{"id":205492,"date":"2025-10-17T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205492\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:56:09","slug":"we-cant-make-calls-or-stream-videos-since-storm-amy-damaged-our-vital-internet-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205492\/","title":{"rendered":"We can&#8217;t make calls or stream videos since Storm Amy damaged our vital internet link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Meek said the current problems highlight a wider issue,  where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-19696904\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rural and island communities can become cut off from other areas<\/a> due to technology failing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We had been winding down Tiree Broadband because of fibre coming, and now we&#8217;re having to spin back up with this.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that fibre is not infallible, and there is no real back-up. This has raised serious questions as we are reliant on the internet to do so much now &#8211; right down to the Co-op ordering stock in.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil MacPhail, the chair of the community development trust, said Tiree Broadband was having to do the work of both BT and Openreach at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The community is keeping the island connected, but without a guarantee that the data will continue to be paid for, we simply can&#8217;t extend service to everyone who needs it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Meek said the current problems highlight a wider issue, where rural and island communities can become cut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205492","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\/205492","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=205492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}