3846 Telecom Italia illegaly collecting info on clients

Here is an informative piece from Beppe Grillo's Blog on Telecom Italia:

[url]http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2006/05/disconnected_italy.html[/url]

For those who don't know who Grillo is - he is an activist/comic with a huge fan base in Italy and having being excluded throughout most of the nineties from appearing on TV in Italy now tours and spends time on his blog - which is among the 10 most read blogs on the Web!

Well worth a read and it is in Italian and English.

Category
Cost of living - Utility Services

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/31/2006 - 12:57

Thanks for that little reminder about Telecom Italia Ronald!!!!
On moving to our new house 18 months ago, it took me 3 months of daily battles to get our telephone line up and running.
When you call 187 they have centres all over Italy and no one ever had your request infront of them-----the computer was always down.
I must have spoken to people from all over Italy and infact I used to start by asking them "which part of il bel paese am I speaking with today"????
They told me that I couldn't ever have a telephone because we lived in the country and no telephone poles were in the area.
Excuse me I had not 1 but 3 at the bottom of the garden.!!!!
They assured me that they were old and could not be used.
Anyway, they eventually came and put a new pole in (in my neighbours land and without her permission and she went up the wall).
Anyway eventually we got the telephone by running the lines under our garden to serve the 4 new houses which had been built in our area.
At this point we asked for the old poles to be removed but for some strange reason it was impossible.
So one dark Winters night----------------with a huff and a puff we blew them all down!!!!!
If there is one company I cann't stand it's TELECOM ITALIA.
They now phone me on a regular basis to ask if I would like adsl with them (I moved to Libero) and I tell them that I cann't as we don't have any poles in our area......I hate them I hate them with a vengance. Ronald thanks for the happy memories!!!!!:p

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/31/2006 - 13:02

I have a crafty ruse for dealing with telcoms operators who keep trying to flog me their latest package. To Telecom Italia I say "I work for Infostrada", and for anyone else I pretend to work for Telecom Italia!!

This is a variation on my mother in law's way of getting rid of brush salesmen many moons ago ... "My husband's in your line" :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/01/2006 - 04:59

Nice one relaxed. A way of keeping me from hurling abuse at them next time they call!!!!
I usually start by saying " I know this is being recorded so I'll only say it once-------va *** ****""
:mad:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/01/2006 - 08:18

Dream Acadamy

I had to reply, because my dislike of Telecom Italia has to be as great as yours, their charge for the use of the internet is obscene & until recently there was no way around it, in my area. Now I hope to reap revenge, as a new cable free ADSL service has been installed locally, which will mean BYE BYE Telecom Italia & hello Skype.

Thanks for the post

Lavender Field

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/01/2006 - 08:44

Revenge and/or vengeance is a hotly contested ethical issue in philosophy. In some societies, it is believed that the damage inflicted should be greater than the original caused. I don't go along with that method and prefer to believe what goes around.. comes around.. eventually. :)

"Vengeance [I]is[/I] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"