Telstra service status: outage reports and connection issues

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Telstra reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Telstra users through our website.

• Internet (43%)
• Phone (37%)
• Wi-fi (10%)
• E-mail (7%)
• Total Blackout (2%)
• TV (1%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Telstra outage reports came from the following cities: Brisbane, Penola, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Canberra, Bungalow Flat, Dubbo, Arumpo, Rockhampton, Cook, and Ceduna.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brisbane	Internet	14 hours ago
Brisbane	Phone	17 hours ago
Penola	Phone	20 hours ago
Melbourne	Wi-fi	20 hours ago
Hobart	Internet	23 hours ago
Brisbane	Internet	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  SNOOPREY (@SNOOPREY77) reported 57 seconds ago

  @Telstra Actually it’s more like 2-3 bars reception at the moment but the issues weren’t from today it was through the week

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  RochfordAlexAR (@rochfordalexAR) reported 10 minutes ago

  Do I need to be an ABN holder or otherwise registered as a business to try one of @Telstra 's business internet plans? If I try a business internet plan, is it going to mess up my residential phone service? Would I be forced to replace my modem?

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  Rob Arbon (@arbon_rob93103) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SophiaMoermond When John Howard defeated Paul Keating in the 1996 election, Australia's federal debt was $97B. He sold assets (like Telstra) plus set about paying down the debt. The debt was cleared in 2006 and our savings began. The Rudd govt inherited $17B.

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  Ankur Pruthi (@ManagerSaab07) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Telstra hi team, came to convert prepaid to post paid but not able to, I am at Telstra store from last 1 hour and it’s not happening and in result SIM is showing in SOS and not able to use my mobile, stuck at store, team also raised ITEM- plz help

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  Jayden (@Ballzzzz16) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Telstra @Optus So you’re no help either, will be cancelling all Telstra plans and moving to Optus in the morning

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  D.J. Grey (@akintowarlock) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AlboMP They also forced companies such as Telstra to sell me down the river, giving them unsolicited access to every single bit of what I do online 24/7. I remind you I have absolutely no criminal record. And even access the databases of the government, any and all legal forms I ever interacted with or approached or even considered, even supermarket transactions and camera data are delved into by them, posting the contents online ridiculing, mocking and insulting them. Even though they are the ones who have actively across the board disadvantaged me to a point of non-survival.

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  JoshAtticus (@joshatticus) reported 24 minutes ago

  @itsiclassic Like I would've just gone and called support from one of the free Telstra payphones if I'd known it was gonna take that long and the store couldn't do anything

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  Brian Basson (@BassonBrain) reported 24 minutes ago

  🇦🇺 Australia: Telstra said over 200,000 of its mobile customers connect to @Starlink satellites each day! ...and over 2.7 million customers have connected at least once since launch A Telstra spokesperson said that customer uptake is "exciting", but the real-world impact is more important. "What stands out to us the most is not the numbers themselves, but what they represent," said the spokesperson. "A message home from a remote road, a quick check-in during a trip away, or peace of mind in places beyond the range of our mobile network."

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  pirate (@pirate71305695) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PaulineHansonOz @Mummymobbsback1 This is not a bad policy. It's pretty good. As long as the people representing the tax payers are legit and not multimillion dollar leeches like we had with Telstra. And also they must be born in Australia. No foreigners to run the taxpayers interests.

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  D.J. Grey (@akintowarlock) reported 29 minutes ago

  Dear @telstra? What do you make of this? The fact that apparently you are to be seen as selling a paying customer down the river for not only the last year and half but the next 6+ months as well? Can you believe @TelstraAU did this ? ~ December James Grey.

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  People of Internet (@PeopleOfNet) reported 30 minutes ago

  The real risk isn't SpaceX leaving — it just launched DtD with Telstra in June 2025. The risk is one MNO-satellite tie-up controlling the entire mobile-satellite layer. The fix: use-it-or-lose-it milestones + open access licence terms.

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  Pat Fenis (@BigStrawDog) reported 30 minutes ago

  @kai_h @algorithmsayshi Tried this, it has us located in Sydney for some reason. While the modem was updating the DNS it restarted and my phone connected back to our old Telstra net which had us accurately located in Victoria. Def AGL/eero issue from troubleshooting

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  MercurialJester (ジェスタ)🌡| PNGTuber ✊ 🇵🇸🍉🇱🇧✊ (@MercJestr) reported 31 minutes ago

  The insult is that Telstra is also upping my plan cost by $10 a month so they are simultaneously telling me I'm a risk, but also to go **** myself and pay it anyway.

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  Trev (@Trev__Says) reported 31 minutes ago

  @gaganghotra_ @DanielPriestley The economic vandal **** **** sold everything which was noylt nailed down for a once off surplus to impress these pin heads Our gold reserve, Telstra, the airports all gone in a fire sale He belongs in a cell

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  Dane Trethowan (@grtdane) reported 37 minutes ago

  @OttavioMCMLXI I conversed with Telstra AI the other day to resolve an issue with my account and was pleasantly surprised.

