Ben
22nd July 2009, 09:12 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8161938.stm
The "vast majority" of O2 customers who lost internet connections on their mobile phones have had their service restored, a company spokesman said.
The network outage left hundreds of thousands of UK monthly contract users without access to the web or multimedia messaging from Tuesday afternoon.
O2 says it will continue to restore all services while it investigates the cause of the problem.
The company holds an exclusive contract for Apple's iPhone.
More than two million of O2's 20.8 million customers use its data services, an O2 spokesperson told the BBC.
But the total number affected by the outage was less than that because those with Blackberry handsets and on pre-pay tariffs were not affected, she added.
There were no problems with voice or text services.
O2 will also be the exclusive outlet for the Palm Pre, widely touted as the next credible threat to iPhone's stranglehold on the smartphone market, which will create an additional large load of data network traffic.
:S Was anyone affected? I don't recall losing data connectivity, though I did notice my iPhone 3G wouldn't connect, which is on PAYG so supposedly unaffected...
The "vast majority" of O2 customers who lost internet connections on their mobile phones have had their service restored, a company spokesman said.
The network outage left hundreds of thousands of UK monthly contract users without access to the web or multimedia messaging from Tuesday afternoon.
O2 says it will continue to restore all services while it investigates the cause of the problem.
The company holds an exclusive contract for Apple's iPhone.
More than two million of O2's 20.8 million customers use its data services, an O2 spokesperson told the BBC.
But the total number affected by the outage was less than that because those with Blackberry handsets and on pre-pay tariffs were not affected, she added.
There were no problems with voice or text services.
O2 will also be the exclusive outlet for the Palm Pre, widely touted as the next credible threat to iPhone's stranglehold on the smartphone market, which will create an additional large load of data network traffic.
:S Was anyone affected? I don't recall losing data connectivity, though I did notice my iPhone 3G wouldn't connect, which is on PAYG so supposedly unaffected...