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It's interesting comparing the stories on this from various sources. Sometimes M. Jones is an engineer for OpenReach; sometimes xe is an unspecified engineer.
by JdeBP 6y ago
It's interesting comparing the stories on this from various sources.
Sometimes M. Jones is an engineer for OpenReach; sometimes xe is an unspecified engineer.
The television is sometimes "old"; sometimes "second-hand" (which doesn't necessarily mean old).
Sometimes it is the householder who is old, referred to in some newspapers as an Old Age Pensioner.
A few reports say things that the BBC does not, which have come up in this discussion. The Wolverhampton Express and Star points out, for example, that Aberhosan is not on fibre yet.
* https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/09/22/old-tv-causes-broadband-outages-in-village-for-18-months/ https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/09/22/old-t...
And almost no-one acknowledges that this light-on-details story is light on details because they took it, word for word in some cases, from an OpenReach press release.
* https://www.openreach.com/news/second-hand-tv-wipes-out-broadband-for-entire-village/ https://www.openreach.com/news/second-hand-tv-wipes-out-broa...
- JdeBP 6y agoAddendum: The only major exception here, to just recycling a press release with no other sources and no attribution (and making up things like "pensioner") or recyling the BBC report, seems to be Simon Sharwood of The Register, who did some legwork to obtain from an ISP a quote explaining SHINE, and that a AM radio can detect it; and attributed things to "Openreach's statement". * https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/old_tv_broke_broadband/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/old_tv_broke_broadban...
- jdofaz 6y agoEye roll at their advice: "We'd just advise the public to make sure that their electric appliances are properly certified and meet current British standards," she said. "And if you have a fault, report it to your service provider in the first instance so that we can investigate." It made me imagine the person going to buy an old tube tv on the black market and just laughing maniacally as it "faulted", whatever that means.
- buzzert 6y agoJust imagine what happens with political stories.