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.

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[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

In addition, there is a BT office directly above the fire which was evacuated,
so there has been a lack of BT staff to work on things.

[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

[kaet.livejournal.com]

A single duct. Sigh.

[mr-purpleduck.livejournal.com]

It would seem that the fire is causing odd X.25 issues as well.

[mangros.livejournal.com]

Interesting info about the tunnels here. I live in the building next to the tunnel entrance, and my phone and ADSL are fine. How strange.

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

No effect in my house... or across the street... everything working fine...

[barakta]

Most of the damage iirc was on the south side of Manchester so areas comprising Stockport, Cheadle and out almost as far as Macclesfield. The part of Greater Manchester that I come from. I don't know if anyone I know was affected cos I don't use phones anyway, I believe kingginger had his mobile, work phone and possible home phone off for a number of hours tho...

Kinda scary how easily whole chunks of people were crippled by it.

Natalya

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

it involved esbat and I in a trip to macclesfield to look at a bike that had already been sold, because we couldn't get through on the phone to check.