Kate Solomon

As shiny things go, my iPhone is definitely up there with my greatest ever technological investments (see also Sky+, MacBook and DS Lite). Like so many others who wax lyrical about small chunks of metal and glass, I honestly don’t know how I got along without it; I mean, I went literally hours at a time without checking Twitter. People could have been @ing me and I wouldn’t know! A topic may have been trending about which I had a witty anecdote to offer, and I’d miss my chance!! So glad those dark days are behind me.

As brilliant as the iPhone undoubtedly is in the arena of Twitter-obsession, in London at least there are problems. In what must be one of the most connected cities in the world, the network regularly fails causing the iPhone to shrug apologetically and tell me ‘no Internet connection’.

But, I rebuff, there was an internet connection three seconds ago – let’s try again… Nope, not happening. Now there’s no service at all so I can’t even phone someone to complain/tell me what’s happening on Twitter.

If you’re getting as hacked off as I am at these frequent collapses in service, then this is the blog for you: How the O2 cellphone network fails London users, where London-based tech PR Robert Follis is documenting every time O2 prevents his iPhone from working. At the very least, you’ll know you’re not alone.