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O2 Outage: How to Prevent This in the Future

Back in December, O2, the Telefonica operating company in the United Kingdom, had a massive outage. According to O2, about 25 million subscribers were affected by a small software issue. The company will need to reimburse customers for the outage, which lasted an entire day. An article in The Independent states, O2 announced “Pay monthly customers will be given two free days on their contract. And pay as you go customers will get 10 percent of their credit for free.”

Read the blog post over at SevOne here.

Ron - the SDWAN guy

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