Telecoms firm handed £900,000 fine after emergency call failure
Hull telecoms firm KCOM has been fined nearly £1m by watchdog Ofcom after it uncovered a “serious weakness” in its emergency call network
KCOM, which operates the main broadband and telephone networks in Hull, had serious issues with its emergency call service back in December 2015.
It reported to Ofcom that on 28th of that month, its emergency call service had been down for about four hours due to to flooding at one of BT’s telephone exchanges in York, in the wake of Storm Eva.
It said that 74 calls to emergency num... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
