Parts of Manchester offline, off phones due to fire

[ciphergoth]

A fire in a cabling tunnel has destroyed 130,000 lines used by homes and businesses. I don't know whether it might also affect ground cables for mobile comms.

Comments

[hughe.livejournal.com]

its good to see that level3 were unaffected.

 5  pos-2-0.manchester.scotland.net (213.128.224.13)  28.034 ms  29.862 ms  29.859 ms
 6  212.133.8.173 (212.133.8.173)  29.566 ms  43.053 ms  39.615 ms
 7  fe-4-6.hsa1.Manchesteruk1.Level3.net (195.16.175.73)  37.007 ms  28.668 ms  27.633 ms
 8  p4-0.london2-cr3.bbnplanet.net (195.16.160.70)  37.162 ms  49.091 ms  35.292 ms