SYDNEY — Millions of Australians were left without a phone or internet connection on Wednesday after the country’s second-largest telecommunications provider experienced an unexplained nationwide outage. The outage crippled payment systems and online operations and led to morning peak-hour chaos as train networks and ride-share services were down briefly in some cities. Some hospital and … Read more
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE OPTUS OUTAGE * Optus first noticed issues with services at 4am on Wednesday and… Source link
The Optus brand was already suffering from last year’s data breach, and has now been hit by a major outage Payments systems at many small businesses have also been hit. Millions of Australian customers in addition to hospitals and bank and train services have been impacted by a major technical outage at Australia’s No 2 … Read more
Optus customers woke up this morning to find they were unable to get their social media fix, and they weren’t happy. Around 4am AEDT, customers started to report an inability to access both mobile and home internet services. Optus advised it was investigating the issue, with reports emerging around midday of some services coming back … Read more
The Greens have moved for an urgent Senate Inquiry into the Optus outage affecting millions of Australians, saying the company has failed to be accountable and transparent in why it has failed to provide an essential service. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Spokesperson for Communications and will move for the urgent Senate Inquiry today in … Read more
The South Australian premier has described the Optus outage as “the single biggest telecommunications outage” seen in Australia and says he believes most governments are affected in some form. Key points: The Optus outage has had no clinical implications to patients at SA hospitals, the premier says But some government services like Services SA have … Read more
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The network dropped out about 4am on Wednesday, with Optus customers and businesses unable to connect to the internet or make or receive calls. An Optus spokesman confirmed some of its services were gradually being restored from about 1pm. “This may take a few hours for all services to recover and different services may restore … Read more
Northern Tasmanians impacted by the Optus outage can access the City of Launceston’s free Wi-Fi service to hook… Source link
