SaskTel suffered a big outage on Friday, with cellular, internet and landline service affected for several hours.

According to the provincial Crown corporation, around 11 a.m. CST an equipment failure interrupted service.

Technicians were able to restore service around 3 p.m.

The website canadianoutages.com, which monitors such outages, noted hundreds of reports about SaskTel.

A widespread outage on April 7 was blamed on a server problem.