Optus outages and service status in Forster, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Forster, 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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  Iaen Cordell (@IaenCordell) reported 5 minutes ago

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

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  Ancient Tiger (@TigerAncient) reported 8 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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  Lyndall Robertson (@lyndall19414) reported 9 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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  Professor_Stinks (@ProfessorStinks) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Ausbobsmit Hmmm. She was on holidays when Optus had its Triple Zero outage wasn’t she? Am I seeing a pattern?

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  Oz Owl (@Ispeek4me) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Bigly20 @Caitlen2310 The Guardian asks why hasn't the government acted on regulations since the Optus outage last year? I ask what did the Coalition do about regulations after the Telstra outages in 2016 & 2018? What private discussions and/or guarantees did they obtain from Telstra after those events? In 2018 Triple Zero calls dropped out across 5 states for 10 hours. If it were so simple why didn't the Coalition insist on Telstra installing back up systems? Maybe we need a Royal Commission (joke).

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  Dim Sim (@BiripiGuri) reported 16 minutes ago

  @JohnTheMaestro @Telstra No service australia wideThey are the qantas of communications in Aus. They own all infrastucture and lines, they just rent them out to Optus and other providers. Ive been telstra for 25 years, this is largest ive expereinced in that 25 years, not too bad.

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  Casey McGregor (@CaseyMcGregorAu) reported 16 minutes ago

  So we have another outage impacting 000 calls in Australia, this time by Telstra. This has already happened with Optus twice if I recall. Enough is enough. Renationalise Telstra and Optus, and give them all the funding needed to maintain, develop and expand our telecommunications infrastructure across Australia in the interests of the people rather than private and foreign shareholders. #auspol

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  Lucy Graham (@montrosegraham) reported 18 minutes ago

  @OMGTheMess It only happened recently with Optus. Anika Wells didn’t fix it, did she?

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  Roller (@roller2426) reported 18 minutes ago

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

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  M_a_r_ke (@Ma_rk_e) reported 18 minutes ago

  @heidimur In WA Transporth uses Fibre that runs thought every station and Private Wireless (LTE/4.9G): Transperth doesn't use Telstra or Optus for train-to-ground data. They built a custom, secure wireless network with 160+ dedicated radio masts along the tracks using licensed spectrum.