Optus outages and service status in Buxton, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Buxton, 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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  Jumbarrawa (@jumbarrawa) reported 6 minutes ago

  It's not like mainstream media dont know about ANY of this. 👇👇 In September 2017, the federal government announced a $50 million investment over seven years in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). The CEO was Rachael Falk. She led the independent review into the Optus and Medibank cyber breaches. She was appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs to the Expert Advisory Board for Australia’s 2023-2030 Cyber Security Strategy. In February 2025, Falk left the CSCRC to become a partner at Ashurst Risk Advisory—a return to the firm where she had worked as a lawyer in 1998. The CSCRC was not just a research centre. It was a revolving door—a place where a connected insider could build a network, then cash in.

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  Feral Hermit.🍉 (@greg_kennedy10) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Optus Not trying to activate a service, verifying my ID on my prepaid ask you asked. The app is garbage, tried it & all is does is ask me to update (I already have), now it keeps telling me to update then shuts down. Have to waste my time going instore.

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  THE Purple Herring (@PurpleHerring1) reported 11 minutes ago

  God the Optus turf is crap

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  J Labs (@jnj_pro) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Optus And the session time-out keeps interrupting me when I'm talking to a customer support, I have to log in again after a while. Why is that? Can the product manager explain? The overall experience with Optus apps (Web and mobile) is painful, and a simple request would take days.

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  rach (@rachael18536941) reported 16 minutes ago

  @6bretto9 I’m worried hawks won’t go deep in the finals as the first game for us if we stay 4th we have to play Freo at Optus and that sucks

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  Nathan (@motelbad) reported 17 minutes ago

  So good to finally not be an Optus customer anymore after 2 years of paying my phone off 😌

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  Dave (@Dave87990998) reported 20 minutes ago

  Frederick has never kicked multiple goals outside optus @freodockers

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  J Labs (@jnj_pro) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Optus The advise didn't help. Can @Optus explain why already logged in users still need to do identify verification form as well as verification code. What security concerns the process actually addresses? Compared with putting unnecessary burden and waste time for users.

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  Pop Culture Trolls (@pctrolls) reported 26 minutes ago

  @BG_Underscore @chosenfew850 These f****** know this man, they know what foundational means. They're just being optus and stupid.

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  Ray Finkle (@itsrayfinkle) reported 26 minutes ago

  AusAlert cost ~$130 million to rollout. A 13x increase from the $10m initial budget. Here are the known costs and estimates: $10m Initial Planning Taskforce $60-70m Carrier access tolls (Telstra, Optus, TPG) $30m Security architecture & hardening $20-25m Foreign hardware + offshore managed services $5-10m Public awareness, testing & administration Want to know how each allocation is spent? Too bad. Contractors and government use "Commercial-in-Confidence" clauses to keep specific commercial margins and costs hidden from the public eye. A 1300% blowout with no accountability.