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 (49%)
• Phone (38%)
• Wi-fi (8%)
• E-mail (3%)
• Total Blackout (2%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Telstra outage reports came from the following cities: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Murrumburrah, Perth, Arumpo, Launceston, Brownlow Hill, Penola, Cairns, Canberra, Hobart, Geelong, and Cook.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Internet	9 hours ago
Sydney	Phone	9 hours ago
Brisbane	Phone	9 hours ago
Melbourne	Internet	11 hours ago
Brisbane	Phone	1 day ago
Sydney	Phone	2 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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  MercurialJester (ジェスタ)🌡| PNGTuber ✊ 🇵🇸🍉🇱🇧✊ (@MercJestr) reported 6 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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  Deepuc (@deepudips009) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Vickibrady @Telstra have you ever tried contacting your premium support on Telstra app? you should try

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  Andy (@Andy22000) reported 9 minutes ago

  @WhereMyOstrich @ausstockchick No need to respond in such a derogatory manner. Here is the list, I pulled this from Grok in app you can verify it easily. Recent major Australian companies announcing significant domestic layoffs and offshoring of corporate/white-collar roles — Woolworths, Officeworks, Telstra, and NAB — have timed these moves amid sharp rises in domestic employment costs. • Woolworths (early June 2026) is offshoring hundreds of head-office roles in IT, finance, and HR to India/Philippines as part of cost-cutting to stay competitive with Aldi and Amazon. • Officeworks (late May 2026) is shifting hundreds of support, customer service, and tech roles to Bengaluru and Manila, boosted by AI/automation. • Telstra (earlier 2026) cut hundreds of roles (up to 650 in rounds) with work moving offshore to India. • NAB has expanded offshore teams in India/Vietnam (adding 1,000+ roles) while managing Australian redundancies. This wave aligns closely with escalating domestic labour costs: The national minimum wage and award rates rose 3.5% from July 2025, superannuation guarantee hit 12%, and the Fair Work Commission announced further increases effective July 2026 (4.75% on awards, ~5.9–6% on the minimum wage to $26.44/hour). Combined with weak productivity growth, higher on-costs (payroll tax, workers’ comp, etc.), and strong wage pressures, this has widened the cost gap versus offshore locations where skilled roles can be 30–70% cheaper. Companies cite these factors — plus efficiency drives — as key reasons for prioritising offshoring while protecting or growing frontline retail/store jobs domestically. This reflects a broader 2025–2026 trend among Aussie firms responding to cost-arbitrage opportunities in a high-wage, lower-productivity environment.

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  Veritas (@jarro56) reported 9 minutes ago

  @karlstefanovic John Howard & Costello last budget would have been in deficit if they didn’t sell off Telstra & gold reserves.. Costello claimed gold was no longer the standard **** look at it today IMF stated that the last term of Howard was the highest spending term of any Aust government!

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  Devil's Avocado (@CaptHughBeard) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Telstra I'm an Aussie working in the US for a few years. I keep my Aussie mobile account paid for when I come home to visit. Can you please explain how mobile data charges are higher with you in Australia, compared to my US cell service on mobile roaming?

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  someone you wont see again (@farleighvlogs) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Telstra fix your wifi right now i was playing roblox and seats in a game that i HAD TO SIT ON didnt load bc of your terrible wifi

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  Don't Listen to words. Watch their actions. (@wakeuptotheleft) reported 18 minutes ago

  @DarcyMiddleton @AmeliaBee7 It’s not trans hysteria mate, we moved my two nieces from a public school to a private one as they were allowing a boy to shower with 12 year old girls and when the parents went down to the school they teachers were attacking the girls and offering to re educate them , where I currently work ,the young kids that work there also go to a government school and a 16 year old is now allowed to shower with the girls and this **** has hit the fan at that school. It happens is workplaces too, I worked for Telstra for 12 years and then another big corporate for 10, we had a gym on site for all staff and it used to be quite busy before and after work as it was free. Then the morons announced their trans policy and allowed the males to shower and undress with the females. No one complained because they know they’d get in trouble and 95 per cent just stopped using the facility, meanwhile on teams everyone is talking about how ****** it is and how no one can say a word. This is issue plays a big part.

