{"id":77662,"date":"2025-08-18T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:04:08","slug":"major-optus-outage-rattles-the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77662\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Optus outage rattles the Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major Optus outage has left thousands of Hunter residents in the dark without phone service or internet.<\/p>\n<p>The significant regional disruption appears to have impacted several suburbs, including Sandgate, Branxton, Allandale, Singleton, Sawyers Gully and Aberglasslyn.<\/p>\n<p>Optus officials believe the outage is caused by an underground fibre break, leaving more than 25,000 devices without connection.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation\u2019s standard 5G plan is the most impacted, as well as NBN and Optus NB-I0T.<\/p>\n<p>But, 5G+ and 4G remain operational, according to the organisation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The matter is under investigation, with the next update expected to come at 1pm on Monday 18 August.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra and other mobile providers do not seem to be impacted.<\/p>\n<p>For more news stories: <\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest Newcastle news, sport, real estate, entertainment, lifestyle and more delivered straight to your inbox with the\u00a0Newcastle Weekly\u00a0Daily Newsletter.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newcastleweekly.com.au\/subscribe-to-our-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Optus outage has left thousands of Hunter residents in the dark without phone service or internet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,47266,244,47267,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-77662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-hunter-region","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-optus","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}