Overview

• Downdetector recorded more than 3,500 outage reports beginning around 3:30 PM IST; clusters appeared in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, with additional reports from other major metros.
• Seventy-one percent of reports involved voice calling failures; the rest cited mobile internet disruptions or no-signal alerts.
• Airtel’s official X account briefly acknowledged the outage; the initial post was later deleted without disclosing a technical cause or estimated restoration time.
• The Airtel Thanks app was unresponsive for some users; missed SMS or OTP deliveries disrupted banking or verification services.
• Downdetector also tracked smaller complaint spikes for Reliance Jio, with additional reports for Vodafone-Idea; disruptions suggest coincident service issues across India’s major carriers.