10 February 2015

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Faulty phone lines ‘won’t be tolerated’ Fed-up residents in Maitai Valley say their home telephones “drop out” in the middle of conversations, calls go to the wrong home, and one family’s phone hasn’t been working for four months. Nelson Weekly spoke with several families who live in Maitai Valley, just six kilometres from Nelson city, who say the phone service is so bad they’ve made more than 100 complaints between them; but have been repeatedly told there is not an issue. The problem is made worse because the valley does not get cell phone reception. Kevin Shirley says his family’s home phone hasn’t worked for four months but he continues to pay the bill because he doesn’t want to lose the line. “There are only so many land lines in the valley and if I give it up I may not be able to get it back,” he says. When the phone was working, he says it would often drop out in the middle of a conversation and he’d get “ghost calls” in the middle of the night. “The phone would ring in the middle of the night, wake up the whole family and when we answered it no one

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Nelson deputy mayor Paul Matheson and venues project manager Markus Erdmann doing the “Nelson” ahead of the world record attempt on Sunday. Photo: Andrew Board.

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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz would be there,” he says. He has also had people calling his home asking for his neighbours, despite the fact the numbers are very different. Other neighbours have experienced the same issues. Hamish Kennedy has logged dozens of complaints to his phone provider, Timaru company Farmside Ltd, over the past year. The big concern for many of the residents is calling 111 in the event of an emergency. If the phones aren’t working, they would have to get in a car and drive to a place where their cell phone would work to make a call. Kevin says that simply isn’t good enough.“We have two kids up here and if there was an emergency or if there was a fire and we couldn’t call 111, it could be disastrous, but they don’t care.” Kevin says he has been told the issue

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Cricket World Cup starts on Saturday with the Blackcaps v Sri Lanka.

World record attempt for most people doing the ‘Nelson’ on Sunday.

Nelson to host Fanzone on Trafalgar St with monster screen TV, food and drink stalls and other entertainment.

West Indies to play Ireland at Saxton Oval on Monday.