O2 Network outage

[Steve]

Should now be fully functioning again. 

[zappaDPJ]

Yeah, floods of texts and messages here and I've finally caught up with my daughter... 'I'm fine, it's so hot here'

[Niall]

Oddly, after they announced they'd fixed it, I saw a load of people on Facebook that previously didn't have any problems, all starting to post saying they now have problems. That's sods law

[nowster]

I was really tempted to go myself to see Bob Dylan as I've never seen him live.

Apparently his singing isn't what it used to be... he's had a few lessons.   

[zappaDPJ]

 

[pctech]

Apparently the issue was due (according to The Register) to an Ericsson Centralised User Database system, which had replaced the function performed by the Home Location Register servers (among other things)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/13/o2_outage_cause/

[Simon]

Of course, we should have known. 

[pctech]

Maybe hardware consolidation isn't always the best idea

[Simon]

If it ain't broke... 

[Glenn]

...you're not trying hard enough.

[Simon]

 

[zappaDPJ]