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Problems in the last 24 hours
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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 (0%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Telstra outage reports came from the following cities: Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Mangalore, Newcastle, Joondalup, Arumpo, Cook, Tullah, Dubbo, Wollongong, and Bathurst.
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Total Blackout | 6 hours ago |
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Internet | 6 hours ago |
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Internet | 1 day ago |
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Internet | 1 day ago |
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Internet | 2 days ago |
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Wi-fi | 3 days ago |
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Telstra Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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AlphaAI (@alphahurhur) reported@cb_doge Muskie should just buy Telstra…rebrand it to Tesla Mobile Network. T
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Heliophilus (@Heliophilus) reported@Starlink @Telstra Shame it's through Telstra and not purely Starlink. Speaking as an Aussie who's regional and driving 15 minutes any direction from my town has the service drop out, I love my Starlink. People in my town love Starlink. I hate Telstra. Cost a fortune and offer very little back.
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@ag6le.bsky.social Julian (@AG6LE) reported@ChinaSelect @RepMoolenaar .@Telstra rebadge their phones, and they are junk. They refused to replace my A5 (2017) (the TIO made them give me 6 month credit to compensate after they shut down 3G/NextG). Vodafone gave me an A17 to replace it,after I was using it as a modem.
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💧Daren Connor 🇦🇺 (@connor_daren) reportedSince the @Telstra outage, the mobile coverage of the Telstra network has dropped significantly & also slowed significantly.
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Bardy Bigglesworth (@BardyBiggles) reported@VibewireCentral Great to see the reasons why @Telstra network failed. More money to shareholders other than into the network. #auspol
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Patrick 🇦🇺 (@pattpkr) reportedBypass Telstra entirely, and you'll see an entire network crumble it'd be glorious.
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Brian Basson (@BassonBrain) reported"Asia Pacific went from world first to regional wave in 18 months" In December 2024, One NZ’s Satellite TXT debuted as the region’s first Starlink D2D service, available at no cost to eligible customers. It spans approximately 40% of New Zealand’s total landmass, where terrestrial coverage is unavailable, as well as roughly 20 km offshore. KDDI followed in April 2025 with au Starlink Direct, Japan’s first D2D service, then added app data in August 2025, support for a limited set of bandwidth-light apps beyond texting, and the first D2D data service anywhere. Telstra launched Australia’s first satellite texting product in early June 2025. One NZ added app data, including WhatsApp voice calls, in February 2026. SoftBank and docomo launched in April 2026, making Japan the only market where three operators run live Starlink services. Globe became the latest in the sequence in June 2026 with the Philippines’ first commercial satellite-to-mobile permit from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
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Aussie XRP (@LukeRichar6071) reported@IRONDLDAD I do find the timing very sus, could Deffs be related. Same with the massive Telstra outage ect last week, still no word of why that was
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Recon Bull (@ReconBull) reportedThere has been no fresh commercial announcement between $ASTS and Telstra (ASX:TLS), although Telstra now appears on the AST website! Still, these numbers from Telstra’s current $SPCX Starlink-powered satellite service are pretty interesting: 26m+ satellite texts sent or received. 2.9m+ customers connected at least once. 200k+ connections per day, up from 80k at launch. Weekends and holidays are the busiest periods. Telstra has around 24.9m retail mobile and device services, so roughly 12% of its entire base has already connected via satellite in just 13 months. Australia itself only has a population of around 28m. Obviously this is Starlink, not ASTS, and these are users rather than paying satellite subscribers. But the bullish read-through is pretty clear. Theres obviously an announcement Incoming and demand for direct-to-device connectivity is not theoretical, even in a relatively small country with strong existing mobile coverage. If other regions see anything close to the same adoption, the potential usage across AST’s 3b+ partner subscriber base becomes pretty ridiculous.
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stuart ingram (@jump_smash) reported@Ausbobsmit Idiot.... 1. Look at Howard's 1997 Defence Efficiency Review! 2. 1997, 1999 & 2006 Howard share sell off of Telstra!
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System Failure (@AlienSpoons) reported@NRL Telstra has ongoing glitches with it mobile data network and nobody gives a ****! Yeah! Possibly the phone network too but nobody answers calls these days.
