Broadband hit by massive collapse

British Telecom - already under fire for its broadband services - will face more anger from users after its high-speed Internet access was unavaiable for several hours after a massive systems failure.

A BT spokesman said the connection had been fully restored to its 110,000 broadband customers and the company was investigating the cause of the problem, though the company's website appeared to be offline at the time of writing.

The failure reportedly affected left users of other ADSL services, who access through BT local exchanges.

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