{"id":76761,"date":"2025-08-18T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76761\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:19:06","slug":"anger-as-broadband-cables-in-shropshire-are-dumped-in-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76761\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger as broadband cables in Shropshire are dumped in the hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The retired magistrate wants to know how much of the \u00a324m of taxpayers&#8217; money is left and when will residents get their improved broadband. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am really concerned about the financial aspect, we&#8217;ve got a roll of expensive cable here, what happens next&#8221;, he said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At home, Mr Walters said his own broadband speed was about 30 Mbps (megabits per second), but it drops at certain times of the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People who are working from home are disadvantaged, because of unreliability and slow speed. We all thought we were going to have superfast speeds, what happened?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan said the state of the poles summed up the situation with Project Gigabit and called for an explanation as to how many of the contracts were handed out to companies &#8220;who were unable to complete them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A new contractor is urgently needed to deliver the fast internet connections our communities need &#8211; and the poles need to be put to use or removed ASAP,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The retired magistrate wants to know how much of the \u00a324m of taxpayers&#8217; money is left and when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-76761","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\/76761","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=76761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}