telstra outage

Telstra’s national mobile network collapsed within minutes early Wednesday after a software fault pushed critical time-telling systems back to November 2006, disrupting millions of customers, train services, EV chargers, Eftpos payments and some triple-zero calls before chief executive Vicki...

Telstra detected its nationwide mobile outage at about 4.30am on July 8, 2026, but chief executive Vicki Brady was not alerted for another two and a half hours, after an operations leader whose Telstra phone would not connect resorted to leaving her a message through Microsoft Teams. The...