The island has no television, electricity for only two hours a day, sporadic telephone connection and one hour of unreliable dial-up internet.

It has no telephone connection.

We are a retired couple aged 74 and 80 who rely on our telephone connection after the phone box in the village was decommissioned.

In 1918, graphite industry was established. 1920 marked the first telephone connection.

As a result subscribers had to wait for as long as five years to get a telephone connection.