Optus Cable Borked – Phones Down in QLD And NSW
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]
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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
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
Yep. 3’s services were borked too for some reason, but they’ve come back up in the last 10 mins.
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
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 :(
Its back! I think. At least I can see this site now anyway.
The network suffered some ‘backhoe attenuation’
http://etherealmind.com/2008/02/15/networking-term-backhone-attenuation/