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UPS Battery Recycling, and The Secret Life of PABX Standby Power Cabinets
UPS Battery recycling has been part of our phone system recycling activities since 1999. Large phone systems such as Siemens Realitis, iSDX, Meridian Option 61 and 81 are typically protected by large banks of car-sized lead-acid back-up batteries. They are usually...
LG Phone Systems Support – North East England
Because we're independent telephone engineers based in Stockton on Tees dealing with business telephone systems, including LG Products, we've been called in recent months by businesses looking for LG Phone Systems Support on LG Nortel Nexter and Ericsson LG...
Telephones For The Elderly – A Telephone Engineer Gives Some Practical Advice
I had elderly parents, both with some degree of dementia. They lived over a hundred miles from me. Keeping in touch was important. So, hopefully I can bring a telephone engineer's perspective on the whole topic of Telephones For The Elderly. Here are some things to...
Nortel Option PABX Managed Service. We Can Help…
We are currently delivering our second year of Nortel Option PABX Managed Service, being "virtual telecommunications manager" to a major multinational. Hopefully, what I describe below will give some insight into how this works. Our relationship with the Nortel...
Adding a Telephone Extension Wiring to Your Master Socket – What NOT to Do.
Adding telephone extension wiring from your Master Socket is easy, isn't it? Well, yes and no. As a telephone engineer with a background in business telephone systems, I've always wondered why my colleagues have avoided working on home installations. Over the past few...
Installing a Garden Office Phone Line – Some Tips from a Telephone Engineer
I recently installed a garden office phone line, and thought I'd share some observations and findings. I'm a telephone engineer , and used to getting cables both into and out of unusual places! The customer was coping by dangling her cordless base station out of an...
Siemens Unify Realitis – The End of Life as We Know It?
I'm reading much these days about traditional PABX such as Nortel Meridian, CS1000, Siemens Unify Realitis and iSDX becoming "end of life" This is The End? Unify seem to say so, and make it very clear. Furthermore, their sales team see the removal of their faithful...
Nortel Meridian Option – End of Life?
Many end-users are quite alarmed about the "Nortel Meridian Option End of Life Issue". Mental parallels are probably made with Windows XP, the lack of security patches, inability to obtain any major fixes, catastrophe,etc,etc. (And, even after Googling long and hard,...
Telephone Engineer Resource at Wilton
Our base is only a 20 minute drive from the (former ICI) Wilton International Site (between Middlesbrough and Redcar on Teesside). We Know Our Way Around Our relationship with the Wilton Complex, both manufacturing site and office at Wilton Centre goes back to 2001....
What Does a Telephone Engineer Cost? And Why? A Fair Price?
So,what does a telephone engineer cost? What's an expected price for home phone and cabling repair? Typically, Openreach (the organisation that covers what BT used to do), will charge upwards of £130.00 for a visit and an hour's work, then £60.00 subsequently. Plus...
Can I Move My BT Master Socket? A Telephone Engineer Gives His Advice…
As a telephone engineer, I'm asked regularly "can I move my BT master socket?". The official, short, simple answer is “no”. Sorry. But.. Don't Go Yet! There's More To It Than "No"! There are ways around this problem. Furthermore,I have even heard that there are...
Slow Broadband Speed Causes. An Engineer Gives Advice
I'm a local, independent telephone and broadband engineer, based in the Stockton on Tees and Middlesbrough area. So, my slow broadband speed causes come from working on "the front line", rather than from theory. And I'm looking at wired broadband here, not wireless....
