Vodafone warns customers that they could get in touch with 112 but hear nothing or cannot be understood by the operators of the emergency number. The company, the police and various security regions give the tip to call 112 with a landline. You can also install the 112NL app to chat with the control room, the police reported. 088 numbers of the police are also difficult to reach.
Several hospitals are also customers of Vodafone, which means that they are not or less accessible. The Amsterdam OLVG, the Alrijne Hospital in Leiden, Leiderdorp and Alphen aan den Rijn, the Rotterdam Franciscus Gasthuis and the Dijklander Hospital in Purmerend and Hoorn, among others, indicate this on the website. Rivierenland Hospital in Tiel and Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam have a replacement telephone number on their site.
Other companies and institutions have also been affected. For example, energy company Vattenfall reports that the breakdown service cannot be reached by telephone. Several municipalities, including Leiden, and Rotterdam The Hague Airport are also affected.
Vodafone reported the malfunction early Friday morning. The company says it has found the cause and states that the malfunction is already getting less bad and connections are partially working. In case of problems, Vodafone customers can best call via services such as WhatsApp or FaceTime, Vodafone indicates. Because these are internet services, they are not affected.
Around 08:00, allestoringen.nl received more than 4,000 reports of the Vodafone outage. Vodafone cannot say how many customers have been affected. because some calls get through and some don’t. The company is also not yet able to estimate how long the problems will last.
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