{"id":44832,"date":"2025-07-29T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44832\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:14:16","slug":"orkney-and-shetland-internet-cable-to-be-fixed-by-next-weekend-say-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44832\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkney and Shetland internet cable to be fixed by next weekend, say owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shefa spokesman Pall Vesterbu told BBC Radio Orkney a repair vessel would be at the site of the break around 5.5 miles (8.6km) from Orkney this week to assess the damage and and fix the cable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Vesterbu said it was probably a fishing boat which caused the damage but the company could not be sure until inspections have been carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is calling on fishing boats to avoid fishing directly over the cables and to keep their Automatic Identification System (AIS) indicators on at all times so they can be warned if they are fishing too close to the cable network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Internet provider OpenReach initially said 10,000 customers had been affected but then scaled that back to &#8220;hundreds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Balfour Hospital&#8217;s switchboard and phone system has been restored after it went down on Saturday, with patients asked to call a mobile number while it was being fixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Shefa-2 cable provides a wholesale link which is used by telecoms companies to deliver services to their customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is used by OpenReach to deliver the broadband network to the islands, which is then sold on by individual companies like EE, Vodaphone, Sky and PlusNet in different packages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is one reason why customers and businesses have had different experiences this weekend &#8211; with some experiencing no interruption,  others coming back on overnight, and some taking longer to be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shefa spokesman Pall Vesterbu told BBC Radio Orkney a repair vessel would be at the site of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-44832","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\/44832","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=44832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}