Optus mobile services are down across the country, affecting millions of Australian customers and businesses.
The outage was first reported at around 4am AEDT, with Optus customers across the country taking to social media to find out what was happening.
Mobile phones are unable to make and receive calls and mobile internet services are also down.
I’m just astounded that there’s a single point of failure for all mobile and Internet customers…
And that there is so much government infrastructure that relies on a consumer-based, foreign owned commercial company.
Why aren’t all these things hard-wired.
Optus has now confirmed triple-0 calls will not work from an Optus landline.
How can you fuck up designing your system this badly?
Thanks mate that’s a much better link, edited the post
No probs; gotta support our ABC!
Whirlpool sometimes has leaked technical information about outages or other insights: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/96n1w7m9
EDIT: Gough Lui (Gogli?) is also doing some detailed meta-coverage on his blog https://goughlui.com/2023/11/08/breaking-optus-nationwide-outage-08-11-2023/
What a disaster of a company, not sure why anyone would stay with Optus after the last year. I’m sure they will continue to advertise very heavily like they didn’t after their security failure last time
Optus is pretty much the only mobile provider that’s viable at my place. Telstra barely gets me one bar of coverage and mobile data speeds of less than 1Mbit/s. I don’t trust Vodafone’s coverage map as far as I can spit against the wind, but the one time I tried Vodafone out here it was useless.
So yeah, why would anyone stay with Optus? Show me a viable alternative and I’m gone.
Unfortunately I suspect Telstra is simply “there but for the geace of god go I”.
I miss Telecom.
The facts here are that the core mobile infrastructure, the core broadband infrastructure and the core landline infrastructure are all down.
This doesn’t feel like a “whoops, misconfigured a route”.
This feels like a coordinated attack against multiple (theoretically) separate systems.That’s a very generous and optimistic view of Optus’ processes and infrastructure dependencies. I’m unsure why you would assume they’re in any way robust, especially considering Optus’ history.