Broadband News
Thu, 09th Jul 2026
Elderly woman left 'frightened', senator 'irresponsible' over Telstra outage
An SA woman says her elderly mother was left 'frightened' during the Telstra outage after a fall. Meanwhile, SA police have said they have no record of any deaths during the network failure, despite a senator's claims.
Source: ABC News
SpaceX applies to launch 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites
SpaceX has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for authority to launch and operate up to 100,000 third-generation Starlink satellites, the biggest such broadband constellation proposed so far.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 08th Jul 2026
QLD police check on 21 Triple Zero callers after Telstra outage
Queensland police confirmed multiple emergency calls across the state failed to connect to Triple Zero during the nationwide Telstra outage.
Source: ABC News
Live: Telstra says it's working to resolve network 'issue'
Telstra customers are reporting problems connecting to the internet and making calls this morning. Follow live.
Source: ABC News
Telstra outage brings Victorian regional rail network to a halt
Regional train operator V/Line says services on all lines are suspended and there is no estimated time for rectification.
Source: ABC News
Telstra mobile network hit by significant outage
Telstra’s mobile network is experiencing a large-scale outage impacting voice and data services on Wednesday, with users finding their phones in SOS mode.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra mobile network crashes nationwide, causing transport and payment delays
Telstra customers, as well as customers of mobile providers that use Telstra's network, have flooded outage detection websites with reports.
Source: ABC News
Telstra runs hundreds of welfare checks after mobile network outage
Telstra has completed 395 welfare checks triggered by customers that could not connect to emergency services
Source: iTnews Australia
Broken timers trigger nationwide Telstra outage
Telstra says Wednesday's nationwide outage was caused by malfunctioning "nodes" that manage time synchronisation within some of the network data centres, but has no idea what caused the timer issues.
Source: ABC News
Passenger and freight trains in NSW cancelled due to Telstra network outage
Services in the Hunter, between Sydney and Canberra, and around the Southern Highlands have been suspended. Meanwhile, some coal and freight trains have been halted for safety, amid the outage.
Source: ABC News
Telstra links national outage on network timing fault
Telstra has blamed a national mobile outage on a fault affecting time-synchronisation nodes that help keep its network operating, while investigating reports of issues involving some triple-zero calls.
Source: ARN
Telstra says timekeeping issue behind mobile network outage
Telstra has revealed a nationwide mobile network outage is due to a failure of timekeeping nodes used to synchronise its network operations, with work underway to recover them.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 06th Jul 2026
Superloop's $25 PriceLock freezes your broadband price and speed for two years
Superloop has put a price on certainty, and it comes to $25.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 02nd Jul 2026
Amazon to start initial Leo internet service this year
Amazon expects to roll out initial internet service with its Leo broadband satellite network later this year after the company's latest launch put the orbiting constellation's satellite count over 390, a company executive said.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 30th Jun 2026
Telstra’s claimed coverage slashed by almost 1 million km
Telstra has reluctantly marked hundreds of thousands of square kilometres as “no coverage”, despite previously claiming calls could be made there.
Source: SMH
Why Telstra, Optus and TPG mobile coverage maps now look different
Australia's major telcos are being forced to comply with new standards when promoting mobile coverage networks, and Telstra is not happy.
Source: ABC News
Mon, 29th Jun 2026
Breaking: ACCC sues Amazon over 'unfair' Prime streaming service
The consumer watchdog is suing Amazon over allegedly having unfair contract terms for its Prime streaming service.
Source: ABC News
Tech giants face $99m fines as Canberra toughens under-16 social media ban
The Albanese Government says major platforms are not doing enough to keep children off age-restricted social media services, as it moves to double penalties and give eSafety stronger investigative powers.
Source: iTWire