A sign of things to come under our new political regime? No sooner had David Cameron entered Buckingham Palace than the UK’s biggest mobile phone network went off the grid.
My O2 signal went down immediately; five hours later, it still hasn’t returned and complaints are flooding Twitter. Smaller-scale problems were also reported on Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Nevermind #nickcleggsfault, now the blame is the new Prime Minister’s builders’…
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The Conservative leaders’ appointment as Prime Minister also apparently downed the membership sign-up on the Labour party’s website…
One Labour MP blamed a rush of voters keen to return Labour to power, though we haven’t verified this…
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O2 customers have experienced reception problems in the last year or two because its network has been unable to cope with rising data demands from iPhone users.
In December, O2′s CEO promised some network software modifications and 200 new base stations in London. But, on the biggest news day of the year, O2 fell over again – failing to bring its customers access to the new-government info on the move. The mobile news future wasn’t supposed to look like this.
There was even a snap Facebook group created…
In other Prime Minister news, an unfortunate accident from the website of Cameron’s local paper, Newsquest’s Witney Gazette – its front page lead image of Cameron’s inauguration is named “DisasterPic“.
Update: From O2′s forum:-
“There has been a network failure at a YATEs point where construction work has knocked off the power. The whole of the O2 network in the UK is having problems due to this…
“This outage is down to a major power failure which is affecting both cellular and data services… it is also affecting some elements of service provided by other operators. Unfortunately this is outwith O2s control, but as it’s a pretty major outage – I’m sure it’ll be fixed fairly quickly. It’s unfortunate it happened shortly before the call-centres were closing…”
Cameron, you’re off the hook.
I cannot believe that a massive network like that can just shut down……….lol to much of a coincedence I would say……..I need my phone back!!!!!!
Bloody Conservatives lol, would not have happened if Clegg was in!!!
is it camrons fault ?lol
no it isn’t its absolute trash
to hell with david cameron
Virgin Media seemed to go really slowly last night too.
I got in about 9.30pm to check what had happened, clicked Google News – eventually it part loaded with half the CSS file missing.
At that point I could see just about that places were reporting David Cameron as new PM.
So then I went off to other sites that were nothing to do with the election – and exactly the same again, some part loading, some totally refusing to load. So I gave up and had a game on my XBox (which had also lost XBox Live connection). This morning it’s all back to normal.
It’s quite bad thinking that the Virgin Media network in such a major town as Warrington couldn’t cope with everyone going on the net and looking up this information, I wonder what fustrations other people in smaller country areas were experiencing.
#nickcleggsfault