Orange started offering broadband services in May this year
The broadband service run by mobile firm Orange is experiencing a "major" national outage.
The problem occurred on Monday afternoon, affecting 100,000 broadband subscribers at its peak.
A spokesperson for the company said the fault on the service, formerly known as Wanadoo, was caused by a "network equipment failure".
Orange said they were working to fix the problem but there is no indication when a normal service will resume.
The BBC news website was alerted to the fault by a reader who had been unable to connect to the internet for the last two days.
full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6058154.stm
The broadband service run by mobile firm Orange is experiencing a "major" national outage.
The problem occurred on Monday afternoon, affecting 100,000 broadband subscribers at its peak.
A spokesperson for the company said the fault on the service, formerly known as Wanadoo, was caused by a "network equipment failure".
Orange said they were working to fix the problem but there is no indication when a normal service will resume.
The BBC news website was alerted to the fault by a reader who had been unable to connect to the internet for the last two days.
full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6058154.stm
