{"id":107487,"date":"2019-05-25T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-flat-was-built-in-2017-so-why-cant-i-get-bt-or-sky-broadband\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:03:01","slug":"my-flat-was-built-in-2017-so-why-cant-i-get-bt-or-sky-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-flat-was-built-in-2017-so-why-cant-i-get-bt-or-sky-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My flat was built in 2017 so why can&#039;t I get BT or Sky broadband?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nJennifer Offord\u2019s new-build does not allow her to sign up to internet and TV from major providersWater, gas, electricity and broadband are essential household utilities, but a large number of new homes are being built without the infrastructure for a decent broadband connection \u2013 or, in some cases, with no service at all.Jennifer Offord, 36, bought her new-build flat in Hackney, east London, in February 2018, four months after it had been completed, only to find out she was not able to sign up to any of the standard providers. \u201cI had assumed it would be fine as I had never had a problem before, but when I moved in and asked the developer why I couldn\u2019t sign up to Sky, I was told Openreach hadn\u2019t been set up and I was ruled out of getting any of the affordable TV and internet packages that I wanted,\u201d she says. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2019\/may\/25\/my-flat-was-built-in-2017-so-why-cant-i-get-bt-or-sky-broadband\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018My flat was built in 2017 so why can&#8217;t I get BT or Sky broadband?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Jennifer Offord\u2019s new-build does not allow her to sign up to internet and TV from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rXF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84140,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-nine-year-struggle-with-virgin-for-a-working-broadband-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":107487,"position":0},"title":"My nine-year struggle with Virgin for a working broadband connection","date":"March 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I\u2019ve lost days off workand freelance commissions, but it has just offered \u00a3100 in \u2018goodwill\u2019I\u2019ve been without a properly functioning broadband for nine years and Virgin Media seems unable to do anything about it. 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