Skype Apologises For Outage - 20th Aug 2007 1:09pm
Originally Posted by BBC News
Net phone firm Skype says its service is up and running again after three days of "unprecedented" disruption.
The problems with the service began on 16 August and stopped millions of people logging in and making calls.
Skype said the ongoing disruption was caused by an unexpected interaction between its servers and user's PCs.
Despite Skype's claim to have fixed the problems some subscribers reported that they had trouble making calls throughout the weekend.
The problems with the service began on 16 August and stopped millions of people logging in and making calls.
Skype said the ongoing disruption was caused by an unexpected interaction between its servers and user's PCs.
Despite Skype's claim to have fixed the problems some subscribers reported that they had trouble making calls throughout the weekend.
Reminds me why I keep my BT landline for business - loads of friends within the server industry use Skype and fair few have had problems recently.
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