UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
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Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#2I 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.
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#3Another 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.
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#4I 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...
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#5I 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...
And Australia 2023 outage of Optus, also BGP related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Optus_outage
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#6I 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.
Yeah, it's far from ideal, but in my experience its accuracy is better than most anything else readily available, including the official status pages maintained by most tech companies.
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#7Sitting at a table in a restaurant in London with some family and O2, ER and Three are fine.
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#8> 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/
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#9BT, 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.
Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
#10It's just inbound calls to EE numbers (so if you've ported in you're not affected)