Has anyone else had problems with Orange reception yesterday/today?
I didn't notice at first, but my phone seems unable to connect for most of a day and a half now, apart from a few minutes every so often. Which makes it seem unlikely it's a problem with the phone? It says "line is busy now" but I don't expect that to help. Am I missing some obvious news? Has anyone else got an orange phone and have/don't have the problem?
In the ongoing greenenders saga, of course the phone failure wasn't noticed until I had a plan centred on it working. I'd rang the answerphone that morning, but assumed it was a just a glitch when that didn't work because I didn't bother to try again. Then I'd arranged to meet sonicdrift for lunch in the forum, assuming that if no-one in the science park could direct her she could ring me, and only at 13.05, when I rang her, did I realise there was a problem.
ETA And they had, of course, remoddelled the trinity centre, being no longer "Q-ton" which is good in that it was an odd name, but bad in that it made it hard to find directions to. Sorry :)
We instituted the universal "meeting in a strange place" algorithm of dividing time between waiting in the most probably place (outside the forum) and searching the approaches for the other, but she'd arrived a bit early and nearly given up by 1.00, so it took 15 min to terminate. Sorry for making you wander the science park for half an hour. And then too much conversation resulted in an even more ridiculously extended lunch hour *shrug* I work enough normally it doesn't matter.
However, that afternoon, the phone turned itself on long enough to report a couple of missed messages, reproduced with permission: "Hello, I'm totally lost. I'm in somewhere that looks like the CMS but bigger and surrounded by people in shiny clothes. If you could get some reception and phone me back, that'd be great."
Sorry, sonic. Rest assured, my first visit was worse, because I was going to a job interview, and every delay made me ARGH and only fortunate foreplanning got me there on time non-sweaty :)
Also, if anyone wants to ring me tomorrow, it might not work :( If you can't get through try a text message in case the problem continues to be intermittant.
Finally, thanks to Mole for the tag, used first here, "Haylp" :)
Update: Perhaps the algorithm needs refinement. Eg. fixed times after and before arranged meeting time to be in obvious place (except then if you had different places you be *bound* to miss each other. Perhaps alternate? And always arrange as specifically as possible, just in case, phones are useful backup, but belt and braces is good. And try to arrange to meet by someone messages could be left with.
I didn't notice at first, but my phone seems unable to connect for most of a day and a half now, apart from a few minutes every so often. Which makes it seem unlikely it's a problem with the phone? It says "line is busy now" but I don't expect that to help. Am I missing some obvious news? Has anyone else got an orange phone and have/don't have the problem?
In the ongoing greenenders saga, of course the phone failure wasn't noticed until I had a plan centred on it working. I'd rang the answerphone that morning, but assumed it was a just a glitch when that didn't work because I didn't bother to try again. Then I'd arranged to meet sonicdrift for lunch in the forum, assuming that if no-one in the science park could direct her she could ring me, and only at 13.05, when I rang her, did I realise there was a problem.
ETA And they had, of course, remoddelled the trinity centre, being no longer "Q-ton" which is good in that it was an odd name, but bad in that it made it hard to find directions to. Sorry :)
We instituted the universal "meeting in a strange place" algorithm of dividing time between waiting in the most probably place (outside the forum) and searching the approaches for the other, but she'd arrived a bit early and nearly given up by 1.00, so it took 15 min to terminate. Sorry for making you wander the science park for half an hour. And then too much conversation resulted in an even more ridiculously extended lunch hour *shrug* I work enough normally it doesn't matter.
However, that afternoon, the phone turned itself on long enough to report a couple of missed messages, reproduced with permission: "Hello, I'm totally lost. I'm in somewhere that looks like the CMS but bigger and surrounded by people in shiny clothes. If you could get some reception and phone me back, that'd be great."
Sorry, sonic. Rest assured, my first visit was worse, because I was going to a job interview, and every delay made me ARGH and only fortunate foreplanning got me there on time non-sweaty :)
Also, if anyone wants to ring me tomorrow, it might not work :( If you can't get through try a text message in case the problem continues to be intermittant.
Finally, thanks to Mole for the tag, used first here, "Haylp" :)
Update: Perhaps the algorithm needs refinement. Eg. fixed times after and before arranged meeting time to be in obvious place (except then if you had different places you be *bound* to miss each other. Perhaps alternate? And always arrange as specifically as possible, just in case, phones are useful backup, but belt and braces is good. And try to arrange to meet by someone messages could be left with.