The firm said snow had hampered efforts to fix the fault and extra resources were called out.

BBC: Gloucestershire

Vodafone spokesman Rob Matthews said engineers had been trying to fix the fault for the past couple of days.

BBC: North Norfolk mobile phone coverage 'restored'

Bank chiefs said the fault happened as a side-effect of attempts to fix another problem.

BBC: Halifax suspends net dealing

It puts the fix for any problem on its website, it's our fault if we don't know about it, can't find it or fail to understand it.

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