Investment and technology are important but insufficient elements to explain the success of a company in its network deployment.Blinded by large numbers, we can forget the most important component of a network of telecommunications: the people who work in it, for example the antenna installers or the operators who run cables through our streets.
Workers who, beyond the big corporate headlines, are also protagonists of the digital revolution and who, sometimes, must overcome difficult circumstances so that I can publish this text and you can read it.We have asked Orange employees and there are some of the most unusual situations they have faced.In total, 10 very crazy anecdotes.. but certain:
Evacuation in helicopter
Meeting of neighbors with agent of the procurement company that is engaged in the hiring of sites, to make a decision on the matter.Doubt of one of the neighbors: " in case of having to evacuate the farm by any kind of catastrophe, if the house with the equipment and the antennas are on the roof, how will the helicopter that has to rescue us land? " Response from another of the neighbors;" It does not usually land, throw a ladder ".
Finally, the contract was signed and the site is built and in service.For now, Orange antenna installers do not know that the neighbors have had to be evacuated by helicopter.
A hidden crypt
The crypt hidden under the floor of the Church of Santa Maria del Cami (Balearic Islands) was discovered when going to chop the ground to make the ground arque of a telephone station: when the operator began to break the slab under which the ground on which the church was based, the floor of the sun was supposed to be.To everyone's surprise, there was a crypt sealed for centuries from which no one in the parish had knowledge.
antenna and nipple installers...mutants?
Meeting convened by the town hall of a Murcia town with social alarm problems due to the installation of mobile phone antennas, we give the voice to an Orange operator: "When we arrived at the plenary hall we met numerous representatives of a anti-antenna neighborhood platform that immediately start to increase us.Of course, there is no solid proof that justifies that fear but any type of reasoning with them was impossible, and more when we faced the argument of a man who said that... Since we had installed a station in the village, his wife had her nipples turned around..."
And the anti-antenna groups, although there is no scientific evidence to justify their protests, are quite combative.In a Murcian district they came to retain against their will two antenna installers of the maintenance contract of an antenna.Personated there the Civil Guard, could not convince the neighbors of the convenience of releasing the two retained technicians although if he managed to exchange them for an operator technician.In the end, the release of the kidnapped technician was only possible after the intervention of the Commander of the Civil Guard of Murcia.
An animal saved by a telephone antenna
Another installer tells us that "on a visit to a rooftop location, we realized that there was a dog abused and chained in inhuman conditions on the balcony of the last floor of the building opposite.The poor animal was only visible from our station.Despite the delay in work that might entail, we decided to call the police and the animal was finally rescued."
Oxen and concrete
The owner of a farmhouse near Bilbao demanded that the road to the tower be concreted, although it was not necessary, since he had a good gravel road without slope.In the end I confess the reason: I needed the way to train a team of oxen for "idi proba" , a Basque rural sport that consists of drag a stone of between 1,500 and 4,000 kilos through a cobbled square, of course without wheels.Win the yoke of oxen that most often travels the square dragging the rock.
The nightly burial
Work on the construction of a rural station begins with the excavation of a hole of about 10 m3 that must be filled with concrete to secure the base of the tower.Well, on one occasion the operators had to re-drill the ground up to five times before giving up and discarding the construction of the site: every time they returned to the site they found that what was excavated the previous day had been covered by someone during the night. Night Burial was victorious on this occasion.
Upon request for a license for the installation of a station in a municipality in the province of Valencia, those responsible for this work received the following response:
"We acknowledge receipt of the project submitted by you, for the installation of a mobile telephone station, and we inform you that we have done a survey in the town as a result of which we have decided that we do not need mobile telephony, with what can happen to pick up your project ".
After contacting the city council to understand the answer, the members of the municipal corporation respond that "that of the mobile phone gives headaches and that they do not want to know anything about it." From Orange they then try to clarify that the rumors that talk about the impact of mobile telephony on health are unfounded, but the conversation is definitively interrupted when the members of the town hall clarify that: "the survey we have done among the members of the town hall and, when we talk about Headaches, we mean the ones that would cause us the protests of the neighbors if we let them install the antenna ".
Picaresca neighborhood
During the technician's visit to a rooftop to start installing the equipment of an antenna, he meets a neighbor of the building who says that "since they have put the station no neighbor sees the television well." The technician opens the booth and shows him that it is completely empty, that there are no equipment because he has not yet installed them.Before that panorama, the lady replies: " they have told us that if we protest you will put us a free collective antenna ".
Priority military objective
Meeting of neighbors with the agent of the procurement company that is engaged in the hiring of sites, to make a decision on the matter.The final refusal of the neighbors is based on the fact that, according to a neighbor, " communications centers are a priority military objective, and in case of war they don't want to be ".
"An antenna looks me in the eye"
This disturbing message triggered the visit of the Orange antenna installers to a house located next to the location of a tower, to investigate the case.The surprise was that, indeed, one of the parabolas installed in the tower, to the When the owner of the house was washing the dishes, it produced a reflection of the sun that, when hitting the kitchen wall, dazzled the owner "looking her in the eye" .he resolved by reinstalling the antenna at a higher height, so that the woman did not have to endure that blinding gaze.
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