Just weeks after experiencing a mass blackout, Spain had another major communication outage on Tuesday.

According to reports, all major mobile networks in the country went down.

“Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, Digimobil and O2 were all reported to have been affected by outages hitting professional services, including health centres,” Daily Mail stated.

BREAKING: 'All major mobile networks go down across Spain' – four weeks after national blackouts — Daily Mail

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Daily Mail reports:

Complaints soared as landline, internet and emergency contact services were knocked offline early this morning.

Madrid, Andalucía, Galicia, the Basque Country, Aragon, Navarra, Extremadura and the Valencian Community were all reportedly affected.

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Networks contracted with Telefónica appeared to have been hit, but outages did not appear to be affecting individuals’ network access.

The company told MailOnline shortly after 12.30pm local time (10.30 GMT) the issue has now been resolved, after ‘network upgrade work’ affected ‘some companies’ fixed communication services’.

‘This morning we had an incident that affected the fixed communications services of some companies and public services.

‘We have been working from the outset to restore these services, which have now been fully recovered.

‘We have activated the incident management committee, we have isolated the affected nodes and we have deployed field staff to resolve specific cases arising from this incident, which has now been resolved.’

BREAKING:

🇪🇦 Another massive network crash in Spain. The entire mobile network is down

Spain just got hit with a full-scale telecom blackout – Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, O2, and Digimobil all went down.

No signal. No internet.

112 emergency lines went dark in major cities… pic.twitter.com/hU00fDwJxK

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) May 20, 2025

BREAKING:

Spain just suffered a full-scale telecom blackout.

Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, O2, and Digimobil are all down. Millions of people are without signal and internet. 112 (911) emergency lines are down in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.

Via @MarioNawfal pic.twitter.com/BSV2Z5gqSI

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 20, 2025

Per Fierce Network:

A widespread mobile network outage early Tuesday morning left millions without phone or internet access. The outage, which affected all major operators including Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, Digimobil and O2, began around 2:00 AM CET and worsened by 5:00 AM, disrupting services in major cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao and Malaga. Users suffered a complete loss of signal, inability to make calls, receive texts or use mobile data.

The outage was caused by a Telefonica network update that didn’t go as planned. The outage affected both consumers and enterprises across Spain and took down the “112” Spanish emergency number across multiple communities. Telefonica said it had re-established communications across the country early this afternoon.

This follows a wide-ranging power disruption that affected millions in Spain, Portugal and parts of France on April 28. That 10-hour-plus electricity outage led to a loss of cellular coverage and mobile data for users.

“I can tell you it was much more painful to be without any connectivity for 7 hours – this is what happened – than to be without any electricity for 11 hours,” Oleg Volpin, president of Telefonica Global stated at the recent FutureNet World show in London.

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