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MP Savid Javid, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills tells O2 to 'sort it' over network signal problems
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The thread on the GG forums is the usual comedy gold that happens every time they go down.
"I run a business and demand £100k compensation for lost business", "there are cheaper suppliers now and I may move to one of them" (right idea, wrong direction), "where's the compensation", etc My O2 SIM seems to get a 3G and 2G signal anyway... |
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What about more than half of O2's customers that won't have Whatsapp, because they don't have a smartphone. Not everyone is the same as you, running your own business and up to date with technology.
If you're out and about you need a phone, no good what'sapping the RAC when you break down and I've yet to meet an employer that contacts their staff on Whatsapp, not everyone has messenger services in people's family either. |
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So how many of you on here have no o2 signal at the moment as seems like its a network issue.
My Tesco Mobile is working fine at the moment but seems that some people are having issues. Is this linked to the Gift Gaff network coming under attack? |
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The thread on the GG forums is the usual comedy gold that happens every time they go down.
"I run a business and demand £100k compensation for lost business", "there are cheaper suppliers now and I may move to one of them" (right idea, wrong direction), "where's the compensation", etc My O2 SIM seems to get a 3G and 2G signal anyway... Now non PAYG O2 contract customers and business I have a bit more sympathy for as they are expecting a more premium service. |
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You would not trust them given they have so many outages.
They are meant to be the lowest network priority on o2, so that is hardly what you want if you are running some amazing busines that needs a reliable connection. |
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down here too
used to work for a certain phone network, hopefully they will sort it quickly and reimburse pay monthly customers, it was a blanket 10% line rental discount for tesco mobile customers, yippee a whole £1.25 in prospect, i would rather have signal thanks |
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Friend tells me hers is now fixed and work if again
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Friend tells me hers is now fixed and work if again
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http://status.o2.co.uk/ Making calls and using data Parts of our network aren't working in various locations across the UK. This means your service might come and go until we fix the problem. Mobile devices are displaying “no service” in areas where coverage would normally be available |
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Normal coverage for Voice, text and email (2G)
Making calls, sending texts, using email on your phone. Good indoors and outdoors.  Normal coverage for Mobile internet and voice (3G) Fast networking. For smartphones, dongles and tablets. Sorry, we do not have coverage here.  Normal coverage for Mobile Internet (4G) Seamless connectivity and mobile internet. Sorry, we do not have coverage here. Mines ok. |
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Even though the checker says it's fine, take note of the red text and the service updates on the status page. It seems like an intermittent handset registration issue of some kind. http://status.o2.co.uk/ Giffgaff have been very cryptic Quote:
The technical teams are currently looking at options to help mitigate the impact while looking for a more permanent solution to the core issue.
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Parts of our network aren't working in various locations across the UK. This means your service might come and go until we fix the problem. Mobile devices are displaying “no service” in areas where coverage would normally be available
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All okay here now.
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Things sometimes break. It's not like they want them to. Of course everyone, including O2 want it fixed ASAP. (People demanding "get it sorted" - well, yeah! They don't want it to stay broken!)
It's not that things go wrong, it's how the company handles and communicates around an issue that counts. |
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It seems o2 does suffer from this problem more than any other network. You would think after the last major outage they would have something in place to prevent this.
Of course it means someone will have been called in on the bank holiday weekend to fix it. I bet they were not too impressed. Lol |
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Well it's also about designing systems that are reliable, redundant and where failures can happen without causing widespread national issues. This kind of issue should be a real exception and rarity, unfortunately it isn't on O2 who have had a string of them over the years.
O2 will have a network operations centre that is staffed 24/7/365 just like all the main MNOs. It won't be 1 bloke being called up at all, it is very different to that when you're dealing with multi-billion pound networks of thousands of servers, sites, 30+ million customers etc. |
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Are you sure? I suspect its outsourced most of that side of the business and I bet minimal staffing on the whole with the real techies on call.
If it was so well organised this wouldn't happen as the system would have redundancy or in the worst case it would be a hot swap of a server in a rack. |
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Well I thought it was ok for me but I have just checked my messaging app and every text I have sent since around 6pm is "waiting to send". During this time I have drove around 60 miles along the west coast of Scotland and they evidently have not been able to send during that entire journey, so if it is a localised issue then the locality must be fairly large!
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One of my friends on Tesco Mobile had issues about 5pm.
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Are you sure? I suspect its outsourced most of that side of the business and I bet minimal staffing on the whole with the real techies on call.
If it was so well organised this wouldn't happen as the system would have redundancy or in the worst case it would be a hot swap of a server in a rack. |
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O2 used to have quite a good support team, it was UK based. Don't know what it's like these days.
Tesco's is also UK-based and are quite good too. |
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O2 used to have quite a good support team, it was UK based. Don't know what it's like these days.
Tesco's is also UK-based and are quite good too. |
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Yes Tesco is good. Based just outside Chester.
Not sure where the O2 data centre will be located though as depends who it is outsourced to, I guess. Giff Gaff very cricptic with the post but suggesting any fix at the moment is only a work around until they can find the problem. |
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Customer support is usually entirely different to net ops anyway.
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Yes Tesco is good. Based just outside Chester.
Not sure where the O2 data centre will be located though as depends who it is outsourced to, I guess. Giff Gaff very cricptic with the post but suggesting any fix at the moment is only a work around until they can find the problem. |
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Wasn't that just relating to the website glitch experienced yesterday? I doubt the two are linked
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Most Recent Update
22:50 - 25 May 2015 Hi Everyone, Unfortunately the situation remains mostly the same for the time being. The tech team are analysing some extracted data files to identify the cause of the failure so they can roll out a fix as quickly as possible. They are also investigating re-routing traffic to help mitigate the impact. Once we have further updates or better understanding of a timeframe, we will share that here. |
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