Turkey's 5G spectrum tender drew a total of $2.95 billion in winning bids on Thursday, with the country's major operators Turkcell, Vodafone and Turk Telekom securing key blocks across the 700 MHz and 3.

The outage on Monday (October 13) affected Vodafone's mobile and home broadband network for several hours across the country. More than 135,000 Vodafone customers had reported disruption by 3.20pm on Monday, according to Downdetector.

Vodafone has explained the outage that left its home and mobile customers without internet for much of Monday. The problems were the result of “a non-malicious software issue” rather than a cyber attack,

At its peak, more than 130,000 people reported problems to the internet status checker Downdetector. Vodafone has announced that the mass outages to its internet connections, app, website and customer services on Monday were not the result of a cyber attack.

On Monday, issues at British telecommunications giant Vodafone led to large scale service outages that impacted hundreds of thousands of Vodafone customers.

Vodafone is testing the artificial presenter because ‘AI is so much a part of everyday life.’

Thousands of Brits were left without internet or mobile data as Vodafone said a 'major issue' was affecting broadband, 4G and 5G services - with engineers working urgently to fix the problem

Just days after Steve Knibbs, director at Vodafone Business Security Enhanced, wrote on the company’s website about the importance of securing UK business supply chains, the company’s customers faced an outage that lasted hours. Vodafone claimed it had experienced a software problem with one of its partners.