Well over a thousand Perthshire residents found their internet connections were down when a digger accidentally cut a cable during roadworks at Ballinluig.
A major service outage meant for many, the broadband service to homes and businesses disappeared at 10.30pm on Tuesday night and was still off all of the next day.
Aberfeldy ’s health centre could not take direct calls on Wednesday, and Breadalbane Academy’s switchboard was putting calls direct to a recorded message while Live Active Leisure’s community campus line was unobtainable.
