Telstra outages and service status in Melbourne, Victoria

Problems in the last 24 hours in Melbourne, Victoria

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

Live Outage Map Near Melbourne, Victoria

The most recent Telstra outage reports came from the following cities: Melbourne.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Melbourne	Wi-fi	3 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	4 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	6 days ago
Melbourne	Phone	14 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	15 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	15 days ago

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Telstra Issues Reports Near Melbourne, Victoria

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

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  Chelle 😘🤗 Tim's no 1 Fan (@SgtJackVX35482) reported 4 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra I'm not a Telstra customer but ultimately Telstra owns the lines and every tech I've spoken to blames you that's it end o story

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  Nikki Clare (@Niksterisms) reported 7 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra can you please advise if there is any ongoing issue with the NBN in Kings Park Vic 3021 area. It’s been over 3 weeks now and it keeps dropping in and out. I’ve replaced a cord and it’s still happening. Thanks

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  Peter Martin (@petermartinsept) reported 9 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @grant_phelps @Telstra Go to @Aussie_BB as best thing I ever did was to get away from Telstra as such shocking customer service

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  𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚘.𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌e (@stirlospace) reported 12 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @cameronwilson Also v handy for checking “does X network actually provide service where I’m at /. Work or live?” Without having to sign a contract or >1 month typically. Where I’m at in aus Telstra and Vodafone seem to be the best combo, Optus just does NOT work. At all, YMMV etc

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  Nikki Clare (@Niksterisms) reported 21 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @maesy5 @Telstra Yep! 100% I don’t even bother anymore. It’s frustrating and such a waste of time. Apparently it dropping out consistently is no issue. I think we’ve all been taken for a ride on this.

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  Maggie Payne (@maggiepayne_) reported 21 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @MaccaHeraldSun And Telstra throwing the junior clubs $100k! Not bad.

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  Dale Monteith (@dgmonty16) reported 22 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Thanks Reggie it happened late October and I spent quite a while trying to seek assistance by messaging system. I kept getting referred to someone else and the new messaging would start by asking what the problem was after speaking to someone r previously. I ended up resolving.

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  𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚘.𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 @𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜.𝗰𝗼𝗺 (@stirlospace) reported 23 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Lol is @telstra down or just 💩 also if you thought @Optus was bad Now I know why my uncles phone always is broken don’t ever go near @amaysimAU unless you have more patience than mother Theresa and Dalai Lama. combined

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  Brandon Cook 🌈 (@brandycooklyn) reported 26 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  The internet is apparently down all over Victoria on some level. Vodafone and Telstra are experiencing widespread outages. YouTube celebs are panicking wondering if they will ever be able to upload another sponsored Manscape 4.0 unboxing video.

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  Pamela (@PamelaD888) reported 31 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Optus get your act together and please fix your internet outage! I can’t keep having not service for period of time!!! It has been weeks since internet keep cutting out daily and constantly within 10 minutes! People cannot work or study like this!! Maybe time to look at @Telstra

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  Adam (@Adam_Goldman) reported 33 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Zelda_Doyle @Telstra I’m with @Optus it’s much the same. They actually blocked me when I raised an issue here.

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  Aussiebluemoon PAXed Out (@aussiebluemoon) reported 35 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Optus when can we expect to see Pixel 7 phone preorder information? Current @Telstra customer looking for a better deal. @VodafoneAU currently looking favourite

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  Tony Margaritis (@sthmel) reported 39 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Quinn, it’s New Year’s Eve, cut me some slack, you are asking me to go to some other get help chat section? For what? I’ve done my bit. I am notifying Telstra that Brighton has practically no data, deal with it, we pay premium prices for this crap. HNY 🎇

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  DevaDev (@DevaDev21) reported 43 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra There is no way to contact, the case manager directly. I called up customer service a few times, they left a note in the case for the case manager to call back. But no response.

