AOL outages and service status in Cardiff, Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cardiff, Wales

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Cardiff, Wales and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports Near Cardiff, Wales

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Cardiff and nearby locations:

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  Steve West Says - Support PTSD & Cricket (@FIRSTCHAIRMAN) reported 16 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @TalkTalk Wifi for 20 years with AOL with no problems, but now 4mps is an insult

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  terry walton (@theterrywalton) reported 53 minutes ago from Tonyrefail, Wales

  Victor Meldrew moment! Ordered a new oven from @AOL for delivery today. Given a 7.00am until 7.00pm delivery slot. Rang now will not be delivered until next Sunday. Not informed of anything. Asked the service department about what they can do to correct it! Nothing. Cancelled.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dennis Downs (@DennisDown94756) reported 5 minutes ago

  @PaulTerlizzi @Starlink AOL had these same issues and they started out at $4.95. Back when we could afford it !

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  Winton Dupree (@WintonDupree) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh Never had an AOL address no matter how many times they tried to get me. All other boxes checked

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  Marianne Halcomb (@MRHalcomb) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 19. Never used AOL address

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  Melody McCloud, M.D. (@DrMelodyMcCloud) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AOL I'm having so many glitches when typing emails!! Is something happening within the AOL software? Mercury is not even still in Retrograde, but I'm checking what I've typed many times because of these highlighting, moving, glitches. Help, please.

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  Erik Griggs (@Grabbs555) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 18...never had an AOL address or a waterbed

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  ramzy (@0xRamzy) reported 14 minutes ago

  AOL paid $165 billion to win Time Warner in 2000 and wrote off $99 billion of it two years later. A quiet Yale lecture from 2007 proves the same mechanic that killed that deal is silently draining money from every homebuyer, every hiring manager, and every person who has ever won an eBay auction. The lecture is part of the free game theory course Yale posted online. The professor teaches with a hundred undergraduates and a piece of chalk. No slides, no textbook required. His name is Ben Polak. He ran Yale's economics department, was later made Provost of the university, and spent fifteen years teaching this same course to a lecture hall of students paying $60,000 a year for seats a stranger with an internet connection could sit in for free. The idea has a name. The winner's curse. It was first identified in a 1971 paper by three oil engineers at Atlantic Richfield who had noticed something odd about their industry. Every major oil company in America was bidding on offshore drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. They all had geologists and the same maps. The winner of each lease, on average, was losing money on the field. The engineers proved that when everyone estimates the same object with roughly equal error, the person who wins is almost always the one who over-estimated the most. Winning was proof of being wrong. The check they wrote was the receipt. The full lecture fits into three sentences. If you and a room full of reasonable people are all bidding for the same thing, your best estimate of it is almost certainly too high. If it were low, you would not be the one winning. The number of losers you beat is information about how wrong you are. Polak's summary is one line: shade your bid. Not because you are stupid. Because winning is the strongest signal in the market that you paid too much. Concrete case: a young couple bids on a three-bedroom house against fourteen other offers in a hot April market. They win at $80,000 over asking. They feel triumphant for one week. Two years later three of the losing bidders have bought the same style house on the same street for $60,000 less. The couple never sees a "for sale" sign. They just have a mortgage that eats every raise for the next decade. Every buyer who has ever won a house at $30,000 over the second-highest offer paid $29,999 more than the market thought it was worth. Every hiring manager who beat two other companies to a candidate is paying the number that was too high for two other adults. Every free-agent contract in sports that "shocks the league" was set by the one general manager who was most optimistic in the room. The lecture is on YouTube. Yale posted it in 2007. Almost none of the millions who have watched it ever shaded a bid on the next thing they wanted. The math is free. Bidding a little less than you feel like on the next thing you want to win is the entire edge. ↓

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 21 minutes ago

  There’s a white paper to be written on this. I was a beneficiary of IDA Ireland when I started at AOL in a portacabin with 20 people in Tallaght, before AOL became the second company after Oracle to open an office in East Point. So I’m thankful because it gave me a solid foundation for my career. Ireland’s reliance on US tech companies is now a massive problem. They now have significant leverage with government. AI data centres is probably their endgame.

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  Kathleen Lenkeit voted for Hillary, Joe, & Kamala (@KathleenLenkeit) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Sheldon_305 19 - never on AOL

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  NASDAQ Gallery (@TP_TIGER98) reported 23 minutes ago

  Bending Spoons ($BSP) is best understood as a software holding company built around recurring cash flow. Its playbook is direct: buy a digital business with proven demand, rebuild the product and cost base, improve pricing and conversion, then reinvest the cash into another acquisition. Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Remini and AOL are assets inside that operating system. The numbers make the model clear. In Q1 2026, subscriptions produced 84% of revenue, advertising 12%, and other sources 4%. Revenue grew from $387 million in 2023 to $1.31 billion in 2025, with acquisitions driving much of the increase. The figure I keep coming back to is customer tenure. In Q1 2026, 48% of subscription revenue came from customers with at least five years of tenure, including 28% from customers with at least ten. That gives Bending Spoons time to make deep changes to products it plans to own for the long run. The investment case comes down to execution: buy well, improve the asset, and compound the cash. The risk follows the same logic. Acquisition-led growth only compounds if management keeps choosing the right targets and improves them without weakening products that users already depend on.

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  Sailuh (@sailuh_dude) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh Never had an AOL account but hit all the rest.