Optus outages and service status in Castlemaine, Victoria

Problems in the last 24 hours in Castlemaine, Victoria

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Castlemaine, Victoria 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 Near Castlemaine, Victoria

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Castlemaine and nearby locations:

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  WendyS (@wends1958) reported 58 minutes ago from Castlemaine, Victoria

  @helphelpandhelp It's the fact that Optus KEPT all the personal info, even of ex-customers. WTF were they doing with licence and passport numbers well after the 100 point check had been done. WHY?

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Nigel Withers (@MajorBlipvert) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 Remember 18 Sept 2025 when Optus had a 000 outage because no one though to make some test calls to ensure the service was working after an upgrade? Doing a test is basic common sense.

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  carrygale (@carrygale) reported 10 minutes ago

  @normboy562 It is not her fault that Telstra went down. It is not her fault that Optus went down a couple of years ago. It is her fault that she has done **** all in the years between those two outages to solve the problem of 000.

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  Lyndall Robertson (@lyndall19414) reported 12 minutes ago

  @L_AWalker AFTER THE OPTUS FAILURE AND PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE NO ONE REALISED 000 WASNT WORKING ITS TESTAMENT SARAH IS THE ONLY ONE WITH COMMON SENSE IDIOT LABOR TRYING TO MAKE THIS WORSE THAN AUSTRALIANS DYING UNNECESSARILY THANK YOU SARAH

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  Ladybugfunk (@ladybugfunk) reported 15 minutes ago

  @JacintaAllanMP Wasn’t Anika Smells supposed to put something in place in the case of such scenarios after the Optus outage? The fault for this lies with Labor

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  James (@ladsgeog) reported 16 minutes ago

  @PGJohnson77 @Adrian_Arciuli @FIFAWorldCup Adelaide Oval and Optus are fine because AO is narrow and Optus has raised seats. Agree that the MCG is a very poor viewing experience.

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  Snuffles 🌸 (@Snuffle16106950) reported 18 minutes ago

  @MelbOnTransit @Urban_Immerser Why don't V/line use a back up telco provider beside telstra? So if one goes down they got some form of commication. V/Line should back up Telstra with Optus in case on goes out!

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  ramrod (@Corlett3jays58) reported 18 minutes ago

  @KatyKray73 In the event of a global war, data centres will be prioriy targets for bombs, missiles, and emp nukes, because.... These data centres will control everything. Ffs, telstra and optus outages caused enough disruption, imagine a total testra and optus blackout, multiply that by 100

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  Msnobody (@CherylYogi41455) reported 22 minutes ago

  I wonder why I have never combined my Telstra internet and Optus mobile phone. Today I have my answer.

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  Ban-Foo Leong (@BanFoo_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Optus This morning, just after 11am, I noticed that my @Optus @NBN_Australia connection stopped working, resulting in no internet or telephone service. I’m located in the Inner West Sydney area. Is this an unscheduled outage. What is going on? This is so frustrating!

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  Ash 🇦🇺 (@TheInspectorAsh) reported 22 minutes ago

  @heidimur This isn’t just about Telstra. We saw similar issues with Optus. If our emergency communications and critical infrastructure are meant to be resilient, why do single network outages continue to have such widespread impacts? It’s time to review whether our redundancy is truly independent, or whether we’re relying on backups that share the same points of failure.