Optus outages and service status in Orange, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Orange, 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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ash 🇦🇺 (@TheInspectorAsh) reported 4 minutes ago

  @heidimur This isn’t just about Telstra. We saw similar issues with Optus. If our emergency communications and critical infrastructure are meant to be resilient, why do single network outages continue to have such widespread impacts? It’s time to review whether our redundancy is truly independent, or whether we’re relying on backups that share the same points of failure.

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  A K (@AK22762976) reported 7 minutes ago

  @SkyNewsAust CEO return won't fix the problem - the Engineers are the important focus group whose expertise is critical to restore services [certainly earning their annual salary now -bonuses? "poof!" One imagines Optus satellite services in hot demand

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  Brett Debritz (@debritz) reported 10 minutes ago

  I just received a txt from @Optus saying they are upgrading the network and I may experience some disruption. Given the @Telstra outage, they should really reconsider this.

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  James Hutcheon (@hutcho66) reported 13 minutes ago

  @MiddleMoney @aussiewongm @Anneeokeefe I'm pretty sure Metro went down during the Optus outages last year. But restoration time was quicker iirc.

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  Ancient Tiger (@TigerAncient) reported 19 minutes ago

  @7_columns @Andrew_McCallum If you listened to her, the government mandated after the Optus issue, that with emergencies, the people using the network that is down, should be switched to a working network. She said she wanted to test that her phone went to Optus if Telstra didn’t work. It didn’t, and that is important.

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  Alan Baxter ♛ (@AlanBixter) reported 19 minutes ago

  @YoiksAndAway @Optus @Telstra Absolutely. Management that place personal greed above service should not be in service industries, and those who endanger lives for personal gain should not be at liberty.

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  Heather Bilson. (@BilsonhBilson) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Michael83424242 This started under the LNP are you senile, stupid or deliberately been disingenuous? Communications outages & breaches occurred under the tenure of Paul Fletcher, who served as Minister- 2019 to 2022. The 2022 Data Breach: In Sept, Optus suffered a massive cyber-attack!

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  sam (@samsamtheman4u) reported 19 minutes ago

  @25MMCC @madwixxy @Igh0108 WOW HAPPY U CALLED IT OUT U R RIGHT ANNEKE WELLS IS AN ENTITLED POS WHO USES TAX PAYER MONEY SHAMELESSLY TO FINE WINE DINE TRAVEL ...WHY DID SHE CREATE A BACK UP SYSTEM CONSIDERING IT HAPPENED WITH OPTUS UNDER HER WATCH ..U ****** POS SHHH SHE IS THE MINISTER IN CHARGE N THAT WOKE DEI TRAITOROUS CEO IF TELESTRA ...ITS BITH IF THEM THAT SHOULD BE JAIL ...THEY ARE THE REAL CULPRITS WHO TOTALLY INCHARGE OF THIS TELCO N THEY HAVE LET US ALL DOWN .. U WOKE ****** RADICAL LEFTIE NITWIT

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  John Lang (@jdhlang) reported 20 minutes ago

  @EVERALDATLARGE Agree Everald. Yes there was a system fault, and yes 000 Failed. And Yes after the Optus problems the Labor Minister for Communication put in place to hopefully fix the problem. Calling for government to leave is a bridge too far. It will take time to fix. It’s not down every day

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  Kylie west (@Kyliewe44398439) reported 22 minutes ago

  @HaveeSnowball Unfortunately there aren’t any reasonable options for some of us I can’t get Optus network in my suburb