Optus outages and service status in Portsmith, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Portsmith, Queensland

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Portsmith, Queensland and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Optus Issues Reports Near Portsmith, Queensland

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Portsmith and nearby locations:

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  💉💉💉 Granville in FNQ 😷 (@Granville4879) reported 9 minutes ago from Cairns, Queensland

  @toninicho I am now, seriously, thinking of changing my carrier after years of being with Optus Problem is Telstra cost me a first full money last time I was with them and I dropped Vodaphone over their poor customer service.

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  Granville #AussieResister (@Granville4879) reported 16 minutes ago from Cairns, Queensland

  @JohnCoo51013646 @call_me_tomasso @Leinster_Lad @lesleygood1 @Optus Ah yes, I well remember Telecom and the Post Office, both focused on the customer and delivering quality service.

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  Granville#AussieResister (@Granville4879) reported 26 minutes ago from Cairns, Queensland

  @LesStonehouse @Optus There is, I think I remember correctly, a period of up to 48 hours where a new service replicates across a WAN (wide area network).

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  I Am Lloyd W (@I_Am_Lloyd_W) reported 42 minutes ago from Cairns, Queensland

  @Optus postcode 4870, your site doesnt show an outage my fetch tv's black screen sure does

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dan Kelly ♥️🇦🇺💯 (@DanKelly966767) reported 9 minutes ago

  @KobieThatcher @Ann19851873 Agree 💯 Also with the recent Telstra outage and formed Optus outage. Both affecting Eftpos networks and ATM’s. Cash is king for many reasons including privacy. Do not let cash die out.

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  Andry Dina (@andrydina7) reported 9 minutes ago

  Everyone leaves Cursor for refactors. They lose the 3x speed. One founder shipped $12k MRR in nine days using only Cursor + Grok 4.6. Daily Workflow starts inside the file. Open the file inside Cursor. Feed the exact three-line Prompt Patterns straight to inline Grok. Rewrite only the current sentence before moving on. Most still paste stack traces into ChatGPT and kill the flow. That alone eats 30% of refactor time. Grok 4.6 beats Claude Optus on large refactors because you never exit the codebase. Counterintuitive tip: stay sentence-by-sentence instead of dumping the whole function. What slowed your last refactor most?

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 10 minutes ago

  @jnj_pro Hey, J. Customers who log in using email & password also need to perform Multi-factor authentication (MFA). We recommend enabling biometrics in the My Optus App for a faster and secure login, where no extra codes are required. From the 1st of Jan 2026, no conversation history will be stored/available in the My Optus app or My Account online. We understand that this change is a pain point for you, and we've flagged this as feedback for the relevant teams to review. - Dillon

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  Chris Aitchison (@ChrisAitchiso14) reported 10 minutes ago

  Does it make you sick to your stomach when you are an Optus customer for a long time, How long you have been a customer for and how they have mistreated their customers by WAYYYY Overcharging for their pre paid internet services. We get the shittiest deals even though WE PAY IN ADVANCE just to have out DETAILS LEAKED TO THE DARKWEB.I Got no apology and it works out we pau more money and PAY UP FRONT, no invoices but OPTUS prepaid Customers just ***** in the *** with a ***** comparable to the Governments they keep ******* us with!!!

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  tonyOnOn (@tonyward116) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Possum2412 @Batman2242 I got it on my telstra service, but wife didn't on her Optus service ?

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  anthony, underclass prole cat, edwards (@anthony45052793) reported 13 minutes ago

  @MichaelRuyg i had to get starlink service for power outages to maintain some ability to contact emergency services if needed. i have backup power. mad not to in a bushfire and flood prone area, sadly nbn co, optus, vodafone and telstra are clearly incompetent.

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  Tom Baker (@Duckimusprime) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AFL @barrettdamian @JoeyPigz I mean sure, they just **** their pants the last time they were there. And a Freo side that had top spot locked up lost two of its last three games. Neither of which was at Optus.

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  Peter Lewis (@Peter_Lewis747) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AuspiciousTimes @blu_boys @Optus Aldi uses “parts of the Telstra network “ if you read the fine details. Only Boost gives you access to the full Telstra network.

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  Optus Help (@optus_help) reported 16 minutes ago

  @tazmancblue Hi Paul, I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble trying to Message us over the My Optus app. We haven't received any reports or are aware of any issues that could be affecting the My Optus app at this stage. So that we can investigate this issue further, could you kindly send us a DM with more information? -Nic

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  Mark Symons (@SymonsYahoo) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ronInBendigo A clear sign that corporate management wishes to frustrate and alienate customers. No just due to the decision but principally due to the inevitable decline e to disastrous levels of customer service and systems reliability. The much reviled Optus is a case in point: dreadful customer service and numerous life-threatening outages as a result inadequate staff processes and failed procedures. I would love to see the risk assessments carried out by both companies, in relation to both real and reputation risk.