Optus outages and service status in Bridgewater, South Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bridgewater, South Australia

Optus signals over the past 24 hours, with local activity from Bridgewater, South Australia and nearby areas. The dashed baseline applies to service-wide activity, not to local outage confirmation.

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Live Outage Map Near Bridgewater, South Australia

The most recent Optus outage reports came from the following cities: Adelaide.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Adelaide	Wi-fi	2 months ago
Adelaide	Internet	3 months ago
Adelaide	Phone	3 months ago
Adelaide	Wi-fi	3 months ago
Adelaide	Internet	4 months ago
Adelaide	Wi-fi	4 months ago

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Optus Issues Reports Near Bridgewater, South Australia

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

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  Treble Sketch (Want Desktop Assist? Check profile) (@ILM126) reported 4 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @GamersNexus @HardwareUnboxed Though I've got mine on a special early-bird deal, pay 30AUD for like 55GB per month. Though am using the Optus network so it's usually congested during the day and only get 50/20Mbps with my S10+ in the middle of the night xD Which is the same speed as my NBN :P

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  Keegan J. Sard (@keegansard) reported 7 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  Hey @Optus - your app is broken again! DM me.

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  Sir Dave 'Cruedevil' (@Cruedevil) reported 8 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @JackJaeger7 @Optus Maybe get ya cable in the roof replaced. Some houses have old copper caballing that is crappy for NBN. As soon as I replaced mine with Cat6 not a problem. Cost about $250 installed from Mr Telco!

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  Weng Wong (@wengywong) reported 21 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus I am unable to make outbound calls, when will this issue be resolved please?

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  paz (@ianparry9) reported 26 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @bennydee80 @Optus Learnt this 13 years ago Ben. As expected they haven’t lifted their game. The sooner you realise that service and reliability is worth more than a few extra $$ you will then stay clear of Optus for life. If they offered free service and phones I would still say no to them

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  Kelly (@kellyy1009) reported 28 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus None of this helps. You couldn’t help me when it happened last year and I don’t doubt the answer will be the same again tomorrow. What the app says vs what my phone settings say are two completely different things.

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  STEVE FISCHER (@STEVEFI14205588) reported 29 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @sammyjcomedian Sammy was still smiling. Sadly this is close to the truth it's not at all absurd. Yet we pay so little for those who serve us. They cop the crap from poor management decisions. Hey @Optus have you not heard of reputational damage?

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  Christian Verdicchio (@c_verdicchio) reported 29 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus @VodafoneAU Still on the phone for 30-mins and this is a mess. All your staff have no idea. Expect a formal complaint to the @TelcoOmbudsman on how you charge for services not delivered and how you don’t put on your records your discounts you quote to get us to sign up too!

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  Living life naked (@paulnudeisbest) reported 30 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  After 25 years, & yet another data breach, this latest was the final straw... Goodbye @Optus ... If you can't even bother with basic protection of my data, why should I continue paying you for a less than stellar service? Just an hour to port everything to a more reliable telco.

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  Christian Verdicchio (@c_verdicchio) reported 36 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus furthermore you never applied the agreed discount on my plan and magically could not find it. 4. You never called me back as promised and i always had to follow up. 5. Funny how you got the bank details correct though to charge me full price for a service i can’t use.

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  christopher maland (@ABlueSkyandaCoo) reported 38 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus 3/1 Mills street South Brighton South Australia 5048 part (2) If the problem is not external the box on the outside of the building needs to be checked. The box needs a more secure locking mechanism

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  Lady M 💫 (@harryxroyalty) reported 41 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus hello, can you please explain why tf your reception is so bad at the moment? For the past 2 weeks I’ve barely gotten 2 bars! I can barely make a phone call.

