MS3 Recovers After Melted Cable Knocked Out Broadband Across Scunthorpe

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Hull-based alternative network operator MS3, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across 234,000 premises (213k RFS) in the North of England and connected 20,000 customers via various retail ISPs, have managed to restore services across the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe after one of their core fibre cables melted.

The operator’s network, which reaches about 37,000 premises across the town, began to suffer problems at around 3-4pm yesterday and this also appears to have involved one of their network partners (Virgin Media Business). After a few hours it was identified that a faulty electrical cable had managed to melt a nearby core fibre cable.
NOTE: MS3 is backed by £100m from investors like Asterion and supported by ISPs such as TalkTalk, Open Fibre, Squirrel Internet, MTH Networks, Hull Fibre, Octaplus, Home Telecom etc.
The complex installation and splicing of a replacement fibre cable began at around 9pm last night and the first customers then finally started to come back online at around 1:35am this morning. In the past few minutes several of MS3’s broadband ISPs have confirmed that the situation has now been fully resolved, although some local customers may need to reboot their router and Optical Network Terminals (ONT). Credits to mrpops2ko for the report.


Source: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2 ... horpe.html