[Resolved] Issue with all network services, 2nd Oct 2013

[Admin48]

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We are currently experiencing a major outage across our network resulting in the failure of calls, texts and data.  As soon as the issue started at 4:25pm this afternoon, we engaged our service provider, Ericsson, to fix the problem.  So far they have yet to identify a fix, but are working with all available resources to do so. We have escalated this to the highest level within the Ericsson organisation so that the very best engineers are working on it.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing, we know this is bad and particularly so given the issues last Friday. All we can say at this point is that we are pushing as hard as we can to get this resolved as soon as possible. We will continue to provide hourly updates on progress here on the Community.

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TROUBLESHOOTING:

For some of you who still don't have any coverage after services have been restored this morning, please try the following workaround which has solved the problem for many members:

Search for networks manually, find 48 and connect to it. 

UPDATES:

Final update - 07/10/13 @ 17:16

This issue is now marked as resolved.  All services successfully returned from 4:40am on Thursday morning.  We have put extra monitoring in place since the outage and all services have been working as normal.  Please see this update for further technical information on the outage.

Previous updates:

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More Info

03/10/13 @ 02:45

While we have been seeing some successful connections on the network, this has been intermittent and we are not seeing a return for all services.  We are continuing to work on a number of fixes to restore service on the network.  These fixes will take some time to implement tonight, so it will be a number of hours before we have another update about the success of these changes.  Our next update will be before 8:00am.

03/10/13 @ 01:38

Some of you have been reporting the gradual return of services.  This is happening intermittently and we will continue to monitor this very closely.  However, it may still take some time before full services are back up and running as we need to ensure the network is stable before allowing full traffic onto the network.

03/10/13 @ 12:35

Calls, texts and data remain stable and we will continue to closely monitor all traffic on the network to ensure that this issue does not occur again.  If you are still having problems please restart your phone and try again.

We are still experiencing delays registering new customers and customers porting their number in or out of 48 (transferring your number to or from 48).  This is an urgent priority for us and we are working hard with our engineers to get this resolved as soon as possible. 

Thanks for sticking with us and being so patient.

03/10/13 @ 07:51

Calls, texts and data are now back fully operational and the services have gradually been coming back online since 4:40am this morning.   You should now be able to pick up a network signal as normal.  If you are still having problems please restart your phone and try again.

We are investigating reports of issues with new customers who joined the network yesterday.  We will keep you updated on our investigation into these issues.

We would like to simply say sorry for inconvenience this has caused since yesterday afternoon, the issues we had yesterday and on Friday are simply just not acceptable.  We will be closely monitoring the services with our service providers, including Ericsson, throughout the day and also in the coming days to ensure this is does not happen again.  We will be in touch later on in the morning with further information and follow up on your outstanding queries.

03/10/13 @ 00:06

We will be implementing a fix in the next hour which will gradually re-introduce traffic onto our platform.    If this is successful we will see service gradually return for customers. We will continue to keep you updated on the progress of this work.

02/10/13 @ 23:27

Investigations have identified a possible cause and we are working on implementing a solution to restore service.  If this fix works, we will have to gradually bring back service, so it will be the early hours of tomorrow morning before full service is restored.  We will update you here on the progress of this.

02/10/13 @ 22:05

The Ericsson engineers are continuing to work on this.  We have our next call with them at 10:45pm and we will provide a further update then.

02/10/13 @ 21:05

Ericsson are continuing to investigate the issue and we don’t have any further information at this point.  We will update you again at 10pm.

02/10/13 @ 20:10

Unfortunately we have been just told service will be down until 9pm at the earliest.  Things ae happening in the background and I will have a further update around 9pm.

02/10/13 @ 19:31

Sorry folks but we have still not managed to get this sorted yet.  We will have a further update shortly after 8pm.  The minute we have further news we will let you all know.

02/10/13 @ 18:55

Still no good news I'm afraid.  We are still working on this and I hope to have an update direct from the engineers any minute now

02/10/13@ 18:22

Our technical staff are still working towards getting this resolved.  They are fairly confident that incoming calls and texts should return soon.  I'll update as soon as I hear anything else.

