Thousands unable to make calls as EE network down

Hundreds of EE and BT clients have reported they’re unable to make or obtain calls because the cell phone community faces an outage.Outages tracker Downdetector, which depends on self-reported person information, confirmed over 2,500 EE clients experiencing outages at 1400 BST, with many additionally reporting points with different networks.Nonetheless, Vodafone and Three have confirmed to the BBC they don’t have community points.A spokesperson from BT, which owns EE, apologised and stated the agency was “at the moment addressing a difficulty impacting our providers”. “We’re working urgently to repair this situation and can present an additional replace as quickly as attainable,” they stated.Different networks have seen spikes in experiences of outages on Downdetector – however these are more likely to be clients from networks unable to connect with EE or BT telephone numbers. Social media customers have been posting a couple of lack of providers of each EE and BT cell and landline providers. BT Group has greater than 30 million clients within the UK and made £20.4bn income within the final monetary yr.