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  DevaDev (@DevaDev21) reported 45 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Yes, 3 times he called, and helped redirect the call to technical support. But the tech person said to check something in the background. Then they disconnected the call without any notice.

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  Michelle Redfern (@RedfernMichelle) reported 47 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @DianeJamesAM @Telstra I hear you Diane, I’m now with other providers after a lifetime of loyalty (both as an employee & customer) due to the appalling service which has resulted in no less that 3 escalations to the office of the CEO @andy_penn

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  ***** Melo (@guidomelo1) reported 59 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra I have a landline in Melbourne 3000 that does not work at all. I have the same number since 2005. It stop working for 1 month now. We are a small business and our clients can’t contact us. Business is hard and we are abandoned out here @cityofmelbourne please help?

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  (-_-(^_^)-_-) just another david (variant 1963) (@dagavah) reported 59 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Even tho I have an appointment the wait begins @Telstra customer service sucks. Not even attempting to concierge b

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  Dave (@davesayys) reported 59 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @anderlols Check out Boost Mobile, they run on the full Telstra network

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  Peter Bannan (@PeterBannan5) reported 60 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Hey @Telstra, your app is down. Makes it difficult to pay you…

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  John Maunder (@john_lyndondale) reported 8 minutes ago

  @MrRexPatrick Am amazed you have internet access, must be Starlink?? One of my gripes travelling out there is when there is a Telstra signal, but being on their network with another provider and it does not work.

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  Ben 🇺🇦🇦🇺🚴 (@thecattery) reported 9 minutes ago

  @22thinkinggirl Gabby Gabby Who was in a massive WhatsApp exchange with Anthony Carbines who I was sitting near at the footy ~2 months ago, I thought wtf is this about. Was the week of the Telstra V/Line outage.

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  Kai (@kai_h) reported 9 minutes ago

  @no1historychick Telstra are never going to move you to a new plan unless you ask, especially when the newer plans are cheaper and have more data.

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  Mo Syed (@msyed_) reported 9 minutes ago

  When ChatGPT Beats High-Priced Lawyers in Court 1/9 A Sydney uni lecturer just beat a university’s legal team in court using ChatGPT. Telstra bumped its CEO’s pay right after cutting jobs and crashing the network. And researchers found a way to hack a Boeing 737 with a device the size of a 20-cent coin. Here is the tech news that actually matters this week 🧵👇 2/9 Greg Baker, an IT lecturer at Macquarie University, took on his employer at the Fair Work Commission over new casual conversion rules. The university brought trained lawyers. Baker brought ChatGPT. The tribunal ruled in his favour, handing him a permanent part-time role in a historic test of untested employment laws. 3/9 This is why people get excited about everyday AI. Hiring a workplace lawyer to fight an employer costs thousands before you even walk through the door. An LLM can comb through legislation, draft arguments, and help someone represent themselves without spending a fortune. The real shift isn't AI replacing judges. It's giving ordinary workers the legal firepower usually reserved for big HR departments. 4/9 Anthropic confirmed Claude will soon add invisible watermarks to text and files to meet EU rules. The watermark stays attached even after you copy, paste, or tweak the wording. Some users are already cancelling subscriptions over it. Nobody wants to hand in a report they spent hours editing only for an automated filter to flag the entire thing as machine-written. 5/9 Telstra decided to give its CEO a base pay bump. The timing is wild: • A massive nationwide network outage in July • 1,200 staff cut across the year • A slump in top-line revenue • Threats to freeze regional mobile investments if the ACCC pushes for domestic roaming Corporate boards have an incredible ability to read the room completely backwards. 6/9 A routine "system update" triggered a major Mastercard outage across Australia this week. Shoppers got stuck at checkouts with full trolleys and tap-and-go cards declining everywhere. We keep pushing towards a cashless economy, but our payment rails fall over whenever someone pushes the wrong configuration file. 7/9 Security researchers proved they could compromise a Boeing 737 using a coin-sized hardware device. It took them roughly 60 seconds to gain access. Physical plane safety used to be about rivets and engines. Modern aviation is networks, firmware, and bus architectures. If you can physically plug into a port, the jet is just another computer with wings. 8/9 Retailers are now testing facial recognition scans at the register so you can pay for your flat white with your face. It saves about two seconds compared to tapping a phone. In return, a commercial database gets your biometric scan. Hard pass on trading facial geometry for a cappuccino. 9/9 The thread tying all of this together: AI is levelling the playing field for individuals against giant institutions. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure (planes, payments, telcos) is becoming more fragile by the day. Tech works best when it empowers people, not when it creates single points of failure.

