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 13 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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  Roller (@roller2426) reported 5 minutes ago

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

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  Iaen Cordell (@IaenCordell) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PaulBongiorno And we thought Optus was bad! <grin>

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  Angry Joe Young (@joegalbraith7) reported 8 minutes ago

  @FranMooMoo Also been with Optus over 20 years absolutely horrible coverage can’t wait to get reception everywhere

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  Ancient Tiger (@TigerAncient) reported 9 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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  Bruce Goodwin (@zzbrgood) reported 9 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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  Arkers (@Thelandofark) reported 10 minutes ago

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

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  Lyndall Robertson (@lyndall19414) reported 12 minutes ago

  @L_AWalker AFTER THE OPTUS FAILURE AND PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE NO ONE REALISED 000 WASNT WORKING ITS TESTAMENT SARAH IS THE ONLY ONE WITH COMMON SENSE IDIOT LABOR TRYING TO MAKE THIS WORSE THAN AUSTRALIANS DYING UNNECESSARILY THANK YOU SARAH

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  V (@VDejan0000) reported 14 minutes ago

  @NoticerNews Same reason for the recent Optus outage. This woke CEO & Labor government needs to swing.

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  Dr Ravi Nayyar (@ravirockks) reported 16 minutes ago

  '[CBA] suggested customers switch connections to an Optus network or local wi-fi source. '[Tyro] was aware some people were unable to connect to payment machines that operate on 4G networks'.

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  A K (@AK22762976) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Birdsperch Clearly no contingency for terrestrial fail [all eggs in one basket] even with satellite backup downlink distribution relies on terrestrial bearers (circuits), Even Optus with satellite support incorporates terrestrial distribution -Contingency planning is key & costs money