Telstra mobile network mostly restored after nationwide crash

• A major nationwide Telstra mobile outage on Wednesday morning disrupted calls and internet access for potentially millions of Australians, with services later mostly restored (around 90%).
• The outage impacted essential services including public transport, payment systems, and traffic infrastructure, with train services suspended and EFTPOS and ticketing systems affected.
• The cause is still under investigation, though it is believed to be linked to issues in Telstra data centres, with no evidence of malicious activity reported.

Telstra says its services have been mostly restored after its network suffered a major, nationwide outage that left potentially millions of Australians unable to make phone calls or access the internet.

“We’ve made good progress restoring services, with just under 90 per cent of calls and data now flowing successfully across the network,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

“Our teams are working as quickly as possible to restore remaining services and get all customers back online.”

Federal Communications Minister Anika Wells said that Telstra’s network had “largely returned to business-as-usual” just before 2pm AEST, with “only a small number of devices now experiencing issues”.

Ms Wells said the emergency Triple Zero system was operational, but the system custodian had advised some callers had been unable to get through earlier.

Emergency Management and Acting Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kristy McBain said the outage had been “been incredibly disruptive to small businesses, but also to the plans of many holiday-makers”. 

She said V/Line regional Victorian train services were still unable to operate and the Australian Railtrack Corporation had paused freight trains.

Both ministers asked people not to test Triple Zero…

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