Some of our UK readers have woken up to the less than awesome discovery this morning that their phones have lost all connectivity to the outside world. 3G, 2G, SMS, and BlackBerry services on the
Vodafone UK network are all down for what seems like a significant proportion of its user base -- an issue the carrier has since identified as being caused by a break-in at its Basingstoke exchange center. No further details have been provided, though work is naturally underway to repair the damage done and we're assured customers' private data has remained so. We can't imagine quite such a service disruption being caused by a random act of vandalism or burglary, perhaps a disgruntled employee felt the need to vent his or her frustrations in grand style? Or has O2 gone gangster on the competition?
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Vodafone is the shittiest........so ezpensive and Bad survice :S
ReplyDeleteam just usin it cuz of the Locked Blackberry 3G.........FML!!
its a PR crises management stunt. VF had a similar outage a few months ago, 3G mobile data wouldn't work so had to use GPRS all day, it took them until lunch the following day to resolve the problem.
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