{"id":199412,"date":"2025-10-14T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199412\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:52:07","slug":"shetlanders-without-internet-for-up-to-3-weeks-due-to-damaged-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199412\/","title":{"rendered":"Shetlanders without internet &#8216;for up to 3 weeks&#8217; due to damaged cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Residents and businesses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/shetland\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shetland<\/a> have been without broadband since October 3 after Storm Amy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bank machines have reportedly been down and the island\u2019s Sumburgh airport has been severely disrupted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25539220.scottish-government-sponsor-care-workers-defiance-labour-visa-ban\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Government to sponsor care workers in defiance of Labour visa ban<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Customers affected include those with Vodafone, TalkTalk and Sky networks. BT users appear to be largely unaffected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cable, known as the Shefa-2 cable, was damaged in rough seas about a mile off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/orkney\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orkney<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Several other islands have also lost internet connection due to subsea cable damage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25528567.major-internet-outage-tiree-damage-subsea-cable\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including Tiree<\/a> and Orkney.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Faroese Telecom, which operates the cable, have told islanders it could be another two weeks until the issue is resolved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A vessel is reportedly on its way from France to deal with the damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents and businesses in Shetland have been without broadband since October 3 after Storm Amy. Bank machines have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199412","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\/199412","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=199412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}