All major mobile networks go down across Spain four weeks after blackouts

All major phone networks have gone down across Spain just four weeks after a national outage.

This includes leading networks in the country such as Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, Digimobil, and O2.

According to Downdetector, problems started at around 5am this morning.

It is impacting most of the country, including major cities like Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia, Seville, and Bilbao.

The main problems reported by people include no signal, total blackout and internet problems and it has also taken several emergency 112 lines.

This is impacting areas in the Basque Country, Aragon, and the Valencian Community.

Telefonica, Spain’s telecomms company, has confirmed that it is working to restore services after the telephone and internet outage.

Meanwhile, emergency phone lines have been restored in Aragon, Spain, but problems persist across other parts of the country.

According to El Correo, some ‘network upgrade work’ was carried out, affecting ‘specific services’.

People on social media are complaining about the outage, including a user called Amegoland who wrote: ‘Hi, @movistar_es, it’s already 9:10 a.m. Are you going to explain what’s going on? The network has gone down… again. You’ll see how they can issue the bill without any problems.’

Maximilian Sebastian Velázquez wrote: ‘Problems with my O2 landline. I haven’t had one since yesterday. O2 doesn’t answer calls. It hangs up automatically.’

Four weeks ago, panic buying spread across Spain and Portugal after a major power cut left vast areas of the nations at a standstill.

Around 50 million people across both countries were affected, with metro and train lines were suspended and traffic lights down.

Phone services were also cut off and ATM machines ended up not working as well.

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