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vendredi 10 juin 2011

O2 customers in London suffer outage

Par Bruno le vendredi 10 juin 2011, 12:04

O2 has hit problems again with network gremlins chewing at its wires and generally hurling spanners into the works.

This morning a network outage struck customers in East London and surrounding areas at just before 10am. O2 wrote on its service status website: “We’ve got a problem that means you can’t make calls, use the internet, or send/get emails [in] the east London/Essex area.”

However, apparently that issue was fixed around an hour later.

About twenty minutes ago, O2 tweeted: “The network problem in East London was fixed at 10:50. We’re continuing to see service restoring. We apologise to affected customers.”

So if you’re not back up and running yet, you should be very shortly. Plenty of Twitter users have taken to the social network to express their displeasure at another outage from the operator.

And indeed some reckon there are problems further afield. One O2 user tweeted: “I am in Gloucestershire, and my blackberry is not working. Cannot access internet, text, or use BBM. Looks like not just East london!!!!”

He added: “[The O2 status checker] says it is fine. But I have 3 people on O2 with a blackberry all same problem. Cannot access app world, bbm, internet or text.”

samedi 28 mai 2011

O2′s white Sony Ericsson Xperia Play finally on sale

Par Bruno le samedi 28 mai 2011, 08:29

O2 has finally ironed out the problems it was having with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and the exclusive white version of the gaming phone is now available from the network.

The so-called PlayStation phone launched on April 1st (at some retail outlets anyway), so O2 has fallen two months behind thanks to the software issues it encountered.

However, with these solved PAYG customers can now pick up the Xperia Play in white for £430. If you want the handset for free on a two year contract, you’ll have to stump up £37 per month for 900 minutes and unlimited texts.

However, the bad news is that no data allowance is included, so if you want the standard 500MB per month which would go with this sort of contract normally, that’ll be £6 extra, making for a total of £43 a month.

Which seems a bit out-of-whack given that the handset will cost you over a grand at the end of that fairly standard two year deal.

On top of that, the Xperia Play has rather fizzled since its launch, with some folks certainly not convinced that it makes a great gaming device. The PS1 classics available for the handset have been disappointing, too.

Still, if you were waiting for the white version, now’s your chance to bag it. At least the PAYG price tag on O2 is more competitive (it’s £470 sim-free on Play.com, for example).