Optus outages and service status in Gawler, South Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Gawler, South Australia

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Gawler, 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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  Anssi Tal (@AnssiTal) reported 4 minutes ago

  @optus you don't allow me to cancel my mobile number and are forcing me to keep paying. I want to cancel, how can I do that? I left Australia last year. Your customer service agents say that to cancel I need to return to Australia and physically present at an Optus store.

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  Jeff Murray (@GeminiJ13) reported 6 minutes ago

  @eevblog Maybe Optus doesn't want you to leave and stop paying them, even if they are related to the network? I can only assume here that Dodo is less expensive than Optus, and that is the reason for you wanting to migrate.

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  Wayne Reardon (@WayneReardon) reported 9 minutes ago

  @hakluke About 20 years ago I was with Optus, and back then if you were late paying your bill Optus would disconnect your SIM so you couldn't even receive calls. To get it connected again you'd have to ring Optus and they'd tell you it would be back on within 4 hours. That never happened, so you'd have to ring them over and over again until it eventually got done. After wiaitng for over a week for my phone to be put back on and again being told it would be back on within 4 hours, I said "no, I'll wait on the phone with you until it's done. He then passed me to another team who enabled my SIM again while I was talking to him. Anyway, that night I noticed that when my Dad who has a private number rang me, it showed his phone number with a hash tag before and after the number. This happened with every private number and I realised that when my SIM was turned back on, something went wrong and I was able to see private numbers. It was the greatest thing ever! I would get telemarketers all the time who would abuse me when I'd tell them to stop ringing me, but now I had their number to call back. You should have heard how shocked the first one was when I rang him. I kept ringing him and he begged me to stop and kept asking "How did you get this number? I don't even know this number". That ended when that phone was stolen 2 years later, but it was great while it lasted. I've since had Optus tech employees in our pubs and ask them if they can do it, and they tell me that it's impossible, but I know it's not.

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  Roh 🇦🇺 📡 💻 (@realrohbags) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Rusken__ @Teh_Jkr @Optus Prepaid is just as bad! The cheapest prepaid sim on Belong is now $34, there are no $10 p/m plans anymore.

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  Cryptonoda (@Cryptonia13) reported 11 minutes ago

  @alexblair_1 @Optus @SBS Optus your provider?? Joke of a telco, surprised they're not shut down yet.

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  Dave Jones (@eevblog) reported 12 minutes ago

  I'm currently running a backup SIM in my phone. The number has never been put online, anywhere. And yet I got two spam calls today. That ain't a bot dialing random numbers. The number was recently transferred from Optus to Dodo. My number leaked out somewhere, how?

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  Francis McF (@FrancisMcF1O) reported 12 minutes ago

  Regional reality check: Telstra = service. Optus = maybe. Vodafone = forget it. If only one network works outside the cities, that’s not a market — that’s a monopoly.

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  K•A•N•E (@kanethesaint) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus Prepaid is the best option. No more need for greedy companies like Optus! One of the worst employers around after Telstra!

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  AL (@asewell6) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Optus what disgraceful experience. Into the second day of trying to upgrade my internet. @Telstra do you want a new customer?

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  GoTimeAFL (@jaysoofficial23) reported 14 minutes ago

  @feedthecath Cats have a different game plan and usually start the season poor. Reckon we can beat yahs again but at Optus.