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April 22, 2007
Optus falls over ... again
The Optus mobile network seems to have gone absent without leave over a wide area of Melbourne on the weekend. Reports on the Whirlpool forum suggest the network "disappeared" shortly before midnight on Saturday in the CBD and several suburbs, including Brunswick, Armadale, and St Kilda. The problems continued until shortly before 9am Sunday, and in at least one case, two hours later.
Other Optus customers reported their landline, Internet and pay TV services also dropped out.
Optus is gaining a reputation for instability. In February, the company's servers came down, disrupting landline services in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne and Adelaide. Then, earlier this month, Optus pre-paid customers got to listen to other users' conversations, when the network suddenly decided it was a party line.
Posted by cw at April 22, 2007 11:44 PM
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You've hit a raw nerve. I spent half an hour waiting on the phone last night for an operator. Service? What service? Lift your game Optus.
Posted by: Rhonda at April 23, 2007 03:24 PM