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 6 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 41 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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  Brent Hodgson (@BrentHodgson) reported 6 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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  Brian Basson (@BassonBrain) reported 6 minutes ago

  "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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  me (@Worthbeing) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Telstra Nil know outage except when I came back from FNQ the TV was dead, the issue I find is when the neighbouring Resort run by the NRMA have their guests the break down becomes worse, appearing to show the lack of band width,

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  Chrissy D 🌼 (@DowseChristine) reported 6 minutes ago

  @BonoboWanderer @Batman2242 My starlink is super fast and $40 a month cheaper than telstra. I've had no issues at all.

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  Muskonomy (@muskonomy) reported 8 minutes ago

  NEWS: 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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  pesky paul (@BARGH3ST) reported 8 minutes ago

  @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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  Shelldon & Big Rippa ,"angels" Thomas ,Maggie 🇦🇺 (@ShelldoHanson) reported 8 minutes ago

  hey @Telstra since your outage last week as pc and phone linked every thing on my pc i have had to prove i'm me , it bloody sucks all these codes ect locked out of every thing have been spent hours to work again

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  Sociaall Inc. (@dez_blanchfield) reported 10 minutes ago

  @BudgetDude if you know the org chart of Telstra you'd find that would be a terrible approch but I get what you mean. I think the approach required if to rewind the history of decision making re. "why wasn't that NPT server upgraded" (or all of them) and that ecosystem of humans get fired.

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  AlloAllo (@squirtlesma) reported 12 minutes ago

  @telstra ripping people off again & again How can you justify taking $280 repeatedly processing payments in $10+$20 lots for a PREPAID service & then not crediting the account 1x $20 was processed 4x & a pop up said it failed Now service suspended bill not paid IT'S PREPAID 🤬

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  Ferdie Khnopff (@FKhnopff) reported 15 minutes ago

  @strangerous10 Telstra had a risk assessment signed off by the PM which said mitigations in place to isolate any faults, which were unlikely, & consequences was rated low. This meant the expenditure could be deferred. It was not a technical or a people problem. It was a pass the buck problem.