Telstra outages and service status in Port Augusta, South Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Port Augusta, South Australia

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Port Augusta, South Australia and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Drake | Strategy (@mitri_drake) reported 38 seconds ago

  @r3tarddownunder @MehreenFaruqi Do not listen to this idiot. Privatisation has not failed. Privatisation reduced bloated government inefficiency and is the reason why ASIC, Telstra and many other organisations have streamlined their bloated costs. If you want to blame someone for Telstra’s issues, blame the exponential growth in Australia’s population. This has driven demand for services far beyond current supply. Infrastructure upgrades require resources — time, money and a capable workforce — to meet the new demand curve. Infrastructure does not magically appear just because something is suddenly managed by a corporation instead of the government.

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  Brent Hodgson (@BrentHodgson) reported 9 minutes ago

  @geofiasco @DHughesy @aaronsmith Aside: Whether the Telstra sale was ultimately a windfall is contested. It raised $60bn to sell the assets, then we spent $60bn on NBN Co just to regain access to the assets sold and duplicate/upgrade the network we sold - and Telstra has paid something like $80-85bn in shareholder dividends along the way. In many respects, NBN shouldn't exist. It should have been the $80-85bn in "shareholder dividends" to the Public Owner that paid for the fibres to be laid - not a $60bn investment after a $60bn sale. But NBN was forced to be created after a now-shareholder-owned Telstra responded to how it might build a national broadband network with a non-compliant 12 page letter effectively saying "we won't - the copper wires are our privately-owned monopoly and we want to protect our market monopoly".

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  Cdbrown (@BrowntownBrew) reported 9 minutes ago

  @CrySlyFly @ialihasaan @Batman2242 Telstra were unwilling to structurally separate to allow the infrastructure side of the business build the new network. Telecom had plans to do fibre upgrades but got shelved when they became privatised.

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  Paul Garcia 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 (@PaulCoInc) reported 10 minutes ago

  @teslaownersSV So @Telstra says this could save lives but its not available for anyone with prepaid service. They figure people with prepaid service lives don't matter? That's the message they are sending.

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  I Love Grapefruit (@AnJam1980) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RoadknightThe Mine didn't work on Telstra. The optus phone did. FAIL

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  💧💦Tara Venn (@TaraVenn) reported 12 minutes ago

  @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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  ted sowden - woke as!! 💧🌾🔥🚒🧸 💉💉💉🌈💡 (@sowdented) reported 12 minutes ago

  @noplaceforsheep l was shopp'n and had it in my back pocket!! checked it latter, "no sim, no service" on my opening page!! opened it up and didn't know if l had service or not!! sent my self a txt but didn't get it!! turned it off and back on, got the telstra bit, but still no msg!!

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  Josh (@joshatticus) reported 13 minutes ago

  @NikkiGemmell The government is stupid and didn't force the carriers to push the carrier bundles to older iPhones, so the ********* at Vodafail, Floptus and Telstra only pushed it to iOS 26.4 and later! Android devices got it fine though

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  KezM (@KezSniper) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Telstra Seriously? What a joke, I’ve has **** service ever since.

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  manukoreri (Nick Chesterfield) 🇵🇸❤️🖤💛🇵🇸 (@manukoreri) reported 17 minutes ago

  Slow clap @Telstra with your #AusAlert @nemagovau Standing within eyesight of a tower and it took 6 min 55 to come through after everyone nearby on other networks got it. 7 minutes of delay means this is not fit for purpose. Your incompetence is proof this isn't a conspiracy.