Emergency, business hotlines restored after hours-long Singtel landline outage


There were more than 2,500 reports as at 3.10pm on service outage website Downdetector. ST

SINGAPORE: The hotlines of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and police, as well as those of hospitals and banks, could not be reached on Tuesday (Oct 8) in an unprecedented islandwide disruption involving Singtel’s telecommunications network.

The disruption lasted for more than three hours before services progressively resumed between 6pm and 7pm.

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