Telstra outages and service status in Mount Isa, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Mount Isa, Queensland

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Mount Isa, Queensland 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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  WestInsufficientia (@WInsufficientia) reported 6 minutes ago

  Telstra is a PRIVATE CORPORATION not a govt institutuon. LNP with Hanson (Ind) in 1997.. partial sale & 2006 with PHON support.. FULL sale! That’s why it’s NOT a good idea to PRIVATISE VITAL INDUSTRIES (communications banks etc)! Labor STILL dealing with/fixing LNP/PHON MESS!

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  tech-net.tv (@mr_internet) reported 7 minutes ago

  I (and assume many others) met with Telstra many times over the years pitching why they needed more redundancy in their network, like my team setup up in the UK, also here in Australia even how we paid for it as a Telco, there and here in Melbourne. Telstra never wanted to spend the money, all about monetary cost vs likely financial risk. Some of the issues were well known. 1) Failure of the Triple Zero (000) Fallback, 2) Centralized "Single Point of Failure" for Time Sync, 3) Total Lack of Sovereign Redundancy for Public Services. @AnikaWells - a good quesition .. "Telstra how many of the known 3 failed systems in this exact incident did you have redundancy in or available but cut funding to, and / or staff, but did not have due to lack of perceived financial risk, eg 000 back up. .. @abcnews

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  David Taylor (@DaveTaylorNews) reported 12 minutes ago

  Surely if there are no deaths from the Telstra outage it’s just luck. The issue is the ability to call emergency services, not whether that led to a fatality.

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  Darren Adams (@DarrenAdams1967) reported 13 minutes ago

  @RonniSalt This is a fake association and nothing to do with the Telstra outage.

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  twensor (@twensor) reported 16 minutes ago

  @adaptive_ape Indeed. Stop & think about it. What did Telstra think would happen if they ignored multiple warnings, failed to mitigate the risk & it resulted in a huge national outage? Fat bonuses for cost shifting the risk onto the rest of us??? Wtf was the decision making here? #auspol

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 17 minutes ago

  @WInsufficientia @PaulBongiorno Telstra may be a private corp, but Albanese’s Labor government literally contracts Telstra to run Triple Zero — the federal emergency call service. That’s why ACMA and the Triple Zero Custodian are investigating right now, and why Labor can hit them with up to $30 million in fines. Your history lesson is sloppy: partial sales started under Hawke/Keating Labor, final tranches under Howard. But that was 20 years ago. Albanese has been “fixing the LNP/PHON mess” since 2022 — and the result under his watch is a software bug that wiped out 600+ Triple Zero calls, stopped trains, triggered hundreds of welfare checks, and may have killed someone. Blaming 1997–2006 ghosts while your government fails to enforce basic oversight on critical infrastructure today is pure deflection. Stop whitewashing another Labor failure, puppet.

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  Gunjaparty (@GunjapartyOz) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Antony_Clements @MikeCarlton01 @Telstra Did you fix it yourself did you? Amazing. I’ll let you explain your solution to the Telstra system programmers.

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  Barbars (@Barbars80313595) reported 21 minutes ago

  @NoticerNews @craigkellyAFEE Telstra: Mumbai Telco network engineering graduate play ground…ffs..sack the CEO

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 24 minutes ago

  @MikeShe11208366 @PaulBongiorno The Libs helped privatise Telstra decades ago — true. But Albanese’s Labor government has been in power since 2022 and still contracts Telstra to run Triple Zero, the federal emergency call service. That’s why ACMA and the Triple Zero Custodian are investigating right now, and why Labor can fine them up to $30 million. This isn’t ancient history or “Libs blame-shifting.” It’s a 2026 software bug under Labor’s watch that wrecked 600+ Triple Zero calls, halted V/Line trains, triggered hundreds of welfare checks, and may have killed someone. Your “hypocritical” line is pure deflection. Stop excusing your government’s failure to enforce oversight on critical infrastructure. Classic Labor puppet cop-out.

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  Geoff Caple (@geoffcaple) reported 27 minutes ago

  Telstra outage and emergency 000 calls. Just trying to remember how we managed in the dark old days when all we had was a dial-up telephone plugged into a wall