Telstra outages and service status in Wickham, Western Australia

Problems in the last 24 hours in Wickham, Western Australia

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Wickham, Western Australia 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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  BrownSquirrel (@BrownSquirrel) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Telstra But I don't want to so please help with this instead of trying to make me do something I dont want to do.

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  Elizabeth Anne Kelly (@kellynettlefold) reported 5 minutes ago

  Unacceptable Telstra and disgraceful. Calls attempted did not go thru. Bad. Another altage?

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  Lombok (@Phildecynic) reported 5 minutes ago

  Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady took home $6.8 million last year – an 11 per cent increase, despite a fall in revenue at Australia’s largest telecommunications company in the year leading up to its disastrous nationwide outage last month. (AFR)

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  Mo Syed (@msyed_) reported 5 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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  Noah Fence (@birchipboy) reported 9 minutes ago

  @CKMonty Telstra Ford….. never realised they had merged! Haha

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  Dr Ravi Nayyar (@ravirockks) reported 13 minutes ago

  'This is despite Allens never asking Telstra this and strict rules about firms’ consulting and auditing arms not discussing clients.

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  BeefyGold6669 (@BeefyGold6669) reported 14 minutes ago

  @sanpellyenjoyer I swear that one in the teal shirt was Steve from Dell tech support. And the one next to him was Randy from Telstra

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  Anoop Z (@anupelectro) reported 19 minutes ago

  @KobieThatcher It is same with Telstra Optus and Vodafone. Network monitoring is also done from India.

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  Carstendog (@carstendog) reported 20 minutes ago

  @fictillius I do love the fact that Telstra phone booths are a free service now and essentially only exist as advertising billboards

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  Madasahater (@Madasahater65) reported 21 minutes ago

  Our internet is that bad tonight(Telstra) that a Berocca add came on and took 8 minutes to finish.