Worst customer experience I have ever had

For a start try googling Bt and watchdog and you will see how bad it is. My story begins with getting a line with Bt this was a horrendous business in the first place as our new house had no connection, so we had to pay to improve Bt's network by getting an intermittent line put in which took weeks ,almost a month, then a fault appeared about a year later the engineer came ,much head scratching as no dial tone ,but Internet worked, he fiddled around with our socket and eventually said the problem was external ,it worked for a few days then stopped and then we got another engineer to come fix it properly it worked for a year .Now exactly same thing has happened again an engineer came fiddled with our socket and said it was the building across the way that caused it ( what I can't get is. If it was the building over the way causing it why fiddle with socket in our building?). , it stopped working a week later same issue, in addition now when reporting the problem to a call centre in India was told that they could not arrange an engineer unless I agreed that if the fault was caused internally in our building then there would be a call out fee of £130 , I refused to acknowledge that I would pay this as the only people to have touched the lines in our house since connection have. Been your outsource partners ,hence how can they blame me for the fault?, I have carried out basics checks as suggested on the site . What worries me now is the following (are they trying to charge me for this second fault?) Fault number:VOLxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx, Date reported:25 May 2012,Date closed:30 May 2012 Says problem was external from house. But the next fault report online says problem is internal and within the house, if the fault is internal ,then it must have been caused by the engineers earlier visit as they are the only ones who have changed or done anything Fault number:VOLxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx Date reported:7 June 2012Date closedpen I will be very very annoyed if this happens

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    MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
    Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format'
    which suggests that mp4 files are even more limited.
    Incidentally your feed gives this URL for the media file:
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    However when downloaded this produces a file called 'howtosetupappeid.mp4' so soe sort of redirect appears to be in place, and these can sometimes cause trouble. It's better to link directly to the file - it's possible that the iPad doesn't handle the redirect.
    That's all I can suggest: if it still doesn't cover the problem I can only refer you to the iPad forum where someone may be able to actually try your podcast and offer a comment.

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