Telecommunications in Cambo.. Have gotten a lot better over the years, at least in the lowlands, up here, well not quite yet. We still gleefully call out ‘may the force be with you’ whenever somebody tries to use a phone, say, during a thunder storm.
The three big providers are not called Mobihell, camshit and scammitel by us for nothing. And now after month of precarious and expensive- internet via the mobile phone that did not work most of the time anyways, it seems we are getting ‘real’ internet, or so they say. A Vietnamese company is taking advantage of the proximity of their country to our little outpost. So of course, I paid up: come today they say, make cable today, tomorrow internet. (That was a week ago.).Yeah sure, of course they did not come. So I made a stink as the powers that be that had not given me a receipt… and a young man with a ‘station’ came, looked around and said not bring cable. And left. That is what they did not do, and I did tell them so. And back to the shop, tell them again, and a fourth time, and a fifth. Now it seems they are doing something in the street, the cable or whatever- presumably. My friend Olga from wwf says that once you have it, it is surprisingly good, yeah, but when, when. The telephones service meanwhile has broken down completely in town...
Something somewhere must have been hit by lighten, a storm or both yet again... ahh the joys of the rainy season!!!
And here it is, and fast, a miracle!! (The installation was well a bit fun, Elvis tried to bite one of the monteurs who was stringing the cable from tree to tree, the geese did bite!!
Then they did not quite get that I will use the lappie in two (!) locations- oh horrors!!- easy pug-unplug, move-plug back in. or so one would think, no cannot do they said ( can of course, so I let it go and move the thing around, got them to leave me with enough cable for just that. How these guys ever got Angkor Wat together is beyond me!!!), but who cares: internet, hooray, finally!!!
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