Telstra outages and service status in Atherton, Queensland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Atherton, Queensland

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  wazza_gc (@WazzaGc) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Telstra been trying to pay a bill for the last *TWO* hours. Can't sign in. Mobile app: "we can't display your account, try later". Deleted and reinstalled app, no change. Windows 11: "something went wrong". This is ridiculous.

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CC68891975 @SistaRuthDOPD those of us who live where the threat is real now face summer without even basic telecommunications 4G's terrible Telstra contractor trying to fix landlines, out for more than a month, agreed VicEmergency requires data on just for alerts no nbn no wifi hope the new system works

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  Kråke (@Kroke14) reported 17 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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  EFFone (@EEFone1) reported 18 minutes ago

  @tilzaus @AlboMP could be the reason telstra went down for a few hours the other week

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  😻CalamityKitty ✝️ (@CalamityKittyAU) reported 21 minutes ago

  @grok Telstra. Phone on. Connected to network. Not in plane mode. Not out of range. In range. Receiving and making all calls and texts. No blocks. Everything normal. Did. Not. Receive.

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  Hector Savage (@King_Hipp0) reported 21 minutes ago

  @danderfield Telstra Dome first? I can't remember, I keep calling it Etihad or Docklands though, have never called it Marvel Stadium

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  X Freeze (@XFreeze) reported 22 minutes ago

  Starlink is bringing satellite-powered mobile data directly to compatible smartphones in Australia Through Telstra, eligible customers beyond mobile coverage can now access select satellite-optimised apps: • Navigation: Apple Maps, Google Maps and AllTrails • Messaging: Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Google Messages • Weather and fitness: Apple Weather, AccuWeather, Google Weather and Google Fitness No Starlink dish or special satellite phone required. Just a supported device and a clear view of the sky This is a major leap beyond satellite texting toward useful mobile data directly from space More than 26 million texts sent or received Over 200,000 satellite connections per day Currently supported on iPhone 13 or newer and Samsung Galaxy S26 models The future of connectivity is coming from orbit

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  Mo Syed (@msyed_) reported 23 minutes ago

  What's happening in the land down under 1. AusAlert passed the test. That’s not the same as passing the public. Millions of phones lit up during the national AusAlert test. Others got nothing. Older phones missed it. Landlines missed it. Queensland has already said it’s not signing up yet. The government still called it a success. That’s the problem with big national systems. They can work at scale and still fail the people who need them most. An emergency alert isn’t a marketing email. “Most people received it” isn’t the standard. The standard is whether it reaches the person in a flood zone, bushfire path, or cyclone area, including people with old devices, poor coverage, disabilities, or no smartphone at all. 2. Origin’s breach has moved from “what was stolen?” to “what was agreed?” Origin has confirmed data from about 900,000 current and former customers was taken. Now the alleged hacker says the matter has been privately settled and the data won’t be released. That leaves one very obvious question: was a ransom paid? Companies hate talking about this because there are no good options. Paying doesn’t guarantee deletion. Not paying can mean customer data gets dumped online. And either way, the people whose details were stolen have no say in the negotiation. The breach is the first failure. The weeks of uncertainty afterwards are the second. 3. A Telstra outage stopped trains. It shouldn’t have. A telecoms outage took out trains because the switch to the Telstra mobile network was poorly managed. This is what people mean when they talk about critical infrastructure. A train network shouldn’t depend on one fragile link behaving perfectly. The backup needs to be real. Tested. Able to fail over without someone discovering in the middle of an outage that the contingency plan was mostly a PDF and good intentions. Australia is wiring more of daily life into connected systems. Reliability is no longer an IT metric. It’s whether people can get home.

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  Ian Linklater (@IanLinklater5) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Telstra Gol Gol 2738 This really sucks . I don't t do apps of anything .

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  Uptimus (@UptimusApp) reported 24 minutes ago

  Aug 6, 2026 at 02:10 UTC: Recovery monitoring for Telstra has been interrupted as community reports of slow performance and downtime have increased again. Investigation is ongoing.