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.

• Phone (54%)
• Internet (28%)
• Total Blackout (8%)
• Wi-fi (5%)
• E-mail (4%)
• TV (1%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Telstra outage reports came from the following cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Dubbo, Newcastle, Ballarat, Sunshine Coast, Perth, Canberra, Maleny, Nowra, Bunbury, Gold Coast, and Wasleys.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	TV	14 hours ago
Melbourne	Phone	2 days ago
Brisbane	Internet	2 days ago
Adelaide	Wi-fi	3 days ago
Dubbo	Internet	3 days ago
Brisbane	Internet	4 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ❗️’〽️®️🌀↩️ERℹ️↪️🔀💤©️ (@maccaburbsvoice) reported 4 minutes ago

  @howardw46 @Telstra You can’t just be stopping all the time at every pissant station. The service stops enough at key stations and mostly stops at nearly all.

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  Bighead1883 @henrykklemens.bsky.social (@Biggy1883again) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Telstra Hi Ivan, people are not always home, hence why we ALL have mobile phones. Check Telstra history re Laverton. We do have an ongoing problem that gets patched numerous time per year. I do not get town slowness if I`m at/near a mine-site which has better internet speeds.

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Telstra AI or human? There are known outages only restored the other day now out again Getting a credit for it so you know it's real Reported via outage page Monday night neighbour reported too Your reply facile & unhelpful

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  M.E.G #DavosSafe (@bvst7dxxpk) reported 11 minutes ago

  So Southern Phone has been taken over by “Energy Telco” Those of us on its Telstra based service told goodbye. Over 30 people in NSW have apparently lost their jobs. Contacted call centre to check my options, gave up because foreign accent at the other end was unintelligigible.

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  ChinoAleman (@chinoalemano) reported 11 minutes ago

  JUST IN: $SHAZ just hired the executive who ran Telstra Enterprise as its new COO. David Burns: 35+ years across Telstra and IBM, most recently leading Telstra's entire Australian B2B and international portfolio. His mandate, per the release: own the journey "from customer order to live operational capacity". Co-founder Andrew Leece moves to a dedicated Strategic Partnerships role, founder-level care for the biggest relationships. Read the pattern, not just the hire: new CFO in July. New Chief Legal Officer in July. Now a heavyweight COO in August. Fourth senior addition in five weeks. A company with $8.8B in contracts and 212MW to deliver isn't hiring to SELL anymore. It's hiring to DELIVER. The bottleneck moved, and management is staffing the bottleneck. The honest line: executive hires are capacity, not revenue. The proof stays where it always was: deployments accepted, escrows released, rent flowing. But you don't poach the Telstra Enterprise boss to run a small book. I'm long $SHAZ. NFA. DYOR.

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  justin bandy (@justinbandy13) reported 15 minutes ago

  @daisymay4263 I can see one of Telstra towers in my town out my window...and reception is **** house... Telstra and their never ending rising rates with crap deals,...hope you enjoy your 7million,..ffffn useless

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  Liza 🥓 🇦🇺 (@RobynLiza) reported 15 minutes ago

  @RoadknightThe When i ring anyone for help these days like telstra etc if they ask if im indigenous i say yes. I always get through quick, this is all a scam and she is less than 3% indigenous which means she is who she hates colonial

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  Violence is a construct (@wokeupviolent) reported 15 minutes ago

  [DOW JONES NEWSWIRES] Telstra Says Outage Caused by Lack of Focus on Network Timing — Update @Focustheband

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  K•A•N•E (@kanethesaint) reported 19 minutes ago

  @TallNupinks Belong is owned by Telstra and it's their cheaper mobile service with 5G - they have a $25 plan for unlimited calls & 10GB data. They have been reliable for me for a while!

