Optus outages and service status in Cowra, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Cowra, 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 52 seconds ago

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

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  M_a_r_ke (@Ma_rk_e) reported 7 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.

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  M_a_r_ke (@Ma_rk_e) reported 7 minutes ago

  @OneNewsAu optus announced the partnership with starlink on July 12 2023 and telstra announced it on July 3rd 2023, Telstra starlink messaging started June 3 2025 optus? well nothing. "covers blackspots telstra never will" that might make sense if telstra also didn't get starlink messaging

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  Curious Mind (@mase_the) reported 10 minutes ago

  @QBCCIntegrity @Optus Woke up this morning to SOS on phone, was like wtf! Didn’t start working until I headed away from the major town/city I was in and it went to roaming

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  Marcus Wong (@aussiewongm) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ILM126 Mo reason you can't have Optus and/or Vodafone service as a backup beside extra cost, through both still manage to **** up in their own way anyway.

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  eddy (@multithreddy) reported 13 minutes ago

  @oscarcsims @haydenmalc maybe it'll happen soon since outsourcing RAN management to cheaper vendors is all the rage in the telecom space right now (Spark just outsourced to Nokia, who was the vendor who was partially responsible for the last Optus 000 outage)

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  Evangeline (@evangelinestuff) reported 14 minutes ago

  @thmsenglsh also their service is $70 a month for no good reason (they raised it because they added satellite sms) they profit consistently every year whereas optus basically makes a little more than enough to continue operating, the difference in revenue is crazy between the two

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  Ancient Tiger (@TigerAncient) reported 15 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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  Professor_Stinks (@ProfessorStinks) reported 15 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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  kayla fan of ³³ ⁹³ ( PFP HOW I FEEL OR A HEX 🤭 ) (@ActingLikeThtKk) reported 16 minutes ago

  Somehow made it home in time after a 2.2k walk I don’t care anymore car is **** I don’t think max will score points today watching the start on mute i don’t want to listen to that engine phone is ****** as well and didn’t fully track my walk which is a good excuse to get a new phone before Zandvoort hopefully Optus is nice to me so I can get a phone with more then 128gb of storage 🙏🏼