Optus outages and service status in Portland, Victoria

Problems in the last 24 hours in Portland, Victoria

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Portland, Victoria 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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  Casey McGregor (@CaseyMcGregorAu) reported 2 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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  Anthony Hodge 🦁🏆🐴 B2B! '24 & '25 AFL PREMIERS!! (@AwesomeAntho91) reported 3 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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  solo 𓆩✧𓆪 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@ibeensolonow) reported 5 minutes ago

  @BinManIan Even if we were to propose the oval stadiums, the AFL is too greedy and has too much influence, they'll never allow the use of the MCG, Adelaide Oval and Optus Stadium for a month

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  🐟 (@mwupfront) reported 5 minutes ago

  @heathledgcrs i wanna come watch something at waca or optus so bad but no sports line up with my perth conventions 🥀🥀

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  Roller (@roller2426) reported 5 minutes ago

  Outages... Telstra.. Optus.. banks Always in Australia Big profits results in ****, unreliable service.

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  Jan (@bimmyjartel) reported 5 minutes ago

  @JohnnyinternetI @WestCoastEagles AFL had nothing to do with Optus build. Such a stupid comment.

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  Lyndall Robertson (@lyndall19414) reported 6 minutes ago

  @BonnieLerino123 How absurd Really this is the hill they want to die on ? Common sense after what happened with Optus and NO ONE GAVE A DAMN PEOPLE COULDNT CALL 000 AND DIED THANKYOU SARAH FOR YOUR QUICK ACTION

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  Chris Eastaughffe (AZ Vac done) (@Chris_E_Qld_Au) reported 7 minutes ago

  @therevaknight Because of Government incompetence, they had no simple backup system, they made NO allowances for technological failure, complexity is the enemy of reliable; the reliability issue was known (ref previous OPTUS outage). NO REDUNDANCY for critical infrastructure! @heidimur

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  X General (@GerardWilliam16) reported 8 minutes ago

  @reidallaboutit9 Problem is the grand final isn’t played at Optus stadium

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  Nigel Withers (@MajorBlipvert) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 Remember 18 Sept 2025 when Optus had a 000 outage because no one though to make some test calls to ensure the service was working after an upgrade? Doing a test is basic common sense.