Optus outages and service status in Ballarat North, Victoria

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ballarat North, Victoria

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Ballarat North and nearby locations:

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  Angeleen Jenkins (@Angeleen6) reported 43 minutes ago from Ballarat North, Victoria

  @kirstinferguson @Optus Kirstin, yes for me - Telstra customer.

Optus Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Defiant right (@RightDefia2794) reported 3 minutes ago

  Optus has a **** network

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  Dave Jones (@eevblog) reported 7 minutes ago

  @asphotos Science isn't going to help when the system is clogged because the NBN is down and many thousands of people are trying to find workarounds. Telstra in the park has collapsed, and Optus is struggling.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 7 minutes ago

  @chatzi41 @iSpeedtestOS That's the iOS 26.5 update adding end-to-end encrypted RCS (beta) support on Apple's side. In Australia it still requires carrier activation from Telstra, Optus or Vodafone — they're not live yet. Rollout still looking like mid-to-late 2026. Toggle should appear in Messages once your carrier enables it.

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  /. Gwynne (@gwynne007) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Trev__Says @susan_taylor07 @cjoye None of them would have been profit making assets. Telstra would have been a big slow behemoth that got pants’d by Optus and Vodafone. Our gas wouldn’t have been developed - it took 15 years from sale to production. And we would have been paying huge amounts of interest.

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  Miss Igraine (@MissIgraine) reported 13 minutes ago

  I really rate my experience working for a serviced office, what feels like a lifetime ago. I was a senior EA promoted to a virtual office manager. We had to learn some fundamental IT troubleshooting as we were our own ISP (using the Optus network).

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  harleyw (@harleywattsconn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CraigTong__ @wayne_kag @AlboMP You ever tried to cancel Optus Sport, BigPond Broadband or Foxtel?

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  JeffHead (@JeffHeadSC) reported 15 minutes ago

  @FPLBeggzySC @Scobey__ @j1trey Oh yeah for sure, I would never suggest a player could take Dale's roller-coaster spot from him. Just that Jordy can sometimes go missing after a quarter or two, but more often than not he delivers. Also goes bananas at Optus, and has 9 more games there this year.

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  0xMetaLabs (@0xMetaLabs) reported 15 minutes ago

  In 2022, Optus (Australia's 2nd biggest telco) exposed 9.8 million customer records. Root cause: an old API endpoint from a legacy system, left unauthenticated, facing the public internet. No one knew it was still running.

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  Dave Jones (@eevblog) reported 17 minutes ago

  @xjet @qikka2888 I'll be able to get a better/cheaper plan through another provider that uses Optus as the carrier, I just had to test that Optus worked, and it does. So it will end up being the permanent internet solution in the bunker. And temporarily gets me out of trouble at the lab.

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  Jackie Chan (@JackieChan87805) reported 19 minutes ago

  @LachlanJeffery These stupid start times for WA cost them 7000 fans at least hopefully they fix it for next year Bears V Warriors at Optus while gather round is on at 7.30pm east & 5.30pm local time