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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  Wayne Reardon (@WayneReardon) reported 5 minutes ago

  @hakluke About 20 years ago I was with Optus, and back then if you were late paying your bill Optus would disconnect your SIM so you couldn't even receive calls. To get it connected again you'd have to ring Optus and they'd tell you it would be back on within 4 hours. That never happened, so you'd have to ring them over and over again until it eventually got done. After wiaitng for over a week for my phone to be put back on and again being told it would be back on within 4 hours, I said "no, I'll wait on the phone with you until it's done. He then passed me to another team who enabled my SIM again while I was talking to him. Anyway, that night I noticed that when my Dad who has a private number rang me, it showed his phone number with a hash tag before and after the number. This happened with every private number and I realised that when my SIM was turned back on, something went wrong and I was able to see private numbers. It was the greatest thing ever! I would get telemarketers all the time who would abuse me when I'd tell them to stop ringing me, but now I had their number to call back. You should have heard how shocked the first one was when I rang him. I kept ringing him and he begged me to stop and kept asking "How did you get this number? I don't even know this number". That ended when that phone was stolen 2 years later, but it was great while it lasted. I've since had Optus tech employees in our pubs and ask them if they can do it, and they tell me that it's impossible, but I know it's not.

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  Flarestar (@Druagamaniac) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Rusken__ @Teh_Jkr @Optus i miss the old days when for an emergency phone vodaphone had a prepaid $20 card that would last for a year

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  lucas (@lukyydukes) reported 9 minutes ago

  Of course the bad weather finally hits Perth when the Eagles have a run of Optus Stadium games.

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  Raymond McKeown (@RaymondKeown3) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 I wonder if when he rushed up to Singapore about fuel if he said anything about what he was going to do to Optus? They will react the Singapore Govt. in 1993 my company began building the Optus Network, I dealt with the team in Singapore, trust me they will payback.

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  JoshAtticus (@joshatticus) reported 12 minutes ago

  @itsiclassic Waaaaaay harder, my Galaxy S21+ died after I tried replacing the battery myself, and my carrier Optus made it hell to replace my eSIM, I had to wait in a store for 2 hours, and the store couldn't even do anything so they just let me borrow their store phone to call support 😭

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  Adam Hoskins (@hosko) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TheHolyBoot Please, the American stadiums are light years ahead of ours, optus is the only thing close. Facilities at the SCG are poor.

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  ChillPilled (@MrGenXGuy) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Optus @nachovonbaron I need help. Due to a series of crazy events my foot is stuck in the toilet. What do I do?

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  Kovac's (@YellowKovac) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus I spent 2 hours taking to support to get the intro deals they have to save 30 bucks, but it's still insane how expensive it is when I don't need more data, especially since I lose reception in Melbourne

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  Alison Kyteler (@ali_kyteler) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Togetherdec Australians can buy a mobile phone without identification but they can't connect to the network to use it without identification. Telcos are collecting & storing vast quantities of personal data. Optus iiNet TPG iPrimus Dodo already breached/hacked. Our Privacy Act is a joke.

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  Francis McF (@FrancisMcF1O) reported 19 minutes ago

  If Telstra vanished tomorrow, half the country would lose mobile service. If Optus or Vodafone vanished… most regional users wouldn’t notice. That’s the imbalance.