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Blue vanishes into yonder and takes Telewest with it

Failed router at Telehouse

By Bill Ray • Get more from this author

Posted in Telecoms, 21st December 2006 18:33 GMT

Blueyonder, the broadband service provided by NTL Telewest, suffered a country-wide failure this afternoon between 14.30 and 16.00. Customer were unable to connect, and both blueyonder.co.uk and telewest.co.uk web sites ceased to exist for a little over an hour.

A failed core router at Telehouse was, apparently, to blame and is all fixed up: so everything should be back to normal now.®

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