ᐅ Telecommunications House Connection – Your Experiences. Is Magenta M Okay?

Created on: 4 Feb 2018 20:31
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housedreamer
Hello everyone,

we need to choose an internet plan from Telekom by Tuesday.
Which option is sufficient for young people? Magenta M?

What did you choose? Or did you go with a completely different provider?
We are in a new development area. Telekom is offering a construction bonus of 400 euros.

Thanks for your answers.
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Nordlys
9 Feb 2018 12:18
I didn’t rely on the construction crew from Telekom at all. Instead, I bribed the team from SH Netz AG with a slip, and they included the conduit alongside the power cable.
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Domski
9 Feb 2018 12:57
I didn’t need a groundworks team; I did it myself. Otherwise, it would have taken even longer, and I might have found the fiber somewhere on the terrace... or something like that.

Still, the guys had to come with the fiber optic conduit to pull it into my empty conduit.
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Nordlys
9 Feb 2018 14:46
That’s true.
That was quite a situation. So, the empty conduit was already installed. I told the people from the network company, “Leave the trench open. Next week, the utility company is coming with gas and water; they will dig it up anyway... and they will almost certainly hit your power cable.” That always happens. The network company guy laughed and said he wasn’t allowed to, due to accident risk. I said, “It’s my land, I take responsibility, just put up a warning light or something.” He was convinced... so the trench stayed open.

Then I called the building owner service at the telecom company, talked to them, explained the trench was open, the empty conduit was in place, and next week gas and water work would happen. I said, “Please send the fiber optic casing through now.” They agreed.

Imagine what happened next. A lady from the telecom company gave me the mobile number of the site manager from the company in Kiel that installs those casings for telecom. She said, “Try your luck.” I tried. The site manager said they were nearby and ready to go. I said, “Everything is open and ready.” We had about a one-week window. We also pulled a pilot rope through the empty conduit; the network company people did a great job. And what can I say—two days later, the fiber optic casing was inside the house.

It didn’t really help much though. The whole process still dragged on until December.
Karsten
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winnetou78
9 Feb 2018 22:33
Very pragmatic on my part,
I called to arrange for digging to lay water and electricity into the house.
The earliest appointment was only possible five weeks later.
The next day, the subcontractor from the telecom company installed cables into the house.
We laid everything ourselves.
Five weeks later, they connected it at the street and installed their utility box inside.
Paid 799 or 899 euros for doing almost everything ourselves.
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Nordlys
10 Feb 2018 10:06
But once it’s finished, that’s what matters. Compared to what people in southern Germany have to put up with with MagentaServiceking, we’re still lucky.
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Domski
10 Feb 2018 10:12
Nordlys schrieb:
But being finished is what counts. Whatever those people in southern Germany have to deal with at MagentaServiceking, we're still better off.

Hey, I have nothing to do with southern Germany!