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On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, the business provider Vodafone experienced a massive internet disruption that extended across various towns and cities
Villingen-Schwenningen , Bad Dürrheim , Donaueschingen , Bräunlingen , Brigachtal , Freiburg iB, Rottweil , Offenburg , Karlsruhe , Stuttgart , Schwäbisch Hall , Ulm , Kempten (Allgäu), and Ravensburg were affected. Numerous corporate customers were severely disrupted for hours. The outage had a significant impact on the business operations of many companies that rely on a stable and reliable internet connection.
The affected companies were without an internet connection during the downtime, which led to significant disruptions to their business processes.
Enterprise customers affected by the disruption faced a variety of challenges. Online communications, email correspondence, data transfers, cloud services, and other business-critical activities were disrupted, resulting in production delays, customer dissatisfaction, and financial losses.
The widespread internet outage at Vodafone on July 19, 2023, is a dramatic example of how heavily modern businesses depend on a reliable internet connection . It underscores the need to develop contingency plans and redundancy measures to ensure business continuity, even when unforeseen outages occur.
The incident also reminds companies to carefully consider their choice of internet providers and to implement backup solutions to better protect themselves in such emergencies.
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