Replacement of phone and ADSL

アパートの中で部屋を移動したお客様の電話とADSLの移設工事に立ち会いました。MDF(電話線の配電盤)の切り替えのみの簡単な工事でした。もう少し、整線をきちんとして欲しいところです。しかし、土曜の5時間停電にはまいったね〜。最近、停電が多いのはなぜだろう。ずっと安定してたのに。

Two NTA technicians and I visited a customer for phone and ADSL replacement this morning. It was an easy job because the customer just changed rooms in the same apartment.

One of the technicians opened the jumper box of the apartment. Each telephone line was connected to each room from the box. He discovered the original line of the customer using the checking device while the other technician called the customer's phone number. The device could catch the phone calling sound when the device came closer to the line.

He removed the jumper for the line in the box and switched to the new jumper connected to the new line. His job was fine. But It bothered me that the line cabling which somebody had done before was not very neat in the box.

And then, they got into the customer's new room and plugged a phone cable from the modem into a small phone box in the room. That was all they did.

They couldn't check the Internet connection because the electricity has been cut off in Majuro without warning since nine o'clock. I wonder when the electricity will come back. It's a quieter Saturday afternoon than usual in Majuro.

I'm writing this article at NTA. The electricity is always available with its own power generator. NTA is never quiet.