O2 Data services currently down

[DeGrimmy]

O2 investigating network data problems - BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46464730

 

I've used O2 for a good 10-15 years, and I've very rarely (if at all) had any problems with O2 services. This outage seems to be a big one!

 

EDIT - See also: https://status.o2.co.uk/

Edited December 6, 2018 by DeGrimmy

[Seb1780]

Relevant?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46465768

[chazzy2501]

wow, I've got staff coming to me for the wifi. The data and texts are not working.. I've never seen a nationwide outage before!

[6Foot2]

It's gone down again, having been up for a while.

[kennysarmy]

I was fed up with all the moaning on the Giff Gaff forum I posted this :

 

I woke up this morning and could nt' take my morning selfie and post it to faceagram!

I could n't use my maps app to find my way to the bathroom so I've been unable to wash or have a s**t - it's now 11 am and things are getting desperate!

Anyway, eventually I found my way to the trainway statation, but work could n't send me an important file so my wife has divorced me and all 12 of my children are in hospital today and I won't know when to collect them.

 

Giff Gaff - my life is ruined and it's all your fault.

 

When will you refund me the last 12 years of goodybags as compensation?

 

Yours hopefully, (lost in the Cotswolds somewhere)

 

J

[pooley]

I bet there's some techie somewhere sh***ing his or her pants after deciding to upgrade some firmware somewhere in the world

 

Wouldn't want to be in that team this morning.

[DeGrimmy]

wow, I've got staff coming to me for the wifi. The data and texts are not working.. I've never seen a nationwide outage before!

It's just data for me, texts seem to be okay.

 

It's gone down again, having been up for a while.

I didn't notice that, I've had my data switched on all morning waiting for a signal!

 

I can't quite believe that it's still an issue. It must be really bad...

[bald_pig]

I'm on giffgaff, don't use data but have noticed my signal drop entirely a few times today.

 

Also, apparently TFL use o2 for the bus times, so they aren't working today either!

[sippo]

Completely down for me. Emergency calls only.

[kennysarmy]

It appears my texts do get sent - but they say failed to send for me....odd.

[PotNoodleTech]

Lots of staff on emergency calls only today so more than just the data network down.

 

I am sitting with my feet up with 4G on my Vodaphone

[6Foot2]

It appears my texts do get sent - but they say failed to send for me....odd.

Handshake upon send/receive not completed?

[dcwhitworth]

wow, I've got staff coming to me for the wifi. The data and texts are not working.. I've never seen a nationwide outage before!

 

Nationwide ? It's believed to be global, O2 not the only ones affected.

[synaesthesia]

Giffgaff here, texts going through but very very slowly (and when they do go, repeated several times! )

[Boredguy]

It's all the other virtual services that run over the O2 infrastructure as well, such as Giffgaff.

[DeGrimmy]

I've now got emergency calls only on my phone. Perhaps they're trying the "turn it off and on again" method?

[DalekSec]

I've had no signal on my phone for the last couple hours, must of royally messed something up

[rich_tech]

Entire company is on O2, made for an interesting and quiet day Ill wager (Ive been to site so wasnt in the office)

[FN-GM]

All down to an expired SSL Certificate....

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/06/ericsson_o2_telefonica_uk_outage/

[southhamster]

All down to an expired SSL Certificate....

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/06/ericsson_o2_telefonica_uk_outage/

I don't feel quite so bad now about letting our gsuite apple MDM cert expire now!

Users affected, about 6.

A cert expiry reminder would be such a useful thing in server 2012.

[DeGrimmy]

Day 2, still no mobile data. I imagine this is already pretty expensive for all networks worldwide suffering the same issue...

 

EDIT: This is on the status.o2.co.uk page:

 

 

Ah, a phone reboot has re-established my connection. Never mind!

Edited December 7, 2018 by DeGrimmy

[sippo]

I'm on O2, and to be honest it was nice not having the phone ringing and beeping at me. I had quite a productive day!

[6Foot2]

Link:

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[dcwhitworth]

I'm somewhat amused by the people who are complaining what a disaster this outage was for them who appear to have made no backup plans despite having a mobile service being critical to them.

[kennysarmy]

I'm somewhat amused by the people who are complaining what a disaster this outage was for them who appear to have made no backup plans despite having a mobile service being critical to them.

 

And those screaming for compensation just because they had a day of inconvenience...with no real monetary loss.