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O2 Outage Report in Smethwick, Sandwell, England

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O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited offering mobile phone and mobile internet service, including voicemail and SMS. With over 25 million customers, O2 runs 2G, 3G and 4G networks across the UK. O2 previously offered home broadband service.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of O2 reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

O2 Outage Chart in Smethwick, Sandwell, England 11/20/2025 12:15

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by O2 users through our website.

  1. Phone (47%)

    Phone (47%)

  2. Internet (30%)

    Internet (30%)

  3. Total Blackout (16%)

    Total Blackout (16%)

  4. Wi-fi (3%)

    Wi-fi (3%)

  5. E-mail (3%)

    E-mail (3%)

  6. TV (1%)

    TV (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England

The most recent O2 outage reports came from the following cities: West Bromwich, Birmingham, Oldbury, Bromsgrove and Wednesbury.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomWest Bromwich Total Blackout
United KingdomBirmingham Internet
United KingdomOldbury Phone
United KingdomBirmingham Phone
United KingdomOldbury Internet
United KingdomBromsgrove Wi-fi

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O2 Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

  • adam0604 Adam Waterhouse (@adam0604) reported from Halesowen, England

    Yo why is @O2 4G network coverage so garbish lately? Sort your **** out man, I don't pay for a 1 bar signal wherever I go!

  • Martbushii Mart🌲🌻🦊🐞🎵😁 🇪🇺♂️🏳️‍🌈🌹🌊 (@Martbushii) reported from Dudley, England

    @O2 @ThreeUK What on earth is happening in Dudley West midlands. Mine and my friends mobile phones have had no service. Is there something wrong?. I am doing this on his Post Office home internet

  • LittleMissCosta Tina-Louise Boyce (@LittleMissCosta) reported from Solihull, England

    @O2 I've tried this just now, they've said they've sent a code to my number but I've got no service to receive the text..

  • DaveBennett79 Dave Bennett (@DaveBennett79) reported from Redditch, England

    @O2 I have been cut off 5 times now whilst trying to chase a refund. Guess what, not called back once by your fantastic service team!

  • AndyH_Official Andy Hollinson (@AndyH_Official) reported from Redditch, England

    @O2 It’s ok now thank you. It was down for about 25 mins across a number of phones

  • EvanD Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported from Solihull, England

    @O2 @virginmedia Further to this, he has now told me that as I get a £15/month discount for my 1st 6 months with O2, I need to cancel that and pay full price in order to get the extra #Volt speed boost with VM

  • AndyH_Official Andy Hollinson (@AndyH_Official) reported from Redditch, England

    @O2 hi there, all of our phones have lost signal in B97 Redditch. Is there a problem please?

  • LittleMissCosta Tina-Louise Boyce (@LittleMissCosta) reported from Solihull, England

    @O2 I've just tried this, they've said they've sent me a text with a code but I don't have any service to receive the text. So now I'm stuck..

  • MrTegSingh Teg Singh (@MrTegSingh) reported from Wolverhampton, England

    @wolvesclaire @O2 Never been so angry been on the phone since 8.30 cut off 3 times and been transferred to so many different departments. 😡😡😡😡

  • Lysander_16 Lysander 🦆 (@Lysander_16) reported from Wednesfield, England

    Hey @O2 is there a actually a mast issue in Wolverhampton? As I've been receiving little to no Internet while I'm at work (WV10) It's been about 2 weeks. I'm not the only one either. Checked your service status and says there's a mast issue but it hasn't been fixed. Any ideas?

  • longhairdsgtmaj Betsy Snow (@longhairdsgtmaj) reported from Wombourne, England

    @CPWTweets @O2 Why is it so hard to unlock an old CPW android phone, purchased through CPW but was on o2 sim/network. O2 say its CPW that need to unlock it, CPW say its O2, back n forth for 3 hours on live chat. Can one of you just get me a SIM network unlock PIN!! FFS!!

