Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yldldx659o

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cph123•2h ago

It looks like the number of IPv4 /24s their ASN was announcing has dropped significantly: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as5378#announced-ip-add...

Latitude7973•2h ago

This completely stymied me - joining a meeting while WFH: broadband goes down, can't use the SIM in my computer, can't tether to my phone as they are all using Vodafone.

messe•2h ago

That's one of the reasons I kept my Irish SIM even after I got my Danish one. I've found it useful on plenty of occasions to switch to the other, especially when traveling.

rawling•2h ago

I could tether to my (non Vodafone) phone, but my work laptop refused to connect to the WiFi hotspot until I physically unplugged the ethernet cable from the dock. "You can't connect to another network while you're on your employer's network." I'm not!

nasretdinov•2h ago

I feel validated for having 4 (four) different provider options (personal + work phones, my cable, and neighbour's Wi-Fi :))

stillworks•2h ago

Seems to have recovered now

gbuk2013•1h ago

Everything was down: broadband, their website and even their support phone numbers. Talk about putting all the eggs in one basket! :)

rjh29•1h ago

With 5GB sims costing £2-5/month it is well worth buying a backup sim if this matters to you. I pay for two sims in two countries and was able to use the other's roaming data when Vodafone went down.

alastairr•1h ago

I'm not sure that would necessarily have helped. My regular sim was on another network (giff gaff), that was down. Went out and bought a pay-and-go sim on yet another network (EE) - no dice there either. Not sure what the issue was, but it seemed to have knock-on impacts in areas like mine that were affected.

rjh29•26m ago

giff gaff is O2 and O2 shares a parent company with Vodafone (Virgin Media O2) and also shares masts. EE and Three probably share infrastructure too, particularly in rural areas.

At least for me, Three was definitely working (South West)

quenix•1h ago

This was quite catastrophic - everything was down, even nationwide mobile data for Vodafone users (and piggybacking MVNOs). I hope we get more info or a postmortem.

It also had spillover effects on other providers — O2 service was degraded

octo888•1h ago

Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?

I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)

gavin_gee•1h ago

anything to do with the massive DDOS attacks that Krebs has been reporting against US carriers?

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