Every day, without fail, for 18 months, an entire Welsh village lost its broadband connection on the dot at 7am. The mystery left residents and engineers utterly baffled and frustrated. Unable to get online, the 400-strong population of Aberhosan, Powys, repeatedly called telecoms experts, who in turn, regularly descended on the village in a bid to identify the problem. In a desperate, and rather costly attempt to solve the problem, they even replaced the area’s cables. But still, much to their bemusement, the signal continued to plummet from 7am. Eventually, engineers launched an investigation, bringing in a “crack squad” from other parts of the UK. Equipped with a specialist monitoring device called a Spectrum Analyser, the team was dispatched to scope the village from dawn. Michael Jones, an Openreach engineer, said: “We walked up and down the village in the torrential rain at 6am to see if we could find an electrical noise to support our theory.
