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: Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Maleny, Perth, Nowra, Adelaide, Bunbury, Gold Coast, Wasleys, Townsville, Geelong, Arumpo, and Gympie.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Melbourne	Internet	6 hours ago
Brisbane	Internet	10 hours ago
Canberra	Internet	24 hours ago
Brisbane	Phone	1 day ago
Sydney	Phone	1 day ago
Brisbane	Internet	2 days 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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  elyce-jade (@elycejade) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Telstra Fix your goddamn mf ****

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  anthony, underclass prole cat, edwards (@anthony45052793) reported 4 minutes ago

  @MichaelRuyg i had to get starlink service for power outages to maintain some ability to contact emergency services if needed. i have backup power. mad not to in a bushfire and flood prone area, sadly nbn co, optus, vodafone and telstra are clearly incompetent.

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  Peter Lewis (@Peter_Lewis747) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Sueberry2 @blu_boys @Optus Not full Telstra network, limited Telstra network access. Only Boost has full Telstra network access.

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  🌸 Rita Gee ♥ 🇦🇺 (@Riogallica) reported 5 minutes ago

  Still sans @NBN_Australia They came out Monday, identified the issue & refused to fix it. Told them that I was over them & that I'll be signing up with @Starlink Looking forward to receiving my kit from Starlink soon. Hotspotting with my @Telstra mobile is 1/2 speed of a snail. Painful much. Going crazy. Don't need this stress.

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  yash (@pipefoundation) reported 7 minutes ago

  📰 NEWS: Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage. Telco board cuts senior executive bonuses by total $1.3m after tech fail that affected millions Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our. Source: The Guardian World.

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  Dread Pirate Grimm🇦🇺✝️ (@Gizzmo4141) reported 9 minutes ago

  @lordlaw92 Landlines still exist, just nobody uses them so people stopped paying for the Service. I mean 'why pay for home phone and mobile?' as with most things in society people simply don't expect things once established to ever fail. It's why optus and telstra are strung out atm.

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  jordanjackelyse (@jordanjackelyse) reported 15 minutes ago

  @noahitallll @PatricPaal @pelisonlinegrat Work choices, joined the Iraq war, sold off last shares commonwealth bank, Telstra, and long term leases for airports, and then the biggest one of all. His 2002 China LNG (liquefied natural gas) agreement signed was the worst resource deal in Australian history. He was bad. 🤡

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  w0tn0t3 #VaccineFree#AbolishTheUN #AbolishEUSSR (@w0tn0t2201) reported 16 minutes ago

  @roberts_pa97578 I’d never use @telstra - the experiences I had with them as a network consultant for clients were atrocious - their NBN implementations/installations/services were pathetic

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  🌸 Rita Gee ♥ 🇦🇺 (@Riogallica) reported 17 minutes ago

  @NBN_Australia is a joke. For the 2nd time in 2 wks my connection is down - their fault. They can't come out to fix it till next Monday! If I can find a reputable @STARLINK installer in my regional area, I'd be thankful (Jervis Bay NSW). I'm past climbing on roofs these days. Any recommentations? My @telstra hot spotting is the pits.

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  Steven Fogg (@Stevefogg) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Lyall_Mercer @Telstra I left them and went to @Aussie_BB they've been good and all local australian support

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  Gus (@gus_bibi_graeme) reported 25 minutes ago

  @ElizabethAttar5 Telstra service was way better before competition was introduced as a way to improve service. Come to think of it all services were better before we started privatising to improve services and pricing

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  Ronnie Chapman (@ronnnie_12trans) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SWatMR11 @GusLefty Rex was dropped by Qantas and that idiot Joyce was an instigator . 48% of telstra sold off by Howard ,Hockey responsible for the demise of Ford, GMH and Toyota pulling out of Australia.

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  Rewster (@Rewster7) reported 29 minutes ago

  @NRL Hopefully there's no Telstra outage for the occassion

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  Smokey Dawson (@farcanal53) reported 36 minutes ago

  Whats wrong with our economic system is the unpenalised rank hypocrisy when Telstra declares a record profit, its CEO gets a $6 million payrise after the recent triple 0 outage that claimed lives.

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  Ivor B (@IvorB6) reported 36 minutes ago

  @danderfield 3/ one of the players who showed leadership following the Wayne Carey incident. Left his footy boots in the middle of Telstra Dome following Norths EF loss in 2005, notifying his retirement from the game.

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  Robert Wilson (@RobertW51136192) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Snoman_here @Democracy_Duck @BrentHodgson Doesn’t change the fact we would have been significantly better off keeping the gold. Also selling Telstra, without breaking it up first, was terrible for those of us outside the major cities. But credit where it’s due, Howard/Costello did pay down the debt.

