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	Phone	3 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	4 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	4 days ago
Melbourne	Phone	6 days ago
Melbourne	Phone	8 days ago
Melbourne	Phone	9 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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  𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚘.𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌e (@stirlospace) reported 4 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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  Vision 🍌 (@TheVision_13) reported 4 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  The Telstra logo on the 50 looks so bad, really doesn’t need the blue background

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  Tony Margaritis (@sthmel) reported 4 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra There are over 15-20 Telstra phones here and everyone having the same issues, just send someone to the phone tower and unplug and plug back in, it needs a reboot, trust me, I’m a limo driver.

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  Thanks for coming (@VeteranDave) reported 6 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Asking for @telstra help from my Twitter friends. I wasted 3 hours with their help service on Friday. Cannot view Kayo footy because download speed is too slow. Recent occurrences. My question. HTF do you get someone to come to your house and fix it? Is that still possible? 😡

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  Glenn Hampson (@GlennHampson) reported 6 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @TonyCinema I have had no issue with their service and their price point craps all over Telstra for the same thing.

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  Claire 包玉思🏅🥈🥇🥉🥇🥇🥉🥇💉💉💉 (@AuspiciousTimes) reported 13 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @TMFScottP @Telstra @NBN_Australia Agreed. My provider offered broadband back as of all the problems in the area. I'm sure others had the same offer. I'm also sure it will improve one day. However school work needs to be done.

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  Daniel Matthews (@DanRobMat) reported 14 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra is there an outage in Brooklyn Vic? No internet or phones at work

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  Tony Margaritis (@sthmel) reported 15 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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  Tanya (@tigertufftanya) reported 18 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @andrewtiger9 @Telstra It is horrid. We had no Foxtel for over 24 hours because there was a fault with the Telstra cable it runs off.

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  Stanleysmum (Sharon) (@Stanleysmum1) reported 18 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra could you be anymore incompetent! My poor 84yr old mum new mobile in Nov. M1, T cancelled acc in error, needed a new number a week without it. M2-DD failed,acc blocked as they'd typed wrong bank deets. M3 same issue store can't fix need to raise complaint. Can't fix 😤😡

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  Brian Humphries (@rocky1622) reported 23 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Coalition is bunch wackos especially nationals have had 9 years get phones internet for country and now in paper today there giving Telstra a wack. Stupid

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  Stanleysmum (Sharon) (@Stanleysmum1) reported 30 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra I had a complaint raised, theny called and said there was nothing they could do over the phone and Mum needed to set up an online account!! They were then getting someone to call yesterday and surprise. Nobody called. I'll send a message but not holding my breath for a resolution

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  Michelle Redfern (@RedfernMichelle) reported 31 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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  Tim McMahon (@_TimMcMahon) reported 32 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @vertikar @NBN_Australia @Telstra Yeah, 4G. No 5G coverage in this part of Melbourne. I wish I didn't have to use a SIM from another telco to get 20+ Mbps. Telstra 4G backup is about 0.16 Mbps down with a Smart Modem. We just tether phones during work hours for video calls or sharing would be too slow.

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  Tim McMahon (@_TimMcMahon) reported 32 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Telstra 4G backup speed is 0.16 Mbps (down) in the Smart Modem. 💀 6.32 Mbps (down) when I use a SIM card from another telco in the modem. 🧐 Smart Modem with 4G backup is so slowwwww 🐌 @Telstra

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  Nikki Clare (@Niksterisms) reported 42 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Hey Tweeps, is anyone who has the iPhone 14 Pro having issues with the phone taking forever to load things when it’s on wifi? Is it a 5G drama or is this just a Telstra thing?

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  troiboi 🤨 (@Troiboi) reported 43 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Anyone else got the new #AppleWatch and having no end of trouble trying to set cellular up? @Optus no help. @Telstra seemingly the same. Lots of threads talking about the issues. Why can they not solve? #apple #iPhone14ProMax

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  Crowded_Howes ☣️ (@RJ_Howes) reported 53 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  I have rarely received scam calls. Interesting I am now getting multiple a day. Scam: I am calling about your Telstra internet. (I am with @Optus: not a recommendation btw) Rob: Did you say 'Telstar'? Scam: Telstra. It's an internet service provider. Rob: Oh is it?

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  Tony Margaritis (@sthmel) reported 54 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Arrrrrrgggg…… I’m like getting **** all data to sustain a chat, just get the boys to reboot the modem and router at the tower please.

