O2 network crashes

O2 haven't fixed it. They've fixed the 2g bit. The 3g is still borked. They don't seem to know what caused it either so it could easily happen again.

I've ordered a VM payg sim for my spare phone. Can't cancel its o2 contract as there isn't a robust signal!
 
Anyone would think the world had stopped turning! Don't get me wrong, if I leave the house without my phone it feels like I'm missing an important appendage but if I go abroad on holiday the phone gets switched off at the airport and gets switched back on when we land back in Blighty. Has the life as we know it ended? Nope. All that's happened in that time is a few texts and someone's poked you on Bookface :)
Sometimes, and I get the business user frustration, being without the phone can be extremely liberating as you're not at it's beck and call.
 
Is it that big yellow thing in the sky causing O2 problems? Wrong type of sun? :-)
 
There are some households that only have a mobile and no land line. For them it is very important it works!

It's a long outage by any network provider standards. They can't say what caused it either which doesn't exactly instil confidence.
 
srichards said:
There are some households that only have a mobile and no land line. For them it is very important it works!

It's a long outage by any network provider standards. They can't say what caused it either which doesn't exactly instil confidence.
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Which is why I still have a land line, if it is so vitally important it works and you need to make contact or get in contact with someone, then maybe just a mobile isn't the right option.
 
Davec223 said:
Which is why I still have a land line, if it is so vitally important it works and you need to make contact or get in contact with someone, then maybe just a mobile isn't the right option.
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Or a second number on a different network. That's the easiest solution :)
 
Sitting in the middle of Norwich on O2.

Full signal and H+ download / upload (whatever that means!)
 
Davec223 said:
Which is why I still have a land line, if it is so vitally important it works and you need to make contact or get in contact with someone, then maybe just a mobile isn't the right option.
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You can't use a landline when you're out driving, though. My wife needs her phone in case my disabled daughter decides she's going to choke on something while she's out. Which does happen.

Our mobiles are used for very little else, but it is unfair to suggest that people moaning about lack of service are all just moaning for the sake of it, and that it's just like 20 years ago. An incident like that, as did happen last year, would have resulted in the death of my 3 year old daughter had my wife not had her phone, working, with her.

Just a thought.
 
Bend The Light said:
True. Worth having. The missus will be getting a £10 PAYG from Tesco or somewhere tonight. Good plan! (not on O2, though!)
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Tesco uses O2! It's an mvno like Giff Gaff.

I've ordered a virginmedia one as they use orange/tmobile.
 
Came back about midday and I got all last nights 'don't wait for me I'm going to be late' texts :)
20 years ago the world was a totally different place, like apples and oranges....
 
Bend The Light said:
You can't use a landline when you're out driving, though. My wife needs her phone in case my disabled daughter decides she's going to choke on something while she's out. Which does happen.

Our mobiles are used for very little else, but it is unfair to suggest that people moaning about lack of service are all just moaning for the sake of it, and that it's just like 20 years ago. An incident like that, as did happen last year, would have resulted in the death of my 3 year old daughter had my wife not had her phone, working, with her.

Just a thought.
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And I fully understand what you are saying, and you are right some people do *need* their phones, but a lot of people do not need their phones a such. I do have sympathy with people like yourself, butI would say that 99% off people are moaning.for the sake of it.
 
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Just sayin'. ;)
 
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