Telstra outages and service status in Mackay, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Mackay, Queensland

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Mackay, 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 Near Mackay, Queensland

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

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  Bruce Black (@58_chucky) reported 5 seconds ago from Mackay, Queensland

  @Telstra - typical service standards - NONE - no e-mail service for 2 grs - & they will say “sorry - again” - absolute rubbish

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  ⭐️ Sharon Dove ⭐️ (@shazza4740) reported 10 minutes ago from Mackay, Queensland

  @Telstra Have rung that link 2 days in a row. 1st day on line for 1hr and today over 1 1/2 before i gave up. No service just on hold

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  Jonathon Dykyj (@jonathondykyj) reported 12 minutes ago from Mackay, Queensland

  @Telstra Ok, thank you. Are people paying full price for a diminished service?

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  ⭐️ Sharon Dove ⭐️ (@shazza4740) reported 33 minutes ago from Mackay, Queensland

  @Telstra been trying to get thru to your NBN service ppl for the last 2 days. Cant get thru or sit there for hours with no response. Then it says go on line. Bit hard when you have No NBN to check. #terribleservice #UnAcceptible

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  ⭐️ Sharon Dove ⭐️ (@shazza4740) reported 59 minutes ago from Mackay, Queensland

  @Telstra No outages in my area. probs been ongoing for 2 weeks. NBN just doesn't work in regional Qld

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  🇦🇺Leoo 🗻 (@OCELeoo) reported 4 minutes ago

  @SamuelLalor22 @AFL @Telstra Changing the subject now are ya Exactly what I thought poor ****

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  calmingdown (@joey8bitz) reported 6 minutes ago

  @enz2g @1WeakGuttedDog Telstra is really going to hinder its own company 🙄 You, are the ******. Telstra has shareholders that want as MUCH money as possible. There is no way they would intentionally jeopardise that. You are full of ****, plain and simple.

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  t ♡ (@jopperatenzos) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus happened to me so I changed to Boost who are cheaper. they’re on the Telstra network too!

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  Nat Factor ⭐️💜 (@StuddertNatalie) reported 8 minutes ago

  @TheChopperLady It’s ok. I’m already thinking of suing Telstra for ******* up my payments and putting me in this situation! So much for government assistance right? These corporations and governments are pathetically slow!

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  Andrew (@andrewrdn463) reported 10 minutes ago

  People on radio saying Mira Bashi Customer Experience Telstra is ignoring customer feedback?????????

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  Lynette (@lynettekc) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MikeCarlton01 **** Telstra 🤬

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  JimBobSquarePants 🇺🇦 (@James_M_South) reported 13 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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  Chad (@OTheChad) reported 13 minutes ago

  @mynameiskiiiid @TheKouk Structural deficit? Mate, let's get this straight.Australia's structural budget issues blew out post-GFC and especially under recent big-spending governments — not from Howard paying down $96b in inherited debt while running surpluses. Howard left the budget in strong shape with low debt and a Future Fund seeded. Today's deficits (still projected around 1% of GDP with net debt heading to ~20%+) come from exploding recurrent spending: NDIS, aged care, welfare, and public sector bloat — not a lack of 'productivity policy' from the 90s/00s. Howard-era asset sales (Telstra etc.) shifted assets to private hands where they often delivered better efficiency and innovation — exactly what boosts productivity. Privatisation and microeconomic reforms in the 80s-90s drove Australia's strong productivity surge in the late 90s/early 00s. Blaming today's slump on "record low infrastructure spending" 25-30 years ago is the real stretch. Recent productivity stagnation (labour productivity near flat since ~2016-17, weakest in decades) has clear modern drivers:Services shift — healthcare, education, public admin (non-market sectors) now dominate and have abysmal productivity growth. Faster broadband, transport, and training matter — but governments have poured billions into infrastructure since then (and states still do). The constraint isn't some 1990s "under-spend"; it's getting value for money, avoiding waste, and prioritising high-return projects over recurrent blowouts. Private sector dynamism, competition, and sensible tax settings deliver productivity far more reliably than more government "facilitation" funded by structural deficits. You know what actually restricts productivity policy? Promising endless spending while ignoring incentives, efficiency, and evidence. Structural deficits today crowd out future options through higher interest and taxes — not the other way around." This keeps it punchy, factual, and directly dismantles the causal link while flipping the deficit argument.

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  Here4CarltonMeltdowns⚫️⚪️⚫️🇦🇺✊🏾🌊🏄‍♂️ (@camo2572) reported 15 minutes ago

  @karlstefanovic Sold everything you clown Private sector won That’s why we pay **** tonne more Look at Telecom into Telstra he royally ****** that up ******* get it right ******** 🤡🖕#Auspol

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  SNOOPREY (@SNOOPREY77) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Telstra U guys lost a multi million dollar settlement for mislead indigenous ppl in rural areas not that long ago. Why u lying. All big corporations try shady crap and deny deny deny and still play it off as no big deal .