{"id":25446,"date":"2025-07-27T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:17:16","slug":"gwynedd-residents-living-in-the-old-days-after-wi-fi-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25446\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwynedd residents living ‘in the old days’ after wi-fi loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Residents in Llangwnnadl estimate around 40 homes have been without broadband since 4 July<\/p>\n

Residents in a village in north Wales say they feel like they’re living “in the old days” after losing broadband for most of the month.<\/p>\n

Locals in Llangwnnadl, Gwynedd, estimate around 40 homes have been without the internet since 4 July, but some in the village still have a connection.<\/p>\n

One woman said her husband, who has blood cancer, cannot get test results from the hospital, while a campsite owner has said she has to drive to another town to place business orders online.<\/p>\n

Openreach, which runs the UK’s digital network, apologised, saying the issue began after a pole replacement, and work was underway to restore service.<\/p>\n

Some villagers said they relied on broadband for all their TV and phone services.<\/p>\n

One of them, Helen Griffith, said her husband needs regular blood tests at Bangor hospital every three weeks, but without phone service, they cannot receive his results.<\/p>\n

“I can’t make calls either… if something serious happens, how would we get help?” she said. <\/p>\n

“We’re totally dependent on it. It’s dreadful – we feel like we’re back in the old days.”<\/p>\n

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Without phone service, Helen Griffith says her husband, who has blood cancer, cannot get test results from the hospital<\/p>\n

Joanna Smith, who runs Moel-Y-Berth campsite and caf\u00e9, said: “We rely on customers’ patience. <\/p>\n

“It’s slowed everything down – bookings, payments – we’re now asking most people to pay in cash. <\/p>\n

“It’s stressful, really stressful.”<\/p>\n

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Joanna Smith, who owns a local campsite says she has to drive to another town just to place business orders online<\/p>\n

Ms Smith said she can only place caf\u00e9 orders by driving 30 minutes to Pwllheli to use someone else’s wi-fi.<\/p>\n

“I had to go into town today to get good wi-fi in another caf\u00e9 to make my orders there, so it takes a lot of extra time,” she added.<\/p>\n

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Llangwnnadl is a village in Gwynedd, north Wales <\/p>\n

An Openreach spokesperson said it understood how “frustrating” this was and thanked those impacted for their patience. <\/p>\n

“Our engineers are working to get everyone back up and running as quickly as possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Residents in Llangwnnadl estimate around 40 homes have been without broadband since 4 July Residents in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-25446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}