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SINGAPORE - The hotlines of the Singapore Civil Defence Force and police, as well as those of hospitals and banks, could not be reached on Oct 8 in an unprecedented islandwide disruption on Singtel's telecommunications network. The disruption lasted for morSingtel landline service outage: Emergency, business hotlines restored
SINGAPORE - The hotlines of the Singapore Civil Defence Force and police, as well as those of hospitals and banks, could not be reached on Oct 8 in an unprecedented islandwide disruption on Singtel's telecommunications network. The disruption lasted for more than three hours, before services progressively resumed between 6pm and 7pm. Netizens began submitting outage reports as early as 2pm on crowdsourced outage website Downdetector when they could not get through public service hotlines. At 3.18pm, there were 2,706 reports on Downdetector. In a Facebook post at around 4.20pm, the SCDF and police urged members of the public to use SMS instead. «Members of the public who are experiencing difficulties reaching us at 995 or 999 can SMS SCDF at 70995 or SPF at 70999 instead,» said the police. «The safety and well-being of the public is our top priority. We will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.» Read more