Vodafone signal problems in and around Kirkwall

Vodafone believes it has traced the fault which has been affecting many local people’s mobile phone coverage, over the past week.

The problems are being attributed to a fault at a mast, with a spokeswoman for the firm apologising for the disruption to service.

She said:”We’re sorry some of our customers in Kirkwall are experiencing signal problems.

“The local site developed a fault around 10am on September 9.

“This is a two cell site and while one cell was back in action on September 11, we are still having issues with the second cell.

“Our engineers are investigating and we hope to have the site up and running, as it should, as soon as possible.”