The Isle of Man’s Communications Commission has launched a formal investigation into the internet outage, which occurred earlier this week.

Internet across parts of the island went down for up to two days from Monday evening, with the issue only being fixed just after 9.30pm on Wednesday.

In a notice published on its website, the commission said telecoms is of ’critical importance to all aspects of our society and economy, and is something which has been brought into focus during the recent Covid-19 related restrictions’.

The notice added: ’While being mindful that during the outage the focus was rightly on restoring services, now that this has been achieved the Commission will be conducting an investigation into the incident, as there are a number of provisions within Manx Telecom’s licence designed to safeguard the network.

’While the Commission has been kept informed throughout the outage, it is still incumbent on the Commission to determine whether any breaches of regulatory obligations led to, or resulted from, the recent outage.

’It is therefore important that there is appropriate scrutiny of events, such as this outage, to ensure that there are no breaches of these regulatory obligations.’

The Commission said it will not comment on ongoing investigations but will present its findings in due course.