{"id":156990,"date":"2025-09-24T06:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:20:06","slug":"familys-anger-over-extended-broadband-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156990\/","title":{"rendered":"Family&#8217;s anger over extended broadband outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Mr Rains first reported the fault he said he was told by his provider Sky it would take up to two weeks to fix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were quite okay with that at the time because we were going away for a fortnight&#8230; but when we came back after two weeks it was still not fixed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were then told another week but it was still not sorted. We&#8217;re now nearly nine weeks in and it&#8217;s still not fixed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dad-of-two said he was also concerned about the impact the outage was having on his children&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My son who&#8217;s 11 has just started at secondary school. He can&#8217;t do any online learning because doing it on his mobile by mobile data isn&#8217;t suitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My daughter, who&#8217;s at Joseph Wright College studying art can&#8217;t print anything off on the printer because of the Wi-fi and she can&#8217;t download stuff because there&#8217;s no broadband, so I&#8217;m angry,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mr Rains first reported the fault he said he was told by his provider Sky it would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-156990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}