Smoke on the Tyne: Blaze at BT exchange causes major outages across North East England

Flames contained – but expect slow 'staged restoration' of services

Thousands of customers of BT's fixed-line broadband and telephone services are experiencing major disruption in North East England after an exchange in Newcastle caught fire.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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