Tag: Optus

UPDATE… Police investigating ‘malicious damage’ to communications tower in Hexham

News Rod Thompson - November 5, 2025

Optus’ woes are continuing to worsen with more than 60,000 households affected by a major outage throughout NSW, including the Hunter.

Minister to ‘lay down the law’ to Optus over failures

News AAP - September 30, 2025

The federal government has been urged to deploy independent experts to embattled telco Optus after a further emergency call outage on its network.

Baby among deaths linked to Optus triple-zero outage

News AAP - September 20, 2025

An investigation is underway into an Optus outage that left hundreds of customers unable to call triple-zero, resulting in three deaths.

Major Optus outage rattles the Hunter

News Oli Goeldner - August 18, 2025

A major Optus outage has left thousands of Hunter residents in the dark without phone service or internet.

Optus customers in Cessnock to be impacted by service disruption

News Rod Thompson - July 19, 2024

Optus customers in the Cessnock area could be impacted by an important upgrade to the Millfield Street tower.

Optus outage leaves millions of Australians without mobile, internet services

News Rod Thompson - November 8, 2023

Thousands upon thousands of Hunter residents and businesses have been left in the dark on Wednesday morning, courtesy of an Optus outage.

Class action launched against Optus over data breach

News Rod Thompson - April 21, 2023

A leading law firm has launched class action against Optus on behalf of customers whose personal information was compromised by a data breach.

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