  • AnneBaines1 Anne Baines 💙💙💙💙💙💙 (@AnneBaines1) reported from Hagley, England

    @acorbettn @O2 @metpoliceuk How awful. I hope that you are ok. Take care of yourself

  • RampziieTweets Dad (@RampziieTweets) reported from Walsall Wood, England

    @TheO2 @O2 can you sort your network in Walsall, Birmingham. I put a complaint in at the beginning of the year and it’s STILL unbearable

  • matthew_74 Matthew Sparks (@matthew_74) reported from West Bromwich, England

    Hi @O2 I've tried to call about a technical problem (more a frustration) regarding voicemail. Called a couple of times last week, where messages advises you were busy. Now the message says, 'Use the website' and then hangs up. Any suggestions?

  • SophieMDrake Sophie Drake (@SophieMDrake) reported from Birmingham, England

    @O2 It’s having to be escalated due to a back office technical fault, issue on My O2 and the account behind the scenes, so I’m without data when out of the house for up to 10 days. Not ideal really!

  • M5Mahmud Nas Mahmud (@M5Mahmud) reported from Birmingham, England

    @O2 I had a issue with my billing and spoke to several of your phone assistants who did not help much at all, kept batting me off to Ariel Direct who also were useless. I finally got through to Tracy who explained the situation in 2 mins and resolved the issue, pls reward her.

  • IyaazMatadar Iyaaz Matadar (@IyaazMatadar) reported from Redditch, England

    Anyone on @O2 having problems sending @WhatsApp messages?

  • goingabitgrey John McKeon (@goingabitgrey) reported from Birmingham, England

    @O2 Very poor, new link provided by @DriiftLive doesn’t support casting to another device there is no excuse for this awful provision.

  • MrTegSingh Teg Singh (@MrTegSingh) reported from Wolverhampton, England

    @O2 customer services shocking after spending nearly 3 hours on the phone to them I had to go to the wolves store and sort it out myself. Massive thank you too Jeeves who works at o2 wolves for finding me a phone reserving it at merry hill I know have my new phone

  • ASWM1990 ... (@ASWM1990) reported from Walsall Wood, England

    @O2 Hi! Why is the internet in my town so **** for? Its been like this for over 3 weeks now. It takes atleast 5 minutes to get a signal when i switch my mobile internet on!

O2 Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • philtaylor1973 phil taylor (@philtaylor1973) reported

    @virginmedia @O2 If your so fast and good with Internet connection why is it when I go for a **** upstairs I have to switch my phone to 4G so I can use the ******* thing? Is 4G better than your connection? Or is the carrier pidgin running you connection on strke

  • Maeshakhatun Maesha 🧸 (@Maeshakhatun) reported

    @O2 data is so **** man 😤 should have stuck to @EE 🤧🤧🤧

  • blairjoyce3 JoycieB (@blairjoyce3) reported

    @O2 At that point it asks me to sign up to Virgin Media (desire already being a long standing customer)

  • JChapman1729 John Chapman (@JChapman1729) reported

    @O2 Your website is RUBBISH! Conflicting responses and a verify page which produces a "This page isn’t working If the problem continues, contact the site owner. HTTP ERROR 400"

  • idRidge 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙮 (@idRidge) reported

    @TomDavies_89 @O2 It's really poor service and communication. Very disappointing launch!

  • blairjoyce3 JoycieB (@blairjoyce3) reported

    @O2 @virginmedia I'm a customer of both but when I go into O2 it wants me to join Virgin Media to participate and vice versa ..

  • politicalsquif politicallysquiffy (@politicalsquif) reported

    @O2 my phone has been away for repair for a week, out of the blue I'm told it's out of warranty when two months old, impossible to speak to anyone, so is your insurance and repair system a scam or do you just not care? Worst to customer services ever

  • Greigwithani1 Greigwithani1 (@Greigwithani1) reported

    @O2 how long can it take to fix the issue with you not accepting @MastercardUK debit cards....3 months now and i still have to go to a shop to buy a top up rather be able to do it online! Honestly how hard can it be!

  • deftonesjake Jake 🎃 (@deftonesjake) reported

    @O2 cmon you could've at least let me know it was going to be delayed. I got in contact with you not so long ago about it. Very disappointing service 😒

  • blairjoyce3 JoycieB (@blairjoyce3) reported

    @O2 At that point it asks me to sign up to Virgin Media (despite already being a long standing customer)