An MP has said his constituents being left without the internet for the third day running was “disgraceful”.<\/p>\n
A suspected accident by contractors carrying out sewer repair work has resulted in an internet and phone line blackout for about 3,000 customers in Maghull, Merseyside. <\/p>\n
Broadband provider Openreach said workers carrying out sewer excavation work on Hall Lane, Maghull, caused “significant damage” to part of its underground network. <\/p>\n
However, Bill Esterson, Labour MP for Sefton Central, said Openreach’s “approach to this is not good enough”.<\/p>\n
The MP added: “It is really serious to be without the internet in modern society.<\/p>\n
“Normally these problems get fixed within a few hours not days.”<\/p>\n
Openreach had said if everything goes to plan, connectivity should be back up and running by early Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Businesses and residents in the area have been without internet or landlines since about 13:00 BST on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Joy Sinnott, who works at Meadows Pharmacy on Liverpool Road South near the excavation site, said the issue had caused “chaos”. <\/p>\n
Since then, the business had had to cope without a phone line, one working computer and no card payment machines. <\/p>\n
“It is crazy just how much everything depends on the internet,” Sinnott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MP has said his constituents being left without the internet for the third day running was “disgraceful”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673413","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=673413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}