{"id":743720,"date":"2026-06-18T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743720\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:29:09","slug":"mobile-phone-services-restored-after-vodafone-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743720\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone services restored after Vodafone network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone have resolved the issue with its mobile network, with services being progressively restored on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The network went down on Thursday morning, potentially affecting millions of Australians.<\/p>\n<p>A Vodafone spokesperson said the issue was caused by an outage to one of its network hubs about 8am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue has been isolated and resolved, and services are now being progressively restored,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost services have now been restored; however, some may continue to experience intermittent issues as devices reconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said customers should have been able to access triple-0 by connecting to other available networks at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Vodafone customers around the country complained about the outage, with many only on SOS-only mode on their phones. <\/p>\n<p>Vodafone\u2019s network status checker on its website displayed an error message.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of issues peaked at 9.05am, with more than 8260 reports, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working to improve our network, so from time to time you may experience connection issues,\u201d the error message read. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse our network status checker to see any planned upgrades, maintenance or outages in your area. We\u2019ll do our best to keep you in the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, is anyone with Vodafone having issues with the internet? Because I\u2019m going crazy,\u201d one user on X said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVodafone in Melbourne is down. Really annoying,\u201d another posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vodafone have resolved the issue with its mobile network, with services being progressively restored on Thursday. The network&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,187436,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-743720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}