Cellphone outage in Denmark causes widespread disruption and hits emergency services


The Centre for Cyber Security, Denmark’s national IT security authority, and a branch of the Danish Defense Intelligence Service could not confirm if the two incidents were related. — AFP Relaxnews

COPENHAGEN: One of Denmark's largest cellphone networks suffered severe outages on Nov 28 that prevented people from contacting emergency services, forced at least one hospital to reduce non-critical medical care, and prompted security services in some regions to patrol the streets in search of people in need of help.

The network provider, TDC Net, said in a press release Thursday afternoon that the problems were likely due to an update carried out in the past 24 hours and they had no reason to believe that disruptions could be due to cyberattacks.

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