Airtel Network Down in India: Subscribers Report Issues with Mobile, Broadband Services

Airtel's services down: Airtel's services faced a wide-spread disruption across the country on Thursday morning. The outage affected both, Airtel's mobile and broadband subscribers with users reporting issues while using the company's services. As per reports, Airtel subscribers reported facing issues accessing the internet, data speed and making calls. Some Airtel subscribers also reported frequent call drops during the outage.

Airtel Outage in December 2024

According to a report by Downdetector, the issue with Airtel's services began at around 9:56AM in India with less than 10 users reporting issues with the company's services and the issue peaked at around 10:41AM with over 3,000 subscribers reporting the issue.

Furthermore, the data shared by Downdetector shows that issues with Airtel's services primarily affected subscribers in Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Surat and Bengaluru. However, users in Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai too reported minor disruptions in the services provided by the telecom operator. In addition to this, the data by the website tracking tool revealed that Airtel's network outage affected 22 percent mobile subscribers, and that 32 percent of the subscribers reported issues with signal strength while 46 percent of the users reported a total blackout of the company's services.

That said, issues with Airtel's wide-spread outage across India seemed to be resolving at around 11:41PM with less than 100 subscribing issues with the telecom operator's services.

It is worth mentioning that Airtel has updated its social media handles or given out a statement regarding the widespread outage affecting its services yet.

Airtel Outage in March 2022

It worth mentioning that Airtel's network doesn't suffer major outages often. Last major outage took place in March 2022 when susbcribers reported issues with mobile network, no signal and total blackout. Major cities that had faced the issue with Airtel's services at the time were Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Patna and Hyderabad.