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  NewsTongue (@NewsTongueX) reported 19 minutes ago

  🔴 Telstra CEO gets $700k raise to $6.8m despite nationwide outage Telstra CEO Vicki Brady received $6.8m for the year ending June, a $700,000 increase from $6.1m the prior year. The board cut her bonus by 20% ($607,000) over the July outage that disrupted almost half of all calls and data sessions across the network. • Over 30,000 customers claimed compensation; nearly $1m paid out to date • Board cut bonuses for other senior executives by 10–20%, reducing combined pay by $1.3m • Net profit rose to $2.4bn; mobile revenue up $300m to $11.3bn • Workforce fell by 1,219 to 29,334; share price dropped from $5 to $4.875

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  ACCAN (@ACCAN_AU) reported 22 minutes ago

  That's a wrap on @Techingov_AU in Canberra. Two consumer takeaways: new tech must work for everyone, not just the average user and trust in government services must be informed by consumers and measurable, including traceability of AI agents. Also a sharp breakdown of the Telstra outage from Frank den Hartog (Uni of Canberra). #TechinGov

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  GibberishCapital (@GibberCapital) reported 26 minutes ago

  @ellensandell The data centres are built by Australian companies you utter imbecile. Do you have problem with data centres built by Goodman? NextDC? Used by Telstra? Optus? Vodafone? How are you such a ******* simpleton?

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  Di Downunder (@DFactualists) reported 26 minutes ago

  F'ing @Telstra bill not due sends 50 reminders. I get the worst service & pay good money!!

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  Dane Trethowan (@grtdane) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ellensandell Poor demented greens, Telstra, Optus etc have had Data Centers around the place for years.

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  Rusty Broo (@rustybroo) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SirMickW And how is it possible that @Telstra Brady gets $6.7 MILLION DOLLARS a year for buggering up the phones? #Telstra #Fail

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  Hung Long 🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇶🪃 (@Elmer_Hauser) reported 35 minutes ago

  Realistically, Trembath should finish 3rd in the Telstra Rising Star after Jagga and Dean, even just for consistency's sake. Wilma Durrsma's last 6 weeks has been utter garbage #AFLNorthCats

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  Jilly (@MssJilly) reported 40 minutes ago

  @SistaRuthDOPD They use the Telstra platform. Never heard of it doing that, but calls are answered based on the key words you use when it asks you what you’re calling about. Also offers ‘place in queue’, calling you back when your phone no reaches #1 in the queue, which is really worth doing.

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  bitterboy (@twistedandbitte) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Telstra What a bloody disgrace you are Telstra. Heard back from the person the complaint went to. Their response was instead of discussing the issue bluntly told us that given they have called us the case is now closed. Never discussed anything refused to discuss anything.

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  Lucy the Red (@LucytheRed1) reported 42 minutes ago

  @DHughesy You clearly don’t realize the Future Fund was: 1) primarily seeded by the sale of Telstra 2) Set up to fund existing government liabilities I’ll dumb it down for you. The Howard government sold our assets to fund existing liabilities. Embarrassed for you (again)

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  Ray (@rayethesis) reported 43 minutes ago

