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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  Acer (@GalaticGain) reported 8 minutes ago

  Optus is down

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  Emma’s Last Stand (@EmmasLastStand) reported 9 minutes ago

  Millions of Australians may have had data accessed by “hackers” after Origin Energy confirmed it is investigating a cybersecurity incident. It could be one of the biggest “cyberattacks” Australia has faced following similar strikes on Optus, Medibank and Qantas. Most of the cyber “hacks” on Australian companies have actually been leaks due to incompetent, lazy IT staff—Origin received and email from the “hacker” but because said hacker didn’t reply to questions from Origin, the company pretended it didn’t happen until the hacker contacted the median. As I said, incompetent lazy IT staff.

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  Lyndall Robertson (@lyndall19414) reported 12 minutes ago

  @L_AWalker AFTER THE OPTUS FAILURE AND PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE NO ONE REALISED 000 WASNT WORKING ITS TESTAMENT SARAH IS THE ONLY ONE WITH COMMON SENSE IDIOT LABOR TRYING TO MAKE THIS WORSE THAN AUSTRALIANS DYING UNNECESSARILY THANK YOU SARAH

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  MichaelinMelbourne (@Michael94858047) reported 12 minutes ago

  @mdtlion FYI! The Labor Government have STILL NOT released the findings of the OPTUS OUTAGE in September 2025. DONT hold your breath for answers folks! CHEERS ANNIKA!

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  Digby’s mum (@CallieBuddy) reported 14 minutes ago

  @externallylaws Can confirm the outage impacted the wilds of NT - where there is no Optus service.

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  sam (@samsamtheman4u) reported 14 minutes ago

  @25MMCC @madwixxy @Igh0108 WOW HAPPY U CALLED IT OUT U R RIGHT ANNEKE WELLS IS AN ENTITLED POS WHO USES TAX PAYER MONEY SHAMELESSLY TO FINE WINE DINE TRAVEL ...WHY DID SHE CREATE A BACK UP SYSTEM CONSIDERING IT HAPPENED WITH OPTUS UNDER HER WATCH ..U ****** POS SHHH SHE IS THE MINISTER IN CHARGE N THAT WOKE DEI TRAITOROUS CEO IF TELESTRA ...ITS BITH IF THEM THAT SHOULD BE JAIL ...THEY ARE THE REAL CULPRITS WHO TOTALLY INCHARGE OF THIS TELCO N THEY HAVE LET US ALL DOWN .. U WOKE ****** RADICAL LEFTIE NITWIT

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  alli 🍂👑🔎 tøp 19/11/24 (@kitswhiteshirts) reported 18 minutes ago

  interesting how i was with telstra during the 2 optus outages and now im with optus there was a telstra outage

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  Ash 🇦🇺 (@TheInspectorAsh) reported 19 minutes ago

  @JacintaAllanMP We saw similar issues with Optus. There is supposed to be redundancy that allows emergency calls to be carried over any available mobile network. If our emergency communications and critical infrastructure are meant to be resilient, why do single network outages continue to have such widespread impacts? It’s time to review whether our redundancy is truly independent, or whether we’re relying on backup systems that share the same points of failure.

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  JILL (@1Swinging_Voter) reported 21 minutes ago

  Senator Henders is spot on #AFTERNOONBRIEFING That repulsive ABC sheils with her SNARLED TOP LIP was not happy LOL #CANBERRA Sarah is correct. LABOR LIED ABOUT THE OPTUS OUTAGE AND PEOPLE DIED. #MELBOURNE KARVELAS WAS OWNED BY SENATOR HEDERSON (stop telling lies 'Patricia')

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  Alan Baxter ♛ (@AlanBixter) reported 23 minutes ago

  @YoiksAndAway @Optus @Telstra Absolutely. Management that place personal greed above service should not be in service industries, and those who endanger lives for personal gain should not be at liberty.