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  Robyn 🇦🇺🇮🇱🇺🇸✝️🙏🏼 (@rightasrain100) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Kate3015 It’d really not that hard to spot but to the untrained eye they always look legitimate. My husband a case in point. He doesn’t click on the link but always asks me how to deal with it. Every time I,show- block the email via,the contact card, delete, simple. Government departments never send you anything, just a notification to go to My Gov. Telstra has the email in the App. If it’s not there it’s not real. There are couple I can think of.

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  FoundMywayInTAO (@ALTCOINENT69188) reported 21 minutes ago

  @VoteLewko @Starlink Agree, i have been all around australia with starlink and everywhere i had internet everywhere!!!! Now i use starlink at home no BS telstra or any. Telstra and anyothers operator increase price every year because of lame excuses but the quality is still crap. 💩

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  Antony (@Antony_Collins) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Telstra you absolutely suck. Both my kids are overseas (18 and 20) and one is out of data and I can’t add more for both. I’ve been talking to Telstra for 8 hours and still no outcome. My daughter has no data left: Telstra suggested we get a 3rd party ESIM. The Worst Telco EVER.

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  Elizabeth Blackwell (@EBlackwell6280) reported 25 minutes ago

  I'm in Brisbane for a bit and I had forgotten how woeful @telstra mobile broadband is in the city. Endless dropouts and slow downs.

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  landman (@hasselljpb) reported 27 minutes ago

  Gotta love it when the @Telstra helpline drops out while trying to solve a @telstra issue

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  The Trend Trader (@SixG369) reported 31 minutes ago

  AI helped me save $270 a year tonight. Not by doing anything fancy. It just helped me survive the telco maze. The Optus bill started at $251.30/month. After a long support chat, it dropped to $228.80/month. That is $22.50/month saved. $270/year. The real win was not the discount. The real win was AI helping me: - Ask better questions - Check the maths - Avoid payout traps - Push past the first “best offer” - Get the final number confirmed in writing They first offered a small plan downgrade. Then we asked about loyalty. Then retention. Then the numbers did not add up. AI spotted the issue. One plan change had not actually been processed. So, we pushed again. Final result: Old bill: $251.30/month New bill: $228.80/month Yearly saving: $270 AI did not magically save me money. It just stopped me from giving up while the telco maze tried to win. Next target: Telstra internet.

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  JimboDardy (@JimboDardy) reported 34 minutes ago

  Will have to admit that calling the telstra workers **** did actually solve my issue and got the ball moving to fix the issue. Something oldschool foreign outsourced support would take serious and send in the big man to solve it. No I think if you tried that they'd extradite you to the others land to be put down.

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  Joanne Jones (@JoanneJ37319580) reported 36 minutes ago

  The telecommunications industry needs a closer look by the Australian ombudsman or whoever regulates fees being taken for service not provided. Telcos with phone only service centres overseas are in the perfect position to rip people off under the banner of Optus/Telstra.

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  Dead Ä̷̬͖̽͗P̷̭̳͔͇̊ on CompSciFutures (∀/∃/acc) (@CompSciFutures) reported 37 minutes ago

  𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟭𝟯𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗘𝗫𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 Re: INC42959519 19-Jun-26 13:36 Call from Telstra faults L2, said will call back after Network Reset & Restart 14:32 Call back from Telstra faults L2, (from outside Australia over 5G - an insecure channel) call took 21 minutes of tautological circular mentally abusive dark reasoning & failure to follow procedures. Refused to escalate "Deprovisioning" of SIM cards unable to make calls to transmit data, demanding "samples" of calls to/from +1-408 by IBM and PARC from Military Classified numbers for over 10 years. Refused to comply with Data Sovereignty rules and to respect the classified nature of the "samples" they were requesting and I refused to provide till I am talking to a suitably qualified person or engineer calling from within Australia. Refused to comply with "Do not talk to computer scientists over insecure channels" rule. They then said "will not escalate till I provide samples", I explained "deprovisioned" is more than enough to escalate and samples to that end have been provided. Call put on mute, stayed silent for 5 mins then other end terminated call. AP

