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Title: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: pctech on May 17, 2011, 15:38:05
http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2011/05/theft-and-vandalism-causes-o2-network-outage/

Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 17, 2011, 15:40:00
Only EE & Three to go
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: pctech on May 17, 2011, 15:44:44
I'd assume the transmission kit is exported as I doubt they'd be ablle to flog it here.

Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Simon on May 17, 2011, 16:12:12
Fine here in my part of Sussex. 
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 17, 2011, 16:48:33
Quote from: pctech on May 17, 2011, 15:44:44
I'd assume the transmission kit is exported as I doubt they'd be ablle to flog it here.

Probably stolen to order...
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: pctech on May 17, 2011, 17:33:20
Maybe they ought to start putting the core facilities underground.

Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 17, 2011, 17:37:09
The 'Three' data centres I have been to, unless you knew they were there, the buildings just look like any other business park unit.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 17, 2011, 17:38:22
Quote from: pctech on May 17, 2011, 17:33:20
Maybe they ought to start putting the core facilities underground.

It would make a change from cloud computing. ;D :out:
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 17, 2011, 17:41:08
You would have soiled goods though.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: pctech on May 17, 2011, 17:48:18
 ;D
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 17, 2011, 17:51:47
:grn:
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: JohnH on May 17, 2011, 20:30:03
Quote from: Glenn on May 17, 2011, 17:41:08
You would have soiled goods though.

But it would be dirt cheap to run.  :out: ;D
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 17, 2011, 20:37:55
 :clever:
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: zappaDPJ on May 17, 2011, 20:53:02
I'm pretty sure this was what took our mobiles out on the Tesco network today. We had an occasional signal but couldn't call or text. Possibly a coincidence but there was no network coverage at all on Orange during the same period.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Gary on May 18, 2011, 11:46:42
Quote from: zappaDPJ on May 17, 2011, 20:53:02
I'm pretty sure this was what took our mobiles out on the Tesco network today. We had an occasional signal but couldn't call or text. Possibly a coincidence but there was no network coverage at all on Orange during the same period.
Nothing new there for Orange then :out:  ;)
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 18, 2011, 11:50:57
It's interesting to see my signal switch to T-Mobile in some parts of the house. A few feet one way or the other will make all the difference.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: zappaDPJ on May 18, 2011, 12:22:02
Quote from: Gary on May 18, 2011, 11:46:42
Nothing new there for Orange then :out:  ;)

Indeed ;D
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Gary on May 18, 2011, 13:26:11
Quote from: Rik on May 18, 2011, 11:50:57
It's interesting to see my signal switch to T-Mobile in some parts of the house. A few feet one way or the other will make all the difference.
Its a shame all the networks cant let us roam somehow, Rik. Then we could always have a signal, and just pay for calls that are not in our own celluar network maybe.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: zappaDPJ on May 18, 2011, 16:13:01
That would be really sensible and therefore a complete non-starter :D
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 18, 2011, 16:13:51
Quote from: Gary on May 18, 2011, 13:26:11
Its a shame all the networks cant let us roam somehow, Rik. Then we could always have a signal, and just pay for calls that are not in our own celluar network maybe.

I'd prefer it if they all had the same kind of reciprocal agreement as Orange/T-Mobile.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 18, 2011, 16:33:50
T-Mobile & Three share transmission masts, Orange mast are now being incorporated into that network too.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 18, 2011, 16:38:31
Just need the other two to get on board...
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Glenn on May 18, 2011, 16:47:53
They use different frequencies I believe.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: Rik on May 18, 2011, 16:48:47
They do, but most phones are dual-band at least, so I think it could be made to work if everyone wanted it to.
Title: Re: Break in at O2 site knocks out parts of London, Kent and Sussex
Post by: pctech on May 18, 2011, 17:35:31
Looks like this was fixed yesterday evening.

Now had it been back in the old BTCellnet days.....



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