France’s second-largest telecom provider faces widespread mobile network outage, company says investigating the issue

France’s second-largest telecom provider, SFR, is currently facing a widespread mobile network outage. The downtime has made accessing texts, calls, and mobile internet impossible for thousands of users across the country. The company has confirmed that it is aware about the outage and is currently investigating the issue. The outage is also affecting broadband contract holders with SFR, preventing internet use in their homes. Reports of the disruption began arriving around 11:00 AM local time (2.30 PM IST), with hundreds of users quickly reporting the network as down. At its peak, around 4:53 PM IST, outage tracking website Downdetector recorded over 10,000 reports of the SFR network being down from across France. However, normal service is expected to be resumed later this evening, June 16.