[Stronsaylimpet] Cable repair due mid-April

[Limpet editor]

/From Stronsay Development Trust on Facebook:/

Following an update, this week is when the cable repair ship is due out 
to Orkney. Latest update from BT is that the cable repair ship should be 
in Orkney this week, which if all goes to plan and the weather 
cooperates, should see the cable repaired and services restored by 
mid-April.
The cable repair itself involves disturbing the seabed in protected 
marine areas and therefore requires exemptions. These requests have all 
been approved so the weather is the only unpredictable thing at play. We 
will be kept posted on progress through this week.
In the meantime, quite a lot of work has been done to reconnect key 
public sector sites in particular, using 4G/Starlink hubs. Good progress 
made and hopefully you’re seeing evidence of that on the ground.
VMO2 have confirmed that they have completed work to bring back all 
three of their mobile mast sites on Westray, Sanday and North Ronaldsay, 
utilising Starlink as backhaul. That should hopefully mean that 4G and 
other mobile services are more reliable than they were immediately after 
the break.

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