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 (50%)
• Phone (36%)
• Wi-fi (8%)
• E-mail (3%)
• Total Blackout (2%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Total Blackout	14 hours ago
Brisbane	Wi-fi	1 day ago
Melbourne	Total Blackout	2 days ago
Arumpo	Phone	2 days ago
Sydney	Internet	2 days ago
Launceston	Phone	3 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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  Leonie Wainwright (@leoniew27) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MelPalling @Telstra Hi Ivan, you've clearly never been to Clyde, Victoria. It's a bottomless pit for Service. You cannot get service inside anyone's homes, and once you find a 'service' area, you dare not move, as it will drop straight right out. It's a huge growth area

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  Juno Nameon (@JunoNameon) reported 21 minutes ago

  @the_LoungeFly @Telstra You have to go through the ombudsman to get an Australian staff member, someone with access to your records apparently or can fix anything. The call centers are just to keep you preoccupied long enough that you get sick of it and go away.

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  JimBobSquarePants 🇺🇦 (@James_M_South) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Telstra been stuck on mobile internet for 2 days now in Peregian Springs. Have reported fault yesterday evening but only outage listed is a closed from yesterday morning. What gives?

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  xroadie (@xroadie) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BassonBrain @Starlink But an iPhone can connect to the phone network via the starlink wifi….without Telstra

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  Luke hickey (@Lukehickey1i) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Telstra Your rewards and points website is down and won't load. Be better.

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  Chad (@OTheChad) reported 27 minutes ago

  @mynameiskiiiid @TheKouk Structural deficit? Mate, let's get this straight.Australia's structural budget issues blew out post-GFC and especially under recent big-spending governments — not from Howard paying down $96b in inherited debt while running surpluses. Howard left the budget in strong shape with low debt and a Future Fund seeded. Today's deficits (still projected around 1% of GDP with net debt heading to ~20%+) come from exploding recurrent spending: NDIS, aged care, welfare, and public sector bloat — not a lack of 'productivity policy' from the 90s/00s. Howard-era asset sales (Telstra etc.) shifted assets to private hands where they often delivered better efficiency and innovation — exactly what boosts productivity. Privatisation and microeconomic reforms in the 80s-90s drove Australia's strong productivity surge in the late 90s/early 00s. Blaming today's slump on "record low infrastructure spending" 25-30 years ago is the real stretch. Recent productivity stagnation (labour productivity near flat since ~2016-17, weakest in decades) has clear modern drivers:Services shift — healthcare, education, public admin (non-market sectors) now dominate and have abysmal productivity growth. Faster broadband, transport, and training matter — but governments have poured billions into infrastructure since then (and states still do). The constraint isn't some 1990s "under-spend"; it's getting value for money, avoiding waste, and prioritising high-return projects over recurrent blowouts. Private sector dynamism, competition, and sensible tax settings deliver productivity far more reliably than more government "facilitation" funded by structural deficits. You know what actually restricts productivity policy? Promising endless spending while ignoring incentives, efficiency, and evidence. Structural deficits today crowd out future options through higher interest and taxes — not the other way around." This keeps it punchy, factual, and directly dismantles the causal link while flipping the deficit argument.

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  JimBobSquarePants 🇺🇦 (@James_M_South) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Telstra Your customer service team are disgusting. They mixed up NBN and Optimcomm and not one person answered a single question I asked. Absolutely disgusting. I want to raise a formal complaint.

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  Julie Burgess (@julieburgess623) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Telstra for 5 days now we have been unable to watch Foxtel as our internet speed is 4.49 as per their consultant. We have contacted NBN who told us to contact Telstra. The person there said the problem is our modem which it is not. We need a solution please Telstra.

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  Veritas (@jarro56) reported 30 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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  Dead Ä̷̬͖̽͗P̷̭̳͔͇̊ on CompSciFutures (∀/∃/acc) (@CompSciFutures) reported 31 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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  John Clements (@kc9on) reported 31 minutes ago

  @eevblog You can check out any time you like but you can never leave. Welcome to the cell phone Telstra Mobile.......

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  Moses kiweewa (@Moweezy5Moweezy) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Telstra Worst customer care I ever experienced in Australia. Telstra

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  Aino (@partywuuu) reported 34 minutes ago

  @hobojo12345678 **** Telstra

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  sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) reported 36 minutes ago

  @WSWanderingEels @leigheustace AFL Media/Broadcast =/= NRL Digital/Broadcast in terms of line items. Telstra have rights to the AFL website network, its replays and highlights

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  rob2511 (@KymRob25112) reported 36 minutes ago

  I need to find a new bank in Qld. Any recommendations. I also need Skylab...internet access is so bad...much as I hate. I also need new phone...Telstra are worse than Optus... Any recommendations for CQld.

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  oneonethreeinvesting (@113investing) reported 41 minutes ago

  @_shanmoho @hasselljpb @Telstra They 'upgraded' to 5G down here last year and killing the 4G network in the process. Hahahaha .Had to switch to a different provider.

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  samantha 🏳️‍⚧️ (@Samantha7ey) reported 42 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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  𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝕾𝖐𝖞𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖎 © (@skylarusi) reported 44 minutes ago

  @the_LoungeFly @Telstra 2/2 ...regarding my plan's data He claimed I'd been paying $50/mth 4 3MB of data I contacted Telstra via FB They must have told him He wasn't happy When he finally contacted tech support to fix it he listened in while I was giving feedback I reported that breach of privacy on FB

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  Sam (@nursesrock25) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Telstra @ABHawks1 @Telstra I’m having the same problem

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  Lyn Shields (@lynshields) reported 45 minutes ago

  This Telstra ad is horrible

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  Joanne Jones (@JoanneJ37319580) reported 45 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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  immyonboard (@immyonboard) reported 46 minutes ago

  Will be late to the iOS 27 beta this year because, as usual, my Telstra internet keeps crashing. 12+ times a day. Fix your **** @telstra, this is incompetent.

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  cat 💜🇵🇸🩷 (@feedthecath) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Flawless_Sports @AFL @Telstra Robey is the worst option of the 4 lol

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  Francis McF (@FrancisMcF1O) reported 49 minutes ago

  Funny how Telstra says they don’t have a monopoly… Yet every emergency service, farm, mine, truckie, and regional business is forced onto their network. If everyone must use one provider, that’s a monopoly.

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  landman (@hasselljpb) reported 49 minutes ago

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

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  Brian Basson (@BassonBrain) reported 51 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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  Luke (@Posica) reported 51 minutes ago

  @ttyoma_ @luckychappy_ Well im with Telstra and the servers just arent good on apex unfortunately. Especially recently alot of slow mo or higher ping games

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  FLAWED&FABULOUS (@FLAWEDFABULOUS) reported 53 minutes ago

  @future_vision18 @abmarkman Sorry , I am in the car now on my way home my phone is + 61 0414 412 473 I have mt phone with me i put the volume up Rod gets a better single he is on telstra. If you have trouble his 0404479712

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  rockyandralph (@rockyandralph) reported 57 minutes ago

  @AFL @Telstra Poor bastard

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  Andy (@Andy22000) reported 1 hour 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.