"Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down. The outage began on Monday at 14.25 BST, and 30 minutes later it peaked when monitoring website Downdetector.co.uk reported that almost 140,000 customers were unable to use the service. One Register reader, Steve Maxted, noted that "Vodafone is down. Hard! Everything. Landline internet, mobile internet, website... It's not just DNS, as ping also fails.""
"One of our multi-network roaming SIM providers just warned us that 'we are currently aware of an ongoing issue with the Vodafone UK Network. This seems to be affecting a large number of consumer devices across the country.' Our reader's phone registered a strong signal, but data appeared to be broken, and while an inbound call worked, "trying an outbound call caused my Pixel 7 to lock up completely and do a very slow reboot - first time I've seen that.""
"Less than ideal. Readers also reported that broadband was affected by the outage, which is odd since we would have expected cellular and internet connectivity to be largely separate. Hopefully, there are no single points of failure lurking within Vodafone UK's infrastructure. Vodafone and Three recently announced a deal whereby customers of one could use the other's network. At the time of writing, Three does not appear to have any issues, so it would have been a good time for a network switcheroo."
A Vodafone UK outage began Monday at 14.25 BST and peaked about 30 minutes later when Downdetector recorded almost 140,000 customers unable to use the service. Services affected included mobile coverage and data, landline internet, the company's status page, and broadband. Users reported failures beyond DNS—ping failed, data was broken despite strong signal, and some phones froze or rebooted slowly after attempting outbound calls. A multi-network roaming SIM provider warned that the issue appeared to affect a large number of consumer devices. Broadband impact raised concern about possible single points of failure, while Three appeared unaffected.
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