UPD Sky Broadband and Phone Suffers Service Outage in South London

Customers of Sky Broadband in South London have been starved of funny cat videos for the past hour after a vital underground fibre optic cable broke and knocked out both local Internet and phone (Sky Talk) services.

Most such breakages occur due to accidental damage by third party contractors, although others can be caused by malicious or criminal damage and related incidents often take several hours to resolve.

Significant breakages have also been known to disrupt local connectivity for several weeks, but this being London means they’ll probably get it resolved before the end of today.. maybe. At least most of those affected can hopefully resort to a reasonable Mobile Broadband connection.

Residents and businesses in the following areas are likely to be affected: Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Brixton, Battersea, Tulse Hill, Streatham, Gipsy Hill, Forest Hill, Dulwich, South Clapham and Balham.

UPDATE 6pm:

The cable break has now been resolved.