UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage (the-independent.com)

I see we’re still using Down Detector as a source for stories, which may as well be called People Are Talking on Twitter Detector. It doesn’t do anything smart, it’s just looking for keywords on social media, sometimes by coincidence this indicates an actual outage.

Another Down Detector bullshit article.... it's getting incredibly tiring. Every time a provider (Phone, Internet or even cloud services) suffer issues ALL of them are reported as down.

I wonder if it will be the same cause as the big Rogers outage in '22, a good old fashioned BGP botch.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-commun...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out...

Sitting at a table in a restaurant in London with some family and O2, ER and Three are fine.

> A map showing reports of EE outage reports made to DownDetector suggests that those in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow are the worst affected.

No. Those are the most densely populated areas of the UK - obviously they appear as bright red spots on the map.

What you have is essentially a population map: https://xkcd.com/1138/

BT, EE: Yes. Three, Vodafone: No. O2: Unknown.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvmvqrnq7go

> A spokesperson from BT, which owns EE, apologised and said the firm was "currently addressing an issue impacting our services".

> Vodafone and Three have confirmed to the BBC they do not have network issues.

It's just inbound calls to EE numbers (so if you've ported in you're not affected)

China watching with open eyes.

This will happen the day that they try to take Taiwan, worldwide, in my opinion.

It’s weird to me that the providers aren’t communicating to customers about this. What if you were waiting for a call from a doctor, or similar?

Data is working on Vodafone mvno. Can't call Out or text, Can't make calls On o2 or EE either. Edit EE working. Edit all mobiles now seem to be working OK.

My BT landline doesn't even have a dial tone at the moment, which is a new one. Internet via Openreach (as the fibre provider) is OK.

Reminds me of recent outages in Russia due to buggy rollouts of Great Russian Firewall aka Sovereign Internet. Were there any state-level infrastructure updates planned recently?

I haven't noticed anything today and heard no news about it. Must only affect some parts of the network.

Posting this from a phone on the Three network.

are they powered by starlink?

EE ok in Ldn

Honestly I know this sound snarky but it’s 100% true - Three has become so unbelievably bad in East London lately I’d struggle to know if it was affected by this outage or if it was business as usual for them. I could go on about how broken their billing and app and site were but meh… need to change provider.

Related to current Starlink outage? probably not, but interesting coincidence

Is this voice only, data only, or voice and data?

2G,3G,4G,5G?

For voice, is CS down, VoLTE down or both?

Article is not clear on this, but I mainly see voice call complaints?

And now Starlink is down as well. I wonder if they are related.

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