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  Depresso Martini ♥︎♡︎ (@algorithmsayshi) reported 41 minutes ago

  Switched home internet providers cause Telstra were actually insane lmao but now when connected to my AGL wifi it doesn't let me watch any NBA on my NBA app and this message just shows up. I have tried trouble shooting it and I've even ventured onto Reddit for help but nothing works 😩🥴 I literally pay a yearly fee to watch NBA games so not sure why they're cockblocking me! I've turned VPN **** off and on. I can watch when my wifi is off still 😣

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  澳洲袋鼠 🇦🇺🦘 (@popgomouse) reported 41 minutes ago

  @BlairPring81213 @cjoye When Howard partially privatised Telstra, it retained the countrywide copper landline backbone, a network monopoly. All telcos and ISPs needed to connect to Telstra landline. Telstra usually took a long time to find the keys to exchanges when other telcos asked to connect. 3/8

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  vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸 (@glyphclutter) reported 42 minutes ago

  before i switched to a provider on telstra wholesale i’d be en route to work on a call like sorry if comms go down lads i am approaching the site™ (westgarth).

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  𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘𝒔 🇦🇺 (@DanielSMatthews) reported 44 minutes ago

  @eevblog I have both, NBN service stability is far less than Starlink's, so it is my backup. I could probably push traffic through both, did that with Telstra and Optus cable modems back in the day, but Starlink is so fast I haven't needed to bother.

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  TaxFodder (@Coldhardface) reported 45 minutes ago

  @belinduhpyne There was little left to sell after Hawke and Keating sold federal and state assets in their Privatisation rampage. Key assets sold under the Hawke government included: The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Qantas Telstra CSL These sales were part of a broader strategy that also involved floating the Australian dollar, deregulating financial markets, and dismantling the tariff system. While critics argued this abandoned traditional Labor values and contributed to issues like increased household debt, supporters view these reforms as essential modernizations that 'strengthened' the Australian economy. We're real strong now eh?

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  X- Y Bailey 🇦🇺🇳🇿 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹 (@Bailey92035278) reported 46 minutes ago

  @WSWanderingEels On the rare occasion Vodafone customer I actually agree with Telstra yes you have to go now if you’re the NRL like yeah 2029 if you want to beat the AFL over anything then this would be the one AFL hasn’t even talked about 20th team. Time for the NRL to put up or shut up

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  Andrew Thorpe (@awthorpe) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Telstra It isn’t unplanned outages there is a lack of capacity in the Telstra network in that part of the cbd. It has been bad for ages like dial up speeds but is getting worse to the point of unusable. How do you let the network engineers know that they need to review and do something

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  Jayden (@Ballzzzz16) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Telstra no internet or 5g in my area since very early Saturday morning, called up support and your support doesn’t even know there is a problem and can’t give general timeframe for a fix, beyond a joke @Optus might be getting some new customers very soon

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  RochfordAlexAR (@rochfordalexAR) reported 49 minutes ago

  @bazingashane0 @Telstra The fact that my Download is fine, 100 Mbps download line speed (Actually 109 for some reason) I can run speed tests all day to Melbourne or Hobart and get near close to 100Mbps down (or a bit more thanks to the magic of multi mode connections)

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  Dave Jones (@eevblog) reported 50 minutes ago

  Trying to switch from Telstra mobile. For the life of me I cannot find the required account number to port my account. I used to have an account number but Telstra switched me to from post paid to pre paid somehow and now I don't get a bill, only a receipt which doesn't have an account number on it. Cannot find it online in my account. Grok says dial *#150# which doesn't work. Anyone got any idea?

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  /. Gwynne (@gwynne007) reported 51 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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  Sam Rusty Rennie (@hairyredmanlet) reported 51 minutes ago

  It's worth remembering that the Howard Government paid down debt with asset sales rather than genuine fiscal conservatism, and this time around, there isn't a Telstra or Qantas to sell. That said, the spending binge from late 2007 onwards makes Howard look like Milei.

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  Benwah (@earthmanben) reported 51 minutes ago

  @SkullSpeedDeal lots of my mates were over the moon when they got a job with Telecom/Telstra because it was a lifetime secure job but that job security changed as it became more professional (like Allen senior’s electric company it was so unreliable and bad it was a joke)

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  Chris Pomfret (@CJPomfret) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Mac80277103 @JP__75 Howard shifted policies. He said GST would never be part of his Gov’s policies at the ‘98 election, then introduced it in ‘00. He said no Work choices then introduced it. No Telstra same then sold it. This is different to a gov seeing housing get harder so they made a change.

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  peter (@rightwingpeter) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Jazzyy_rosee I never get past the Telstra AI answering robot , it drives me totally insane , I don’t wait anymore , directly complain on their website , they have a form , get your response in a day or so , otherwise you spend hours on the phone , then to totally piss you off try the NAB