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"services"
there is a facility for getting the meter reading of one's telephone over here. the earlier number was 1501 and if i dial from my telephone there is no further progress. i had reported the matter a couple of days back to the call center and from today on rather than being stalled i as being informed that the number has changed - 1962.
now once i dial that number i mean 1962 i am asked to choose the language and once i choose the language it gets stuck there. why?
i have no training in information technology but i am putting down my hypothesis below:
here is a modified version of that movie on my not being allowed to access the net and all the concerned telephone numbers that are supposed to help you out of such a situation becoming "temporarily out of service" at that very moment!
by the way the lan card of my puter is extremely labile - many a time it is corrupted and becomes non functional and it could even completely disappear and if i try to install the driver manually i will be made to run around in circles. so ultimately i have switched over almost permanently to the usb mode of the modem which creates a virtual sort of lan and it looks it is more stable though the speed of the connection is supposed to be better with the LAN card. and i am at the moment able to log on kind courtesy the usb.
if the gestapi, or her pimp, for that matter, decides that in the interests of the nation for "security reasons" i should not be allowed to access the net there is nothing any body can do about it, leave alone me who is a nobody doing anything.
but i am a cantankerous character and would try to create confusion by trying to telephone and pester all sorts of people. so rather than make a hue and cry about it simply do not allow me to access of any of these numbers and that is how all the numbers that i dial then becomes "temporarily out of order". producing such a standardized response to all attempts i make is child's play it is a simple thing and can be easily manipulated. same is the case with the call blocking facility.
but when it comes to the meter reading it is an all together different kettle of fish. it is a dynamic thing; what it means is that one standard set of words as in the response "temporarily out of order" will not do.
the meter reading changes repeatedly and the response comes from the system direct. there will be obvious evidence of tampering and the gestapi or the pimp will not be able to cover the trail in case some other nut case ( syn. jyothi ) decides to investigate.
so rather than that just deny the facility and in case the mandabudhi complains the dr. sujathans (real patriots they will do anything for the country and it is not that he gets a dilapidated old police jeep to roam around.) are always there to "doubt the mental status of the subject". are you getting the point?
now coming back to the funny numbers appearing on my telephone's caller id. here is a movie a newer modified version showing what goes on.
when the call from that 14 digit number came in i was near the phone and lifted it up and i could hear clearly the conversation between two females in malayalam. ( earlier i had registered a complaint in the automatic complaint booking system and when the official from the exchange telephoned me and asked me " is there any cross talk now?" i agreed it was not there. so i was on the look out and wanted to record the conversation and send it to them and so )i made an effort to record the conversation but but it was not working out - my current voice recorder is not that smart.
another person whom i called back earlier was easier to deal with than the voice in the movie and he said he had telephoned a neighbour. you see this sort of a thing is not normal and there is a fault which obviously is within the system and it has to be set right under normal circumstance especially with the adsl connection and all existing. but nothing is being done.
that way all sorts of funny things happen over here - even if you block all the outgoing calls the toll free numbers like 197 and 1500 are all available but over here on my telephone nothing works
it could all be a side effect of the tampering! but what can people do?
the long and short of it is that the primary function of all the communication systems in this country is to "facilitate" the charans; rest every thing is secondary or is it tertiary? if you complain the impotent rage will be directed at you and i am afraid that is what is happening over here at present.
incidentally, today, for once, actually twice to be more precise, i could get a response from 12678 the help number of the broad band of the bsnl over here; great!
