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In short:

Telstra's mobile network has suffered a major nationwide outage, affecting millions of customers and causing delays to public transport networks.

Some regional train services in NSW and Victoria have been suspended, and taxi passengers are reporting they are unable to complete payments.

What's next?

Telstra says it is looking into the issue and will share an update once it is fixed.

... police in Western Australia have posted a statement on Facebook saying the outage appears to have affected some Triple Zero calls ...

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

$20 - change made by someone whose job was off-shored to save money

[-] No1@aussie.zone 10 points 3 days ago

$30 bucks says the offshore asked AI to "Kindly do the needful"

[-] Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml 0 points 23 hours ago

Racism, not doing our international reputation any favours mate

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

AI written update changelog: "โœจ Bug fixes and performance improvements! โœจ Best version EVER! ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ˜Ž "

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

$40 says the blame message will focus on bottom of the ladder personnel, not root cause leadership.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

$50 says that graduate told his boss and also his mentor that something looked wrong, and he'd been taught to never do it like this, but they said don't worry about it, they do this all the time.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

$67 says the grad will be the initial focus of the internal investigation. They will be made to feel awful and never want to work in that industry again.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago
[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Neil's been a bit angry lately, it could have been them.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Neil's suspiciously just gone missing. He's probably in the Telstra pits right now destroying the vital asbestos.

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