#optus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #optus, aggregated by home.social.
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Optus and Nokia used a smartphone on a live mobile site to pull 3.5Gbps over upper 6GHz spectrum. https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/optus-and-nokia-reach-3-5gbps-upper-6ghz-spectrum-6g-trial/ #optus #nokia #telecoms #connectivity #6g #tech
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Optus and Nokia used a smartphone on a live mobile site to pull 3.5Gbps over upper 6GHz spectrum. https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/optus-and-nokia-reach-3-5gbps-upper-6ghz-spectrum-6g-trial/ #optus #nokia #telecoms #connectivity #6g #tech
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#AP:
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Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites
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"Once in place by mid-2027, the minivan-sized spacecraft will use its 10-foot (9-meter) arms to attach a jetpack to an aging communication satellite. Then it will zip off to two more satellites in need."23.7.2026
("jetpacks" > MEP 1, MEP 2, MEP 3)
#DARPA #Intelsat #MEP #MRV #MRV1 #NorthropGrumman #Optus #Raumfahrt #satcom #Satelliten #SES #SpaceFlight
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#AP:
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Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites
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"Once in place by mid-2027, the minivan-sized spacecraft will use its 10-foot (9-meter) arms to attach a jetpack to an aging communication satellite. Then it will zip off to two more satellites in need."23.7.2026
("jetpacks" > MEP 1, MEP 2, MEP 3)
#DARPA #Intelsat #MEP #MRV #MRV1 #NorthropGrumman #Optus #Raumfahrt #satcom #Satelliten #SES #SpaceFlight
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The techspert on ABC News is saying it's not specifically a problem with Telstra. It's a problem with all telcos. He is right. They're all bloody useless.
He also says it's almost certainly human error #TelstraOutage #TelstraDown #Telstra #Optus #VodafoneAU
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The techspert on ABC News is saying it's not specifically a problem with Telstra. It's a problem with all telcos. He is right. They're all bloody useless.
He also says it's almost certainly human error #TelstraOutage #TelstraDown #Telstra #Optus #VodafoneAU
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I am the luckiest Australian telco customer ever. Here for all the good stuff. Survived the Great Optus Breach of '22 (or whenever the hell it was) then switched to Tangerine, which got hacked, and it uses the Telstra network #telstra #optus #TangerineTelecom
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I am the luckiest Australian telco customer ever. Here for all the good stuff. Survived the Great Optus Breach of '22 (or whenever the hell it was) then switched to Tangerine, which got hacked, and it uses the Telstra network #telstra #optus #TangerineTelecom
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Australia Boost Mobile website malfunctioning. A Telstra rebrand.
And links to their Chat aren't working.
Not all the way down to the level of Optus yet but time-wasting garbage-level service anyway.
Telstra doesn't need vibe-coding to mess their customers over. But it'd be effective at that.
#Australia #Optus #BoostMobileAustralia #Telstra #MobilePhoneCompanies -
Australia Boost Mobile website malfunctioning. A Telstra rebrand.
And links to their Chat aren't working.
Not all the way down to the level of Optus yet but time-wasting garbage-level service anyway.
Telstra doesn't need vibe-coding to mess their customers over. But it'd be effective at that.
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Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?
How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?
And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?
Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.
And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:
"NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.
"Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
"However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.
"An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.
"However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
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"NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801
#auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband -
Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?
How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?
And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?
Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.
And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:
"NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.
"Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
"However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.
"An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.
"However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
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"NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801
#auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband -
@3TomatoesShort An interaction with #Optus at either consumer of business/enterprise networking level has left my flabbers all gasted. I always figured their internal culture was awful.
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@3TomatoesShort An interaction with #Optus at either consumer of business/enterprise networking level has left my flabbers all gasted. I always figured their internal culture was awful.
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It's been a very #Cricket day. #Perth #Scorchers at #Optus Stadium now
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Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115648916294345627
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Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115648916294345627
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Optus outage in Frankston area
#ausnews #vicnews #optus #phones #000 #triplezero #outage #communications #technology #radiocommunications #telecommunications -
I don't know what's worse. Patchy email in the last few weeks or the silence from the three service providers in the chain - #Optus #iiNet and #TheMessagingCompany - one of whom clearly has a problem they don't want to talk about
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I don't know what's worse. Patchy email in the last few weeks or the silence from the three service providers in the chain - #Optus #iiNet and #TheMessagingCompany - one of whom clearly has a problem they don't want to talk about
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Translation: Hi there,
It's your good buddies at Optus here.
