Netherlands launches investigation after network outage knocked down emergency service number for several hours
Dutch Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus on Tuesday said the government will launch an investigation into how an outage at telecom Royal KPN knocked out the national emergency service number for several hours.
The Netherlands has been hit by its largest telecommunications outage in years, with the 112 emergency number knocked out across the country, BBC reports.
KPN and the Dutch Economic Affairs Ministry, responsible for telecommunications, could not be reached by phone, and emails seeking comment were not immediately answered.
Reuters reports that an outage on KPN’s backbone network on Monday took down the ambulance, police and fire department emergency number for nearly four hours.