Optus outages and service status in Kentucky, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Kentucky, 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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  NewsTongue (@NewsTongueX) reported 4 minutes ago

  🔴 Telstra CEO faces parliamentary inquiry over nationwide outage affecting emergency calls, payments Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady will testify Friday before an emergency parliamentary inquiry into last week's outage that knocked out triple zero emergency calls, disrupted payment systems, and stopped trains in two Australian states. Greens communication spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said: "Telstra, just like Optus, has put their profits ahead of public safety and public service for far too long, and the law allows them to." • Telstra accepting compensation claims from affected customers and small businesses with supporting evidence

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  A K (@AK22762976) reported 6 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

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  Ash 🇦🇺 (@TheInspectorAsh) reported 7 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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  Kristen Holden (@kholden) reported 11 minutes ago

  @LeeshieV @Optus And instead of celebrating not getting this garbage you let them know?

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  Adam Papalia (@adampaps) reported 13 minutes ago

  @FOXFOOTY @maxlaughton You would have instant support in the South West but a harder time converting northern suburbs of Perth away from WCE & Freo. Powers above would want northern Perth side to get the extra $$ from more matches at Optus. I am bias but South West Sharks is the way to go!

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  saint_ted (@saint_ted3) reported 14 minutes ago

  @jmil400 Where was the communications minister moron? Some one needed to step up and actually test it! Not like the the bungled Optus uggrade where the 000 outage went unnoticed for hours. Smart and proactive! Not something you Labtards would know anything about

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  alli 🍂👑🔎 tøp 19/11/24 (@kitswhiteshirts) reported 15 minutes ago

  interesting how i was with telstra during the 2 optus outages and now im with optus there was a telstra outage

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  No thanks No (@NothanksNo4) reported 15 minutes ago

  @RW2023141 SARAH SHADOW COMM MINISTER NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT OCCURS TO BE FULLY ACROSS PROBLEM . NOT BE FKN HOPELESS LIKE ANNNNIKA SMELLS AND OPTUS OUTAGE DEPARTED OS DURING PROBLEM SILLY SARAH IS HANSON YOUNG YOUR ROBOT ROBERT.

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  Chris Eastaughffe (AZ Vac done) (@Chris_E_Qld_Au) reported 16 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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  James Hutcheon (@hutcho66) reported 17 minutes ago

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