Vodafone and Digital tv are experiencing the nuisance of collapse of transmission tower

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Digitenne is in parts of the north of the country is not to receive by Friday afternoon the mast in Hoogersmilde has collapsed. Also Vodafone are experiencing the nuisance of the collapsed mast; 70 cell towers in the area no longer work.

According to KPN, primarily customers in the province of Drenthe affected by the cell tower, that Friday afternoon partly collapsed. The end time of the outage is not yet reported on the storingspagina. The tower sent the dvb-t signals. Dvb-t is the network technology behind KPN’s tv service Digitenne. Vodafone reports that thirty mobile phone masts and forty umts masts no longer work due to the collapse of the mast in Smilde. It is unclear when the masts are turned on again.

Friday afternoon were a lot of stations via fm can be received in large parts of Northern – and Central Netherlands, unreachable. After the collapse of the transmission tower at Hoogersmilde was also the mast in IJsselstein disabled as a result of a fire. Now it is partly compensated for by other cell towers, and by two locator transmitters, reports NOS. The noodmasten are in Hilversum and in the Frisian village of Tjerkgaast. The mast in IJsselstein is expected to be Saturday again turned on. In Hoogersmilde is a noodmast, within a matter of days in use can be taken. The recovery will take months.

The cause of the fires in the towers is unclear. The fires in the towers would have nothing to do with each other. Disaster broadcasting station Radio 1 switched because of the switched off cell towers back on the old frequency AM 747.

Update, 11:05: Information about Vodafone to the article added. Thanks to PolarBear for the reporting of Vodafone’s interference.