Plusnet broadband in the UK was hit with a "major" outage on Monday afternoon. The issues started at just after 4pm GMT, and there were over 30,000 reports of problems from Plusnet users. These are mostly related to "landline internet", with users reporting either "no signal" or "total blackout".

Also in the UK, several hundred BT broadband and TalkTalk users also reported broadband issues in the afternoon – although nowhere near on the scale of Plusnet. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page