Optus outages and service status in Emerald, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Emerald, Queensland

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Emerald, Queensland 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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  p 🪩 (@sideyisthegoat) reported 4 minutes ago

  why does freo never turn up at Optus Stadium until quarter time or half time

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  Heather Bilson. (@BilsonhBilson) reported 6 minutes ago

  @gpeurocars These 1/2 wits leave us unsafe! Telstra & Optus widespread outages triggers severe, cascading national security & public emergencies as modern infrastructure is hyper-connected, a single software defect or network drop instantly paralyzes critical systems, not just calls. 2/2 🧵

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  Crumpet of Patriots (@CastIronBalcony) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JohnWinstHoward Ah, Optus must think I've still got my data roaming on? ****. Must follow up. Thanks

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  A ROGAN THING (@adrogdesigns) reported 7 minutes ago

  @iisancs @Optus every two months? mine stops every Two hours, WTF @Optus im tired of this ****, one week will be ok, then next, every two hours it just stops working for for 10 minutes then start again, and its the neighbours having the same issue it s not just me, Dort ya **** out.

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 8 minutes ago

  @jnj_pro Hey, J. Customers who log in using email & password also need to perform Multi-factor authentication (MFA). We recommend enabling biometrics in the My Optus App for a faster and secure login, where no extra codes are required. From the 1st of Jan 2026, no conversation history will be stored/available in the My Optus app or My Account online. We understand that this change is a pain point for you, and we've flagged this as feedback for the relevant teams to review. - Dillon

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  anthony, underclass prole cat, edwards (@anthony45052793) reported 9 minutes ago

  @MichaelRuyg yep, when they built the NBN fixed wireless tower, that carries optus and vodafone as well, it had a backup generator. then the tower got "upgraded" with 6 months of regular outages and then next power outage we discovered the backup generator and the ability to call 000 was gone

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  James One 😷 (@james00000001) reported 11 minutes ago

  @JaniceB72627796 Apparently not an Optus issue

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  Mr J (@warcroft) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TimjboAU Remember a week ago when the entire telstea network went down? Remember a month before that when the entire optus/tpg network went down? Now next week we have the entire network government alert thing happening? Yeah, those network outages were 100% preparation for next week.

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  Kelly (@Kelly26552573) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Candour100 @blu_boys @Optus Yeah my husband had to switch to the Telstra network because of remote work. Boost was his choice.

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  Emma’s Last Stand (@EmmasLastStand) reported 15 minutes ago

  Millions of Australians may have had data accessed by “hackers” after Origin Energy confirmed it is investigating a cybersecurity incident. It could be one of the biggest “cyberattacks” Australia has faced following similar strikes on Optus, Medibank and Qantas. Most of the cyber “hacks” on Australian companies have actually been leaks due to incompetent, lazy IT staff—Origin received and email from the “hacker” but because said hacker didn’t reply to questions from Origin, the company pretended it didn’t happen until the hacker contacted the median. As I said, incompetent lazy IT staff.