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	5 hours ago
Melbourne	Phone	2 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	4 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	4 days ago
Melbourne	Total Blackout	4 days ago
Melbourne	Internet	5 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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  Glenn Hampson 🐢 (@GlennHampson) reported 3 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @PieNorthern Not a bad patch I had a mate who lived and worked up there for Telstra as a linie and he stayed there for decades.

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  Michael Jessopp (@ppossej) reported 8 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Huh. 13 years on Twitter. I only joined up to test a Telstra Mobile service that joined your social networks together ... and you could tweet by sending SMS to a Telstra Mobile short code. Crazy days.

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  Marc Christie (@Marc1983x) reported 13 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Hey @Telstra is there an issue with crossed lines or something on the 4g network?

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  Declan Martin (@declanmartin75) reported 14 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Aerohaveno @Telstra Never ending these days

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  Eileen Ormsby (@EileenOrmsby) reported 15 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Hey, #telstra why ask to DM if all you’re going to do is tell me to message the app? Why not say it here? The app is an abyss of endless requests to repeat the steps that didn’t work the first 50 times, before fading away without a resolution

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  Stanleysmum (Sharon) (@Stanleysmum1) reported 17 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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  Damian Marley 🚀 (@asteroidproject) reported 18 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Did you know: If you’re with @Telstra and you have multiple mobile phones in your household, with contracts signed on different dates, you get direct debited for each service on different days? It’s confusing, inconvenient and dumb, and Telstra don’t care.

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  Nick Splitter (@nicksplitter) reported 20 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  . @Telstra best person to help me move my service to new address? Website is shocking and chat support center closed on Sunday.

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  Ananthasubramanian (@_chinmusic) reported 21 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Frustrated with @amaysimAU 's 4G connection. Have had bad experiences with @VodafoneAU & @Telstra in the past with network and exhorbitant pricing. Where do I go now ?

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  Peter Bannan (@PeterBannan5) reported 25 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

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

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  Chelle 😘🤗 Tim's no 1 Fan (@SgtJackVX35482) reported 27 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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  Ayelbee (@ayelbee1) reported 31 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Good Grief Gladys has a new job with Optus. Think I should move to Telstra...if only they weren't so terrible

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  Trevor Young (@trevoryoung) reported 32 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra 3101 - just noticed it half an hour ago when I went to pay for something … no one else in the house is having any issues though

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  Danial Smith (@daniel2509) reported 34 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Telstra Thanks, but if the Samsung store is unable to resolve this issue in their store I don't think Telstra can. I will continue my discussions with Samsung and hopefully get a refund on this S22 and go back to an iPhone.

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  ✨ Miss Natski ✨ (@Natski82) reported 34 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @Jane_L_Kennedy @Telstra And of course he believed it, afterall, the people at telstra told him the NBN called. 6 hours they kept him on the phone and ended up costing my dad $19,000. Absolutely ridiculous and when he called telstra, they didn't give a ****. Switched to optus. Safer /3

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  Woody Alyx (@Woody_Alyx) reported 39 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @bitter_britt_ Oh man ive had so many issues with optus, telstra all the way

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  Johnny (@JohnnyLydon) reported 48 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  Hi from Telstra. NBN Co are performing network updates in your area on 21 April 2023. Your internet service may be interrupted between 12:00AM - 6:00AM for up to 20mins….” - Kooyong electorate: 2 years to get nbn connected & nearly 3 years later still this rubbish continues

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  Michelle Redfern (@RedfernMichelle) reported 52 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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  Glenn Hampson (@GlennHampson) reported 54 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

  @lhjh70 I’ve been called by Vodafone, Telstra and IiNet as well as ANZ and NAB of which i am a customer of none it takes 5 secs for them to kick in and a common accent in all of the calls

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  Daniel Matthews (@DanRobMat) reported 58 minutes ago from Melbourne, Victoria

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

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ACCAN (@ACCAN_AU) reported 4 minutes ago

  That's a wrap on @Techingov_AU in Canberra. Two consumer takeaways: new tech must work for everyone, not just the average user and trust in government services must be informed by consumers and measurable, including traceability of AI agents. Also a sharp breakdown of the Telstra outage from Frank den Hartog (Uni of Canberra). #TechinGov

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  SonicHacki (ConcordeHacki) (@SonicHacki) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TennyUnderscore Damn based Telstra

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  Baiyang **** (@NJCMLAB) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MinotaurStocks In the Q2 conference call, it stated Telstra (Australia) as the new HomeSecure partner. "Third, we secured a new win ---, adding our HomeSecure service in another country. The HomeSecure solution enhances threat protection across the Telstra's ---"

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  afraid_au (@afraid_au) reported 10 minutes ago

  @LmDread @tarkov Telstra appears to have stabilised for Sydney. Which servers are you having issues with, and which ISP are you with?

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  Johnny (@JohnnyLydon) reported 17 minutes ago

  It’s $250k for 27 years as an mp including 7 years as deputy premier and premier less than half the increase of the Telstra CEO’s $6m annual pay packet. You and the idiot Murphy should just get stuffed.

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  💧Daren Connor 🇦🇺 (@connor_daren) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Telstra you send me messages to say the network is having issues & use wifi calling but if the network is having issues which affects my devices then how the hell do I use wifi calling when there’s no network? How long will this be going on? This is the 4th day of these messages

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  Mo Syed (@msyed_) reported 21 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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  Rust (@rusinc_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Mr_Fanta_Pants I’ll wait for my kogan sim to run out and switch to a provider with the Telstra network

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  CommSec (@CommSec) reported 23 minutes ago

  The ASX is set to dip at the open, with index futures down 0.2%. It comes ahead of big earnings results this morning from Telstra, Origin, Transurban, ASX, and Insurance Australia Group. Overnight, US markets mostly lifted, with the S&P 500 up 0.3% and the Nasdaq adding 0.5%.

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  GainsMax (@GainsMax168031) reported 25 minutes ago

  @SkullSpeedDeal A family member of mine over a decade ago ran a Telstra phone store, it became top 3 in the entire state because of his leadership. Anyway, something happened, and he told me the 2nd in charge (Indian) backstabbed him and took over the main position. A year later, the store had hired a lot of Indians and ended up being the worst store in the state lol