O2 network down for some

infernox · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:23

Mines been fine all week.

MickeyFinns · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:39

Mine was fine until half an hour ago. Now nothing even after rebooting.

Irish_Tom · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:41

I've just turned 3G off on my iPhone4S and now I've got network to make calls and texts.

Give it a go and see if it fixes the problem for you.

Cosimo · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:43

Made a number of international calls to the UK and they were all fine.

StonedPenguin · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:48

Not had any problems here, Giffgaff.

SB118 · 12 Jul 2012 at 08:50

wife is on giffgaff, couldn't send me a text this morning.

JamesU2005 · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:27

Anyone know whether texts sent from other networks to O2 phones during the outage will still come through just delayed?

iMacMart · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:30

Turning 3G off allows me to know make calls

div0 · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:43

Panzerbjorn said:
I've just turned 3G off on my iPhone4S and now I've got network to make calls and texts.

Give it a go and see if it fixes the problem for you.

Yeah I set my phone to 2G only as well and that allowed me to connect for calls/texts.

Skillmister · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:53

Omg service! It's a miracle

Haggisman · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:54

My phone was fine last night when I went to bed - no signal this morning when I got up. Restarted the phone and it came back, but had gone again by the time I got to work.

Have my upgrade in 2 weeks, so perhaps this will give me a bit more bargaining power

Myshra · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:59

As a rival, it's hard not to smirk. Is there any info about as to why it's broken? I'm guessing HLR due to the type of outage but if anyone knows more...

Nexus18 · 12 Jul 2012 at 10:08

My phone was fine yesterday, but since waking up this morning I have no signal at all.

Can't complain though, always had a good service from them dating way way back, far better than every other network for my area.

These things happen to every company in one way or another

ElliorR · 12 Jul 2012 at 10:20

Mine was fine yesterday but this morning it's saying no sim card.

I bet this is the day Jennifer Aniston tries to call me ffs

Sunbed · 12 Jul 2012 at 10:21

I have service back now in West Yorkshire.

ONESHOTKILL · 12 Jul 2012 at 10:32

I have service but no signal, 3G works fine tho abit odd

iMacMart · 12 Jul 2012 at 11:33

Back to normal here (Herts) giffgaff

PistolPete · 12 Jul 2012 at 12:13

Myshra said:
As a rival, it's hard not to smirk. Is there any info about as to why it's broken? I'm guessing HLR due to the type of outage but if anyone knows more...

Read somewhere that it is indeed a HLR problem.

It was odd that we lost all our WAN connectivity for a few hours around the same time O2 first started to die - wonder if there was a large connectivity issue that cause the HLR to become inconsistent and the O2 guys have spent the time bringing it back into sync??

Liquid_Entity · 12 Jul 2012 at 12:18

I moved from Vodafone to GiffGaff yesterday and activated my SIM - no service. Then found out O2 were having issues. Left it until today at 9am. Plugged in GG sim again and it connected fine. Text/Phone and Data is solid as a rock

Nikumba · 12 Jul 2012 at 12:58

sja360 said:
Just to put a positive spin to this I'm pretty sure I read that Vodafone and O2 Mobile networks are planning to merge much like t-mobile and orange did so they can compete for coverage.

From what I understand would not have helped the issue, as the problem stemmed from the handset being unable to re-register to the network as it does so on a periodic basis.

Kimbie