Airtel users in Mumbai fail to connect due to network glitch
December 27th, 2011 - 8:07 pm ICT by IANSMumbai, Dec 27 (IANS) Airtel subscribers in Mumbai and some other places in western Maharashtra faced service outage owing to a technical glitch in the operator’s network Tuesday.
Customers could not make or receive calls and send messages since morning.
“A technical outage has affected our network in the western region resulting in disruption of some services,” said an Airtel spokesperson, regretting the inconvenience caused to customers.
He said the network was rectifying the fault.
However, Twitter was abuzz with comments saying that the fault had been caused by a fire in the operator’s data centre in the city.
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