Dutch emergency services restored after major telecoms outage

AMSTERDAM: A nationwide telecommunications outage in the Netherlands knocked police and emergency numbers offline for roughly four hours on Monday before national carrier Royal KPN NV said service was restored.

The cause of the outage remained unclear, but the company said it did not appear to be the result of a security breach.

“We have no reason to think it was (a hack) and we monitor our systems 24/7”, a KPN spokeswoman said.