Jio Outage: Jio’s calling, SMS services back after outage

Reliance Jio, one of India’s most popular telecom operators faced an outage earlier today and left many Jio users unable to make or receive calls as well as use SMS. The outage began early morning on November 29 in the country with users reporting issues since around 6 am, and lasted all the way till 9 am.

Unlike some previous outages, the three-hour long disruption in services had Mobile Data working fine for most Jio users, and only calling and SMS services were affected.

A number of users took to Twitter to report the outage.

Due to the outage, Jio users who used two-factor authentication on various platforms were also unable to receive OTPs.