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Giffgaff Outage Report in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England

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Giffgaff is a mobile telephone network running as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator using the United Kingdom O2 network.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Waltham Abbey, England

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

Giffgaff Outage Chart in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England 11/24/2025 09:55

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Giffgaff users through our website.

  1. Wi-fi (61%)

    Wi-fi (61%)

  2. Phone (19%)

    Phone (19%)

  3. Internet (11%)

    Internet (11%)

  4. Total Blackout (9%)

    Total Blackout (9%)

Live Outage Map Near Waltham Abbey, Essex, England

The most recent Giffgaff outage reports came from the following cities: London.

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Giffgaff Issues Reports Near Waltham Abbey, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Waltham Abbey and nearby locations:

  • GracialNation gracialnation (@GracialNation) reported from Hackney, England

    @giffgaff my SIM in my dongle says I’m connected but my laptop is saying the network can’t be joined. It just stopped working a few days ago and now just won’t join!

  • jordanrevell Jordan Revell (@jordanrevell) reported from Camden Town, England

    @SkyHelpTeam I've had internet dropouts for the past 3-4 days, up to 4 times per day, plus dropouts often in the last year. It nearly jeopardized my life changing doctors appointment held over zoom today, often times my giffgaff 4g mobile data is faster, I need a solution.

  • Mr_MartinCalder Mr Martin Calder (@Mr_MartinCalder) reported from Walthamstow, England

    @EE Giffgaff has unlimited everything for £35 and even that is very expensive and crazy for the price in the current day’s we are living networks need to help their customers

  • CoronaSinger 🍎Corona🍎******🍎(****/****) (@CoronaSinger) reported from Stratford, England

    @giffgaff I have recieved my replacement sim as my old sim was broke and I have activated the new sim but I still can't make or recieve calls and texts could you tell me how long this is going to take please as I am disabled and need my phone in case of an emergency thank you

  • PaulGrayburn PG tweets (@PaulGrayburn) reported from Romford, England

    @DanJay946 @EE @ThreeUK @giffgaff You know they use the O2 network. You’d get a better performance with them instead of giffgaff.

  • Muvaharris meg (@Muvaharris) reported from London, England

    I have a very important call and giffgaff decide to go down now? Have no signal whatsoever! Always having problems! Absolute joke @giffgaff

  • ric_mc ric (@ric_mc) reported from Hackney, England

    @giffgaff my network is very poor since yesterday night and today in this morning is not working at all. sometimes I even got no network. using most of the time at Limehouse and Stoke Newton areas. My phone is an iPhone 12 (trying to) using 5G

  • drneil667 Neil Jackson (@drneil667) reported from Harlesden, England

    @blogmywiki @giffgaff I’ve had the same problem since Saturday. I’m in North West London , so not the mast.

  • sofiloco Sofi Summers (@sofiloco) reported from Hackney, England

    @giffgaff hi Giff Gaff 👋🏼 my husband is having problems with his data - it’s not working at all. We’re in N1 London. Is it down?

  • ric_mc ric (@ric_mc) reported from Hackney, England

    @giffgaff Morning! I just pop up a new 5G plan on my iPhone 12 but seems it’s not working for me even after I have set to work on 5G on my phone settings

  • TronalddumpUS Tronald Dump. (@TronalddumpUS) reported from London, England

    @giffgaff your network in #blackheath is atrocious. I get better signal sitting on a beach in Botswana, what's up with that?

  • CWMcGinnes CW McGinnes (@CWMcGinnes) reported from London, England

    @giffgaff trying to activate a sim for my mum, payment isn't being accepted. Can you please help

  • Maliwil RAVEAUD Emmanuel (@Maliwil) reported from London, England

    @giffgaff Oh thanks so much, only one solution refund my money back on 5 days, so I don't have a phone for a new week. Thanks @dpd_support for your perfect work ... So know you are going to give me a new phone 🤬😤

  • macqueendan Daniel MacQueen (@macqueendan) reported from Tottenham, England

    @giffgaff I keep running out of credit on my monthly pay as you go plan. Auto top up was enabled leading to x2 charges now my account has run out for the third time. Wifi is turned on, HELP please

  • till_the_wheels 𝕵𝖚𝖌𝖘 (@till_the_wheels) reported from London, England

    @O2 @Joegreaney Hi I'd just like to add that this is a problem for everyone on 02 and giffgaff in that area and it's because a mast in hither green has been down for 2 years and these crooks hate you enough to ignore it.

  • JelllyBeaan Gezza (@JelllyBeaan) reported from Romford, England

    @giffgaff hi team is it possible to have some help in regards to my account?

  • EdoreFaine Cr£am (@EdoreFaine) reported from London, England

    How comes everyone with #giffgaff never answer the #phone #London #voicemail 🤨

  • Love_SE4 @Love_SE4💙 (@Love_SE4) reported from London, England

    @giffgaff Do you know what forget I even asked I'm going into town to get a SIM from a phone shop. At least if it goes wrong there are people to help. You lot are useless you don't need my money anymore. You owe me but I doubt very much I will get anything back

  • djrowsam DJ Rowland Samuel (@djrowsam) reported from Paddington, England

    @MissyMissyJ I had a similar problem....but it was with Giffgaff (who use the O2 network as well)

  • AkpaluGeorge George Akpalu (@AkpaluGeorge) reported from London, England

    Giffgaff is so slow and keeps breaking

Giffgaff Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • mcaslan7 Thomas McAslan (@mcaslan7) reported

    @iGiffgaff @giffgaff this network is getting worse the amount of people saying my phone is off im trying to run a business after a good 6years 1 must move on 🙏 #Disappointed

  • _gordongeorge Gordon (@_gordongeorge) reported

    @giffgaff I don't think you've understood the issue but nvm

  • switches_wow Martin (Switches) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☯ (@switches_wow) reported

    @ChefGarethS @giffgaff Hmm unless virgin been doing their BS sales crap which accounts for 99% of my spam I ain't got a clue why that would happen...

  • lauurenkelly lauren (@lauurenkelly) reported

    @O2 is something wrong with Signal??my boyfriend is on giffgaff which runs with o2 and he hasn’t been able to use his data for the past two days??

  • Uk__Spain Mark (@Uk__Spain) reported

    @giffgaff hello you’ve not activated my sim. The app said my payment for pay and go too up didn’t go through. So I did again. The app said it didn’t go through. The phone isn’t working but my bank shows you’ve now got £20. Please help

  • blogmywiki Giles Booth (@blogmywiki) reported

    So I can no longer send or receive iMessages on my phone. Apple Support say because it's trying to authenticate *by SMS* with a server in the US, and my carrier @giffgaff is blocking international SMS. Very confusing. It's worked for years, why did it just suddenly stop?

  • O2 O2 in the UK (@O2) reported

    @lauurenkelly Hi Lauren, we're sorry to hear that your boyfriend is having issues with his data. He would need to contact Giffgaff directly about this for further help.

  • switches_wow Martin (Switches) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☯ (@switches_wow) reported

    @ChefGarethS @giffgaff Could be... especially if it was that bad lol

  • clivethe5 Social Listz in a very specific & limited way 🟨🟥 (@clivethe5) reported

    @MeadowInGarden @VodafoneUK If Smarty doesn't float your boat, then give Giffgaff a try. I'm on the £8/month deal - unlimited calls / texts and 3GB data. Other deals available. They run on the back of the O2 network.

  • brianmoreau Brian Moreau (@brianmoreau) reported

    @giffgaff Another company that can't read. I said, I should not have to login to unsubscribe from spam!