Tag: outage

Retail Asia06/03/2024
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Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website. “We’re aware people are having […]

Retail Asia25/11/2021
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DBS faced two consecutive days of disruptions to its online banking services, marking the worst outage for the Singapore lender since its ATM glitch in 2010. DBS issued a social media post to address the recurring disruptions to its online banking services, including its payments app. Services were restored early this morning,» the bank said […]

Retail Asia25/11/2021
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore said it will consider appropriate supervisory actions on DBS, which suffered recurring disruptions to its online banking services, including its payments app. This is a serious disruption and MAS expects DBS to conduct a thorough investigation to identify the root causes and implement the necessary remedial measures, Marcus Lim, MAS’ […]

Retail Asia14/03/2019
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If you’re bothered by Facebook’s notoriously shady data harvesting methods and various other controversies surrounding the privacy and security of the social networking titan’s user base, it’s probably not a good idea to switch to Instagram. But there are actually many competing services and platforms on the market that Mark Zuckerberg does not own. One instant messaging app that has been […]

Retail Asia17/05/2017
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The electricity industry must improve its management and technology to reduce losses in the transmission grid as well as eradicate power stealing, which are very serious in rural and remote areas, delegates heard at a seminar in Con Dao Island in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau. Viet Nam is ranked 88th […]

Retail Asia07/12/2016
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Singapore’s Infocomm and Media Development Authority (IMDA) is investigating Singtel over a recent nearly 24-hour broadband outage islandwide. Singtel announced the outage commenced at around 8:45am on Saturday and services were fully restored at 8:25am on Sunday, although some customers were still reporting connection problems. The operator said on social media that its engineers are […]

Retail Asia23/05/2016
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Australian operator Telstra has been hit with two more network outages in the span of three days, weeks after committing to invest to improve its network resilience. On Friday, Telstra confirmed it was aware of an unplanned service disruption affecting NBN voice and data as well as ADSL customers. Telstra said the issue its engineers […]

Retail Asia07/04/2016
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Australia’s Telstra and vendor partners Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper have assembled a team of engineering experts to conduct an end-to-end review of its network after the company experienced three mobile network outages in two months. During a recent speech at the CommsDay summit, Telstra Operations COO Kate McKenzie said the company has already implemented changes […]

Retail Asia24/03/2016
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Australia’s largest operator Telstra will offer customers another free data day as an apology for its third mobile network outage in less than a month. Telstra CEO Andy Penn said he is “deeply disappointed” and acknowledged that multiple outages in such a short period is “absolutely unacceptable. The outage took place on Thursday, and was […]


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