Me too...

I'm affected by this Orange outage, I've been off now since yesterday afternoon.

Nothing to see here...

That sounds like everything is normal at Orange towers. I've had those symptoms ever since I moved to Orange. Surfing the net with Orange is a complete pig!!

indeed

it has been on and off for the past week but yesterday was a nightmare. Connect and auth but no traffic.

Same here

I've been having general problems with Orange for a while, but the last two days have been awful. For some reason 2G and EDGE (or whatever it is I'm using when the 3G+ symbol appears) are working fine, but plain 3G is not.

Is there an Orange Forum somewhere for discussing this kind of thing?

uk fail

orange just told me that the whole lot has fellover in the uk, not just regions. hoping to up again 'by teatime'

been ongoing for weeks

this has been happening on and off for weeks/months now in the manchester/stockport area.

failed connections, slow speeds... a lot of the time it will show a data connection is active but you just get page cannot be found errors.

Fecking Orange

Not had data for at least two days here. And as I use google maps for satnav is going to become a total pain in the arse. West Midlands area incidentally.

Problem affecting 90% of users

I live in Sunderland and have been unable to use any data services on my mobile since last night.

I phoned Orange earlier and was told that it was affecting 90% of users and that their engineers were working on it as a priority. I was given an ETA of 13:00 - well, it's currently 12:58 and I still have no net connection...

And I was blaming my usual useless coverage....

Out since yesterday here in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Thanks el reg for being of more use than Orange in keeping me informed of problems on their network...

Nothing on their website that I can find about network problems... glad I've got less than 6 months before I can escape.

Edinburgh too....

How will the Camp Climate people coordinate their attack now?

Orange Wednesdays out too

Last night at the cinema there were about ten people who hadn't got their "Orange Wednesdays" text through. We just bit the bullet and paid full price.

Just moved to Orange

And this is the thanks I get...

I thought I'd installed a dodgy Cydia App on my iPhone, almost uninstalled MobileSubstrate to see if that would fix it, glad I didn't because just about every App relies on it.

me too

no access in Northamptonshire area since sometime this morning.

Blamed my brother in law for breaking it as first noticed it while he was playing with my phone. Think I will carry on letting him think I blame him though, just for a little bit longer...

Badgers in the works could be the cause.

This is a nationwide issue

The issue is specifically the device authentication (AAA) in the core network - basically dial-up issues. it's something that will affect all users with no regional bias.

strange!!

My flat mate noticed this last night on his phone but meanwhile I was able to use my Orange broadband dongle on my netbook no problem!

Not surprised

Orange has data network problems...or "Thursday" as they call it at Orange.

The unreliable data service was the reason I moved our corporate phones from Orange to Vodafone about 3 years ago. Seems little has changed.

Nottingham Outage

Been in Nottingham all day. Have currently got zero data here too.

Well at least there is no chance of going over the new data limits recently imposed.

ORLY?

Joining the predictable chorus of "I hadn't noticed". I find data coverage dodgy as hell at home or work (wifi at home helps, mind). Travelling across London, it's usually really spotty too. I just assumed that I happened to try to get connectivity in blackspots.

As to the quite reasonable question of why, if it's so bad, I don't change network- it doesn't help. Friends on other networks suffer just as many problems, 3G coverage is still not much cop, even in big cities.

Also, there seems to be a lack of cheap plans out there for people who don't need many minutes, but would like some data and a moderate chunk of texts (or unlimited text). I feel pretty ill-served as a spoddy smartphone user who prefers texts and emails to bellowing their banal business in crowded trains, and who also wants the sci-fi frisson of pulling up satellite imagery to help find your way around your immediate area (which is very video game, and still amuses).

That was a bit longer than I was expecting (argh, that needs a Paris icon, surely).

yup same here (Norn Iron)

Is there anywhere on their website that keeps the punters informed about their tech issues? I mean we all know they happen, the worst bit is not being kept abreast of the problems with the service we pay for...

Seems to be working again now

I had no data from yesterday afternoon. It seems to be working again now (Cambridge)

Go Orange...

I don't think it is a complete failure, as someone else has hinted at, the consumer broadband section is up.

I was browsing the net via HSDPA Orange Dongle on my laptop whilst phoning Ornage to complain.

Now trying to see if I can get the consumerbroadband APN to work on my phone :/

Fed up with Orange and their failings recently...

nope still broken

leeds wyorks user and still no 3g

well that'll explain it!

performed a radio update on my Villainrom running Hero yesterday, and thought I'd bricked it! Spent most of today rolling it back to the new Orange Eclair release hoping to fix it! Thank god for El Reg keeping me informed, because there's nowt on the Orange website!

No connection in London

I got stranded last night trying to find a restaurant- jumped off the tube, fired up google maps to tell me which way to walk (I can't find my own way down a one-way street) and... nothing! Caused me no end of bother and meant I turned up late and missed half the free bar time at the event.

Like many other commentards, I had assumed it was down to some dodgy app I'd installed and was planning a factory reset tonight on my Desire. Many thanks to el Reg for saving me the hassle. I'd ring up Orange and complain if I thought it was worth the effort. Other than maps I try not to rely on mobile data since it's always a bit shit.

Very little beer for me...

Disgusted

Orange should be ashamed, this outage or the potential of a possilbe outage should have been notified to all customers before any work commenced on the intergration with t-mobile and if this is nothing to do with that work, then the decent thing would have been to send its customers a text or even post some kind of notification on it's website of the issues and the possible time scales for them to be resolved. Instead they clunk up there telephone lines with angry customers who have been trying to connect to the data services since yesterday, when the service first went down and wasting everyone's time... i don't know about others, but i initially assumed that I had broken my phone somehow... it would have been nice to have known there were problems. Disgraceful..!!!