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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  Mike Smith (@Dog_Meat_Man) reported 4 minutes ago

  @TVTV494601 @OliverTrenchard Things can be free and still be awful. Back when Optus sport had the rights their app was great. You’d happily pay the $15 because it was a good service.

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  AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (@slizeoo) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DumbFoxFurry Every single carrier is so *** telstra pre paid costs your kidney for a 7 day recharge optus is Optus and vodafone has garbage coverage in my experience

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  Phil (@unglobular) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PaulDonGipps The WAFL eagles just played this afternoon on a fairly open oval just down the road from Optus.

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  Tony K (@TKags) reported 7 minutes ago

  @pelli_69 @Optus @Telstra I was with them for years, then went straight to Aussie Broadband! One of the many benefits is that it has Aussie call centres & tech support.

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  Chicken Little (@Chicky_Think) reported 11 minutes ago

  Somehow today, the models (sonnet, optus, haiku) are not working properly or very slow. It even reply me in Chinese 好的 when all conversations are in English. Omg. The only working model seems to be fable 5. Anything happening in the background @claudeai?

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  Alison Kyteler (@ali_kyteler) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AnikaWells @Optus @acccgovau Verification emails with codes are taking 1–3 hours to reach Optusnet users’ inboxes, making them useless since most codes expire in 5–30 minutes. A search online shows plenty of people describing this issue. Result: locked out of accounts.

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  t ♡ (@jopperatenzos) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus happened to me so I changed to Boost who are cheaper. they’re on the Telstra network too!

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  Wayne Reardon (@WayneReardon) reported 19 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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  leon (not kin) (@doingwritebyme) reported 21 minutes ago

  Hey @Optus how is it that I cannot pay you MORE money to add a device to my plan because of a "contract limitation" I was never told about to begin with. Worst customer experience I've ever had, will be cancelling all my services as will my friends and family.

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  A guy down under (@Fremean) reported 22 minutes ago

  @missrobinson I made Vodafone give me a new customer discount by asking them after 20 years why new customers get better treatment, do I need to switch to Optus for 6 months to come back as a new customer.