As a result of a nationwide outage that affected Royal KPN, The Netherlands has sanctioned a formal investigation into the matter.
However, Dutch authorities are looking at reviewing the outage that crippled its police, ambulance and other essential services.
Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus told Dutch lawmakers that:
“I want to investigate thoroughly how the outage at KPN could have started and the consequences for emergency services, and then also look at how the crisis management went,” Grapperhaus said in the Dutch parliament.
“If three fail-safes don’t work then something is seriously wrong,” Socialist Party lawmaker Ronald van Raak said.
“If there is such bungling at KPN then we should make sure that a different provider, a different telecommunications company can take it over, right?”
While Royal KPN, The Netherland’s largest mobile carrier has made an official statement that the outage did not appear to be the result of a security breach.
