More than 50,000 inhabitants subscribed to Orange services suffered a telecommunications network outage on Tuesday afternoon in the Dordogne.
The operator itself communicated the number of customers affected, stating that no less than 30,000 customers had been deprived of mobile telephony and around 20,000 fixed telephone subscribers.
The malfunction affected homes in the Sarladaise region, specifies
Sud-Ouest
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The precise reasons for the breakdown which occurred around 3 p.m. could not be identified by Orange this Tuesday at the end of the afternoon.
The company mentioned the possibility of the rupture of a “very big link”.
A power outage or mechanical interruption could have occurred.
The inhabitants of Sarlat, Carsac-Aillac, Cénac-et-Saint-Julien, Les Eyzies, Mazeyrolles, Saint-Cyprien and Siorac-en-Périgord (Dordogne) found themselves without a landline.
Subscribers covered by the Larzac and Meyrals (Dordogne) antennas were without a mobile network.
Orange has ensured that it will do everything possible to restore the network, but customers have received a message evoking the risk of disruption until Wednesday evening.
France Bleu Périgord nevertheless reports that the service was restored this Tuesday around 11 p.m.
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