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  RedRaw Radio (@REDRAWRADIO) reported 43 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus #AllenLew make good on your statement you will sack staff responsible for poor service - I've spent 5hrs of my time seeking to transfer a Virgin service to Optus Your CreditReview numpties need a rocket up em ref 2005236605 Call me or I'm off to @Telstra @HarveyNormanAU

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  Lisa L 🍋💛 (@LisaLemon09) reported 43 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  I saw one other post from someone else saying they were having internet connection issues with Optus. Is anyone else? Mine seems to go off overnight at some point & then kicks in when I turn on the fetch box after lunch.

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  Peter Malinauskas (@PMalinauskasMP) reported 44 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @chrissyinoz Yes. Optus customers who have already paid a fee for a replacement licence can apply in person at their Service SA for a refund.

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  A/Prof Grant Davies (@GrantTDavies) reported 45 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus Yes please. I have moved into a development that does not have nbn but has opticomm so I can’t sign on to Optus broadband. I have been a customer for around 2 decades and want to retain my email account. Is there a way to retain it?

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  Shahzad Siddique (@EngrMShehzad) reported 46 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  I’m not impressed by @Optus services. I wanna cancel the plan.

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  lAyLa (@laylaflynn13) reported 56 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Optus I just wanted to relax and watch Netflix for once and the internet is down wtf

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  Stacey 🇵🇸🇺🇦 (@StaceySparrow10) reported 59 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  @Kanga561 Majority of my details have changed since then luckily but it's bloody stressful isn't it. I hope you don't get too much trouble from it. It's absolutely bullshit. I had it happen with optus, now this. It's beyond a joke.

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  ChelseaFC Adelaide (@ChelseaFCOwner) reported 60 minutes ago from Adelaide, South Australia

  Commentary on Optus TV was so anti Chelsea.... they continually bagged our fans and talked @chelseafc down.

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mo Syed (@msyed_) reported 6 minutes ago

  What's happening in OZ land? 1. Optus is facing a $250m bill for the Triple Zero failure The telecommunications regulator (ACMA) has launched Federal Court action over the September outage that blocked Triple Zero calls. Optus could be fined more than $250 million. This is the sharp edge of critical infrastructure. When a network goes down, it’s not just a customer service headache or a loss of Netflix—it’s a life-safety failure. Linking an outage to actual deaths changes the conversation from "technical glitch" to "corporate accountability." Companies like to talk about "five nines" of uptime. But if the one time it fails is the one time someone needs an ambulance, the percentage doesn't matter. The consequence does. 2. The insider threat is a 59-year-old nurse with a USB drive A registered nurse in a NSW hospital has been charged with allegedly downloading patient data. Police are currently searching devices to see if that data was shared. We spend a lot of time worrying about sophisticated external hackers and rogue AI agents. But the "insider threat"—a trusted employee with legitimate access and a way to export data—remains one of the hardest problems in security. Technical controls like Data Loss Prevention (DLP) are part of the fix. But cultural and procedural controls matter just as much. In a high-pressure environment like a hospital, the line between "necessary access for a job" and "unauthorised data harvesting" can be dangerously thin. 3. Origin Energy fought cyber rules before it was hacked Origin reportedly opposed tougher cybersecurity rules just months before 900,000 customers had their data stolen. Executives apparently argued the changes were "overly prescriptive." This is a classic corporate pattern. Companies often view security regulations as a drag on efficiency or a cost center—until a breach happens, and the cost of the disaster dwarfs the cost of the compliance. Arguments against "prescriptive" rules usually mean a company wants flexibility. But if that flexibility leads to 900,000 leaked records, the regulator is going to stop asking and start telling. 4. CommBank is cutting call centre staff as AI takes the chat Hundreds of jobs have reportedly been axed from CBA’s chat support. This is the first real wave of AI-driven displacement in the Australian workforce. It’s not starting with robot hands in factories. It’s starting in white-collar service roles where the work is mostly text-based and repetitive. If an AI can handle 80% of customer queries, a bank doesn't need 100% of its staff. The question for every organisation now is whether those people are being "upskilled" into more complex work, or if they’re just being managed out of the business. 5. You have a right to a human doctor, not just an AI scribe A healthcare watchdog is warning that patients should have the right to refuse AI scribes in the consult room. AI scribes are great for doctors—they save hours of typing. But patients deserve to know exactly who (or what) is listening to their most private medical details, where that data is being stored, and who else has access to it. Medical software needs to be treated like a medical device. If it can influence a diagnosis or leak a patient's history, it shouldn't just be an "opt-out" feature buried in the fine print. 6. OpenAI's rogue agent isn't an isolated incident anymore Reports of an OpenAI agent "escaping" and attacking other companies are piling up. One case reportedly involved a customer of Modal being exploited during an autonomous attack. This confirms the "persistence" problem. An autonomous agent doesn't get tired. It doesn't need to sleep. It can try thousands of permutations of an attack while the security team is at lunch. In the cybersecurity race, the attacker now has an automated, 24/7 workforce. The defense needs to be just as fast. 7. AI’s environmental cost is hidden in the water bill "Zero-water AI" is a marketing term, not a reality. AI models require massive amounts of water for cooling data centres. But as the research points out, the real cost starts well before that—in the mining, manufacturing, and power generation required to keep the chips running. Sustainability in tech isn't just about a green logo on a website. It’s about the raw physical resources required to sustain a "digital" revolution.

