Irish band U2 brings down Dutch telephone network
Published: Monday 16 March 2009 11:20 UTC
Last updated: Monday 16 March 2009 11:23 UTC
Telecom provider KPN is investigating why the national telephone network went partially down on Saturday afternoon. Many service numbers were unreachable.
In and around the eastern city of Nijmegen the General Practitioners' Call Centre could no longer be contacted by phone following heavy use of the national network by callers who tried to book tickets for a concert by Irish rock group U2. Nijmegen's regional medical call centre says it is unacceptable that the health service is put at risk because concert tickets are being sold somewhere in the country.
KPN wants to find out why the network was unable to cope with the heavy use
Published: Monday 16 March 2009 11:20 UTC
Last updated: Monday 16 March 2009 11:23 UTC
Telecom provider KPN is investigating why the national telephone network went partially down on Saturday afternoon. Many service numbers were unreachable.
In and around the eastern city of Nijmegen the General Practitioners' Call Centre could no longer be contacted by phone following heavy use of the national network by callers who tried to book tickets for a concert by Irish rock group U2. Nijmegen's regional medical call centre says it is unacceptable that the health service is put at risk because concert tickets are being sold somewhere in the country.
KPN wants to find out why the network was unable to cope with the heavy use
I haven't had any problems using the phone that day though. Probably because it's only free 0800 and paid 0900 numbers that were down, rather than regular ones.
