In the background to the olympics, BT have done a huge amount to ensure 100% flawless broadcasting off each and every event. BT have provided over 600 wireless access points to ensure everyone has the chance to stay connected online ; leaderboards, times, venues, anything at all. The effort they have put in is unbelievable and I think it went brill. Huge success.

jnoiles said:

I saw the torch relay go past my office in Sydney. It's really not that compelling a spectacle. It's someone in lycra. Holding a torch. Jogging.



And I find the majority of people who are blindly supportive of the Olympics to be annoyingly simple minded and frighteningly intolerant of anyone who has a different opinion. Opinions/Arseholes.



What model magic television do you have that makes turning off the Olympics open the closed lanes on the A406?



It's the second in a lifetime for me and it's my life's mission not to have to endure another one. It's been dull, shallow, commercial, pointless and wasteful. But hey, at least we regenerated Stratford.

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Wow that's an exceptional amount of negativity in one / two posts, Good job

sammclean23 said:

In the background to the olympics, BT have done a huge amount to ensure 100% flawless broadcasting off each and every event. BT have provided over 600 wireless access points to ensure everyone has the chance to stay connected online ; leaderboards, times, venues, anything at all. The effort they have put in is unbelievable and I think it went brill. Huge success.

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BT as a company are a sack of ****. I fixed one of their 'installs' today where an engineer deemed it prudent to fix an "ISDN2e" connection to the wall with double sided sticky tape. He also used celotape inside the box to fix the cable to the internal mounting point rather than a cable tie :tosser:

I spend a good portion of my time out of office fixing their mess.

Thats **** mate. However, Openreach (engineering part sort of thing) are essentially a company on their own, and a very small part at that. I believe you and i'd be pissed off, but the stuff you fix isn't representative of the whole company

anyway dont wanna start a theyre s***/no theyre not argument... but I will say they have done a great job at the olympics!

Would be good if they spread that work etiquette across the whole of the company / network infrastructure.

it would mate. like i say, BT openreach are a company on their own, essentially. If another part of BT ring an openreach employee and request details, they aren't allowed to share despite being part of the same company. If you know what I mean.. they are completely seperate and have different CEOs. There you go fact of the day

Trust me BT are just as bad I don't deal JUST with openreach.

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it would mate. like i say, BT openreach are a company on their own, essentially. If another part of BT ring an openreach employee and request details, they aren't allowed to share despite being part of the same company. If you know what I mean.. they are completely seperate and have different CEOs. There you go fact of the day

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They have the same staff though, BT staff often having to do openreach work and visa versa.

Either way, they have done a great job at the olympics BT do much more than meets the eye

BT do sweet f all.

If I think rightly that a lot of the broadcasting equipment such as Emley Mast in Yorkshire and other ones around the country are owned by Arqiva and other companies.

If think Eklipze3k will correct me though...

Yes BT have a role, but hats off to the BBC for the WORLDWIDE HD coverage and to every other little company everyones forgotten about who helped

BT tower in london broadcasts to emley moor, if I am correct?

As i said above, BT provided every wireless access point (1800+) to be exact and did all they can to ensure broadcasting ran faultless with little/no interuptions to BBCs service etc.

My main point to begin with is that the companies in the background, like BT and other companies that are forgot about, do deserve recognition...so as you said, hats off to them

kinda confused how a conversation about the olympics turned into praise for BT doing well what they were paid an awful lot of money to do?

AndyRKett said:

kinda confused how a conversation about the olympics turned into praise for BT doing well what they were paid an awful lot of money to do?

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this is fiat forum, we don't believe in keeping on topic :Offtopic:

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and im the OP

Matthewr1990 said:

The Olympics have done more for this country than you would expect. Our sales office at work has gone ape **** with orders from abroad up 30-40% than normal.

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Saw something on the news the other day & they were saying that tourism was down by 30-40% & based on what's happened in other countries, it'll be 5 years + before visitor levels return to normal.

Heard today that some London businesses had seen an increase in trade - that's nice, but how about the rest of the country? After all, we all contributed.

On the plus side, saw a great slideshow of olympic cameltoe on't interweb :devil:

sludgeguts said:

Saw something on the news the other day & they were saying that tourism was down by 30-40% & based on what's happened in other countries, it'll be 5 years + before visitor levels return to normal.

Heard today that some London businesses had seen an increase in trade - that's nice, but how about the rest of the country? After all, we all contributed.

On the plus side, saw a great slideshow of olympic cameltoe on't interweb :devil:

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I'm workplace is in Birmingham. That's pretty far from London lol. So it obviously is affecting the whole country in a positive way, and how can tourism be down. Hearhrow, Birmingham international, Manchester airport etc have been pushed to the brink with the influx of visitors lmao.

AndyRKett said:

kinda confused how a conversation about the olympics turned into praise for BT doing well what they were paid an awful lot of money to do?

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Sorry mate my fault.

On topic: paralympics begin soon!

Matthewr1990 said:

I'm workplace is in Birmingham. That's pretty far from London lol. So it obviously is affecting the whole country in a positive way, and how can tourism be down. Hearhrow, Birmingham international, Manchester airport etc have been pushed to the brink with the influx of visitors lmao.

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Athletes and the Olympic circus.. it correlates as increase usage at airports, but doesn't with tourism or not.

Here in Wakefield we've had the Chinese hockey team based at our ground, haven't seen any of them in the city centre

Matthewr1990 said:

And it's worked. It was super with organisation, nothing went wrong and it was actually UNDER budget. I say job well done.

We all also loved Usain Bolt. There isn't a person on the planet that dislikes him haha.

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In 2004/5 the budget was set at about £2.3bn which once we won the bid was doubled to about £4.5bn then the Chinese spent £20bn the government doubled the budget again to £9.1bn the final cost is expected to be in the region of £12bn however the government keep ignoring DPA requests and their is a theory that it could have cost nearly twice the claimed figures, I fail to see how exactly you can class this as "under budget"?

Also usain bolt has received a huge amount of criticism for his behaviour, there are quite a lot of people who don't like him at the moment in the media.

Matthewr1990 said:

and how can tourism be down. Hearhrow, Birmingham international, Manchester airport etc have been pushed to the brink with the influx of visitors lmao.

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those airports are always at the brink however when you factor in an extra 12,000 athletes baggage equipment etc for over 2 weeks combined with all the officials and coaches that travel with them it's obviously going to have an effect. Yet tourist numbers have been significantly lower than previous year for the same period. Put off by the prospect of huge crowds, maybe but more likely the £3000-5000 hotel bills most London hotels have been charging

Seriously though do you read the news or follow the media? Central London has been really struggling compared to what its usually like this time of year

Whats Usain been up to?
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