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  Liza 🥓 🇦🇺 (@RobynLiza) reported 38 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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  Spiro Arkoudis (@SpiroArkoudis) reported 39 minutes ago

  @_maxantonov I used my Pixel to tether my 5G internet to my Mac and that finally loaded up LinkedIn on my browser but it's still flakey...I'm reading Azure Telstra issues in the mix

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  Hugh_96 (@Hugh_96) reported 40 minutes ago

  @susanmandrews RA seems to be taking quite a unique approach to the women’s rugby program. We have all been through it. Unless it is a significant issue which requires an apology eg Optus/Telstra outages, just put out a holding statement & some spin. RA is lucky not much media interest in rugby

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  Pode vir (@thiagoTF) reported 45 minutes ago

  @australian lol imagine trusting telstra with actual AI. signal probably failed to aggregate before they even hit the damn button

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  outsider (@outsider2040) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Urquie_Coffs @TonyShepherd4 Of course he left a measly surplus after selling off Qantas Telstra airports and many other government assets. Can be done once but never again so it pumped his numbers up big time. Other than that he pulled in some small tax receipts from massive mining boom.

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  Ben Davison (@Ben_Davison1) reported 51 minutes ago

  CBA makes $620 PROFIT PER CUSTOMER Westpac makes $532 per customer NAB makes $835! (Milking small businesses pays off) By comparison Telstra makes $104 profit per customer & super retail group (Rebel, Supercheap Auto etc) makes $20 per customer No wonder banks love oligarchy

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  Ben 🇺🇦🇦🇺🚴 (@thecattery) reported 51 minutes ago

  @22thinkinggirl Gabby Gabby Who was in a massive WhatsApp exchange with Anthony Carbines who I was sitting near at the footy ~2 months ago, I thought wtf is this about. Was the week of the Telstra V/Line outage.

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  Kai (@kai_h) reported 52 minutes ago

  @no1historychick 5GB a month? That’s such a low cap. Are you on a really old plan or something? Even Telstra’s entry-level basic plan today has 50GB of data. If you want something cheaper, Belong uses the Telstra network and their plan still has 25GB data.

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  Kråke (@Kroke14) reported 54 minutes ago

  @7NewsSydney Great now she'll offshore even more Telstra workers under the guise of AI adoption so she can recoup some money for herself. Worst Telstra CEO ever..

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  Sue Davis (@Sueberry2) reported 54 minutes ago

  @blu_boys @Optus Go Aldi...roll over data, plans from $23, Telstra network, and currently double data on some plans for 6months if you start up before the end of September 2026.

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  Jilly (@MssJilly) reported 54 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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  Jumbarrawa (@jumbarrawa) reported 55 minutes ago

  But you get a whoops when your service goes down. You ever order a pizza and the shop takes a slice out and says can't help it? That's what Telstra is. And look at the profits in a cost-of-living crisis, ay. Whose cost of living ?? When do we adjust the books ay ?? @Telstra been with you lot for over 10 years at my address... not once have you even given me a router upgrade or checked if I'm on the best plan... where's your loyalty, ay ?? Winding down my credits and won't be coming back for dam sure. I'll learn Korean first and enjoy it more. 감사합니다

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 55 minutes ago

  @DHughesy Aaron’s post is pure projection dressed up as wit. Dave Hughes—a comedian—got some Future Fund details wrong in a short clip (confusing it with debt, implying it was spent on GFC stimulus). Aaron then spent weeks delivering multi-thousand-word “corrections,” only to pivot, when Dave pointed out the Fund’s growth came almost entirely from Howard/Costello’s $60-64 billion seed (no further public contributions to the core fund after early Rudd), into the classic Labor-adjacent playbook: invent a payday conspiracy and declare victory. Facts Aaron keeps soft-pedalling: •The Future Fund was created by the Coalition with surplus cash and Telstra proceeds precisely to cover unfunded public-sector super liabilities that sit outside headline net debt. Its growth to ~$270-330 billion (including other managed vehicles) is investment returns, not ongoing Labor largesse. •Net debt added since 2007: Rudd/Gillard ~$190 bn, Coalition governments ~$366 bn (much of it pre-COVID), Albanese so far ~$75 bn. Absolute numbers do not support the “Labor alone ruined everything” narrative, but neither do they support Aaron’s selective framing that treats Coalition debt as somehow less real. •Australia’s GFC stimulus was borrowed, not raided from the Fund, and helped avoid recession—true—but that doesn’t erase the subsequent spending trajectory under both sides. Aaron boasts of criticising Labor on social-media bans, Comcars, Anika Wells, etc., yet his energy is overwhelmingly reserved for policing anyone who questions the post-2007 debt/spending record or the Albanese government’s performance. When those corrections land, the immediate response is “you must be paid by Labor/taxpayer.” That’s not analysis; it’s the standard deflection of someone whose default is to treat fiscal criticism of Labor as illegitimate. Kerry Packer’s line worked because Bond overpaid then collapsed. Here, the only collapse is the repeated refusal to concede that a comedian’s imperfect summary of economic history does not require a full-time unpaid opposition research unit. Knowing things is indeed useful. So is noticing when the fact-checker’s intensity and ad-hominem default look a lot more like advocacy than neutral accounting.

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  DemocracyIsDead (@STIIBTWTCFMYCGA) reported 58 minutes ago

  @TopherField One of our clients had an existing telstra router just wanted an NBN connection. 2 weeks. $110 per month. I got her to contact starlink. 5 days later delivered and installed. $75 per month. Get your act together telstra. Can't be so slow anymore. There are choices.