Vodafone UK mobile phone network outage after break-in
Vodafone UK was hit by a network outage after people broke into an exchange centre. This exchange centre is in Basingstoke, a town in the South of the country.
According to the company, a number of customers would have been affected by the outage without saying how serious the issue was.Due to the nature of the outage, it is likely that the data centre housed HLR platforms which manage the account permissions for customers on the network.
According toVodafone, engineers are working to fix the problem. They had a break in last night at one of their technical facilities which resulted in damage done to some of their equipment. They are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as they can.
The company confirmed that the break-in had not compromised personal information about its customers.
Telecom NZ faces another network crash, CTO resigns
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After the fourth outage of the XT Mobile network, the chief technical officer of Telecom New Zealand submitted his resignation. The supplier of the faulty 3G network, Alcatel-Lucent, has also announced the replacement of its NZ manager Steve Lowe.
Jyoti Mahurkar-Thombre, former general manager of Alcatel Lucent’s Next Generation Networks’ product unit, has been named as new NZ manager by the company.
The XT Mobile network was crippled for up to 12 hours on Monday, its fourth outage in two months.
Telecom NZ’s XT network to be reviewed
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telecom New Zealand will commission an independent review of the XT network due to its outage. Besides, the company has also started the work on improving capacity and design of the network.
Lower South Island is the most affected sites by the outage followed by disruptions in December. Customers significantly affected by the problems have been offered compensation by the company.
Vodafone outage caused by robbery
Cable stealing thieves were responsible for a network outage that left some Vodafone UK customers without service for most of yesterday.
A spokeswoman was unable to explain what the cables were for, but confirmed that the theft in north Wales caused the network downtime for most of Sunday.
She said: “There was a robbery of some cabling in north Wales and that caused parts of the network to go down. The Midlands, parts of the north-west and south-east, and north Wales were affected.”
Several Reg readers emailed us to complain about the problem. Vodafone is working with local police who are investigating the theft.
Normal service was restored overnight. ®
Source- http://www.theregister.co.uk
