{"id":74445,"date":"2025-08-18T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74445\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:50:07","slug":"major-optus-outage-rattles-the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74445\/","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":74446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38123,1638,38124,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-hunter-region","tag-internet","tag-optus","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}