Ericsson apologises for O2 network outage

Tom Allen
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The data network crash, which affected millions of people worldwide, was caused by an expired software certificate

O2 has said that the software issue that left millions of customers unable to use any data services worldwide yesterday was down to a flaw in Ericsson certificates. The fault also affected Japan...

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