Spain Experiences Another Significant Outage Weeks After Nationwide Blackouts
By Danielle
Just weeks after experiencing a mass blackout, Spain had another major communication outage on Tuesday.
According to reports, all major mobile networks in the country went down.
“Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, Digimobil and O2 were all reported to have been affected by outages hitting professional services, including health centres,” Daily Mail stated.
Daily Mail reports:
Complaints soared as landline, internet and emergency contact services were knocked offline early this morning.
Madrid, Andalucía, Galicia, the Basque Country, Aragon, Navarra, Extremadura and the Valencian Community were all reportedly affected.
Networks contracted with Telefónica appeared to have been hit, but outages did not appear to be affecting individuals’ network access.
The company told MailOnline shortly after 12.30pm local time (10.30 GMT) the issue has now been resolved, after ‘network upgrade work’ affected ‘some companies’ fixed communication services’.
‘This morning we had an incident that affected the fixed communications services of some companies and public services.
‘We have been working from the outset to restore these services, which have now been fully recovered.
‘We have activated the incident management committee, we have isolated the affected nodes and we have deployed field staff to resolve specific cases arising from this incident, which has now been resolved.’