Several large French cities such as Paris, Lyon or Lille, were affected Friday afternoon by outages on the mobile networks of SFR and Bouygues Telecom, the operators said without giving a precise assessment.
According to the specialized site Downdetector, which has counted up to more than 6,000 reports from 2 p.m., the main cities affected are Paris, Lyon, Lille, Marseille and Bordeaux.
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Investigations are still in progress
” to find out the reasons for this “
significant
” failure, we say at SFR.
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Our technicians are doing their best to resolve this incident as soon as possible
,” the operator wrote on Twitter, in response to several complaints from its customers.
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There was a technical incident in an area of the network where SFR is the leader.
The teams remain mobilized to restore service as soon as possible
, ”said a Bouygues Telecom spokesperson.