A village in Powys will lose its internet and landline services for another two weeks after a single pole collapsed in late January.

Residents in Bwlchyddar, near Llanfyllin, have been warned that vital repairs to restore their connections could see them without their internet services until mid-February.

It comes after the collapse of a telegraph pole that carries lines supplying more than 30 homes around Bwlchyddar.

The pole fell over on January 22, with Openreach saying that repairs are scheduled to take place on February 14.

Bwlchyddar resident Colin Hargis said: “This means we have no landlines nor internet for that time, and many of us have no mobile phone signal either, some of us can use our mobile phones but with limited bandwidth and high data charges.

“There are people trying to work from home, children who use internet for their homework, all seriously disrupted because this one pole has fallen.

“It is very difficult to get any action because the service providers all depend on Openreach to do the work and they seem to have little influence on Openreach schedules.

“It is amazing that in a time when the weather has been good that Openreach have so little resource that it takes over three weeks to fix one pole which supplies a whole village.

"Openreach is a monopoly with no realistic competitors in this area.”

Openreach is a business owned by BT Group that has responsibility for the network of telephone and broadband infrastructure around the UK.

The company has been approached for comment.