Anyone want to talk about the data outage affecting O2 (and also Tesco/Giffgaff/Sky)?
Hilarious how people are arguing about compensation on Twitter.
Iām on O2 and have been for years and this is the first time Iāve had anything like this
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Iāve had a few O2 issues recently, around central London. Contract is up in Feb and definitely looking at EE.
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Invest in a dual sim phone is my advice.
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Lucky you! Iāve swapped between O2 and Giffgaff for a few years and there has been outages like this a couple of times. In the new year Iāll be switching over to EE as Iāve had a bad year with O2.
I think if you have a Ā£30 a month contract, youāre currently āentitledā to about 20pā¦
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Iām glad itās down means the other half canāt contact me today lol
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I cant access my account on mobile due to O2 network outage is there any way of accessing account on line ;-(
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You can do some use most important features on web.monzo.com but can you not just connect to WiFi?
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I think phone networks should be fined like banks for outages definitely if itās voice and SMS outages , they are integral for business and people, just like online banking.
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Kinda agree, but itās incredibly difficult to manage the scale of that. Thereās no regulations and people use different kind of SIM cards/contracts etc - it would definitely be difficult to decide a fine.
I think in this specific situation itās better to grin and bear it until itās fixed, from what Iām aware, O2 were unaware of any issues and itās not their fault entirely. Itās not like theyāre intentionally stopping their service or are being negligent about it.
And if, like I said, customers were to get a refund for the hours/minutes of data/messaging, weāre looking at pennies not pounds.
I thought Iād forgotten to pay my bill this morning on the way to work 
then it started working briefly, then I went to Pret and tried to check my balance and it was dead again. Glad they had wifi or Iād have had an awkward ācard declinedā moment.
Itās been down sine 5am apparently which is pretty shocking.
Saw a hilarious āWhat if I was abroad and didnāt know anyone or have wifi???ā rant, oblivious to the fact you wouldnāt be affected if you were abroad, youād be on someone elseās network 
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Werenāt the Police/Emergency services going to use/are on o2 for their radios or is that still TETRA?
EE (BT)
I was under the impression that this was only a mobile data outage and wasnāt affecting calls or texts. Although I could be wrong, since I generally donāt receive any of either, I canāt check
I couldnāt send messages this morning. I was able to make calls but no sign of any 4G
There were people in the bus station completely unsure of what to do to pass the time. Some resorted to phoning people. We live in dark times
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Call and texts were definitely out for all of my co workers that I asked. , but have been working recently, still no data.
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Seeing issues on Manx Telecom as well.
