Friday 19 April, 2024

Useful Tech Advice of the Day from O2: Turn it off and turn it back on again

The phone company had some useful IT Crowd-esque advice for its customers today.

IT’S GOOD TO know that when technology fails, there’s always one option to fall back on.

A number of O2 Ireland customers had problems sending text messages today due to an issue with the network.

Luckily, the solution for fixing problems with a phone network seems to be pretty similar to fixing problems with any other gadget: turn it off and then turn it back on again.

It had more than slight echoes of the much-used line from Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd:

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