Bandwidth outage, 20 October 2026
Australia based SMS Messaging Incident
- Started
- Resolved
- 20 Oct 2026, 20:02 UTC (after 3 h 40 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- International A2P Platform (SMPP), International A2P Platform (HTTP)
Is this still happening?
No. Bandwidth marked this incident resolved on 20 Oct 2026, 20:02 UTC, 3 h 40 min after it began.
Right now: Bandwidth reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:47 UTC) Live Bandwidth status
Last update from Bandwidth
Between 14:45 UTC and 17:16 UTC on October 20, 2026, Inbound and Outbound SMS messaging to Australia based destinations experienced missing delivery receipts and failed or timed-out messages. Bandwidth is continuing to investigate this issue to identify all actions necessary to prevent this from recurring and will update this post with an Incident Report after investigations have concluded. We are grateful you have entrusted Bandwidth as your communication partner and we are sorry if this issue resulted in any disruption to your services.
Read the full incident on the official Bandwidth status page