Telstra ‘working urgently’ to fix national outage affecting calls
Telstra customers are experiencing a major outage as the telco reports issues with making and receiving calls. Technicians are working to fix the national problem and restore the network, and say it’s unclear when the issue will be fixed. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Telstra reports national outage as customers suffer connectivity issues. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The outage occurred on Monday night, with a flood of incident reports recorded about 10pm, according to Down Detector. “We’re sorry for the late-night hassle,” Telstra said in an outage alert on its website. “We are experiencing some difficulty at the moment with the network.” The telco said it was dealing with an “issue affecting some mobile customers making and taking calls ”. “Our technicians are working urgently to fix the issue.” Calls to triple-0 and mobile data are not affected by the outage. A Telstra spokesperson told 7NEWS.com.au: “If customers are experiencing issues, we...