The UK’s largest independant Telecoms Company Opera Telecom had a nastry suprise yestaday as a large range of their phone, fax systems crashed! Opera not only provides a wide range of phone lines, premium rate services and fax services to large corporations, TV stations and Radio stations they also provide telephony services to a large majority of telecoms providers.

I’m unclear on the extent of the disruption and exact list of services that are affected but if you have had problems with receiving faxes, voicemails and connecting to non geographic numbers its likely due to this crash.

As of 3:00pm this afternoon the problem still persists, but judging on Opera’s response time in the past it wont be long before their techys get things back to normal!