Telstra outages and service status in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales 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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  MyBrainHurts🍸 ⚰️ (@CountessAu) reported 1 minute ago

  @Telstra, how about you stop sending pointless notifications at 5am before I lodge a formal complaint to the TIO for disturbing my peace and quiet enjoyment. Like sleep. Morons.

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  Mr Max (@MrMax_2000) reported 1 minute ago

  @DougCox84162420 @VoteLewko @Starlink Telstra plan for 50 Mbps was around 75 dollars 5 years ago and they were increasing prices by $5 every year with no change in speed. Then did one step up to 100 and finally 500 last year but the speed is never consistent. Some parts of the world have moved to Gbps.

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  Here4CarltonMeltdowns⚫️⚪️⚫️🇦🇺✊🏾🌊🏄‍♂️ (@camo2572) reported 6 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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  John Silvester (@JohnSil81971396) reported 7 minutes ago

  @karlstefanovic Sold off Telstra and government assets to their mates to square the debt. Big thugs these two. Cost of living crisis that Australians are facing is because of the regressive mess of the GST There was never a good crisis before the GST.

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  St Mary MacKiller (@StMaryMacKiller) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CDunnart It’s not this farmer’s choice. Telstra ran through here long ago and all the trees on their line died. He left them all for habitat but time and storms bring them down and he has to clear when fallen timber gets too dense bcs of bushfire risk. He leaves a lot of habitat.

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  WaltzingRNLilydale (@rn_lilydale) reported 7 minutes ago

  @newscomauHQ The 🇦🇺 government does the same, on a much larger scale. Federal agencies (Immigration, ATO etc.) and major contractors have long outsourced call centres, customer service and IT work to the Philippines and India, thousands of roles. Telstra, banks and others do the same.

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  Pak 🇦🇺 (@_Whale_fish_) reported 11 minutes ago

  @VoteLewko @Starlink Ah, look, some competition! How terrible. Telstra and Optus will be forced to improve their services. Brrrrr

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 13 minutes ago

  OK the rain was good but why is the phone out? first rain in a while might have taken out the landline or rats or termites be in a right pickle if the mobile were network blocked as it was for a while hey @Telstra can't dm on the new phone the "network" demanded I buy

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  Andy (@Andy22000) reported 16 minutes ago

  @WhereMyOstrich @ausstockchick No need to respond in such a derogatory manner. Here is the list, I pulled this from Grok in app you can verify it easily. Recent major Australian companies announcing significant domestic layoffs and offshoring of corporate/white-collar roles — Woolworths, Officeworks, Telstra, and NAB — have timed these moves amid sharp rises in domestic employment costs. • Woolworths (early June 2026) is offshoring hundreds of head-office roles in IT, finance, and HR to India/Philippines as part of cost-cutting to stay competitive with Aldi and Amazon. • Officeworks (late May 2026) is shifting hundreds of support, customer service, and tech roles to Bengaluru and Manila, boosted by AI/automation. • Telstra (earlier 2026) cut hundreds of roles (up to 650 in rounds) with work moving offshore to India. • NAB has expanded offshore teams in India/Vietnam (adding 1,000+ roles) while managing Australian redundancies. This wave aligns closely with escalating domestic labour costs: The national minimum wage and award rates rose 3.5% from July 2025, superannuation guarantee hit 12%, and the Fair Work Commission announced further increases effective July 2026 (4.75% on awards, ~5.9–6% on the minimum wage to $26.44/hour). Combined with weak productivity growth, higher on-costs (payroll tax, workers’ comp, etc.), and strong wage pressures, this has widened the cost gap versus offshore locations where skilled roles can be 30–70% cheaper. Companies cite these factors — plus efficiency drives — as key reasons for prioritising offshoring while protecting or growing frontline retail/store jobs domestically. This reflects a broader 2025–2026 trend among Aussie firms responding to cost-arbitrage opportunities in a high-wage, lower-productivity environment.

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  Brett Keleher (@thebrickcleaner) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Telstra data outage in Melbourne SE??