Telstra outages and service status in Sheffield, Tasmania

Problems in the last 24 hours in Sheffield, Tasmania

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Sheffield, Tasmania 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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  JimBobSquarePants 🇺🇦 (@James_M_South) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Telstra Your customer service team are disgusting. They mixed up NBN and Optimcomm and not one person answered a single question I asked. Absolutely disgusting. I want to raise a formal complaint.

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  rob2511 (@KymRob25112) reported 4 minutes ago

  Telstra....missed your recharge message because the service has been so fuckung bad for weeks that people's personal SOS devices haven't been working. Have been hotspotting with Optus device.

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  Francis McF (@FrancisMcF1O) reported 5 minutes ago

  Australia’s mobile market: 3 brands, 1 real network outside the cities. @Telstra inherited the infrastructure, kept the spectrum, and now dominates regional coverage. If the government won’t mandate roaming, we’ll never have genuine competition.

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  SharpSalah #SLOTOUT 🇦🇺 (@SharpSaIah) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AFL @Telstra @essendonfc Poor bastard

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  Andy (@Andy22000) reported 13 minutes ago

  @WhereMyOstrich @ausstockchick No need to respond in such a derogatory manner. Here is the list, I pulled this from Grok in app you can verify it easily. Recent major Australian companies announcing significant domestic layoffs and offshoring of corporate/white-collar roles — Woolworths, Officeworks, Telstra, and NAB — have timed these moves amid sharp rises in domestic employment costs. • Woolworths (early June 2026) is offshoring hundreds of head-office roles in IT, finance, and HR to India/Philippines as part of cost-cutting to stay competitive with Aldi and Amazon. • Officeworks (late May 2026) is shifting hundreds of support, customer service, and tech roles to Bengaluru and Manila, boosted by AI/automation. • Telstra (earlier 2026) cut hundreds of roles (up to 650 in rounds) with work moving offshore to India. • NAB has expanded offshore teams in India/Vietnam (adding 1,000+ roles) while managing Australian redundancies. This wave aligns closely with escalating domestic labour costs: The national minimum wage and award rates rose 3.5% from July 2025, superannuation guarantee hit 12%, and the Fair Work Commission announced further increases effective July 2026 (4.75% on awards, ~5.9–6% on the minimum wage to $26.44/hour). Combined with weak productivity growth, higher on-costs (payroll tax, workers’ comp, etc.), and strong wage pressures, this has widened the cost gap versus offshore locations where skilled roles can be 30–70% cheaper. Companies cite these factors — plus efficiency drives — as key reasons for prioritising offshoring while protecting or growing frontline retail/store jobs domestically. This reflects a broader 2025–2026 trend among Aussie firms responding to cost-arbitrage opportunities in a high-wage, lower-productivity environment.

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  JimboDardy (@JimboDardy) reported 15 minutes ago

  Will have to admit that calling the telstra workers **** did actually solve my issue and got the ball moving to fix the issue. Something oldschool foreign outsourced support would take serious and send in the big man to solve it. No I think if you tried that they'd extradite you to the others land to be put down.

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  SNOOPREY (@SNOOPREY77) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Telstra All I’m saying is maybe Telstra and other telco multi billion dollar companies should charge accordingly and stop using every capitalistic ***** trick to overcharge for normal service . Anyhow have a good day

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  Snow Leopard (@SNOWFXINC) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SocialTubby @DaveTaylorNews As an aging Pro. Pretty much all of my clients in Longreach, Karratha or the Alice book me via Starlink. When I used to service the married Labor blokes in Marrickville, my Telstra mobile would be forever dropping out. Starlink is on an exponential trajectory.

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  Dead Ä̷̬͖̽͗P̷̭̳͔͇̊ on CompSciFutures (∀/∃/acc) (@CompSciFutures) reported 23 minutes ago

  𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟭𝟯𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗘𝗫𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗕𝗢𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 Re: INC42959519 19-Jun-26 13:36 Call from Telstra faults L2, said will call back after Network Reset & Restart 14:32 Call back from Telstra faults L2, (from outside Australia over 5G - an insecure channel) call took 21 minutes of tautological circular mentally abusive dark reasoning & failure to follow procedures. Refused to escalate "Deprovisioning" of SIM cards unable to make calls to transmit data, demanding "samples" of calls to/from +1-408 by IBM and PARC from Military Classified numbers for over 10 years. Refused to comply with Data Sovereignty rules and to respect the classified nature of the "samples" they were requesting and I refused to provide till I am talking to a suitably qualified person or engineer calling from within Australia. Refused to comply with "Do not talk to computer scientists over insecure channels" rule. They then said "will not escalate till I provide samples", I explained "deprovisioned" is more than enough to escalate and samples to that end have been provided. Call put on mute, stayed silent for 5 mins then other end terminated call. AP

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  The Trend Trader (@SixG369) reported 26 minutes ago

  AI helped me save $270 a year tonight. Not by doing anything fancy. It just helped me survive the telco maze. The Optus bill started at $251.30/month. After a long support chat, it dropped to $228.80/month. That is $22.50/month saved. $270/year. The real win was not the discount. The real win was AI helping me: - Ask better questions - Check the maths - Avoid payout traps - Push past the first “best offer” - Get the final number confirmed in writing They first offered a small plan downgrade. Then we asked about loyalty. Then retention. Then the numbers did not add up. AI spotted the issue. One plan change had not actually been processed. So, we pushed again. Final result: Old bill: $251.30/month New bill: $228.80/month Yearly saving: $270 AI did not magically save me money. It just stopped me from giving up while the telco maze tried to win. Next target: Telstra internet.