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  Lous (@lousanti) reported 56 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra really. Pay a bill 2 days late and get slugged with a late fee that is 20% of the bill. That is really poor, greedy and nasty. So much for customer loyalty!

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Uptimus (@UptimusApp) reported 2 minutes ago

  Aug 06, 2026 at 01:45 UTC: Uptimus is currently monitoring Telstra stability. Reports have returned to normal levels, and we are verifying system performance before resolving.

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  antqld (@antqldbwog) reported 6 minutes ago

  @EVERALDATLARGE He sold everything off Commonwealth’s property portfolio, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, 167 tonnes of gold at 7% of what it’s worth today and failed to pay the public service superannuation leaving behind a $96 billion liability.

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  Kråke (@Kroke14) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TruthFairy131 @Qantas are using the smoke screen of AI adoption to make offshoring Australian jobs to India more palatable while trying to portray itself as an Australian company. This **** seems to accelerate whenever there is an incompetent female CEO at the helm, just look at @Telstra

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  Steven Fogg (@Stevefogg) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Lyall_Mercer @Telstra I left them and went to @Aussie_BB they've been good and all local australian support

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  Brent Hodgson (@BrentHodgson) reported 11 minutes ago

  @deborahbrian @aaronsmith @DHughesy Nor did the surpluses. Three-quarters of the $96 billion paid down under Howard (~$71.8bn) came from one-time public asset selloffs - including Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, DASFLEET, defence assets, Brisbane Airport, Melbourne Airport, Perth Airport, National Rail, Adelaide Airport, Darwin and Alice Springs Airports, Canberra Airport, Hobart Airport, the Australian Industry Development Corporation, Broadcast Australia (transmission towers)... A lot of those assets were sold at knock-down prices too - e.g. Broadcast Australia was sold at $650m, then the buyer sold it for twice that shortly after.

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  vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸 (@glyphclutter) reported 15 minutes ago

  @simianlines i used to be with vodafone but now i’m on telstra wholesale network so what ******* gives

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  Brent Hodgson (@BrentHodgson) reported 15 minutes ago

  @DHughesy No. Only an idiot would agree - because they'd be wrong. 1. It's not worth "over $300 billion". The $64 billion dollar investment is worth $269 billion 2. If you're using the "over 300 billion" figure ($337.2 billion) that figure means your "no future Fed Govt put one cent into it" bit is incorrect because this figure includes MULTIPLE additional multi-billion dollar funds added to the Future Fund's management portfolio. 3. The future fund wasn't built on some kind of free money windfall... The $64 billion invested came primarily from the Telstra sale. The Telstra sale meant the copper network was privatised, leading to Telstra putting shareholders first in refusing to bid on optic fibre rollouts. This meant the government has so far spent around $64 billion ($70bn by the end of the decade) to re-create Telstra's infrastructure under NBN Co. Meanwhile Telstra has paid $65-80bn in dividends since privatisation moved those dividends from public to private hands. So for every $1 we gained from the Telstra sale, we missed another $1 in dividends and spent another $1 in replacing the infrastructure we sold. Had a publicly-owned Telstra built the NBN out of dividends, and the government raised $64bn in debt to invest in a Future Fund, the books would look exactly the same as they do today. You've been dazzled by accounting tricks - following a magician's misdirection, and calling it "magic". 4. "negating the trillion plus debts... to some degree" is bullshit... It was created to cover DECADES worth of unpaid public service and military retirement benefits. Those debts amount to $322 billion, to be paid out of (currently) $269 billion in funds - leaving a $53 billion dollar black hole. Had the money been paid to super in a timely fashion (rather than the Future Fund being set up to cover unpaid pension debts), that $322 billion in benefits would be sitting in private super accounts right now. Again, you're dazzled by an accountant's magic tricks. Not free money - not "negating debts" - just a big government-owned super fund. "Can we all agree it was amazing when the magician sawed that woman in half! He should be a surgeon!"

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  Rusty Broo (@rustybroo) reported 17 minutes ago

  @SirMickW And how is it possible that @Telstra Brady gets $6.7 MILLION DOLLARS a year for buggering up the phones? #Telstra #Fail

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Telstra Please Phone out May 30 only back a few days before out again It's a known issue

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  Lucy the Red (@LucytheRed1) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DHughesy You clearly don’t realize the Future Fund was: 1) primarily seeded by the sale of Telstra 2) Set up to fund existing government liabilities I’ll dumb it down for you. The Howard government sold our assets to fund existing liabilities. Embarrassed for you (again)