I notice that ( insert random ceo name) didn’t apologise to Telstra shareholders or staff?

Obviously she doesn’t care.

Telstra will not be fined just as Optus wasn’t.

Promise Anika Wells a free holiday and all will be forgotten!

Well… what’s this? Something outdated?

Yet why are we being charged more every year when upgrades are not done????
We all need a 15 year rewind of refunds met as a result of not spending that paltry $30k tight wad cretins!!

https://apple.news/AXcofDT_PQUaYjMDDKP36CQ


Full scale of Telstra network outage exposed

During a Senate hearing into last week’s major outage, a senior Telstra executive conceded on Friday that the entire disaster would have been averted had the company replaced an ageing server that cost just $30,000.

Tracey’s answer is the first clear confirmation from Telstra that replacing the ageing server, which this masthead first reported cost about $30,000 to replace, would have avoided the outage that cut hundreds of people off from Triple Zero and disrupted trains and eftpos terminals in several states.
The failure of the 15-year-old device was the product of several errors that compounded. Telstra received multiple warnings about a problem with the device that could cause it to set its time back 1024 weeks, but did not act on them because they were seen as irrelevant. Then, Telstra fixed a connection issue in a way that caused the first problem to resurface when the device was restarted.
That change was never documented and, when a technician restarted the device to fix yet another issue with backup power, the device wound back to 2006 and an error spread through the network kicking off phones that were showing the correct time.

It’s interesting to me that Telstra is offering a “ credit “ as compensation to those they have chosen effected?

Why would you accept a “ credit “ to stay with a company that has failed you so badly.

A cash refund for all customers is more acceptable as well as the maximum fine possible!

Every critical public sector our government has privatised is an absolute disaster and stain on our society.

Communications, power, hospitals, motor ways.

Our politicians must be due to vote themselves a pay raise soon for the absolute failure of service that they provide to Australia!

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 18^th, 2026 at 11:35am:


Haven't used a toll road for years now - had a beeper bought and paid for... when NSW government gave out a kick for over-charging - I got $40 I think...

Daves2017 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2026 at 11:01pm:


Black Rock & Vanguard are major shareholders in State Street Global Advisors.

Both of them are also major shareholders of Coles & Woolworths.

Now we have Vanguard advertising on Australian TV as a Superannuation fund choice ..... the slogan being

"Do you not like money?".

Like you intimated - I wouldn't knowingly go near them with a barge pole.

Gnads wrote on Jul 20^th, 2026 at 6:15pm:


If I left to go home too early, I would have been blinded by the afternoon sun's glare. It seemed that I was about half an hour's travel away from getting to the outskirts of town when I discovered the Telstra block. Just one use of mobile data could have saved me hours.