Following the UK mobile network outage on Vodafone this morning, Vodafone has now announced via their support forums that the problems are due to a break-in overnight at one of their technical facilities:

http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Latest-Vodafone-News/Network-Issues-Update/td-p/674809

A map of the tweets across the UK discussing Vodafone this morning shows that a majority of the problems appear to be affecting the South of the country.

http://www.seekatweet.com/?distance=624&lat=54.59275415276933&lng=-3.3123779296875&zoom=5&filterkeywords=vodafone

 

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Vodafone has said that there is no impact on the privacy of user data and that they’re working quickly to restore services.   Following the tweets – signs of network recovery are starting to appear.