Vodafone network down for millions of Australians

By CAITLIN POWELL - NEWS REPORTER Published: 00:40, 18 June 2026 | Updated: 00:57, 18 June 2026 Millions of Australians are thought to have been impacted by an outage at Vodafone, one of Australia's largest mobile networks. 'We are aware that some customers are experiencing intermittent issues with Vodafone service and we are urgently investigating,' the company said in a statement on Thursday. 'We apologise for the inconvenience and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We will provide an update as soon as possible.' There had been more than 8,300 reports of a Vodafone outage filed to the tracking service Downdetector by 9.15am on Thursday. Australians in cities across the country have all shared on Reddit that they were struggling with issues during the morning. 'Walking around Melbourne's CBD trying to get on any free WiFi,' one user said. Another added: 'Same here in Adelaide. Missus and mine are both SOS only.' 'Was going a bit mad thinking my phone settings were playing up,' a third said.  Millions of Australians are thought to have been impacted by the outage The network status checker page displayed an error message early on Thursday morning The network status checker page on Vodafone's website displayed an error message early on Thursday morning, according to 9News. Within an hour, it had changed to a generic maintenance announcement which read: 'We'll be right back.' 'We’re just performing some scheduled maintenance. Check back soon.' The Daily Mail has contacted Vodafone for comment.  The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.