India, Aug. 18 -- Users across mobile networks in India experienced a prolonged outage on Monday, August 18 - starting majorly with Airtel, then to a lesser degree with Jio and Vodafone-Idea.

The issue was first flagged in Delhi-NCR before 5 pm, and later in Mumbai and Bengaluru too, spreading across India soon after.

"Our customers from Delhi-NCR are experiencing some voice calling issues for the past hour or so," a statement by the company read, "Significant part of the issue has already been resolved and our engineers are at work to resolve this fully. We deeply regret any inconvenience."

Others affected too: Reports of outages from Jio and Vi customers were also higher than the average, but coming down - from a peak of around 200 r...