No mobile network. Residents of a cluster of towns around Horning in England’s Norfolk Broads region are unable to use their mobile phones or access 4G coverage. The alleged reason: the presence of seagulls that have been installed in a repeater antenna operated by the operator O2, reports the BBC. According to British media, the citizens of Norfolk Broads noticed the problem about a month ago and gave various reasons to justify shutting down the network.
This was before Duncan Baker, the city’s parliamentarian, learned on July 11, via the phone company in charge of the antenna relay, that the gulls had established their nests in a temporary receiver in Horning before they failed. could be activated. The original had been decommissioned due to construction work in the area.
“The seagulls decided to make their nest there, reproduce there and lay their eggs there,” the politician said, explaining that the birds and their young could not move. Consequences: “Engineers cannot complete the wiring of the temporary transmitter and people now suffer from the absence of mobile phone signal,” he summed up.
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Duncan Baker raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Question Time, saying that the lack of a network put public safety at risk. However, O2 retracted its initial statements arguing that the repeater antenna in question was actually located at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich and not in Horning. “We mistakenly gave this MP information about another site […] There was some confusion between us and the office of Duncan Baker MP,” an O2 spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the population is taking its problems patiently. “It’s frustrating, there are people much worse off than us, but the problem covers a wide area,” Adrienne Seddon, who manages the Horning Post Office, told BBC Radio Norfolk.
Because “although people can still withdraw money at the Post Office, our card machine doesn’t work because it uses 4G,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
