Bt Share Discussion Threads

[pagwarrior] 11/10/2019 12:10

Now we know why the director invested a million pounds in the shares recently.

Nice profit.

[grupo] 11/10/2019 11:56

might there be a burst bubble through profit taking at days end from those not wishing to hold over the weekend

although perhaps the US MARKETS MIGHT SUPPORT

[dr_smith] 11/10/2019 11:32

Guss your reply says:
that(3 weird characters, last is 1/2 in one character space)s it.
So the weirdness is exampled in your reply, as you suspected - and not one character trasnposed into another but one character into 3.
Are you seeing weird characters as you type, or only when reading after?
This is me typing an apostophe for test '
pound sign �
double quotes "
dolar $
HTH
Dave

Edit - Typing looked normal, after hitting enter and reading back I see pound sign comes out weird and remains weird whilst I am in edit mode for this update.
Seems to be caused by advfn as they save our entry.

[guss] 11/10/2019 11:12

Dave, yep that�s it. Although the apostrophe will probably come out wrong LOL

[1liam] 11/10/2019 11:07

I got back in at 189.67 and to be honest would like them to full back a bit so I can buy some more.

[dr_smith] 11/10/2019 11:05

Guss, I have what looks like chinese characters (atelast weird) symbols where possibly "�" or other symbol expected some of the time. Thought maybe browser not recognising certain fonts.
Noticed in last few days, don't know if this is same symptom you experience.
Dave

[neilyb675] 11/10/2019 10:52

194.40 - 194.44 (GBX) at 10:51:51
on Market (LSE)

[1liam] 11/10/2019 10:24

Bought a few this morning, not a lot but helps close my loss.

[alphorn] 11/10/2019 10:00

Also mine.

Pleased to see my BT losses declining a little this morning. ;)

[poikka] 11/10/2019 09:55

Punctuation marks, that is.

[poikka] 11/10/2019 09:54

GUSS - me too.

[guss] 11/10/2019 09:43

Is it just me or has punctuation gone all wonky on ADVFN.

Just had an iPad update, could be that?

[guss] 11/10/2019 09:39

66 million people in the UK, most of them use more than one service from BT, even if they think they don�t. Bound to get a few complaints.
Not to mention business services.

[toon1966] 11/10/2019 09:15

I think you will find BT Openreach will use subcontractors to do much of their installation and maintenance work. My line was recently upgraded to fast broadband. It took all of 15 minutes by one engineer (subcontractor) which included fitting of a new socket, work at the CAB and then completed with a phone call back to me and a texted line test result demonstrating line speed. No problems whatsoever...

[atlantic57] 11/10/2019 08:58

Bt appear to use many self employed or people paid on the basis of the number of installations they deliver in a day.Therefore this leads to a major problem.

A The fitters will do the easy installations and leave the messy jobs for the next
Installer who will have the same outlook.

B As Openreach admin could not organise a booze up in a brewery this leads to huge wastage of time and resources which Open reach absorb.

If Bt are now going to expand and are unable to fix this issue they could be vulnerable to substantial losses.

I recently experienced this when 5 engineers called to install a line discovered it would take more than an hour and simply left the job incomplete.Open reach internal communications meant each person coming out had no knowledge of the previous engineer visit.

I note bt announces big changes in customer service, let us see what unfolds.

[poikka] 10/10/2019 22:19

"The BT share price: is it time to buy ahead of the company's turnaround?"

I already did, only it was also well before the fall...

[boytoy] 10/10/2019 19:52

Oh yes the blue rope rears it’s head again lol

[guss] 10/10/2019 15:31

Looking a bit better now. Long may it continue.

[knowing] 10/10/2019 14:53

Ahhh the old BT Blue rope story which sit's next to the Blue Cow story

[hasin] 10/10/2019 14:33

This BT blue rope was left in my bin,i tested it in controlled way,
for holding the dangerous power in car coil springs and managed to
do it twice,not risking it a third time.
This rope is cheap enough to produce and use safely once,so easily disposed
of but not so good for the enviroment.

[loganair] 10/10/2019 12:51

The blue polyester rope was in almost perfect condition after only being used once and the engineer was grateful that I asked him to leave a couple of 75m lengths with me so he didn't have to take it to the local tip to throw away.

The engineer said this rope could easily be used quite a few times, he just wasn't allowed to by the company he was working for.

BT do not put in all the fibre cables themselves, they also use contractors. It was one of these contractors who put in the 5G fibre cables in our local area and I can image they charge BT a good deal of money for all this new polyester rope they keep using then charging BT double what is costs to them throw it away.

[dipso] 10/10/2019 12:25

Results 31 October 2019
A good day to bury some bad news?

[guss] 10/10/2019 12:01

Yes, as always, not so simple.

It is probably part of the process. If they used old rope and a cable got damaged/stuck due to the rope breaking, it may cost �100,000�s to dig up all the ducting and retrieve/unblock it. And think of all the complaints and legal action.

What process do you suggest, checking the rope, cleaning, auditing the usage?
Contingency insurance for using old rope.
Money for old rope LOL

[loganair] 10/10/2019 10:24

3 months ago we had the 5G fibre cable put in.

I was astounded at one particular costly waste.

They used 1/3inch thick blue man made fibre rope to pull the fibre cable through from manhole cover to manhole cover which are between 75yds and 150yds apart.

Once the cable had been pulled through the blue rope was just thrown away after only being used the once, then they would use a brand new piece of blue rope for the next manhole to manhole transit of the fibre cable.

I asked the senior engineer how much of this blue rope they are going to use for our local area, I was astounded when he said 5 miles of rope.