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An overnight break-in at a Vodafone technical facility caused major disruption, with voice, text and mobile internet services all unavailable.
It was unclear this morning how many people were affected, but the volume of users posting complaints on social networking websites like Twitter indicated that the problems were widespread.
A spokeswoman said: "We had a break-in last night at one of our technical facilities which resulted in damage done to some of our equipment.
"This means that some customers may be experiencing temporary loss of voice, sms and internet services. We are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as we can."
The break-in targeted Vodafone's Basingstoke data centre, a major hub for the network, where it would have had routing equipment worth many millions of pounds.
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Vodafone reassured customers that the break-in would have no impact on privacy.
Austin Clark, a recruitment consultancy based in Wokingham, Berkshire, was among those annoyed by the outage.
"All of the candidates that I need to speak to re interviews seem to be on Vodafone network which isn't particularly handy, I'll be honest!," said co-owner Stephanie Clark on Twitter.
"It's days like today when you wonder how we ever lived without a mobile phone?"
Another Vodafone user said: "My phone does that looking like it's searching thing and then still says no service. Expecting blood tests results. Damn you #vodafone."
Source: thetelegraph.co.uk
It was unclear this morning how many people were affected, but the volume of users posting complaints on social networking websites like Twitter indicated that the problems were widespread.
A spokeswoman said: "We had a break-in last night at one of our technical facilities which resulted in damage done to some of our equipment.
"This means that some customers may be experiencing temporary loss of voice, sms and internet services. We are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as we can."
The break-in targeted Vodafone's Basingstoke data centre, a major hub for the network, where it would have had routing equipment worth many millions of pounds.
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- Stolen networking gear is often destined for eastern Europe, via organised crime gangs.
Vodafone reassured customers that the break-in would have no impact on privacy.
Austin Clark, a recruitment consultancy based in Wokingham, Berkshire, was among those annoyed by the outage.
"All of the candidates that I need to speak to re interviews seem to be on Vodafone network which isn't particularly handy, I'll be honest!," said co-owner Stephanie Clark on Twitter.
"It's days like today when you wonder how we ever lived without a mobile phone?"
Another Vodafone user said: "My phone does that looking like it's searching thing and then still says no service. Expecting blood tests results. Damn you #vodafone."
Source: thetelegraph.co.uk
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Mines been off all day ffs and I rung them at 2 and they promised it will be back on at 4 and think it was but it's still not 100% keeps going on and off. Really annoying but suppose not vodafones fault.
they should have a backup. it would be the same result if the part damaged, had failed in normal use
Insider info
You'll have sporadic outages for the next few days along the M4 corridor from swindon to the M25 down into winchester/southampton, up to parts of Oxfordshire.
They think it was a copper theft & a big yellow machine was used to gain entry.
You'll have sporadic outages for the next few days along the M4 corridor from swindon to the M25 down into winchester/southampton, up to parts of Oxfordshire.
They think it was a copper theft & a big yellow machine was used to gain entry.
i cant see how they got in with a Submarine?
damn i knew i should have sprayed my van green :slap
im just wondering how M107 got this 'insider' info... maybe he was 'inside' at time copper was removed?
Local Fire & Rescue involvement?....
Ah well
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Trouble is with all the metal thefts its going to affect us all that deal in scrap. I hear that dealers are going to be made not to deal in cash anymore it will all be cheques. Not sure how true this is though. Apologies if anybody else has said about it.
only the genuine dealers will be affected by this - you will still get cash from paid to the dodgy gyppo's from the dodgy scrap dealer
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