From The Register
BT biz broadband staggers to its feet after 4-hour titsup
Major outage knocks out punters' connections
By Brid-Aine Parnell 20th January 2012 13:01 GMT
BT suffered what it described as a "major business broadband problem" today, which kicked off at about 07.25 GMT.
The telco's service status page is listing the problem as major, but not giving out too much additional data.
"Some business customers may currently be experiencing problems connecting to their broadband service," the status page statement reads.
"We are currently experiencing high call volumes and you may have some...

From The Register
Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours
Routing gear fingered for nationwide outage
By Kelly Fiveash • 18th January 2012 11:19 GMT
Virgin Media was hit by a major broadband service blackout early last night that affected an unspecified number of the telco's five million customers.
The company confirmed that the downtime started on Tuesday evening.
"If you experienced a loss of internet connection between 5pm and 8pm on Tues 17th January, we experienced a national outage during this time, which is now resolved," Virgin Media said...

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BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been cut off from their online services because of a major fault at Research in Motion (RIM) in Canada.

Irate owners haven't been able to get into their emails, browse the web or use the service that is most precious to them – instant messenger BBM. BBM is the major selling point of a BlackBerry, especially to the yoof, because it doesn't cost them anything to use, unlike text messages.

But one of the reasons it is free is because, along with all other internet services, it is routed through RIM in Canada, where the problem is now occurring.

Service providers from Europe and the Middle East have been reaching out to their customers on Twitter to let them know that RIM is working on the problem.

Zain Kuwait said: "Sorry for the BlackBerry temporary disconnection from the main source, it's out of our control, it will be back soon, sorry".