O2 has issued a statement on its official blog to clarify what the hell’s been going on with its coding. The problem, in case you missed it, was that O2 has been making your mobile number available to every website you browse on your phone. Read more
Yes, you did read that right: according to some behind the scenes research, O2 is giving out your number to pretty much every mobile website you land your browser on when connected to its network. Read on for the worrying details… Read more
“Sign here, please” – we scrawl our name and look shiftily around. We’re in one of Britain’s most secure technology centres. Sky‘s broadband SNS centre is so secret, we’re not allowed to tell you where it is, in case it’s targeted by terrorists. We feel like Jack Bauer, with more child-like handwriting and some crumpled Non-Disclosure paperwork stuffed in our back pocket. Step inside with us, and see what Sky’s so desperate to keep secret. Read more
In the past Three has been late to the game getting its hands on Apple devices to stock, but this time around has come good and will be stocking the iPad 2.
Three has kept its data plans for the iPad 2 under wraps for the time being, but says they will will be announced “in the coming weeks”. Three has been unlocking its data caps in the last few months, but whether unlimited data plans will make it into any iPad 2 contracts is unknown.
Would you head to Three is data was unlimited? Click through to shout out in the comments!
Congratulations, you made it half way through Monday! If the weekend still hangs heavy on your shoulders, kick back and dig in to our lowdown of all today’s best tech news so far.
O2′s data network is down for Pay Monthly customers, O2 has announced. If you’re struggling to get online via your smartphone, then be aware that there’s a fault.
O2 is aiming to fix the problem by 11:45am. O2′s data status reads: “If you’re a Pay Monthly customer (using wap.o2.co.uk) there’s a chance your phone won’t always connect to the internet. You can still call or text as normal. Picture messaging is also affected so your message might take longer to send and you might need to send it again if you had a failure.”
UPDATE: O2 has now said that the problem will be fixed by 12:30.
UPDATE: There’s now no time frame given for when the problem will be fixed. Drop us a line in the comments if you get back online!
Have you had trouble with O2 data this morning? Shout out in the comments!
Yesterday we did a quick straw poll to ask how many of you, our readers, were planning to leave T-Mobile at the end of your contract, or if any of you had jumped ship already in the data debacle. To our surprise, 57 per cent of you said you were going to leave T-Mobile, and a whopping 31 per cent said that you had already jumped ship. While intentions might ultimately lead to users staying, given the incentives mobile networks offer, it’s a strong indicator of the opinion of T-Mobile users after the blunder. Only 8 per cent of readers who voted said that you were happy on T-Mobile, and used less than 500MB a month, and only 4 per cent said that you were happy to pay extra for data.
