Murphy: Network outages show need for investment

Data Protection Minister Dara Murphy says network outages such as that which affected up to 1.5 million Three Ireland customers on Monday are “unacceptable” and highlight the need for greater investment in mobile phone network capacity.

Murphy: Network outages show need for investment

A spokeswoman for Three Ireland blamed an electrical failure at one of its data centres which, she said, caused an increase in temperature in the building “and then subsequently impacted some systems affecting customer service”.

As a result customers experienced, what Three described as, intermittent 2G and 3G service issues.

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