Optus outages and service status in Kulin, Western Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Kulin, Western Australia

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jarrod (@oneXaday) reported 6 minutes ago

  With Optus - national outage, price hikes ($45-60 monthly) and spotty, unexplained 4G and 5G city coverage. Decide to jump to Telstra. With Telstra - national outage... Yep.

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  Bruce Goodwin (@zzbrgood) reported 6 minutes ago

  @lodo25 @Ausbobsmit I’m usually in favour of government owned utilities but in my opinion the only privatised function that appears to work is communications. If there was only Telstra we’d be paying top dollar with no alternatives. I’m with Optus and my wife with Telstra so there wasn’t a problem.

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  Digby’s mum (@CallieBuddy) reported 8 minutes ago

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

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  Ash 🇦🇺 (@TheInspectorAsh) reported 8 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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  naymmm (@Naymmm_) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ARTCvan @stupidtechtakes talking about that one big optus outage I know abt gov killing volte incompatible phones

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  Courty (@davo453) reported 11 minutes ago

  @TheCl0wn85 @Telstra I felt like that when i moved from Optus for the same reason. As soon as the contract is up I'll switch back, basically no service ever in my area.

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  Damien (@DamoMK) reported 11 minutes ago

  I was part of the Optus outage too. Starting to see a pattern. I’m coming Vodafone.

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  Peter Lewis (@Peter_Lewis747) reported 26 minutes ago

  @theheraldsun Telstra’s outage affected many states but Victoria’s train network was most affected. Why more than other states? State government stuff up. Optus has had outages too so you shouldn’t be fully reliant on these telcos.

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  Casey McGregor (@CaseyMcGregorAu) reported 28 minutes ago

  @borisstephens Firstly, taxes do not fund government spending, critical misconception the establishment perpetuates on purpose to justify austerity. Secondly, you're right to say that just throwing money at problems does not automatically fix anything. You still need competent management and a plan. All nationalisation does at a baseline is remove the profit motive that leads to cutting corners on network maintenance to save money, which is what leads in part to outages like this. And I haven't just proposed renationalisation, I've also proposed using Optus' satellite expertise to create a publicly-owned, privacy-first satellite internet network to challenge Starlink.

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  Sarisa sandy lindsay (@Sarisasand6rzp) reported 28 minutes ago

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