Belfast & Glasgow TV Outage

[banannie]

I'm in Glasgow too. I'm just relieved its not just me Guess I'll have to do something useful instead....

[Terry]

Got through on 150. Just said whole of N Ireland out and no idea when it will be back on line. Broadband, phone and analog pass through working fine for me. The stb wont accept more than two digits and then goes back to zero. Hope this saves anyone from hanging on the phone

[Fingy]

Don't be expecting it back on too soon, quite a big problem which is also affecting the orange network.

[Peil]

Originally Posted by Fingy

Don't be expecting it back on too soon, quite a big problem which is also affecting the orange network.

Would that be the Orange mobile phone network, or the site to site computer network?

[Fingy]

mobile phone network... no idea what that site to site computer network is.

[Peil]

Just curious how a mobile phone network outage would affect TV over cable?

Phones are working fine over here in the Glasgow area, which suggests that if your seeing an issue they might just be co-incidence.

BTW, the outage message is no longer on the 151 number

[Jez]

Well, I was unable to get through to Customer Services on my BT line - it just went dead, but dialing the same number on my NTL line (i.e. the 0845 one) got me through. Not sure what that means! Still saying Belfast and Glasgow out when I rang five minutes ago ...

Originally Posted by Fingy

mobile phone network... no idea what that site to site computer network is.

Its a big SDH problem then. Lots of traffic besides cable goes over their SDH network.

[James79]

Originally Posted by Fingy

Don't be expecting it back on too soon, quite a big problem which is also affecting the orange network.

Any ideas how this is affecting the Orange Network?? Seems strange!

I noticed that I had no coverage whilst in work (around 1630 or so), and thought it was just my phone (lost the signal or something!).

I arrive home to be told - no NTL?!! Suspicious?!

If I remember correctly, was Virgin Mobile (in its original incarnation) a subsidised Orange Account? Or did Virgin use Orange as a carrier?? Then again - maybe Im making this up!!

Originally Posted by James79

Any ideas how this is affecting the Orange Network?? Seems strange!

I noticed that I had no coverage whilst in work (around 1630 or so), and thought it was just my phone (lost the signal or something!).

I arrive home to be told - no NTL?!! Suspicious?!

If I remember correctly, was Virgin Mobile (in its original incarnation) a subsidised Orange Account? Or did Virgin use Orange as a carrier?? Then again - maybe Im making this up!!

Orange and others use ntl's SDH network.

[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Fingy

Don't be expecting it back on too soon, quite a big problem which is also affecting the orange network.

Just off the phone to Connolly House. Apparently the nationalist network is down too.

I'm all for equality!!

[foxprorawks]

No TV in Barlanark in Glasgow, and we can't get through to the 0845 number.

Broadband connection still good though.

[handyman]

Originally Posted by James79

Any ideas how this is affecting the Orange Network?? Seems strange!

Ntl have a substantial fibre network around the uk. Orange lease bits of it to send calls up and down the country. My guess is a main fibre break or a laser down.

[rimmy]

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

Just off the phone to Connolly House. Apparently the nationalist network is down too.

I'm all for equality!!

lol

[ntlrocks]

I'm paying for sky sports and i'm not going to be able to see the cup match tonight!

Come on ntl: .

Wonder what the problem is, because broadband comes through the same cable?