The emergency numbers in Norway affected - train traffic is stopped throughout the country

Norwegian media reports on Thursday afternoon that train traffic throughout the country has been stopped. This is due to extensive telephone problems across the country which means that the state-owned railway company, Bane Nor, cannot get hold of the emergency services.

- Bane Nor is in the process of setting up a crisis management group, so we hope this won't last long, says press contact Olav Nordli at Bane Nor to VG.

Telenor has confirmed that their customers are experiencing problems.

- Currently, we know that individual calls between Telenor customers, and calls to and from other mobile operators, have failed. We also know that some calls to emergency numbers have failed, says press manager Anders Krokan.

Aftenposten writes that emergency numbers for the police, fire brigade and rescue services are affected. Communications manager Vetle Andersen says that the problems appear sporadically.

- There are no signs that any hacking or attack is taking place, Andersen tells the newspaper.

Telenor in Stockholm says that the problem is currently limited to Norway.

- We have no disturbances in Sweden, says Boel Bengtsson, press contact at Telenor in Sweden.