Where British Telecom users often say ‘Telecon’, Spanish customers of Telefónica refer to the company as ‘Timofónica’, and I suppose most other national telecommunications companies have similar nicknames.
Currently, I’m debating whether the situation is best described as tele-non-communication or being tele-incomunicada.
A fortnight ago, the router was destroyed by a mains glitch during a storm. Well, we weren’t actually here when it happened, but that seems the likely explanation as some hundred routers round the village needed replacing.
Then we had high winds and the internet connection kept waxing and waning and eventually the phone line died completely.
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