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Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems

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Re: Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems

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Post by gorgoiler »

cph123 wrote: post #2

It looks like the number of IPv4 /24s their ASN was announcing has dropped significantly: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as5378#announced-ip-add...

My first thought was that they’d accidentally broken their BGP announcements, cutting themselves off. I don’t know enough about this topic though: are you saying there’s evidence they just stopped announcing their networks for no real reason, or is this graph a symptom of someone being something else being wrong, as opposed to being the root fault?

Re: Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems

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Post by EmptyCoffeeCup »

octo888 wrote: post #12

Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three? I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)

I also use an MVNO service.

I have a horrible feeling that 3 traffic is being prioritised over Vodafone MVNO traffic, leading to service deg.

End of the day, I was on Vodafone's network for a reason - it was the least congested in my area. 3 was crap. If I’m suddenly fighting for bandwidth with 3 customers because of this merger I will have to try EE (o2 is known garbage around here; 2 mbps at most thanks to traffic management).

Ofcom should never have allowed it - the UK does not need reduced competition in this space.

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