Britain: Network Equipment Theft Cuts Mobile Phone and Internet Services to Several Hundred Thousand Vodafone Customers
February 28th, 2011Via: BBC:
Vodafone’s mobile network has been disrupted following a break-in at its exchange centre in Basingstoke.
The company said that several hundred thousand customers had lost voice, text and internet access.
Burglars hit the facility in the early hours of Monday morning, stealing computer equipment and network hardware.
Most of the users affected were in the M4 corridor area, to the west of London.
In a statement, Vodafone said: “We had a break in last night at one of our technical facilities which resulted in damage done to some of our equipment.
“We are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as we can.”
The company added that there had been no impact on the security of customers’ private information.
