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telephone pole

Chrisjenks — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:47:52 GMT

Does anyone know why there would be an engineer working at the top of a telephone pole at 12.30am?

I went out for a cigarette and noticed a man in high vis at the top of the telephone pole outside my house and he looked like he struggling to get his foot on the ladder. when i opened the door to go back into house he noticed me and when i looked out of window a couple of minutes later he was gone.

I cant think of legitimate reason why an engineer would be doing that sort of work at that time

Cant find anywhere that i can enquire

any thoughts are appreciated

chris

Re: telephone pole

Keith_Beddoe — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:15:40 GMT

@Chrisjenks

Welcome to this user forum for BT Retail phone and broadband customers.

This has nothing to do with BT Retail, as they would be from Openreach, or if its a shared pole with electricity, then it could be from them.

Re: telephone pole

iniltous — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:04:41 GMT

Sounds incredibly dodgy, I doubt it was an Openreach technician , working like that is inherently unsafe , but it’s not just a Openreach that ‘work’ on Openreach infrastructure , these days it seems any Tom , **bleep** or Harry can be employed by ‘Cheap as chips Telecom Ltd.’ and do pretty much whatever they want, whenever they want , but it’s no more a ‘BT’ issue than it would be an issue for Sky or Talk Talk .

Re: telephone pole

36ULW — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:45:43 GMT

Sounds suspect to me. Engineers do sometimes work out of hours on Welfare Cases but they shouldn’t be climbing without the appropriate lighting.

To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an Alt Net Knuckle Dragger.

Re: telephone pole

Keith_Beddoe — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:56:57 GMT

Possibly a business customer off the pole. with a TotalCare (or whatever its now called) contract, where repairs are within 5 hours 27*7, but I think that may only apply to certain types of Private Services.