Network completely messed up here tonight on 4G. Netflix must be cached internally as that works although slowly. Just about all websites timing out. Dropped to 3G and at least now service is passable across all services.

This (and the previous massive O2 outage) is very scary. How, in this day and age can a fault (or faults) bring down just about an entire network? There is obviously little or no redundancy built in to the infrastructure.

Thanks goodness for the backup EE connection here at home, as Three was offline for around 12 hours.

As we are now all so reliant on mobile technology I think more of us will be opting for dual-sim handsets running separate networks....

Dan

That's odd the way they handled it, whenever EE is down there's news articles and their twitter is just full of them saying our network is having issues. They never provide much info or timeframes however, so it's as good as being blind. All you know is yes, there is an issue.

only problem with dual sim is the second sim card slot might not get LTE+ (my three sim wont give me 4G+ in the S9 duos) now EE and Vodafone has unlimited thinking of leaving three due to lack of LTE+ (in general)

and Vodafone/o2 in my area has most of there masts upgraded to LTE+ so get on average above 50-150mb/s and like O2 they support in active data step up from 3g to 4g when data is actively in use where as EE and three get stuck on 3g until you stop using data for 5-10 seconds (seems ee and three have theirs setup so it has to be on H or 3G, if its on H+ it wont switch upto 4G or it just has to be idle for 5-10 seconds)

I'm on EE and I haven't seen 3G in literally months, I do not recall when I last saw it. I either get 4G or E, never 3G.

I do not suspect you will spend time stuck on 3G as you describe, simply as their 4G coverage is so good.

Network 3 prioritise 3G over band 20 4G, so I find in London I was on 3G a hell of a lot.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Mon 21-Oct-19 19:02:45)

Note that any Android with EE firmware doesn't show the + but still gets the performance. In fact both EE and Vodafone can (mostly in cities,e.g. London) bond upto 5 carriers together because they have the spectrum.