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  Noah Fence (@birchipboy) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CKMonty Telstra Ford….. never realised they had merged! Haha

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  Joseph Thomas (@j_seph_th_mas) reported 18 minutes ago

  Twelve live Australian job ads integrate AI in the title with enablement, transformation, automation, or change. Only ten companies have posted them. HESTA is hiring an “Enterprise AI Enablement Lead,” TAL an “AI and Automation Lead,”  IAG an “AI and Automation Principal.” Aware Super wants an “AI Strategy Change Lead”. CBA’s is a financial crime compliance role, and Insignia Financial’s is in risk. Four engineering roles at Canva, Xero, and Telstra. Which leaves two, and both are at EY. One is an “Associate Partner - Solutions Architect - AI Transformation,” sold through its Microsoft alliance. The other is a “Transformation and AI Marketing Leader” on a 12-month parental leave cover to take EY’s AI transformation offering to market. It’s the only live Australian marketing role in the twelve, and the AI capability it asks for- advanced use of Copilot, ChatGPT, and Perplexity- is in the optional skills. I built a workforce intelligence platform, and I’m analysing how AI is being written into new job roles. As of 27th August 2026, it holds 1,603 live Australian specs across 102 companies. Of 1,522 live marketing specs globally, 232 are AI-central, roles where AI is core or supporting the work as written. Of those, 179 (77.2%) carry no decision architecture. Nothing about who checks the model or who can override it, and no one is named accountable for what it produces. Across all functions, it’s 65.1%. Marketing is 12.1 points worse. Australian marketing is 101 live specs. Eight are AI-central, and seven of them have zero decision architecture. A CMO who hasn’t hired for this borrows it from an agency. Agencies post AI-central roles in 13.3% of 2,763 live specs. The banks and insurers they pitch to post them in 13.2% of 2,261. The seller and the buyer are hiring at the same rate. One Australian marketing team has written the role properly. NAB advertised a Head of Agentic Marketing in May, asking the hire to support the “redesign of marketing operating models and workflows using AI agents,” with humans kept in the loop and someone named accountable for what the agents produce. It scored 4 out of 4 in decision architecture, the only Australian marketing spec in 402 to do so. It hasn’t been live since 7th June 2026.

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  wildwitch (@wickedwildwitch) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Ausbobsmit he spends $7,000,000 each year + pus all his families holidays, internet, telstra bills, fuel, meals. and more. Not one cent from his own pocket. but he has the audacity to take from the poor and disabled

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  DemocracyIsDead (@STIIBTWTCFMYCGA) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TopherField One of our clients had an existing telstra router just wanted an NBN connection. 2 weeks. $110 per month. I got her to contact starlink. 5 days later delivered and installed. $75 per month. Get your act together telstra. Can't be so slow anymore. There are choices.

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  Ronnie Chapman (@ronnnie_12trans) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SWatMR11 @GusLefty Rex was dropped by Qantas and that idiot Joyce was an instigator . 48% of telstra sold off by Howard ,Hockey responsible for the demise of Ford, GMH and Toyota pulling out of Australia.

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  Dean Knight (@knightd73) reported 31 minutes ago

  @CKMonty Telstra ford customer is clear give away neither of them have customer care in their charter - used to long time ago 😜