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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Have you tried </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white'>AT+ZCDRUN=8 to disable, AT+ZCDRUN=9 to re-enable?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white'>That works on other ZTE modems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white'>N.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet-bounces+ndear=sundayafternoon.me.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+ndear=sundayafternoon.me.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Odhiambo Washington<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 October 2011 13:06<br><b>To:</b> Nicholas J Dear<br><b>Cc:</b> Kictanet<br><b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] Quality of Tech Support with Kenyan Telcos<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Apologies in advance for cross-posting.<br><br>I'm somehow very appalled at the level of technical support we get from our Telcos. What surprises me is the fact they they have some of the best brains in the market, yet they simply cannot get these brains to address the consumer problems. A simple problem can take you ages to get solved -- unless you go behind the scenes and contact these techies at a personal level.<br>I've come to the point of thinking that either there is too much bureaucracy introduced between the people we talk to (the CSEs) and the engineers who work in the background or the escalation process simply isn't streamlined. The process of getting a solution from the engineers can take ages (to me, a week is ages!). Then again, the Customer-facing teams simply seem to be robots who don't want to try and reason out. Is thinking out of the box not acceptable for CSEs working in these Telcos??<br><br>Take one such problem that I'm facing currently with one these Telcos - ORANGE: I bought their much touted 21Mbps modem. The issue at hand is that I need to share the Internet connectivity with other residents of my house via a WiFi router. My router, a D-Link DIR-825, has a USB port that supports a 3G modem. There is one obstacle that I must overcome with the ZTE modem for me to be able to use it with my D-Link router -- I must find a way to disable the virtual CDROM and card reader from the USB stick/modem. The problem is no technician at ORANGE knows how to do this. Probably there is a technician (I have a feeling Orange must have gotten ZTE to train some technicians, or in the daftest form, ZTE must have seconded some techies to Orange!) but it's not possible to reach him/her/them!<br><br>My router already works with the Safaricom's Huawei E1820, because I was able to go-ogle and find the AT Command to use to disable the virtual CDROM (<span class=postbody>AT^U2DIAG=0 does the disabling; AT^U2DIAG=1 re-enables it if I need to), which then enabled my router to recognize the USB modem. Fortunately, after installing the drivers on a computer, I really do not require the virtual CDROM interface anymore.</span><br><span class=postbody>I have not been able to find an equivalent command for ZTE-MF192 USB stick and has called Orange Customer Support (Data+Internet) so many times and they simply don't have a clue as to what I am asking for. I'd have thought they are trained to know that some clients are more demanding than others and as such they are allowed to go the extra mile and reason outside the box to help such customers.</span><br><br><span class=postbody>I am not sure if I am expecting too much, but because I paid money to get this modem, I'd expect Orange to help me in any way that I'd like to use the modem. They still make their money by allowing me to use it.</span><br><span class=postbody>What I don't seem to be able to wrap my head around is why there is no technician at Orange (whether native or Chinese) who can help me with this problem? Aren't we supposed to expect a better quality support from these Telcos than we are getting now??</span><br><span class=postbody> </span><br><span class=postbody>I started by generalizing on "Telcos". I have only detailed my problem with Orange, but such problems are not exclusive to Orange. I remember Robert Yawe has detailed his own tribulations with other Telcos on this very forum.</span><br><br><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.<br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#007F00'><img width=35 height=33 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CC8CD0.41EA44A0"></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#007F00'>Please consider the environment before printing this email. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2012.0.1831 / Virus Database: 2090/4556 - Release Date: 10/16/11<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>