On Not Knowing The Public Address And On Being Blacklisted

Last week, I was asked if I had also been caught up in the quagmire? No, not the affair of the Judges but the internet problems which apparently had affected half of Gaborone. The newspapers don’t report such matters presumably believing that other more captivating matters, such as the BCP’s continuing agonies, are of infinitely greater public interest.

Why, I still wonder, do we have so many national newspapers tripping over each but not one which targets Gaborone and its adjacent settlements. But yes, in a way the query was correct. I was indeed trapped in a quagmire but it wasn’t the internet this time around, it was the BTC’s server; at least that was what the pop up message kept telling me for an entire week. Getting the people at the end of the BTC’s fault line to grasp that this was indeed the problem, however, proved to be difficult, as indeed it was to convince them not all their customers use Microsoft. Indeed it needed a two-hour visit from a lady technician on Monday to convince her colleagues that the problem really was the BTC’s server, and then to get them to correct matters. 

In the end, she had to give up, and went home. So for the rest of that day, Tuesday and then Wednesday, I was obliged to sit at home just in case anyone from BTC happened to ring – which they very rarely did! Having no idea if anything was being done about my problem – I was told later that a BTC head of department had said that it was being ‘addressed’. It is precisely that kind of comment, however, which drives less patient customers than myself into paroxysms of fury.

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