Zoom is down globally affecting online classes, video meetings

Zoom started experiencing issues early in the morning while the outage grew bigger later in the day.

If you are facing problems connecting to Zoom, you are not alone. Zoom is suffering a widespread outage currently, impacting video calls, webinars, and online learning in many parts of the world. But the worst-hit market is Australia, where the Zoom outage threw a wrench into the works by causing troubles for schools and colleges that heavily rely on the video teleconferencing platform. According to Downdetector, the website that keeps track of outages on the internet, the reports about the platform’s unresponsiveness peaked at about 1200 at around 5 o’clock in the morning, according to Indian time. Zoom was quick to fix the outage for most people in Australia, according to the news.com.au website. At the time of publishing the article, the reports about the outage were around 150, which means the company’s fix began to work. However, there are still some users who are experiencing issues connecting to Zoom calls.