{"id":207380,"date":"2025-10-07T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207380\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:08:09","slug":"shetland-internet-disruption-to-last-more-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207380\/","title":{"rendered":"Shetland internet disruption to last more than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002l3zx\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Around Orkney<\/a>, Faroese Telecom managing director P\u00e1ll Vesturb\u00fa said the location of the repair is affecting how long it will take to restore services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have contacted the company that does the repair for us so they are preparing. Since it&#8217;s so close to the shore [there] needs to be some extra work, some extra preparation to make sure that everything is ready when the vessel arrives,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So that has stayed off the repair just now. I hope it can be no more than a week but it&#8217;s a bit difficult to say.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on social media, the Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael said: &#8220;I have contacted the various telecommunications companies operating in the isles to understand better what sort of issues are at play and who is affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to hope that the disruption will be minimal and short-lived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even so, this will be a good test of whether the promises of more responsive communications from telecoms providers following the problems in the summer will be borne out in reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talk Talk said it was providing its customers with updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on Around Orkney, Faroese Telecom managing director P\u00e1ll Vesturb\u00fa said the location of the repair is affecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-207380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}