Is O2 down?

It seems like a government-imposed nationwide lockdown is lurking in light of the global pandemic and its effects on the UK, making lines of communication more important, and placing them under more stress, than ever.

Chances are, you’re already working hard to adjust to working from home, home-schooling your children or finding ways to stay engaged, like learning a new skill but being able to stay connected to your friends and family is likely high on your list of priorities too.

Such a major change in the nation’s habits has already been seen to have had an impact on the major carriers’ infrastructure, causing short-term outages that have hindered both phone calls and messages from getting through. With the state of the nation as it stands, such large loads on our network infrastructure are likely to continue for the time being, meaning further outages could occur over the months to come.

In this piece, we cover how to check the state of O2’s mobile network and if you’re experiencing problems, whether they lie with the wider network as a whole, or whether the problem is more localised. You might also find ourhow to boost your mobile signalfeature useful.

How to check whether O2 is down

What to do when the problem is local to you

Should none of the above work and the network isn’t suffering from widespread issues, back up your data and perform afactory reseton your device.