Vodafone's mobile network has crashed — here's everything you need to know about the latest outage

18 Jun 2026, 01:04 by https://www.techradar.com/uk/author/sharmishta-sarkar · TechRadar

Vodafone's mobile network has crashed — here's everything you need to know about the latest outage

Potentially millions of customers have been affected since 8am AEST

News By Sharmishta Sarkar published 18 June 2026

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If you're on the Vodafone network in Australia and aren't able to make calls, you're not alone.

As of about 8am AEST this morning (Thursday, June 18), Vodafone has confirmed that its network was down. By about 9am AEST, there were over 8,000 complaints according to DownDetector.

While the number of complaints has dropped since then, there's still no confirmation that the outage has been completely resolved.

Vodafone's official statement says that it's aware some of its customers are experiencing "intermittent issues" and an investigation is underway. The telco has promised to provide an update as soon as possible but, in the meantime, here's what we know so far.

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Vodafone's mobile network went down just before 8am AEST this morning, affecting not only its direct customers, but potentially even those on MVNOs on its network, like users with TPG and Lebara. That means this current outage could be affecting millions of customers, although Vodafone has confirmed it's "urgently investigating".

There's currently no updates on the Vodafone website, with even its Network Status Checker throwing up errors.

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According to DownDetect, there were over 8,000 complaints as of 9am AEST this morning, but that's dropped since, although there's slight uptick again as of 11am AEST.

My team and I will keep an eye on what's happening and update you as often as we can with any fresh information we get.

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