  This chart puts Starlink’s scale into perspective. At roughly $11.4B in annualized revenue, Starlink is already approaching the revenue scale of established telecom giants such as Singtel and sits in the same neighborhood as Telstra. That is remarkable considering Starlink is a relatively young satellite broadband network competing against companies that have spent decades building terrestrial infrastructure, spectrum portfolios, and massive subscriber bases. The important signal here is not just the absolute revenue, but how quickly Starlink has reached a level that takes traditional telecom companies decades to build. However, the comparison also exposes the problem. Telecom is a huge business, but it is not necessarily a high-growth business. Companies like China Mobile, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T and NTT generate tens or even hundreds of billions in annual revenue, yet the market typically assigns them much lower growth expectations because connectivity eventually becomes a mature utility. Starlink has a better growth profile today because it is still penetrating underserved markets, adding capacity, expanding internationally, and converting new customers. But as the revenue base moves from $10B toward $20B, $30B and beyond, the question becomes whether Starlink can maintain venture-like growth rates while operating inside what is ultimately a telecom market. The bullish argument is that Starlink is not exactly a traditional telecom company. Its satellite constellation gives SpaceX a global distribution network that terrestrial operators struggle to replicate, particularly in rural areas, developing markets, maritime, aviation and other difficult-to-connect environments. There is also optionality around direct-to-device connectivity, enterprise services, government contracts and potentially other satellite applications. If those businesses become meaningful revenue streams, Starlink could evolve from simply being "satellite internet" into a broader space infrastructure platform. That would justify a much more aggressive valuation than simply capitalizing Starlink like another telecom operator. But this is where I think investors need to be careful with the SpaceX hype. A $11.4B revenue run-rate sounds enormous, but revenue alone does not determine the quality of the business. Starlink requires enormous capital expenditure to deploy and replenish satellites, ground infrastructure and user terminals, while bandwidth economics and competition will determine how much of that revenue eventually becomes free cash flow. The really interesting question is not whether Starlink can reach $20B or $30B in revenue. It is whether SpaceX can continue compounding revenue rapidly without Starlink becoming just another giant, capital-intensive telecom business. My take: SpaceX is incredibly cool, and Starlink reaching ~$11.4B of annual revenue is genuinely impressive. But if the main growth engine for the SpaceX story is ultimately just telecom, I'm much less excited. A bigger Starlink is great, but a bigger telecom company alone does not create an extraordinary valuation. The real upside comes if Starlink becomes the cash-flow engine that funds a much larger SpaceX ecosystem: launch, defense, direct-to-device, satellite infrastructure and eventually entirely new space-based businesses. Starlink is impressive but starlink alone is not enough. $SPCX

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  abagrund (@abagrund) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Buttermarg2 @EVERALDATLARGE At least when Telstra sucks **** now I don't have to pay for it.

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  Baiyang **** (@NJCMLAB) reported 49 minutes ago

  @MinotaurStocks In the Q2 conference call, it stated Telstra (Australia) as the new HomeSecure partner. "Third, we secured a new win ---, adding our HomeSecure service in another country. The HomeSecure solution enhances threat protection across the Telstra's ---"

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Telstra Please Phone out May 30 only back a few days before out again It's a known issue

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  Kmac (@check307) reported 52 minutes ago

  To that miserable ***** that is CEO for Telstra who is helping rip off Australians wth price increase for no service . No one answers the phones for complaints. I pray this ***** suffers severe financial problems and experiences what struggling Australian families are suffering

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  Ross Vallance (@ross_vallance) reported 52 minutes ago

  @blu_boys @Optus If you bank with commonwealth they have a deal with more. It uses the Telstra network, usually 25% off with an already well priced plan.

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  Advice from an Aussie🇦🇺 (@Sheldone) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Telstra when are you going to get over this crap appt ****? I just want to buy a new Wifi toggle! And why are three staff members sitting and laughing together while there’s 4 ppl waiting? Wait, now there’s 4 staff members chatting.

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  MormorLady (@mormorlady) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Telstra As longtime customer I deplore your endorsement of IDF being allowed to enter Australia and taking part in the @sydmarathon A slap in the face to Zomi Frankcom’s family and to all Australians

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  Rohanc (@rohancct) reported 56 minutes ago

  Forget the Telstra outage, there should be a senate investigation into AFL Tables being down for hours.

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  Meg Coffey (@TexanMeg) reported 58 minutes ago

  Hey @telstra, it’s been 15hrs since I could make a call or get service outside of wifi hotspots. Any chance of any help whatsoever? Your app doesn’t work. Your online support keeps asking me what modem I’m using. I’m currently travelling and no service is not ok.

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  Violence is a construct (@wokeupviolent) reported 60 minutes ago

  [REUTERS] Telstra Releases External Expert Findings On July Outage