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 (55%)
• 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: Perth, Brisbane, Nowra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Bunbury, Gold Coast, Wasleys, Townsville, Canberra, Geelong, Arumpo, Gympie, and Darwin.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Phone	1 hour ago
Brisbane	Phone	1 day ago
Perth	Internet	1 day ago
Nowra	TV	3 days ago
Brisbane	Internet	4 days ago
Sydney	Internet	5 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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  vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸 (@glyphclutter) reported 6 minutes ago

  @simianlines i used to be with vodafone but now i’m on telstra wholesale network so what ******* gives

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  cello (@cello721490) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ChrisMinnsMP You seriously think Telstra CEO get 6.8 million A year **** OFF!!!

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  Texanus Giganticus (@couchsecurity) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Irideia @innovationcncl Cyrus One, Cyxtera, Telstra, Navisite, Databank, Equinix, you will routinely find customers on site visiting their cages. You show ID, you get a biometric scan, you get escorted to your cage, they hand you your key, you go do what you need to do. And this is not one or two racks, it might be 3,000 square feet of floor space just for your estate, with another cage for your standby equipment. And you're not the only customer there. for certain things you can put in a remote hands ticket and have one of the DC technicians do a bunch of tasks for a fee. For certain things this is expensive, so you send your own staff. And that doesn't even take into consideration people leasing hardware, who are still allowed to go on site and do maintenance. I've been in DC's everywhere on the planet save continental East Asia and Antarctica. Your limited experience is not reflective of reality. You may think AWS and GCP are the only DCs in existence, but that's your own ignorance. If you think companies like cloudflare own the physical plant you have a lot of **** to learn. wind your ******* neck in.

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  Lucy the Red (@LucytheRed1) reported 12 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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  bitterboy (@twistedandbitte) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Telstra So if I take your perspective, I have now dropped you a note, advising if the issue, so it is now resolved. You will pay us $35m, give us a new admit you are wrong and give us anything we want, as the case is now resolved, as I have left you a note. WHAT A BLOODY DISGRACE!

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  Kai (@kai_h) reported 17 minutes ago

  @no1historychick Telstra are never going to move you to a new plan unless you ask, especially when the newer plans are cheaper and have more data.

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  Noah Fence (@birchipboy) reported 18 minutes ago

  @CKMonty Telstra Ford….. never realised they had merged! Haha

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  dixy (@DorothyDixer12) reported 18 minutes ago

  2024 Telstra Announcement 2026 Telstra still having issues

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  Liza 🥓 🇦🇺 (@RobynLiza) reported 21 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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  Tim (@TimothyJ_23) reported 24 minutes ago

  Would love to know why @Telstra network is randomly cutting out at HBF Park in Perth. There are literally mobile receivers on the light towers

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  Aussie Shazza (@shazzadut) reported 25 minutes ago

  The sponsors of The Swans need to withdraw their support, not just mumble platitudes about how terrible and serious it is. @Telstra and @QBE . Note that the players apologised to almost everyone in the world EXCEPT the women they assaulted. Speaks volumes.

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  Nino Alves (@NinoAlves_1) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Telstra I’ve been receiving account text alerts including their name and phone number relating to one of your customers for over a year. Prob a privacy issue but you refuse to fix it despite MANY calls and yr team acknowledging the issue!

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  Andrea J (@AndreaJ_Oz) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Telstra not sure if Boost is still under your remit, but connectivity issues as punishment for not setting up auto-recharge is not a good look.

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  Mat (@Phantomwolf319) reported 29 minutes ago

  @slinkjej @25YearsAgoLive Eh. Other than that. I don’t think Howard has much of a chance much longer. He’s getting WAY too long in the tooth for me since the Telstra sale which was stupid. Here’s hoping this isn’t a repeating incident no less

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  Bobby (@roberts_pa97578) reported 30 minutes ago

  @w0tn0t2201 @Telstra I’m the same as you. I’ve never used Telstra and I wouldn’t even use them if they were given away free carrier pigeons.