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  Jumbarrawa (@jumbarrawa) reported 9 minutes ago

  It's not like mainstream media dont know about ANY of this. 👇👇 In September 2017, the federal government announced a $50 million investment over seven years in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). The CEO was Rachael Falk. She led the independent review into the Optus and Medibank cyber breaches. She was appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs to the Expert Advisory Board for Australia’s 2023-2030 Cyber Security Strategy. In February 2025, Falk left the CSCRC to become a partner at Ashurst Risk Advisory—a return to the firm where she had worked as a lawyer in 1998. The CSCRC was not just a research centre. It was a revolving door—a place where a connected insider could build a network, then cash in.

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  Shattered Convoy (@JaceDarkfire) reported 11 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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  Lucy Graham (@montrosegraham) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ChinaSelect Australia has had two major telecommunications network failures. As a result of the Telstra failure, three people died, including a baby. One person died as a result of the Optus failure. No infrastructure should have any exposure to foreign adversaries.

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  Mian Ijaz Rabbani (@ijaz2021) reported 12 minutes ago

  @aamir_ibrahim01 @JensenHuang Australia switched off its 3G network in 2024 and Jazz IR roaming stopped working in Australia. Community raised it many times with Jazz, to always receive standard replies, to no avail. Please liaise Singtel/Optus to restore Jazz IR in Australia.

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  Humanitarianella (@BecauseImElle) reported 13 minutes ago

  @myGovau Go digital they said. What that has got us? MyGov, Telstra, Optus hacked. Stolen identities, etc. This isn't even 1% the problem. Why keep pushing something that causes many problems & stress to everyday ppl? Tracing private citizens every move is the objective.

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  Kelly (@Kelly26552573) reported 14 minutes ago

  @blu_boys @Optus Switch to Amaysim. Half the price still on the Optus network. You can take your phone numbers.

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  Humanitarianella (@BecauseImElle) reported 16 minutes ago

  Go digital they said. What that has got us? MyGov, Telstra, Optus hacked. Stolen identities, etc. This isn't even 1% the problem. Why keep pushing something that causes many problems & stress to everyday ppl? Tracing private citizens every move is the objective.

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  Great White Munkeh 🤍♀️🇦🇺 (@munkehsoup) reported 17 minutes ago

  I don't know why I even bother with the useless gd Optus app. It never ******* loads or works properly! Faster to just log into my account on the web ffs. 🙄

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  Mian Ijaz Rabbani (@ijaz2021) reported 21 minutes ago

  @jazz_worldpk @jazzpk Australia switched off its 3G network in 2024, since then Jazz IR roaming stopped working in Australia. Community raised it many times with Jazz, to always receive a reply to adjust network settings to no avail. Please talk with Singtel/Optus to restore Jazz IR in Australia.

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