Do they have care on call installed? If they live alone at that age they probably should do since a bad fall can be potentially lethal if you are on your own and there is no regular contact with neighbours.

She should have a PAYG mobile phone as a backup. Otherwise you are stuck with the standard 3 working days response.

I suspect its a person power issue. IE they are all doing jobs already allocated. This seems to be the way companies work these days. Its due to the old computer saying in x months on average we only had y failures so we only need Z people, forgetting that faults do not care when they appear so if a lot appear at the same time, there are no enough bods to fix them all. Brian