There's me thinking my phone was playing-up and it seems half the network is down and has been since about 3.30pm......needless to say their website service indicator says all is fine in my postcode area....WALOB
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Ahaaaa. Yes I've just spent the past 20 minutes figuring that out (swapping sim cards, checking different cards in different phones etc) as Number 1 son uses O2 (giffgaff)
Having launched the cyber attack on one of the major banks two weeks ago the Chinese have now turned their sights on a telecoms company. All this as a dummy run for the major event which will see the Olympics unable to even fire a starting pistol
To be fair to o2 it's the first outage I can recall in 17 years of being with them - it's just annoying that they can't get some accurate status updates on their website......still, being without a moby for a while ain't going kill me.
I spoke to my friend who works for O2, apparently it's to do with the authentication software, basically if your mobile phone number isn't on their list you won't get onto the O2 network. For some reason it's this that isn't working, hence why some O2 users can get a signal and others can't.
Phill ... does your mate know how authentication can take place without a signal in the first place ??
It's a cyber attack, nobody wants to admit it, the last one took out a bank. We're wide open to this sort of thing and having account details in call centres in places like India doesn't help one bit. I've always said that if we ever fall out with India or Pakistan they could shut this country down at the flick of a switch.
You must be mistaken RM .... o2 have said everything is fine now, and they'd NEVER issue a statement that was exaggerated just to take the heat off them
But yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but yeah it's like the phones have to shake hands...or do a handshake thing......or something.....and when the signal is relayed from the mast sometimes there's like intergalactic interference caused by gas from Uranus and it means that the signal gets bounced off the sky which is like a big onion and it ends-up getting trapped in sponge cakes instead. Media File
All you folks with mr clever dick mobile phone thingies need to get out more . . . PS. Had to go into to Leicester yesterday - half the population walking around gazing at the fuc*ing things!
Deadloud -- Mortuus Magna: Phill ... does your mate know how authentication can take place without a signal in the first place ??
We're doomed .. DOOMED I tell ye
There is a signal, it's just that the authentication code which the mobile phone numbers have embedded in them are not on the list that the base stations/network have. That's why some people can see they have signal strength but no actual ability to make or receive calls. It's a bit like having your mobile barred by the network for non payment of your phone bill.
There was a VERY long queue infront of me,,,all wanting to pay by card,,,I on the other hand actualy wanted to use my(ill gotten public sector) cash,,so I very sarcasticly called form back of the queue "do you still take cash" lots of tutting,,,but one or two giggles !!
