{"id":477114,"date":"2026-03-15T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:09:14","slug":"poor-broadband-a-real-struggle-for-rural-shropshire-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477114\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor broadband &#8216;a real struggle&#8217; for rural Shropshire firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The landlord of the Rodenhurst Business Park recently had satellite broadband installed, which has boosted connectivity, but is reliant on good weather for a stable signal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it&#8217;s a nice day then we have good internet. But if the weather&#8217;s bad then it can be on and off all day,&#8221; said Norgrove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not very professional for us as a business when we&#8217;re trying to provide training and the line&#8217;s dropping out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her frustration is shared by Mark Openshaw who lives in a hamlet near Oswestry and has been battling since 2019 to get superfast broadband installed in his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A full fibre cable, which is vastly superior to old copper wiring, runs past the end of his property carrying a reliable signal to homes on the other side of a hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All my neighbours are suffering from the same internet problems,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The engineers that have come out to us said the only thing we can do is wait until there&#8217;s something in the pipeline to support us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been offered a 4G solution [via mobile networks]. That would be great, but we can&#8217;t get 4G signal in this area.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The landlord of the Rodenhurst Business Park recently had satellite broadband installed, which has boosted connectivity, but is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-477114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477114","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=477114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}