Your thank you gift is waiting.
No, it's not a Triple Zero emergency service that doesn't go offline when you need an ambulance.
And no, it's not fair compensation for that time we had a nationwide outage and managed to not just take out your phone and internet, but also half of the national economy.
And no, it's not yet another free subscription to that bloody soccer streaming service. We finally took the hint and shut that down.
No, this time an AI subscription service is looking to deceive its investors by pumping up its paid subscriber numbers.
So we took a bucket of money from them in exchange for spamming our customers with a text message.
You know the deal. 12 months free. You won't get charged if you remember to cancel before the deal expires and then make it through all their dark patterns.
We know we can get away with it because we're one third of one of Australia's big corporate oligopolies.
I mean, what are you going to do? Chances are the whole reason you switched to us is because you were pissed off at Telstra.
And your only other choice is TPG/Voda/iiNet/WestNet/Internode/Lebara/TransACT/Crazy John's/Neighbourhood Cable... (it's all one conglomerate with awful mobile coverage now).
#Optus #perplexityassistant #perplexityai #perplexity #ausbiz #AI #enshittification #business #oligopoly -
Translation: Hi there,
It's your good buddies at Optus here.
Your thank you gift is waiting.
No, it's not a Triple Zero emergency service that doesn't go offline when you need an ambulance.
And no, it's not fair compensation for that time we had a nationwide outage and managed to not just take out your phone and internet, but also half of the national economy.
And no, it's not yet another free subscription to that bloody soccer streaming service. We finally took the hint and shut that down.
No, this time an AI subscription service is looking to deceive its investors by pumping up its paid subscriber numbers.
So we took a bucket of money from them in exchange for spamming our customers with a text message.
You know the deal. 12 months free. You won't get charged if you remember to cancel before the deal expires and then make it through all their dark patterns.
We know we can get away with it because we're one third of one of Australia's big corporate oligopolies.
I mean, what are you going to do? Chances are the whole reason you switched to us is because you were pissed off at Telstra.
And your only other choice is TPG/Voda/iiNet/WestNet/Internode/Lebara/TransACT/Crazy John's/Neighbourhood Cable... (it's all one conglomerate with awful mobile coverage now).
#Optus #perplexityassistant #perplexityai #perplexity #ausbiz #AI #enshittification #business #oligopoly -
Australia politics live: Liberals under pressure after Nationals abandon net zero target; Labor spruiks rise in bulk-billing GPs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/03/australia-politics-live-nationals-net-zero-liberals-labor-bulk-billing-optus-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-question-time #Australianpolitics #AnthonyAlbanese #Australianews #Nationalparty #Climatecrisis #Liberalparty #Laborparty #SussanLey #Health #Optus
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Australia politics live: Liberals under pressure after Nationals abandon net zero target; Labor spruiks rise in bulk-billing GPs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/03/australia-politics-live-nationals-net-zero-liberals-labor-bulk-billing-optus-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-question-time #Australianpolitics #AnthonyAlbanese #Australianews #Nationalparty #Climatecrisis #Liberalparty #Laborparty #SussanLey #Health #Optus
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Australian executives don’t deserve big bonuses. It’s time to end the cult of the CEO | John Quiggin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/australian-executives-dont-deserve-big-bonuses-end-ceo-cult #Australianews #Privatisation #Executivepay #Business #Qantas #Optus
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@SuperMoosie yeah, it was terrible, rushed legislation. there was no way #Telstra could test which version was on each handset and whether it would use VoLTE for 000 or not.
And tbh, as the networks changed the rules I would have expected them to issue like-for-like updated models to be certain their customers could make 000 calls. But hey, I don't write the laws.
#Optus didn't even train their support people when they started blocking handsets. I spent four hours on the phone with them trying to get them to confirm why a handset was blocked. -
Your #esim transfer experience is entirely dependent on your network provider, especially when your esim transfer fails, AND if that network provider happens to be #optus .. may the good Lord give you the patience because minutes and hours without a working mobile service feels like months 😔
Rant over.
Have a great #sunday
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Your #esim transfer experience is entirely dependent on your network provider, especially when your esim transfer fails, AND if that network provider happens to be #optus .. may the good Lord give you the patience because minutes and hours without a working mobile service feels like months 😔
Rant over.
