{"id":888354,"date":"2026-09-11T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888354\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:54:12","slug":"optus-outage-affects-multiple-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888354\/","title":{"rendered":"Optus outage affects multiple states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Optus outage has affected customers across Victoria, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>Optus customers were advised there had been a loss of coverage, but they could still make emergency calls where other mobile networks were available or through Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood customers were impacted for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>An Optus spokesman said on Friday night that an issue affecting some customers\u2019 voice calling services across parts of the country was resolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe became aware of the issue at approximately 1.30pm AEST and immediately mobilised technical teams and restored services as quickly as possible,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sincerely apologise to our customers for the disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/business\/technology\/optus-outage-affecting-aussies-across-victoria-nt-south-australia-and-tasmania\/news-story\/d2bddd5b6e60960e11855064454bbfff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Optus outage affects Aussies across Victoria, NT, South Australia and Tasmania<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Optus outage has affected customers across Victoria, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. Optus customers were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[405513,390571,430267,457947,376982,457952,457951,64,27621,63,99,24352,51521,123798,39598,457950,187436,35062,1098,155213,103542,457946,390774,205737,17574,391598,1124,2801,457948,313300,419699,378343,144935,660,457953,457949],"class_list":["post-888354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-a-loss","tag-a-spokesman","tag-about-an-hour","tag-about-an-hour-an-optus-spokesman","tag-an-issue","tag-an-optus-outage","tag-approximately-1-30pm-aest","tag-au","tag-aussies","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-coverage","tag-customers","tag-emergency-calls","tag-friday","tag-multiple-states","tag-newswire-news","tag-night","tag-nt","tag-optus-customers","tag-optus-outage","tag-other-mobile-networks","tag-our-customers","tag-parts","tag-services","tag-some-customers","tag-south-australia","tag-tasmania","tag-technical-teams","tag-the-country","tag-the-disruption","tag-the-issue","tag-the-northern-territory","tag-victoria","tag-voice-calling-services","tag-wi-fi-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}