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Gary Just (@GaryJust67) reported@RoadknightThe No my partner & I never got it either. We with Telstra…
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pesky paul (@BARGH3ST) reported@Telstra why does your app only recognise i have a saved card on my device 1 in 10 times i try to recharge? pointless, ripoff service
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dylan (@dylxrrno) reportedIs Telstra ******* down again
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Matthew Perrin (@MbPerrin) reported@teslaownersSV @grok will this include Aldi which piggybacks the Telstra network?
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Milan (@EthNick_) reported@TelstraEnt Your phone support is utterly atrocious. @Telstra Will you improve on them & provide assistance???
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𝗴 𝗹 𝗼 𝘄 (@glowwxx) reported@Aussie_Dad5 @Zhshshdjsjsjs You’re so retarded it’s embarrassing. The fact you think turning your phone off means they can’t collect your data shows your IQ. 1. Turning off your phone isn’t turning off your phone it pings to a cell tower constantly. Most phones go into a “deep sleep” mode in which where gps, microphone and network are still active 2. If they wanted to collect data they wouldn’t need an alert to do it. They would just go to Optus and Telstra, give them your number and get everything they want. Or just ask Apple or google to comply.
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Steven Payne (@CmonMick) reported@Buccoatthecat @RouleurCapital @DHughesy Yes we get to vote them out periodically. We get a say Can I vote out Telstra & use a rival 000 service when they screw up. The energy infrastructure is owned by 1 priv company in SA. They dictate charges. The public cant just simply not buy ( energy ) what they are offering🤷
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💧💦Tara Venn (@TaraVenn) reported@deborahbrian Me. Probably due to Telstra black-out/inteferance from Pitch Black... I suppose defence (spelt with a 'c' cookers) takes precedence over Emergency Alerts? 🤔
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💎mia🎹🇦🇺 (@msamethyst) reported@Telstra is so useless. My call to japan was being cut off at 15 min when I have a call pack which lets me call unlimited. Everytime I log to chat with support. They said it’s my mobile phone issue. 4 months on I got annoyed and lodged a complaint with TIO.
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Peter Leversha (@PeterLeversha) reported@merchant_s35416 @Bender_Aus Privatising telecom was the right thing to do. And selling off Telstra was an even better idea. Both were drains in the economy. Trying to get telecom to fix anything used to be a pain in the butt. Look at NBN, over priced garbage. There's nothing wrong with a user pays system. Why should people in Horsham pay for a road they don't use in Melbourne?
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Amicus Curiae (@AmicusCuri99068) reportedoh yeah WE KNEW THAT! coverage went to **** and still IS!4gs ****** It’s true; the 3G shutdown created mobile coverage ghost towns Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has revealed a Starlink workaround for Australians unable to call triple-0 after the 3G shutdown created mobile dead zones. (paywalled Tiser)
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꒰ঌ kira b 星绮丽 ໒꒱ (@k1rab0shi) reportedWow I love paying Telstra for 5G and then getting no signal at all at home
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Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported@CC68891975 @SistaRuthDOPD those of us who live where the threat is real now face summer without even basic telecommunications 4G's terrible Telstra contractor trying to fix landlines, out for more than a month, agreed VicEmergency requires data on just for alerts no nbn no wifi hope the new system works
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Ian Linklater (@IanLinklater5) reported@Telstra Gol Gol 2738 This really sucks . I don't t do apps of anything .
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Muskonomy (@muskonomy) reportedNEWS: Starlink and Telstra expand satellite to mobile from texts to apps in an Australian first Eligible Telstra customers can now use select apps like Google Maps, WhatsApp and Apple Weather over Starlink Mobile in areas beyond the reach of the mobile network, with a clear view of the sky. In 13 months of satellite messaging, Telstra says customers have sent more than 26 million texts, with over 2.9 million users connecting and daily connections climbing from about 80,000 at launch to more than 200,000. (Source: Telstra, July 28, 2026)
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Elizabeth Ferrier (@Gigi8garlic) reported@telstra I need to sign in to My Telstra but my email address has changed & I no longer have access to the old email. When I try to register w new email it refers me back to the old email prompt. How do i change this?
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Fran McInerney (@franmac44) reported@JonesHowDareYou Took me a while to log in this morning, Jenny, as X were presumably consulting with Telstra on service provision. I’m toasting Spain in the Executive Suite today. Stay rugged up🧣 Wordle 1,857 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🥳
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KezM (@KezSniper) reported@Telstra Seriously? What a joke, I’ve has **** service ever since.
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NightLight (@BriteNightLight) reported@RoadknightThe Telstra & I never got it either. Thank God 🙏🏻