KPN outage disrupts phone access to several Dutch university hospitals

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  A KPN outage disrupted landline access to several Dutch university hospitals.

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  Hospitals in Utrecht, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Groningen reported phone problems.

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  KPN said the outage was a local technical problem affecting business customers at one network location.

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  The outage began overnight, but KPN did not say where it started or how long it would last.

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  KPN said it had rerouted some calls and resolved most of the impact, while some business customers still had problems.

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  Emergency number 112 remained reachable, and some hospitals provided alternative numbers for urgent matters.

Who

KPN and several Dutch university hospitals, including hospitals in Utrecht, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Groningen.

What

A KPN outage disrupted some customers’ access by landline, including the hospitals’ phone services.

When

The outage began overnight before 10 October 2026.

Where

At an unspecified KPN network location; hospitals in several Dutch cities were affected.

Why

KPN described it as a local technical outage. The specific cause was not stated.

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