Optus outages and service status in Welcome Creek, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Welcome Creek, Queensland

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Welcome Creek, 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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jumbarrawa (@jumbarrawa) reported 4 minutes ago

  It's not like mainstream media dont know about ANY of this. 👇👇 In September 2017, the federal government announced a $50 million investment over seven years in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). The CEO was Rachael Falk. She led the independent review into the Optus and Medibank cyber breaches. She was appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs to the Expert Advisory Board for Australia’s 2023-2030 Cyber Security Strategy. In February 2025, Falk left the CSCRC to become a partner at Ashurst Risk Advisory—a return to the firm where she had worked as a lawyer in 1998. The CSCRC was not just a research centre. It was a revolving door—a place where a connected insider could build a network, then cash in.

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  Fred the Mist🌫 (@FredSpider) reported 7 minutes ago

  @jfwfreo @D_LittleproudMP Exactly. I live remotely, and the local tower broke down. It took 3 weeks for Optus to arrive. Meanwhile I used the local pay phone most days to conduct business and to phone concerned friends and relatives. Littleproud has no idea how the remote live. He’s just another National

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  💜⚡️🦄 manda 🦄🐨🦘💚💛 (@aussieV8girl) reported 8 minutes ago

  @MissIgraine I’m with Amaysim, so Optus towers. Was trying to call Mum & she tried to call me but neither of us could get through. Texts were super super slow

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  Titch Ashen (@titchashen) reported 10 minutes ago

  We need the telco to learn #auspol but as an Optus customer .who has seen it before, what happens hear? Zero cash for us, but the Optus bill goes up to cover this pay out to lawyers and a few who could afford them. Same as the mob who are suing Coles. Pays lawyers and a few and we all pay the price in the new prices, not Optus or Coles

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  Freo ⚓ Pope (@FreoPope) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Kimbo_Ramplin @_BradleyWilliam The problem is at Optus there will only be a few hundred tickets at $35. They lie by omission about the split between ticket prices. Most seats at Optus "no bad seats" Stadium will be category 1 or 2.

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  I Love Grapefruit (@AnJam1980) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RoadknightThe Mine didn't work on Telstra. The optus phone did. FAIL

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  GoodFellaBoi ➕ (Майк) 🏴‍☠️ 🇦🇺 🇺🇦 ( 🇳🇱 🇵🇱) (@GoodFellaBoiBoi) reported 13 minutes ago

  @showcallcrewing @NBN_Australia I ended up using iiNET because the offer a 4G backup, very important for work. And Optus did not help when NBN tech disconnected me, by mistake, as their record were not accurate, so they cut me. For it sorted in 3 days, but no apology from NBN for their error no follow up.

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  Osman オスマン 🏆20x 🇨🇨🇱🇧🇵🇸🇸🇩🍉 (@ozman024) reported 22 minutes ago

  @khalilkayalKK I had Optus subscription for free because I was an Optus customer

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  Robot Cave (@RobotCaveCom) reported 22 minutes ago

  Orbital robotics is quietly becoming a real commercial business, not a DARPA demo. Northrop's Mission Robotic Vehicle just launched on a Falcon 9 with two robotic arms and three detachable Mission Extension Pods. In 2027, it will autonomously dock with the Optus satellite at ~27,000 miles up and bolt on a pod to extend its life by 6 years. The Optus bird launched in 2009, designed for 15 years. It's not broken. It just needs propellant. That's the whole thesis here. The business model shift is what stands out. Operators buy and own the MEPs permanently attached to their spacecraft. That frees the MRV to keep servicing other vehicles, more like a mobile repair truck than a dedicated tug. Two MEVs have already delivered 10 years of combined life extension across three customers. The unit economics are starting to close. Autonomous proximity ops at GEO velocities, with no margin for error, is the hard part. Does the MRV's dual-arm approach give it enough dexterity to handle satellites it wasn't originally designed to service?

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  John Merchant (@_JohnMerchant) reported 26 minutes ago

  @central01000011 Depends on the network, Telstra and Optus are great. But I have no idea about Vodafone.