Telstra outages and service status in Northam, Western Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Northam, Western Australia

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Northam, Western 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 Near Northam, Western Australia

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Northam and nearby locations:

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  Tweet Whisperer (@Ausshot3Dave) reported 29 minutes ago from Northam, Western Australia

  @eLFB57 @AusIndiMedia Yep Telstra upgrading network with optic fibre. LNP/Labor, must stop this! Bring in the Yanks, privatise, create NBN. Telstra stops & gives up. Those that have fibre lucky. The rest of us, too bad, pay for substandard crap! Don’t you just love privatisation.

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  Ty Henning (@TyTekAg) reported 48 minutes ago from Northam, Western Australia

  @Telstra In the middle of a regional center, 1 bar 4g, if no signal here, then where do we get it?

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Electric Future (@electricfuture5) reported 10 minutes ago

  @c0n_AU No Telstra either and Starlink doesn't work because solar overhead @TeslaCharging @TeslaAUNZ

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  Julie Burgess (@julieburgess623) reported 10 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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  cobra (@cobraschiffer) reported 11 minutes ago

  @sidneyfrommelb Whilst Telstra has network issues after your data leaked by Optus. Cooked.

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  Chad (@OTheChad) reported 11 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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  🌏Henry Ross (@Lincolnabe123) reported 15 minutes ago

  @MikeCarlton01 The very worst though is a toss up between Qantas and Telstra 👎😡😡

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  Mike Carlton (@MikeCarlton01) reported 15 minutes ago

  And they’re all the same. It’s almost a rule that the bigger they are the worse they are. Telstra, Optus, Qantas, the big banks, Coles, Woolworths. All run by wildly overpaid ‘chief executives’ who would rather wrestle crocodiles than actually encounter a customer. **** ‘em all.

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  NewsTongue (@NewsTongueX) reported 16 minutes ago

  🔴 PayphoneGo: 19-year-old built Pokemon Go for Australia's 14,000 payphones Kris Norris, a Brisbane student, launched PayphoneGo in April. Players call a number from payphones across Australia, enter a nine-digit ID, and accumulate points—20 for first visit, 10 for second, then 5 and 1. First visitors can leave voicemails heard by subsequent callers. Norris said the game aims to encourage exploration and revive "old internet: no ads, no tracking, so few cookies." Telstra operates the payphones under Australia's universal service guarantee. Calls have been free since mid-2021. The company reports over 100 million calls since fees were scrapped, with usage tripling.

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  Joanne Jones (@JoanneJ37319580) reported 16 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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  Jordan Wardle (@JordanWardle5) reported 19 minutes ago

  @theinfradev @ruicharadrius I'm not revising history. The plan was fttp everywhere, with Telstra and optus copper being bought out to move them to the NBN. The copper was never going to be used for the NBN. Look at the Telstra definitive agreements from 2011.

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  Elizabeth Anne Kelly (@kellynettlefold) reported 20 minutes ago

  Telstra have no issue with puttn in numbers&pressn redeem nos. But microsoft smartassholes make life hell. I've lost another many hrs of being messed around with screens showing rubbish. Its simple=U have an PC+u put in product code&redeem. Robots r a phyco excuse to brain-harass