There's an issue affecting our service in some of the UK. Sorry - our engineers are investigating and we'll update you when we can.
about 1 year ago

O2
O2 in the UK

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The Conservative leaders’ appointment as Prime Minister also apparently downed the membership sign-up on the Labour party’s website…

One Labour MP blamed a rush of voters keen to return Labour to power, though we haven’t verified this…

20 people a minute are currently trying to join the Labour Party online, hence this: http://www.labour.org.uk/join/
about 1 year ago

tom_watson
tom_watson

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O2 customers have experienced reception problems in the last year or two because its network has been unable to cope with rising data demands from iPhone users.

In December, O2’s CEO promised some network software modifications and 200 new base stations in London. But, on the biggest news day of the year, O2 fell over again - failing to bring its customers access to the new-government info on the move. The mobile news future wasn’t supposed to look like this.

There was even a snap Facebook group created…

In other Prime Minister news, an unfortunate accident from the website of Cameron’s local paper, Newsquest’s Witney Gazette - its front page lead image of Cameron’s inauguration is named “DisasterPic”.

Update: From O2’s forum:-

“There has been a network failure at a YATEs point where construction work has knocked off the power. The whole of the O2 network in the UK is having problems due to this…

“This outage is down to a major power failure which is affecting both cellular and data services… it is also affecting some elements of service provided by other operators.  Unfortunately this is outwith O2s control, but as it’s a pretty major outage - I’m sure it’ll be fixed fairly quickly. It’s unfortunate it happened shortly before the call-centres were closing…”

Cameron, you’re off the hook.