Was happening all the time at work today. Soon as I left the area of the mast it stopped. Looking on o2 coverage im between 2 masts and o2 are doing some 3g maintenance on Friday in my area. Linked? Who knows.

I could still srnd texts tho during the time 3G didnt work

To add - one mast is on my works building How many people can 1 mast support? Our building is quite big with 500+ workers and all them on o2 will be on that mast aswell as other people in the surrounding area, seeing as its above their heads. Wonder if its a capacity issue?

Edited by bobble_bob (Tue 16-Apr-13 21:27:43)

Well its still happening and checked o2 status and got this

"Sorry we are experiencing high service demand in this area
One of our phone masts in your area is currently experiencing high demand and any problems you might be experiencing could be due to this."

This doesnt change no matter what time of day i check it, even at 7am in the morning. Spoke with o2 and they said engineers are aware of the problem but dont have a timescale to fix it. So looks like im stuck with the 3G issue until o2 decide they want to increase capacity

The live status checker http://status.o2.co.uk will not change until the situation is resolved. and it could take a while unless it is an easy fix

Well dunno how capacity works with 3G, but is it hard to increase capacity to a mast?

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

Well dunno how capacity works with 3G, but is it hard to increase capacity to a mast?

"hard" is a relative term, as its not hard but its expensive.

Generally masts are served by a leased line from one of the big network people back to the mobile company's core network. Often 3 months (or more) from order to installation.

Well not sure how it all works, but there are 3 3G masts where i work. The one on top of our building is the one i connect to and is the one that im having issues with. When i go to the other side of town and i assume connect to the 3G mast there which is closer, its fine

Shame i cant tell it to not use the dodgy mast

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In reply to a post by chetoji:

Facing the same problem, my 3G dispalys the 5th pin thing that keep fluctuating and making my internet experience very miserable. It never loads to the 5th pin since I been using it.
It only loads till the 3rd pin and starts going down until no signals.

Any idea what might be causing this?

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what are you talking about (signal bars ??)

also do not insert links that should be in an sig and adverting is not allowed (job link?)

Edited by leexgx (Sat 27-Apr-13 21:59:48)