Optus outages and service status in Northam, Western Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Northam, Western Australia

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Northam, Western 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 Near Northam, Western Australia

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

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  Julian Mcgill BGF.MOFA 🍺🔥 (@HoolyMcg) reported 31 minutes ago from Northam, Western Australia

  @techeweup @walsh_mindy 107 people This is like standing at the gates of Optus stadium on derby day and asking the first 107 people if the hotdogs are shit ! And then saying 97% of Optus patrons hate the hotdogs.

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dave (@Dave87990998) reported 9 minutes ago

  Like I said outside optus ur game is poor bcoz 90% thi year u played in optus this game shows all weak pts take them work on them even today its not finals ur struggling think finals outside optus today very poor midfield transition and very poor ruck @freodockers

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  Feral Hermit.🍉 (@greg_kennedy10) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Optus Not trying to activate a service, verifying my ID on my prepaid ask you asked. The app is garbage, tried it & all is does is ask me to update (I already have), now it keeps telling me to update then shuts down. Have to waste my time going instore.

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  Amicus Curiae (@AmicusCuri99068) reported 16 minutes ago

  gotta love the NONsensical OPTUS.. sms to tell me theyre playing with net /ph /wifi and if I have issues to ;-)))) yeah use the net... theyre taking DOWN ..to do so .. I wonder who there thought that was sane?

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  Crumpet of Patriots (@CastIronBalcony) reported 17 minutes ago

  @JohnWinstHoward Ah, Optus must think I've still got my data roaming on? ****. Must follow up. Thanks

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  Ajax (@uShadow51) reported 19 minutes ago

  4/5 Then September 2025: a 14-hour outage, 75% of Triple Zero calls failing, 4 people dead. Optus is now Australia's most distrusted brand. The coding error was the start, not the story.

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  Andry Dina (@andrydina7) reported 20 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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  Jason Anders (@Jet_Anders) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Optus @Optus @OptusNewsRoom when I try to dial out it tells me there is insufficient credit to make a call, when I text the balance check number it shows unlimited calls until the end of the day 31/07/2026 and the current time is midday AEST. Would this be a network issue?

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  Shattered Convoy (@JaceDarkfire) reported 25 minutes ago

  @primal80124 I got back into collecting christmas 2024 going into 2025 and I had no clue about transformers other than the live action movies. The last time I thought about them was when I was a kid. When I saw Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, I was blown away. Purple is my favorite color He instantly became my favorite. There isnt a SGOP I dont want good, bad, Or ugly. More specific answer to your question is ER SGOP he was my first and I have the most fun fiddling with him. If i had to choose just one it would be MMC Optus Prominon SG

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  Amicus Curiae (@AmicusCuri99068) reported 25 minutes ago

  @optus_help nah i dont have a problem YET..well the nets been ongoing for ages but ive been TO a 200km round trip optus shop and their only answer is? pay a huge amount for a NON portable chunky wifi setup. because your tower is ...maybe too close to my home ... to get decent service (facepalm)

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  Jason Anders (@Jet_Anders) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Optus @Optus I also have been experiencing problems with apps loading despite having 4G.