Mobile phone users across the country experienced issues with Vodafone on Friday after a nationwide network outage.

Vodafone confirmed the outage, and said their customers could not make calls.

According to website DownDetector, almost 3000 issues were reported in the UK.

The service appeared to be down across much of the UK with Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London particularly affected.

The provider were replying to customers on Twitter, and said they are aware of the issue.

They wrote: "We are currently aware of the issue and are working hard to get this fixed.

"Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused, we hope to have this sorted as quickly as possible."

Now, they have confirmed the network is back online.

They told The Herald: “We had a technical fault affecting calls to and from fixed telephone networks.

"This began shortly after midday, and we fixed the issue at around 14.15.

"We apologise to those customers that were affected.”

The outage affected phone lines for several corporations across the country, including Tesco Bank.

They said on Twitter: "Hi, we're sorry that our telephone lines are currently down. We’re working with our telephone provider Vodafone to fix this.

"The issue isn’t affecting any of our other services and Mobile and Online Banking are working as normal. We’ll be here while the issue is being fixed."

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One customer said on Twitter: "Is Vodafone out or is it just me?"

And another said: "Seems like Vodafone’s voice call network is down. Which is just what you need when everyone’s working from home."