Longtime Slashdot reader gbkersey shares a report from The Mirror: Elon Musk’s satellite internet Starlink has been hit with a global outage preventing thousands of users from accessing the internet. According to DownDetector, reports of issues began to surge around 8pm GMT, with nearly 60,000 global users affected at the peak of the outage. “Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution,” the company said in a post on X. “We appreciate your patience, we’ll share an update once this issue is resolved.”
Outages are being reported across the U.S., as well as along the Ukrainian frontline. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 people in the UK have logged issues with Starlink since 8pm this evening. “The majority of the reports (64%) are concerning a total blackout, while the rest point to internet problems,” the report says.
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