Dutch emergency services hit by major telecoms outage

By Staff Writer on Jun 25, 2019 7:10AM

Prompting police to send all duty officers onto the streets.

A major telecommunications outage hit the Netherlands on Monday, crippling ambulance and emergency services numbers and prompting the police to send all duty officers onto the streets. The outage, which was ongoing after several hours, originated on the network of national carrier Royal KPN NV, ...

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