02/10/13 @ 17:48

We are in the process of making a few changes and are hopeful this will restore your ability to receive calls and texts again.  I will post here when I have further news.

02/10/13 @ 17:25

Unfortunately things have taken a turn for the worse.  Now all network services are unavailable.  So making and receive any calls and texts are not working.  You will also be unable to use the internet.  This has been give the highest priority and every available resource is working on it.  We will have further updates soon.

[Admin48]

For now our priority is to make sure the problem is fixed. Once that's done we'll be looking at the next steps, we'll keep you up to date here.

[Anon]

Christ almighty, this is appalling, completely unacceptable. I appreciate your efforts in resolving the issue but nobody could rely on a network like this. Cheap for a reason I guess. Quick thought - spend less of budget on zany sexualized advertising and invest more on network = everyone happier.

[Anon]

It was a pain to have no use of my phone bigot stuck out with two young children doing my weekly shoo ans phone went them!! The shoppin centre I was in have no pay phone so I got stuck walking with a two year old and 6 year old with bags ans bAgs of shopping to the nearest taxi place which I might add was ten mins walk was so angry I was going to smash my phone!!! I really hope yous will be giving us free memberships and crediton our accounts to mmake up for the joke it was to us!!!!

[techie_kev]

Latest update - 03/10/13 @ 12:35

Calls, texts and data remain stable and we will continue to closely monitor all traffic on the network to ensure that this issue does not occur again.  If you are still having problems please restart your phone and try again.

We are still experiencing delays registering new customers and customers porting their number in or out of 48 (transferring your number to or from 48).  This is an urgent priority for us and we are working hard with our engineers to get this resolved as soon as possible. 

Thanks for sticking with us and being so patient.

[Anon]

Its all well and good being sorry but some of us lost out on a lot because of yer slip up. Ive been delighted with the service all the way up to now but I need a service I can depend on 24/7 for work as I can get a call at anytime and Im afraid after last night its clear I cant do that with 48.. Fix them problems and im sure yel have a good solid future.. 

BIEEEEE..

[Anon]

I understand the frustration since mobiles have become so central to our lives.

But even a ballerina falls on her ass every now and then!

48 have provided much needed competition in the Irish Telecomms cartel.

[cdebru]

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@daman wrote:

I understand the frustration since mobiles have become so central to our lives.

But even a ballerina falls on her ass every now and then!

48 have provided much needed competition in the Irish Telecomms cartel.

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FFS 

48 are part of the cartel not competition to it, they are part of Telefonica the current owners of O2. This is just a marketing strategy don't be fooled yeah its a good deal compared to others but it is not some small company battling against the big multinationals it is just one of the multinationals in disguise.

[Anon]

FFS 

48 are part of the cartel not competition to it, they are part of Telefonica the current owners of O2. This is just a marketing strategy don't be fooled yeah its a good deal compared to others but it is not some small company battling against the big multinationals it is just one of the multinationals in disguise.

What utter nonsense. A cartle is a group of conpanies that CONTROL the market. O2 most certainly does NOT control the market and is in strong conpetition from several other networks.

[cdebru]

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@saoir wrote:

FFS 

48 are part of the cartel not competition to it, they are part of Telefonica the current owners of O2. This is just a marketing strategy don't be fooled yeah its a good deal compared to others but it is not some small company battling against the big multinationals it is just one of the multinationals in disguise.

What utter nonsense. A cartle is a group of conpanies that CONTROL the market. O2 most certainly does NOT control the market and is in strong conpetition from several other networks.

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4 mobile phone companies and a regulator that couldn't wipe his own ass, and MVNO's that are made to look like they are not the same company but in reality they are, like e-mobile on meteor  and 48 on O2,  and now Three is buying O2 just to tighten up the group, no of course it is not a cartel.

But for the record the point was and is 48 is not an independent company trying to bring competition to the big boys they are the big boys just in different clothes

[Anon]

But for the record the point was and is 48 is not an independent company trying to bring competition to the big boys they are the big boys just in different clothes.

So ... no real point then 🙂