Optus Cable Borked – Phones Down in QLD And NSW

12:21PM July 15, 2008 | Nick Broughall

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Today doesn’t seem to be a good day to be an Optus customer, with a broken fibre optic cable on the Gold Coast leaving their landline, mobile and internet services borked throughout Queensland and parts of NSW.

The cable was broken at about 8am, although how is still not known. And although Optus believe services should be back to normal soon, it hasn’t stopped delays from hitting Brisbane airport and countless other businesses.

Anybody out there experiencing problems?

[via News.com.au]

Comments

chris

July 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM

I live in Brisbane, and the internet went down about 8am, didn’t return till around midday, but my iphone 3g still doesn’t have service

Dustin

July 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Yeah lost everything home phone, Mobile and internet till about 12:30, run business from home….not good, deserve a free month for this Optus

Wigman

July 15, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Yep. 3′s services were borked too for some reason, but they’ve come back up in the last 10 mins.

Sagarat

July 15, 2008 at 1:03 PM

Landliine calls are Ok in Brisbane, but mobile-to-mobile calls between optus will not work.

Also, news was it was a farmer who cut the cables with a backhoe

Adam

July 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM

I’m on north coast NSW/Byron Bay. Our eftpos was down all morning until 12:30 & Optus mobile phone network is still down. Poor iPhone users :(

Mike

July 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM

Its back! I think. At least I can see this site now anyway.