Giffgaff outages and service status in Cowes, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cowes, England

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

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Giffgaff Issues Reports Near Cowes, England

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

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  Chris Overthrow (@ChrisOverthrow) reported 7 minutes ago from Portsmouth, England

  @brendonvbone I was with giffgaff (o2) and its bollocks. Now with Vodafone. I get decent signal apart from half time. At half time I can get some internet but it's very slow. That's unavoidable with 18k people all using their phones though.

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  Peter Challis (@pachallis) reported 20 minutes ago from Fareham, England

  @notmany4benny @carterBFC @SamsungUK One of the disadvantages of living in rural locations. At least you must have beautiful views instead. I had problems with Three and I live 200m from a transmitter where I get flaky voice calls. Apparently I need a Three supplied phone to get VOLTE. Currently on O2/Giffgaff.

Giffgaff Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mark 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ (@TheBossnME) reported 4 minutes ago

  @virginmedia @giffgaff @Telefonica gifgaff, who are part of O2, who now work with Virgin Media. All part of Telefonica (and Liberty Global). A FOI request detailing how network coverage map data is recorded, updated, and published would be interesting to see. It seems to be very different from reality.

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  AM (@itsmeitsmeandy) reported 6 minutes ago

  @bt_uk and by any chance if you @giffgaff can actually get of your backsides and at the very least give me a engineer appointment date been waiting a month now nothing maybe i should cut out the middle man and contact your friends @virginmedia directly

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  TheDePINCat 🐈🌐 (@TheDePINCat) reported 8 minutes ago

  .@giffgaff have generally been good (10 years+ a subscriber). For the past few days, I have been unable to send texts from my UK number. I had to go onto a forum to diagnose what I thought was a device problem. Reset my network settings (no help). And then back to the forum to find a coverage map. Ideally, giffgaff would send alerts to impacted areas so we are aware with this information. And, with connectivity being fundamental to everything we do in the digital world, communication should be treated as high priority as a burst water pipe or gas leak. This is why community-owned networks are so crucial. There is an extra level of care and concern when the issue directly impacts you.

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  Meady (@Meady19Meady) reported 9 minutes ago

  @EE @JordanRichmond Tbf EE has gone so far down the pan even considering leaving them myself giffgaff is so much cheeper and you deal with less rubbish as well

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  jo (@scjott57) reported 13 minutes ago

  @giffgaff my daughter accidentally clicked on the contract package when selecting an earlier monthly plan as she had run out if data. How do I check if its gone through and if so how do I cancel?

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  Stina blackstenius 2026 BDO 🔜🙏🏽 (@stinaswvg) reported 17 minutes ago

  10 p/m on a phone (probably just the sim only) is possible maybe only on giffgaff cause every other network even three (best network btw) is at least 12 pound monthly for the cheapest plan with no add ons

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  MSec (@_msec_) reported 18 minutes ago

  Ah apparently @giffgaff no longer offer free EU Roaming the greedy *****. Well I needed a reason to finally switch good job you lost a customer over £8. Pricks.

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  Phill Manson (@pmanson26) reported 18 minutes ago

  @RSdriver00 @ThreeUK @VodafoneUK All seem **** locally since huawei was removed from the backbone, I’ve tried EE (ok), Vodafone (useless) and now on GiffGaff, I got better signal roaming in Spain

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  That Josh Guy (@thatjoshguy69) reported 27 minutes ago

  @LuftkoppTim @luciascarlet Idk bout over there, but here O2 suuuuucks. I was with giffgaff, an mvno on the O2 network, for a lil while before switching to Smarty (on 3). And literally night and day difference. Its subjective though. In other places in the UK, 3 sucks and EE is better, or Vodafone even 💀

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  Mark 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ (@TheBossnME) reported 27 minutes ago

  @virginmedia @giffgaff @Telefonica gifgaff, who are part of O2, who now work with Virgin Media. All part of Telefonica (and Liberty Global). A FOI request detailing how network coverage map data is recorded, updated, and published would be interesting to see. It seems to be very different from reality.