Optus outages and service status in Whyalla, South Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Whyalla, South Australia

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Whyalla, South Australia 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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  𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕪 𝕄 (@m28_andy) reported 2 minutes ago

  @HaveeSnowball @JanSummersalt Only way to get customer service from Telstra is go to store or port your number to another company. They use ai bot systems that circle jerk you and waste your time. It's a joke. Same with Optus.

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  X General (@GerardWilliam16) reported 4 minutes ago

  @reidallaboutit9 Problem is the grand final isn’t played at Optus stadium

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  Murray (@MyNameIsMurray) reported 5 minutes ago

  I read an article suggesting that @Starlink could come to Australia as a phone service. Oh, I hope it's real. Telstra utterly sucks, has massive blackspots everywhere, is ludicrously expensive, and has terrible customer service. Optus & Vodafone are worse. We need competition.

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  dick_taylor (@dick_taylor) reported 5 minutes ago

  @VoteLewko On my mates farm in the coast they have redundancy (Starlink) & anothet mate who runs ASIC’s infrastructure says they have always had both Telstra & Optus to try & avoid over reliance on a single network. So if farmers & some federal bureaucrats know this why don’t Victoria’s?🤡

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  Paddy (@Dabatsau) reported 11 minutes ago

  @OneNewsAu This is not new news, they have been trialing sms over starlink using Optus and Telstra OWNED spectrum for several years and its at least live fir SMS on Telstra. As soon as Starship is cleared for normal operations they can launch the larger v3 satellites which will support this function fully. The spectrum spacex purchased is not compatible with current phones regardless, and would require manufacturers to adopt that band for use so its not close to being usable nor launched.

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  John Harrison 🇦🇺 🦘 (@JH_Otway_Ranges) reported 12 minutes ago

  @FranMooMoo I wonder if his satellites can be used for mobile phone network? Mobile phone calls and text messages don't use much bandwidth unlike the internet, if he were to somehow make phones and they worked everywhere even in the desert Telstra Vodaphone, and Optus would go bust

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  Professor_Stinks (@ProfessorStinks) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Ausbobsmit Hmmm. She was on holidays when Optus had its Triple Zero outage wasn’t she? Am I seeing a pattern?

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  saint_ted (@saint_ted3) reported 16 minutes ago

  @jmil400 Where was the communications minister moron? Some one needed to step up and actually test it! Not like the the bungled Optus uggrade where the 000 outage went unnoticed for hours. Smart and proactive! Not something you Labtards would know anything about

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  Miss Igraine (@MissIgraine) reported 18 minutes ago

  @clarkes signing that deal last year for tpg to operate over Optus networks in regional areas. So that's good. We need to come up with a way for network failovers when these incidents happen. But it's tricky... if the biggest operator goes down, how would this work in practice.

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  Nigel Withers (@MajorBlipvert) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 Remember 18 Sept 2025 when Optus had a 000 outage because no one though to make some test calls to ensure the service was working after an upgrade? Doing a test is basic common sense.