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Broadband company Openreach has been asked to pause the installation of telegraph poles in Lincoln following concerns raised by members of the public. The company is erecting around 40 poles in the ...

It's no secret that American broadband isn't as robust from a national perspective as it could be, particularly when compared to other nations. Virgin Media a major broadband player in the United ...

Police have launched an investigation after a car struck a telegraph pole in the south of Scotland. The incident happened on ...

Telecoms companies in the UK have been urged to stop installing new telegraph poles by the data and digital infrastructure minister Julia Lopez. Lopez wrote in a public letter to network operators, ...

A councillor who led a campaign against new telegraph poles in Lincoln two years ago said he was planning to fight new plans for them. Telecom company Spring Fibre dropped its plans to install poles ...

Families on a North Staffordshire housing estate are fighting plans for telegraph poles outside their homes. Residents in Biddulph are furious that Openreach wants to install the poles on Dorset Drive ...

Elderly residents fear they could be cut off with no communication after a bin lorry flattened a telegraph pole, knocking out internet and landline services. Around eight properties in a cul-de-sac on ...

Emergency services were called to Station Road, Murton, at around 10.20pm, following reports of a vehicle hitting a lamp post.

The grid is a complex network of transmission paths and distribution circuits. The majority of these electrical pathways are overhead construction comprising myriad poles, towers and structures made ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cable operator Virgin Media is testing a new technology to deliver ultrafast broadband over telegraph poles which could allow it to extend its reach to another one million homes.