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AndyK

What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« on: 12 July, 2012, 09:01:45 am »
Eighteen hours so far. My GiffGaff coverage was zero all yesterday afternoon and evening, and is intermittent now.

These things happen I suppose, but when you're stuck in a hospital with no way for your lift home to contact you, and only uber-expensive payphones to contact them with it becomes less funny. At first I was worried the X-ray department had fried my phone, as it was working fine just before the x-ray, but I had No Network on leaving X-ray.
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 02 Outage of 2012
« Reply #1 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:06:30 am »
Ah.  That'll explain why my phone is on the blink...
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Ariadne

Re: What were you doing during The Great 02 Outage of 2012
« Reply #2 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:10:43 am »
Try turning off 3G - worked for me
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matthew

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #3 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:18:42 am »
Leaving my (working) O2 mobile at home  :facepalm:
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LEE

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #4 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:24:42 am »
It's a dummy-run for the Zombiepocalypse.

No water supply tomorrow.
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AndyK

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #5 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:35:55 am »
Quote from: road-runner on 12 July, 2012, 09:25:48 am
My O2 mobile is working just fine. Maybe only your part of the O2 network is having an outage.

It's a software problem. Some numbers are registering with the system while others are not. One person might not get the network while someone standing beside them will.

http://www.t3.com/news/o2-suffers-network-outage-across-much-of-uk
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hellymedic

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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #6 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:37:20 am »
David's iPad SIM contract is on O2.
He seems to have emailed and Tweeted successfully from his iPad whilst en route to City Hall.
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Polar Bear

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #7 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:38:38 am »
It's crap.   My service keeps flipping in and out.   I need my phone for a job today.   Might have to claim against O2 for lost income... 
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #8 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:38:59 am »
Being blissfully unaware  :smug:
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Kathy

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #9 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:44:46 am »
I've had over 16 hours with no signal, but it's finally come back in the last thirty minutes! :thumbsup:
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mrcharly-YHT

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #10 on: 12 July, 2012, 09:48:27 am »
What is quite bizarre about this outage is that my phone (couldn't) see any other networks. normally I can scan for other networks and connect to one for emergency calls only.

At a guess, it looked an awful lot like the IMEI had been blocked. That would bar the phone from 'seeing' any networks.  It would also account for why I was sat next to someone who had full signal while my phone couldn't detect a network at all.
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #11 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:03:29 am »
Enjoying continual service on my T-Mobile phone.
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #12 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:10:32 am »
Like Ariadne, I turned my data connection off, which allows me to use text and calls. If I turn the data connection on, it wipes out the mobile network.
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #13 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:12:19 am »
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Polar Bear

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #14 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:20:26 am »
Quote from: Jacomus on 12 July, 2012, 10:10:32 am
Like Ariadne, I turned my data connection off, which allows me to use text and calls. If I turn the data connection on, it wipes out the mobile network.

Default for my data and wireless connections is off but I have still been affected.

It seems that I now have a signal again - here's hoping I can go earn some moola!
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hellymedic

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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #15 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:25:04 am »
David is Tweeting from City Hall...
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fuzzy

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #16 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:25:32 am »
In response to the original question-

Keeping calm and eating caek.

Much the same as I did 25 or so years ago before mobile phones.

It is moments like this that expose the dangers of heavy reliance on fallible technology.
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #17 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:29:31 am »
Is this because O2 bank with NatWest?
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AndyK

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #18 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:30:48 am »
2G network now mostly restored, and 3G getting there:

http://status.o2.co.uk/
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #19 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:37:10 am »
I have just discovered, via our team huddle, who might have been responsible.....

Maybe....
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Polar Bear

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #20 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:46:34 am »
Do tell...
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Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #21 on: 12 July, 2012, 10:57:27 am »
No issues with signal AFAIK. Of course I spent most of yesterday evening in a mobile phone black spot so I wouldn't have really noticed anyway.
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madcow

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #22 on: 12 July, 2012, 11:09:47 am »
My thoughts went something like
1- useless employers not paid bill again
2-local problem due to rain/flooding etc
3- this is serious
4- has anybody elses phone had a problem-obviously couldnt call so had to wait until I got home(we have 3x O2 accounts)
5 - so what??

Like it or not mobile phones are part of life and have changed the way many people work. I am not claiming they are essential but I bet most businesses would be a lot less efficient without them.
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Si_Co

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #23 on: 12 July, 2012, 11:14:01 am »
Trying to explain to Miss S that it's not my fault and it doesn't matter how many different phones you put the SIM in it 'aint gonna work
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mrcharly-YHT

Re: What were you doing during The Great 2012 02 Outage?
« Reply #24 on: 12 July, 2012, 11:36:39 am »
Quote from: tiermat on 12 July, 2012, 10:37:10 am
I have just discovered, via our team huddle, who might have been responsible.....

Maybe....
It's you, isn't it?
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