[beecart]

Oct 12, 2012
10:27 am

Making calls and using data
We've got some problems with our phone service right now. Some phone numbers might not be working. Those numbers are not location specific

Ongoing

http://status.o2.co.uk/

[daclick]

Bad times. Ive never had a problem with vodafone

[Thine Wonk]

This is what twitter says for #o2:

Bob Apollo ‏@bobapollo
#O2 network broken again - another disaster for hapless network operator

10m Andrea Grant ‏@AndreaGCat
Anyone else having problems with their network? #O2

12m Lauren Samuels ‏@Laurensamuels88
O2 seriously. You're down AGAIN?! Worst network ever. Sort. It. Out. #O2

13m Joss Garman ‏@jossgarman
#O2 having big phone meltdown so have had no reception for past three hours. Grr. http://bit.ly/cYqRiL

Josh Ng ‏@CookieDude_2332
Anyone on O2, if you are having a service issue, we are well aware of this and are working to rectify the issue. #O2

37m Nicky Lissner ‏@NickyLissner
Cannot wait to leave #o2 I actually hate them!!!

57m Cat Forrest ‏@CatForrest
So.... Seems I'm not only one and nor am I only one wanting to leave #O2!! Explanation would be nice - eta for a fix too pls......

1h Andrew Palmer ‏@arniepalmer
#o2 We've got some problems with our phone service right now. Some numbers might not be working. Those numbers are not location specific

1h emma foster ‏@fcomms
Fed up that for the second time this month #o2 has had network failure. Not good enough. Hope to be back soon..#o2fail

And the Giffgaff thread: http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Ser...2/td-p/6317458

[jimmy7bellies]

Soon to be renamed NO2?

[Thine Wonk]

Originally Posted by jimmy7bellies

Soon to be renamed NO2?

Too busy coming up with ideas for making money out of flogging your location data, rather than working on the reliability issues for service you actually pay them to provide.

[Thine Wonk]

In come the news reports...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-down-for-some

[mogzyboy]

Oh dear...O2 at it again. When will they get it right?

...and what's the advert displaying at the top of the page for me right now? That's right, you guessed it...GiffGaff!

[Thine Wonk]

If I was Vodafone I'd be very worried about what I'd just signed myself up for that's for sure.

[Thine Wonk]

The Register.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/12/o2_outage/

[wilt]

Looks like I have been caught in it again. Nice.

[Thine Wonk]

Looks like a repeat of the same issue in July, this was the apology from then.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18821395

Back in July the BBC were asking why is O2 suffering so many outages. The BBC journalist asked "what is it about O2 that means they have so many outages that rivals don't seem to suffer from", that was before the more recent ones!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18812123

I suppose the prison service is unable to monitor some offenders with tags again like last time, as they all work on O2.

[Hutchy_Muse]

Down for me too, can't believe I've to suffer another 14 months of them..

[psionic]

Mine seems fine at the moment. But it was behaving strangely yesterday evening for a while. Outgoing calls failing and incoming calls going straight to voicemail without ringing.

[Stiggles]

Oh ffs, dead again for me

[beecart]

Corporate work phone down

[Anika Hanson]

I'm down as well again grrrr. I thought it was my phone at first. Utterly ridiculous.

[albertd]

The status is now saying

Making calls and using data
Further to the fault we reported earlier (where some customers in some areas have been unable to make or receive calls, texts or use data), we believe we have now identified the cause of the fault and are taking corrective action to restore service to those customers affected. Again we are sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing.

[Thine Wonk]

Originally Posted by albertd

The status is now saying

6 hours since is was posted as a fault by O2. I wonder how many more hours to get those customers attached back to the network.

[HHGTTG]

My HTC Desire S phone's dead here in Bromley S.London. Luckily I have two candybar, reliable phones on two other networks - as if I needed them as a retired person.

[nicebitofstuff]

That'll explain why my Tesco Mobile phone has had no signal all afternoon then. I was caught in this last time. Oddly my kids are both on the same network and are in the same house as me right now and are having no problems.

[Thine Wonk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19928507

Millions suffer as O2 network stumbles

Millions of customers on O2's mobile network have reported having trouble making calls.

O2 said about 10% of its 22 million customers had suffered an intermittent service since 12:00 GMT on Friday.

On its network status page, O2 said some phone numbers across the UK were not working, but it was not the same technical fault that cut millions of customers off in July 2012.

The operator added it hoped to resolve the fault before early Friday evening.

[TranceClubber]

Yup out here too

[neil79]

No problem with my Giffgaff connection (O2 ) and wish I could say the same of my works phone on Vodafone

[Everything Goes]

Mines is ok. Only suffered a minor problem last time and that was easily resolved by turning 3G off. I normally have no 3G coverage so not a problem!

Likely Home Location Register failure again.

[andys corner]

My phone went a bit loopy before- iPhone 4 on tesco. Rebooted and turned off 3G and it sorted it's life out.