Telstra outage causes chaos
TELSTRA customers have been hit by mobile network outages throughout the region, with traders and shoppers also suffering from downed ATM and Eftpos services.
The telco yesterday reported a 4G mobile network outage along the Surf Coast, stretching from Bells Beach to the Bellarine.
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“I hope it gets parents giggling at the absurdity of parenthood but reminds them of the absolute joy of raising children.”
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The cause of the outage was under investigation yesterday.
“We’re sorry for the interruption. We’re working on getting your service returned as fast as possible,” a message on the Telstra website noted.
While there were no listed outages in the central Geelong area, traders and shoppers reported experiencing troubles with the 4G network and with Eftpos and ATM services.
Traders along Little Malop
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White writes that it’s more important to maintain St have struggled with non-responsive Eftpos machines for much of the week, with some customers at Moo Mouth cafe forced to leave and return with cash to purchase food and drinks.
Cafe owners said they were “frustrated” by the outages, which continued for two days until Telstra fixed the issue.
Some shoppers took to social media to air their grievances with the network issues. friendships and stay sane than have a perfect house.
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“Hey @Telstra 4G in central Geelong 3220 is flaky today. Including the Eftpos machine when I couldn’t pay for lunch with credit card. Please fix ASAP,” Ian R tweeted at the telco about noon.
Telstra responded online: “We are currently experiencing an issue with some enterprise customer machine to machine (M2M) data services, which is impacting services including Eftpos Devices and window and say, ‘Come on in, friends’.”
Chapters in her book include: “Preschoolers are know-nothing know-it-alls” and “Sometimes at night you want to put them in the bin”.
But White wants readers to know she has “had children for almost six years and has never put them in the bin, not even once”. ATMs. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to resolve the issue as soon as possible.”
It come after an outage affected Telstra’s cloud services, including its private cloud platform and applications, for much of Wednesday.
The outage affected access to Telstra.com, MyAccount, Online Billing, the Telstra 24/7 app, Telstra Consumer Webmail and some Telstra Whole- sale apps.
“We have resolved an issue which impacted access to our cloud services for some of our enterprise customers and access to some of our online services,” a Telstra spokesman told News Corp on Wednesday.
“Services are back online and should be working normally. We sincerely apologise for the impact and we continue to investigate the cause.”