Australia news LIVE: Telstra outage affecting calls to Triple Zero, brings regional Victoria, NSW train services to a halt
Pinned post from 11.26amGo to latestWhat you need to know about Telstra’s crashBy Chris PaineWelcome to our live coverage today, headlined by Telstra’s widespread outages. Here’s what you need to know.Telstra crashes: Customers of Australia’s biggest telco woke up to mobile and data outages, affecting potentially hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people. The implications were widespread, affecting Triple Zero calls, regional train services and payments systems.Triple Zero issues: State police services reported that while the Triple Zero call centres were unaffected, some Telstra customers attempting to call them were.
- ▪Pinned post from 11.26amGo to latestWhat you need to know about Telstra’s crashBy Chris PaineWelcome to our live coverage today, headlined by Telstra’s widespread outages.
- ▪Here’s what you need to know.Telstra crashes: Customers of Australia’s biggest telco woke up to mobile and data outages, affecting potentially hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people.
- ▪The implications were widespread, affecting Triple Zero calls, regional train services and payments systems.Triple Zero issues: State police services reported that while the Triple Zero call centres were unaffected, some Telstra customers a
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 20 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Telstra outage: triple-zero calls affected by network glitches as regional train services slowly resume — World news | The Guardian
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Pinned post from 11.26amGo to latestWhat you need to know about Telstra’s crashBy Chris PaineWelcome to our live coverage today, headlined by Telstra’s widespread outages. Here’s what you need to know.Telstra crashes: Customers of Australia’s biggest telco woke up to mobile and data outages, affecting potentially hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people. The implications were widespread, affecting Triple Zero calls, regional train services and payments systems.Triple Zero issues: State police services reported that while the Triple Zero call centres were unaffected, some Telstra customers attempting to call them were.
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