Optus outages and service status in Parkes, New South Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Parkes, New South Wales

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Parkes, New South Wales 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 Parkes, New South Wales

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

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  Candy J (@LiveLrnExplore) reported 39 minutes ago from Parkes, New South Wales

  @Telstra This tweet brought to you by me piggy backing off my Optus phones fully functional mobile network data. Eftpos machines are unable to do this. So any work around has to come from Telstra or I have to get the bank to change to Optus.

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Peter 🏊🏼🚲🏃🏻 (@Ironman_peter) reported 8 minutes ago

  @7NewsBrisbane Why doesn’t 000 have an alternative number as a backup run by? Maybe Optus or Tpg or Vodafone? How does a company or a business run with just one solution? 000 is incompetent.

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  Melb is My Home (@MelbisMyHome23) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Raymartin55 So the opposition communications or health minister shouldn’t check to see if vital infrastructure is working properly Do you remember the Optus outage! Give me a spell!

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  Raymond McKeown (@RaymondKeown3) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 Long ago I recommended to Optus the reasons they should not consider Huawei, I had a techo team from Huawei walk me through how they would treat the Data Centres and the router installations, they insisted only Huawei techo engineers would install them, it was open to anybody dialing in and accessing, so it was a big no. This smells the same, very much so.

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  Radio Australis (@freedom4UU) reported 10 minutes ago

  How many times in the past 3 years have telecommication services in Australia been disrupted? #Telstra #Optus More evidence which strongly suggests Telstra and Optus aren't up to it. Lack of investment in infrastructure? #StarLink is winning more customers because of these lack lustre telcos. Telstra has suffered an outage that disrupted calls, mobile data and some Triple Zero calls across the country after reports of the problem emerged on Wednesday morning. The telecommunications company, which has apologised to its customers, has said its CEO Vicki Brady was on annual leave.

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  Ancient Tiger (@TigerAncient) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TonyShepherd4 As the shadow minister for emergency communications it is great she tested the system. It was supposed to switch to another network (e.g. Telstra to Optus) in case of an outage of one of them. That didn't occur and she found a fault there. I expect my elected parliamentarians to test the systems they have a portfolio of. By the way, as soon as Teltra asked her not to test it again, she stopped. Good try there, though, but again, you landed well short of common sense.

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  SimonW (@LaDolceVita_99) reported 14 minutes ago

  @simonbiddle @taipan168 As much as I defend funding government services, the notion that government run IT will be more reliable than Telstra/Optus is just not believable given the various IT issues we see on a constant basis from Centrelink and who can forget the debacle of the last Census

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  Romire 🇦🇺 (@RomireTV) reported 14 minutes ago

  First optus, now telstra had a global outage, seems legit i guess, paves the way for a global network blackout if need, cause look how well that went. Chaos

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  FreoLou⚓🤘🛫⚖️ (@FreoLou) reported 19 minutes ago

  Better get my pre game post out before Optus is full and the network fails to load. Tonight is a test @freodockers . You have studied for it. You have prepared. Now it is time get out there and ace the exam. Harness the nerves and kick between the two big sticks #foreverfreo

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  Arkers (@Thelandofark) reported 25 minutes ago

  @matt_barrie @van00sa And the Optus network went down right after Albanese visited Beijing in November 2023.

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  Andrew (@Aussies_1st) reported 26 minutes ago

  Why is it the USA can communicate with a space ship circulating the moon but Australia has such a hard job communicating with a ******* train just around the corner.. Because of this useless waste of space Anita Wells…. WHY is Australia STILL relying on just a single network for the train networks and 000 and a host of so many essential infrastructure ?? WHY hasn’t our government, especially after the Optus outages just changed the laws to the filthy rich telecommunications companies that they have to combine both networks together for things of major importance to the running of the country ?? 000 and train networks. You want a communications licence… fix the bloody thing so at least BOTH Telstra and Optus are both responsible for the safety of Australia and every Australian.. @AngusTaylorMP @PaulineHansonOz