Sky TV down as hundreds of viewers report outages throughout the UK | EUROtoday

Sky TV is down throughout the UK, with hundreds of viewers reporting outages.

Customers have accused Sky of “unacceptable service” after complaining of receiving no replace from the community hours after the difficulty first arose.

More than 8,000 folks had been reporting points with the community simply earlier than 7am on Saturday, when the issues peaked, based on Downdetector.

The points appeared to start simply earlier than 3am, earlier than peaking just a few hours later, with tons of nonetheless reporting points all through the morning on Saturday.

The on-line platform exhibits 8 per cent of viewers have confronted a complete blackout.

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The listed affected areas embody Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, London, Southampton and Derby.

The majority of the issues are seen to be with Sky TV, nevertheless streaming can also be affected.

Customers have taken to social media to precise their upset on the concern.

One stated: “Seems to be a problem nationally with Sky TV, no satellite signal for many. But zero update, unacceptable service.”

Another added: “@skytv. Not-so-Good Morning, Sky! Any chance you could do us the courtesy of letting us know what’s going on? No one can access live TV. It’s clearly been going on for hours already, yet no a) fix, b) update or c) apology.”

A Sky Spokesperson stated: “We are aware of a technical issue that has impacted some Sky Q and Sky+ customers, causing a ‘no satellite signal’ message to appear. This issue has now been fully resolved – impacted customers need to restart their devices to restore service.”

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The newest outage comes after tens of hundreds of Sky TV prospects reported being unable to observe TV final May.

Most of these affected then stated their TV saved crashing, leaving them unable to observe dwell exhibits.

Some customers stated a message stating that that they had no sign popped up, whereas others stated they may not view on-line content material even when their web connection was positive.

Sky Q field customers stated attempting to load exhibits was not working, and that even after unplugging their TV’s, their field would crash when booted up.

It was understood that there was a technical concern inflicting some Sky Q containers to enter a standby state.

A Sky spokesperson stated on the time: “We’re sorry some customers had trouble accessing Sky Q last night. The issue was quickly resolved, and service has been restored.”