We are looking for an Admin Assistant / PA to work from our Reading Offices.

The role is divided between two locations in Reading so a Driving License and transport would be an advantage but not essential. Ideal candidate must have at least 1 year experience in an Admin based role.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

* Switchboard Duties

* Dealing with Incoming and Outgoing post

* Vacancy Advertising

* CV Screening

* Database input and cleansing

* Call logging

* Procurement

* Chasing suppliers

* Credit control

Personal Attributes

* Energetic

* Personable

* Self- Motivated

* Capable of working within a small team

Salary up to £18K. Please email CV’s to jobs@xifos.net

We’ve just seen this release from BT Openreach reference FTTC upgrades on 178 Exchanges. Dates to follow shortly.

We have just revieved this from BT Wholesale:

MBORC declaration: This MBORC declaration for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Cumbria is issued as a special alert to all BT Wholesale Customers/Communications Providers.

Following the recent severe weather in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Cumbria, we have today carefully reviewed the impacts on our operations and network. Most of our operations are back to normal, but may be affected by any further severe weather. 

However, the BT network has been affected. Some parts of our overhead network were damaged in the storm. We are doing all we can to make the repairs, but we will need time to complete all the work. Our fault stacks in the affected areas are rising as we receive fault reports.

We are therefore declaring this as a Matter Beyond Our Reasonable Control (MBORC) incident with effect from 14.00 today, Friday 9 December 2011. 

This declaration will apply to all faults caused by the exceptionally severe weather on Thursday 8 December 2011 across Scotland, Northern Ireland and in Cumbria. It won’t apply to other faults and it won’t apply to provision jobs. The affected areas are:

Highlands & Islands
North East Scotland
Tayside & Fife
South East Scotland
West Central Scotland
South West Scotland
Cumbria

We are implementing contingency plans to bring in additional resources so we can recover service as quickly as possible.

BT Openreach have launched an official FTTC Availability Interactive checker

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

Its seems very accurate and a good judgement for what is available in your area and when it may be coming. Hopefully we should get confirmation in the coming weeks from BT Openreach that they will be increasing the allowed network spectrum to increase the maximum downstream speed to 80mbit and 20mbit upstream.

The idea behind this is to keep customers / potential customers up to date with current developments here at Xifos. We have lots of new and exciting products on the horizon, some of you are already enjoying these and we really do appreciate the feedback.