Thousands of Vodafone users are reporting problems with their internet

The outages began on Monday afternoon, according to the monitoring website DownDetector, which reported more than 130,000 issues with Vodafone connections.

A spokeswoman for the company said: "We are aware of a major issue on our network currently affecting broadband, 4G and 5G services.

"We appreciate our customers' patience while we work to resolve this as soon as possible."

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