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Cable Munching Rats Cause 11 Day Openreach Broadband Outage in Doncaster

Summary by ispreview.co.uk
Nearly 100 premises in Askern, which is a town and civil parish within the City of Doncaster (South Yorkshire, England), have been left without access to Openreach’s UK broadband network after rodents – those with a seemingly strong appetite for telecoms infrastructure – chewed through one of the operator’s cables in the area. Nothing like a diet high in fibre. Over the years we’ve seen plenty of animal and insect related damage occurring on UK …
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ispreview.co.uk broke the news in on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
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