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Old 29-03-2004, 16:03   #33
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Cool Major Service Outage: Manchester

Major Service Outage: Manchester

A fire in cable chambers running beneath the streets of central Manchester has caused extensive damage to (underground) cables and widespread disruption to phone services in Manchester and the surrounding area.

"The fire is affecting some 130,000 homes and businesses in the centre of the city. BT is currently assessing the extent of the damage (remotely from its network management centre) and working to reroute and restore as many services as possible.

However, the true extent of the repair will not become clear until the fire authority have declared the site safe and BT engineers can gain access to the underground chambers. It is not possible at this stage to say how long it will be before all services are fully restored."
BT Statement (29/03/04 09:42)


At present, telephone numbers beginning with the following sequences are believed to be affected (based on Nildram's announcement to customers):

01252.... 01260..... 01273.... 01293.... 01298
013166.... 01457.... 016120.... 016121.... 016122
016123.... 016124.... 016125.... 016127.... 016128
016129.... 016130.... 016132.... 016133.... 016134
016135.... 016136.... 016137.... 016140.... 016141
016142.... 016143.... 016144.... 016145.... 016147
016148.... 016149.... 016161.... 016162.... 016166
016168.... 016171.... 016183.... 016188.... 016192
016194.... 016195.... 016196.... 016197.... 01625
01663.... 01895.... 019123.... 0208519

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