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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  Emma’s Last Stand (@EmmasLastStand) reported 7 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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  SimonW (@LaDolceVita_99) reported 8 minutes ago

  @simonbiddle @taipan168 As much as I defend funding government services, the notion that government run IT will be more reliable than Telstra/Optus is just not believable given the various IT issues we see on a constant basis from Centrelink and who can forget the debacle of the last Census

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  Anthony Hodge 🦁🏆🐴 B2B! '24 & '25 AFL PREMIERS!! (@AwesomeAntho91) reported 12 minutes ago

  Halftime at Optus. That second quarter was, despite the inaccurate set shots, actually a lot better than the first. But we're still down by 7 points, so it's time for the Lions to regroup and go again in the third term. Hopefully the Eagles will finally lose their legs by then. #AFLEaglesLions

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  Jacko (@MichaelJacko70) reported 14 minutes ago

  Why in a capital city do all fail with internet coverage In out back Truganina phones and internet mobile connection are a massive fail. @Telstra @Optus @amaysimAU

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  A K (@AK22762976) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Birdsperch Clearly no contingency for terrestrial fail [all eggs in one basket] even with satellite backup downlink distribution relies on terrestrial bearers (circuits), Even Optus with satellite support incorporates terrestrial distribution -Contingency planning is key & costs money

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  saint_ted (@saint_ted3) reported 17 minutes ago

  @TonyShepherd4 Where was the communications minister? 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 Tones.

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  Miss Igraine (@MissIgraine) reported 18 minutes ago

  @clarkes I don't think it's 4G specifically that causes the issue, it's that we have one major mobile network operator, and two others. Between them they don't provide comprehensive coverage across the country because of our sheer size. And they don't play together. Except Optus & TPG

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  sam (@samsamtheman4u) reported 19 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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  Maxmc55 (@Maxmc552) reported 19 minutes ago

  @SimDumplings mmc needs to step up their game and do a **** ton of reissues like they did with Optus Prominon

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  A K (@AK22762976) reported 20 minutes ago

  @SkyNewsAust CEO return won't fix the problem - the Engineers are the important focus group whose expertise is critical to restore services [certainly earning their annual salary now -bonuses? "poof!" One imagines Optus satellite services in hot demand