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  Scio Tabula (@ScioTabula) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Cjsavage696969 I'd love to get a Starlink phone. Telstra service for regional users is ordinary at best

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  Gavin McKenzie (@gav_mck) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Telstra I need urgent help for my Dad device, your retail shop are refusing to help a 79 year old with his account, disgraceful

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  andy lai (@andylaiz88) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Telstra @LiauwEllen you phone 'support' team HANGS UP ! I guess your staff are meeting their call 'quotas' 🤡

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  Here4CarltonMeltdowns⚫️⚪️⚫️🇦🇺✊🏾🌊🏄‍♂️ (@camo2572) reported 47 minutes ago

  @karlstefanovic Sold everything you clown Private sector won That’s why we pay **** tonne more Look at Telecom into Telstra he royally ****** that up ******* get it right ******** 🤡🖕#Auspol

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  Frank (@FrankieJBroph) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Telstra "customer service" strikes again. Forty minutes on the phone to fix an email issue, no success, "you need to call Outlook on 1800 197503". "Your call could not be connected". Apparently this number has been discontinued for years! Tossers.

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  SnowmanNFT (@NftSnowman) reported 48 minutes ago

  @NicFromOz They use Telstra wholesale network, coverage shouldn’t change from what you have now, 4G, no 5G, I have used them, changed to Superloop though, tied in with NBN plan for bundle discount.

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  Australian 🇦🇺 (@45FirstLady) reported 48 minutes ago

  @OMGTheMess Officeworks is just the latest major business to ship hundreds of white-collar & customer service jobs to India & the Philippines, following the likes of NAB, Westpac, CommBank, Telstra, KPMG & PwC.

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  𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝕾𝖐𝖞𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖎 © (@skylarusi) reported 55 minutes ago

  @the_LoungeFly @Telstra 1/2 I'm guessing there's an issue with privacy My messagebank was switched off without my consent When I called to get it switched back on the operator changed my plan I called asking for it to be reinstated (it was an obsolete plan) and spent a week arguing with a 'manager'...

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  Catherine (@Catheri09875779) reported 56 minutes ago

  @IterIntellectus Telstra also: 2026 (Enterprise Restructuring): Telstra announced major workforce restructures, cutting hundreds of enterprise and IT roles in Australia. A significant portion of this work and technical support was offshored to the Indian-based ICT firm Infosys and its joint venture with Accenture.

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  samantha 🏳️‍⚧️ (@Samantha7ey) reported 59 minutes ago

  @yuyan497 im also with telstra alongside many other people and i always get reception along that part of the network

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  stevie (@stevie_builds) reported 1 hour ago

  @robj3d3 @ThreeUK Same as what Jakey was saying. I was on Telstra (aussie), while i was in SEA. PAYG, and id still receive texts, but after 7-8 months they told me they were gonna cancel my plan because i hadnt recharged... luckily they planned to do that the day i got back, but if i just paid $30 to recharge after 7 months i guess that would have given me another 7 months...

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  Anna (@spannaforce) reported 1 hour ago

  Man, telstra internet has gone down Rebooted a thousand times.

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  Alex (@alliao) reported 1 hour ago

  @VoteLewko @Starlink I remember seeing a telstra truck with slogan… “Australia that’s why” while trying to get better signal

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  Mr musk ⭐️🇺🇸🚀 (@Mrmuskh4l5l) reported 1 hour ago

  @c__future6 This is how the whole thing started when I sent $500 for a VIP Telstra Tesla membership card and never got the Tesla I won! That was my fault and now you’re trying to make this my fault I would think two guys working for Elon Musk would be a little bit smarter than this.