Have a great #sunday
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The view from Grogs
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/parliament-live-senate-estimates-gets-underway-all-the-days-events-as-it-happens/Of course, this is the expected outcomes with every public infrastructure (Telecom sale) sold to the private sector. Falling service standards and profit taking priorities as long as profits are to be had, else the service tanks and privateers pull out without penalties.
#StateCapture #PrivatisationRuins #NeoliberalEconomics #ShortTermGains #LongTermFailures #InUnity #PublicInfrastructure #Optus #000Fiasco
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Australien 🇦🇺: Schon wieder Notruf-Probleme bei Provider #Optus | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Australien-Schon-wieder-Notruf-Probleme-bei-Provider-Optus-10673420.html
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Australien 🇦🇺: Schon wieder Notruf-Probleme bei Provider #Optus | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Australien-Schon-wieder-Notruf-Probleme-bei-Provider-Optus-10673420.html
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Apparently #Optus outsources some or all of its digital telephony to #Infosys, and from Infosys we have this:
"Infosys leverages AI to create an "AI-powered core" that helps prioritize and execute digital transformation initiatives, which can include the modernization of a company's telephony systems. "
And we have this:
15 Aug 2025
"Indian company Infosys has entered into a joint venture with Australian telco Telstra through the acquisition of a 75% stake in Versent Group"
Coincidence? Does anyone know more on this?
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🚨 Optus faces another emergency call outage.
⚠️ 4,500 customers impacted south of Sydney
⚠️ Govt orders ACMA investigation
⚠️ Comes weeks after 13-hour disruption -
🚨 Optus faces another emergency call outage.
⚠️ 4,500 customers impacted south of Sydney
⚠️ Govt orders ACMA investigation
⚠️ Comes weeks after 13-hour disruption -
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Optus’s triple zero debacle is further proof of the failure of the neoliberal experiment | John Quiggin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/26/optus-triple-zero-debacle-further-proof-failure-neoliberal-experiment-privatisation-infrastructure #Telecommunicationsindustry #Australianews #Business #Optus
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Optus fined $66M over ‘disgraceful’ exploitation of customers https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/optus-fined-66m-over-disgraceful-exploitation-of-customers/ #optus #telecoms #ethics #society #accc #law #tech #news #technology
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Optus is the kind of company that:
- recruited Gladys Berejiklian AFTER she failed embarrassingly in public ICAC hearings, and BEFORE the findings had been handed down, 😬 and
- retained her when she lost her appeal against said corruption findings. 🙃
Probably nothing in this at all ....
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Optus is the kind of company that:
- recruited Gladys Berejiklian AFTER she failed publicly in public ICAC hearings, and BEFORE the findings had been handed down, 😬 and
- retained her when she lost her appeal against said corruption findings. 🙃
Probably nothing in this at all ....
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Continuous technological progress has obscured the fact that, as with electricity, toll roads etc, telecommunications privatisation and deregulation has been another failure of #neoliberalism. Prices have fallen in spite of policy, not because of it. Latest #Optus disaster illustrates. #auspol
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Continuous technological progress has obscured the fact that, as with electricity, toll roads etc, telecommunications privatisation and deregulation has been another failure of #neoliberalism. Prices have fallen in spite of policy, not because of it. Latest #Optus disaster illustrates. #auspol
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"Australians lay dead as investors of Optus's parent company bought shares" is one hell of a link snippet. The burn melted a hole in my monitor.
I've often grumbled about the clickbaity headlines ABC Australia tacks above otherwise sane articles, but I have no complaint here. (The full headline is "Three Australians lay dead as investors of Optus's parent company Singtel were buying up its shares" - which lacks some of the punch but is an accurate summary.)
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Australia will overhaul telecommunications after Optus emergency call failure linked to 4 deaths
Optus was fined more than $12mil back in Nov. 8, 2023 for a similar breach of emergency call rules while Telstra was fined $3mil for failing to comply with emergency call rules..
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Federal Communications Minister Anika Wells is in the media today saying Optus should "expect significant consequences" following last week's 000 outage.
We all know Optus will not face any repercussions of major consequence, and we should not be pretending otherwise.
Fuck Optus.
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It is wild that the 000 outage on Thursday went for 13 hours undetected.
Optus needs to find out not only how it happened, but how it went for a long time without them noticing. Surely logging and alerts should have picked something up.