[amiga386]

BT, EE: Yes. Three, Vodafone: No. O2: Unknown.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvmvqrnq7go

> A spokesperson from BT, which owns EE, apologised and said the firm was "currently addressing an issue impacting our services".

> Vodafone and Three have confirmed to the BBC they do not have network issues.

[dlenski]

45 minutes later, another reply here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674209) suggests that Vodafone and O2 are indeed experiencing issues.

[doubled112]

When this happens in Canada (usually a Rogers outage), the other networks seem to have a hard time dealing with the extra load.

[wkat4242]

Only for roaming customers though. Here in Europe a customer in their home country can only use their home network unless they're calling emergency services. Only when roaming multiple options would be available.

So I wouldn't expect all that much extra load really.

[drrob]

I'm on Vodafone, I can confirm they're okay.

[wdb]

Never have signal with EE at home barely 1 bar. It's ridiculous and I don't live in a flat or something.

[goodcanadian]

I think O2 is OK. My phone company is not O2, but it uses their network.

[tim333]

I had an annoying O2 fail on me incident at about 6pm.

[alephnerd]

> O2: Unknown

Isn't that normal for O2? /s

[wkat4242]

So it's like three is in Ireland :)

[alephnerd]

At least you can drown your network sorrows in (relatively) affordable pints of Guinness and the healthy craft beer scene.

Separate note, but I am astonished by how expensive London is - I can pay engineers Bangalore level salaries but they have to deal with Chicago level CoL.

[wkat4242]

Ireland's the same now :( Cost of living is insane, especially rent. It's still aftershocks from the financial crash in 2007, the whole economy was leaning on the housing development industry and that has never recovered. So there's a huge backlog in new developments.