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  Tom English (@thmsenglsh) reported 31 minutes ago

  (2 cont:) and this would fluctuate WILDLY based on the day to day. If Telstra has an outage, people won't be nominating them to receive any govt money anytime soon 3) or govt would have to guess who to go to for contracts

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  Nicole Kennedy 🇦🇺 (@kennedylnicole) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Telstra I have requested cancellation of a service on four separate occasions, yet continue to be charged multiple times. This morning your chat team again asked whether I wish to cancel it. Please confirm the cancellation under reference 130242508 and address my complaint 136862308 at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

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  Paddy (@Dabatsau) reported 36 minutes ago

  @cookyourgarden @valuetainment They dont have lowband spectrum in Australia (nor in the US) without doing a deal with existing providers (Telstra & Optus) so dont get your hopes up. The spectrum they do have is mid band and would require phone manufacturers to support it, also needs a clear path to the sky to work.

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  ame (@JUDGEMENTCORE) reported 38 minutes ago

  telstra can you fix your **** i lag out eevery 30 seconds i literally cannot do anything with this

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  stephen (@johnsy123aus) reported 39 minutes ago

  Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 42 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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  Romire 🇦🇺 (@RomireTV) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AshConnell Well Telstra and Optus both had system network failures, and they cant even take responsibility for it

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  Di Downunder (@DFactualists) reported 48 minutes ago

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

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  John Maunder (@john_lyndondale) reported 53 minutes ago

  @MrRexPatrick Am amazed you have internet access, must be Starlink?? One of my gripes travelling out there is when there is a Telstra signal, but being on their network with another provider and it does not work.

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  wharfie98 (@wharfie98) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Starlink I think I’ll support an Australian company in Telstra which pays tax in Australia

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  Jan (@bimmyjartel) reported 54 minutes ago

  @B_Richardson_ @Telstra It's like GMHBA. Get service early but once crowds turn up nothing. That's Telstra too. Big crowds at MCG and Marvel, no problems. Why?

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 54 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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  Joseph Thomas (@j_seph_th_mas) reported 54 minutes ago

  Twelve live Australian job ads integrate AI in the title with enablement, transformation, automation, or change. Only ten companies have posted them. HESTA is hiring an “Enterprise AI Enablement Lead,” TAL an “AI and Automation Lead,”  IAG an “AI and Automation Principal.” Aware Super wants an “AI Strategy Change Lead”. CBA’s is a financial crime compliance role, and Insignia Financial’s is in risk. Four engineering roles at Canva, Xero, and Telstra. Which leaves two, and both are at EY. One is an “Associate Partner - Solutions Architect - AI Transformation,” sold through its Microsoft alliance. The other is a “Transformation and AI Marketing Leader” on a 12-month parental leave cover to take EY’s AI transformation offering to market. It’s the only live Australian marketing role in the twelve, and the AI capability it asks for- advanced use of Copilot, ChatGPT, and Perplexity- is in the optional skills. I built a workforce intelligence platform, and I’m analysing how AI is being written into new job roles. As of 27th August 2026, it holds 1,603 live Australian specs across 102 companies. Of 1,522 live marketing specs globally, 232 are AI-central, roles where AI is core or supporting the work as written. Of those, 179 (77.2%) carry no decision architecture. Nothing about who checks the model or who can override it, and no one is named accountable for what it produces. Across all functions, it’s 65.1%. Marketing is 12.1 points worse. Australian marketing is 101 live specs. Eight are AI-central, and seven of them have zero decision architecture. A CMO who hasn’t hired for this borrows it from an agency. Agencies post AI-central roles in 13.3% of 2,763 live specs. The banks and insurers they pitch to post them in 13.2% of 2,261. The seller and the buyer are hiring at the same rate. One Australian marketing team has written the role properly. NAB advertised a Head of Agentic Marketing in May, asking the hire to support the “redesign of marketing operating models and workflows using AI agents,” with humans kept in the loop and someone named accountable for what the agents produce. It scored 4 out of 4 in decision architecture, the only Australian marketing spec in 402 to do so. It hasn’t been live since 7th June 2026.

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  BOB ACHMAR (@maroniteMAGA) reported 55 minutes ago

  @FreedmFightr1 Too many personal info,,, ffs Telstra origin and how many others got hacked,,, what says census won’t get hacked,, seriously wtf 🤬 I believe massive fine possible jail if not completed

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  🐭 Clay Ross (@duexfoiscross) reported 1 hour ago

  @FabClemm394 @Australis_Felix Howard sold Telstra which delayed Australian productivity and our gold reserves to buy votes to achieve a surplus that put Australia behind. Policies that still hurts Australia, Google Howard and the worst deal of the century.