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All major mobile networks in the UK have gone down or are having problems, leaving millions of British workers struggling to work from home.
There has been a spike in the number of office workers staying home to work after Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to avoid all unnecessary travel.
O2 says it is aware some users are having difficulties with their voice network and that they are investigating the issue.
The first issues were reported to Down Detector at about 9:14 GMT with concerns raised from across the country on all major networks including Vodafone, O2, 3, Virgin and EE.
‘Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and stop all non-essential travel,’ Boris Johnson said at a press conference on Monday.
‘We need people to start working from home where they possible can. You should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues.’
In a special plea to the capital, Mr Johnson said people there were at the highest risk. ‘It looks as though London is now a few weeks ahead… it’s important that Londoners now pay special attention to what we are saying about avoiding all non-essential contact.’
O2, EE, Virgin, Tesco Mobile, Vodafone, BT, GiffGaff and 3 are all experiencing problems with their network.
O2 said in a statement it was aware of that some users were having problems connecting to its void network and was investigating the cause.
Users have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage, particularly at a time of increased home working and for people in isolation that may need to speak to doctors or other professionals.
Sue Cressman said she has a long journey planned to go and help her mum and doesn’t want to leave if the network is down.
Mike Barratt said: ‘Bad time for O2 to go down when so many people are working from home today’.
Rick Grogan expressed similar concerns, he said: ‘So not only is business completely slowing down, us self employed reps now have this to deal with. Compensation O2? You’re costing us more than you know right now.’
Kelly McGreachy said: ‘Very very bad time for O2 to go down all over when people are working from home or even people that need to call doctors etc that don’t have a landline. Ridiculous couldn’t of timed it better.’
It wasn’t just O2 though, users of EE took to Twitter to express concern that even the EE account website was down.
A Three UK spokesperson said: “We are aware of an issue affecting around 3% of voice calls. We apologise for any inconvenience and our team is working to fix this ASAP. The rest of the network is stable.”
Vodafone said in a statement: ‘There was a relatively short lived problem with around 9% of voice calls only on 3G not getting through. All the operators are working together on the matter.
Courtesy of dailymail.co.uk
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