Dave Law

#letsfindlisa I was born at an early age and one day I will die. This is the middle bit. Socialist. #MDANT

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

I'm at the other place now, folks. Honestly, it's become as good as this place used to be. Come and join us!

@davelaw.bsky.social

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Day god-knows-when (20, I think) without broadband.

I've watched the outage counter for my postcode go down from 88 to 56 and now 26 but have still not seen any engineers. The Fibrus CEO made a video yesterday saying how sorry he was, but why didn't he do that 2 weeks ago?

[Alex.Kane @AlexKane221b]

I suppose it can’t be long until Trump decides he’ll solve the Northern Ireland ‘problem’ by sending all the Catholics south of the border, all the Protestants to Scotland and all the atheists/agnostics to Isle of Man; and then turns the place into a giant golf course.

[David @ramthelinefeed]

@hilarybennmp OK but as Secretary of State, can you do something to help the tens of thousands of @fibrusbroadband customers who are now on Day 12 of a #StormÉowyn internet outage?

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@mgtruth It's shocking, Ruth.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

I got this text from Fibrus yesterday.

17th Feb is 2 weeks, 3 weeks from when my power came back on and nearly 4 since the storm itself.

BT fixed their broken cable on Saturday, by the way, but the engineer could do nothing about the Fibrus cable.

I'm lost for words.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@EVFegan I received this text today. 17th Feb? A fortnight from today, 3 weeks since my power came back on and nearly 4 since the storm.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Electricity has been back on for a week after the storm but still no Fibrus broadband connection.

BT have repaired their damage on the pole in question days ago and no one can get any response from Fibrus.

It's a lifeline for so many rural people and we've been treated awfully

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Hi @patcullen9 I was wondering if you could get the @fibrusbroadband customers in FST who are still without internet after the storm some updates?

Trying to contact them is fruitless. It's appalling service from a company set up for rural communities.

Thanks 🙏

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Has anyone here had any updates from @fibrusbroadband about their connections being fixed?

It's been a week now and nothing. Nothing.

For a company set up to originally cater to isolated rural communities who have internet as a lifeline this is really poor.

[Shay Wilson @shaywilson22]

@BBCNewsNI need to highlight that a lot of areas still have no telephone or broadband services. No feedback from @fibrusbroadband to indicate when this service will be restored. Lots about NIE restoring power which they have done in the circumstances, but nothing from fibrus

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Big Man status as of this morning: Appetite back to normal. Phew!

Not fancying the frost though. Don't blame him. ❤️

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@senorastacy @NIElectricity Was having a look at the outage checker on https://t.co/wBrIwYqbXB and there are still loads of people out, some not being given a fix date until tomorrow. Hard frost last night too, with more to come this week.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Thanks for everyone's good vibes and messages. They're beginning to start work on the repair and power should be back on tonight. Fingers crossed. ❤️

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@senorastacy A big shout out to Leanne on the @NIElectricity customer service desk who really seemed to care and chase things up, giving me concrete information. ✊

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

Listened to with a new appreciation. 😉

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@senorastacy Some communication about what was happening without me having to constantly badger them would have been nice though.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@senorastacy I can understand it, I suppose. Saw a rep interviewed and they said priority was to get the high voltage network (with many connections) up and running before starting with the low voltage network in more rural areas.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@NiecyOKeeffe I'm probably immune now. Earth Dave 🤣

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

We're on!

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@NiecyOKeeffe Gotta be some way to monetise it!

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@mgtruth They're the only house in the area still off so it'd make sense to fix them when they're in the area. Fingers crossed.

[Dave Law @the_middle_bit]

@mgtruth Now the guilt has kicked in. There's an elderly couple up the road still off who aren't in the best of health and are the parents of one of my school friends. Hopefully the engineers are on their way there now.