Optus outages and service status in Black Springs, Victoria

Problems in the last 24 hours in Black Springs, Victoria

The chart below shows the number of Optus reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Black Springs, 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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  rob2511 (@KymRob25112) reported 8 minutes ago

  Telstra....missed your recharge message because the service has been so fuckung bad for weeks that people's personal SOS devices haven't been working. Have been hotspotting with Optus device.

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  K•A•N•E (@kanethesaint) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus Prepaid is the best option. No more need for greedy companies like Optus! One of the worst employers around after Telstra!

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  Wayne Reardon (@WayneReardon) reported 10 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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  Hut (@104hutsona) reported 13 minutes ago

  @michaelje @Teh_Jkr @Optus If their data usage is not increasing they do not cost more to service they cost almost nothing

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  Gingered Ale (@KerriHoff) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus Go to Spintel … same network for $22 a mth which they reduce to $14 for 6 mths for new customers

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  Flarestar (@Druagamaniac) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Rusken__ @Teh_Jkr @Optus i miss the old days when for an emergency phone vodaphone had a prepaid $20 card that would last for a year

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  JoshAtticus (@joshatticus) reported 23 minutes ago

  @itsiclassic Waaaaaay harder, my Galaxy S21+ died after I tried replacing the battery myself, and my carrier Optus made it hell to replace my eSIM, I had to wait in a store for 2 hours, and the store couldn't even do anything so they just let me borrow their store phone to call support 😭

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  Francis McF (@FrancisMcF1O) reported 24 minutes ago

  Regional reality check: Telstra = service. Optus = maybe. Vodafone = forget it. If only one network works outside the cities, that’s not a market — that’s a monopoly.

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  Nikki Austin's Aussiegirl 💖 Love Hank & Elvis (@AbAussieGirl) reported 26 minutes ago

  @DAM01983 @Optus Haveing the same problem they need to fix all their services I barely have phone coverage at all anywhere it just cuts down and says no service and the Internet is ridiculous dropping out all the time they find people up they can't maintain a service

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  Tams (@Sam83826561) reported 26 minutes ago

  @jobsta @SBS Cant even get the app to stream the game, reminds me of the massive Optus fail