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I've been dreaming of phones

I truly have been dreaming of mobile phones; 9 have taken up temporary residence in our flat, along with the 2 landlines. Don't try calling, by the time we work out which phone is ringing it probably will have gone to voicemail.

At least now, the works are in the gallery, and the phones for the most part are working! The N70's that is, have given up on the 6300's working with the RGB series.Had probs with gettting the phones over to Orange from Vodafone, as the internet setting messages just wouldn't come through! Customer service at Orange, well meaning as they were, and clearly reading from a script tried to help me do it manually, but when I asked a particualry tricky question, they had to go away to find out, so they said they'd ring me back. In the meantime, I worked out that they were telling me to configure the wrong part of the phone that the browsers were not reading, so used all their config settings in the right area and got it all to work.When Orange rang back with the answers (which were just the same as before) I decided - perhaps a bit cheekily - that I knew more than they do on how to solve my particular problem adn didn't need them. Besides it was knock off time in their call centre in India (3am to be exact).

Perhaps after all of these technical dramas I can get back to what I prefer to be doing which is actually making artworks and exploring critical concepts, rather than doing DIY-Mobile-IT-Support.

Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 11:44PM by Registered CommenterSimone O'Callaghan in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

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