#optus — Public Fediverse posts

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

TIL: Mobile Service Provider in Australien (müssen?) Geräte blocken, wenn sie irgendwelche Bugs beim #Notruf haben.

Also z.B. wenn #Telstra dein Home Carrier ist und die 📱 es nicht sauber schaffen über #Optus oder #Vodafone nen Notruf rauszubekommen (da #3G IIRC mittlerweile auch in Australien abgeschalten ist, dürften sie vermutlich den Emergency IMS Bearer nicht sauber hoch bekommen).

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/older-mobile-devices-calling-triple-zero-

https://www.europesays.com/it/254379/ Metallica, due fan scalano la torre audio durante il concerto all’Optus Stadium di Perth: multa e daspo a vita #abusivo #audio #beau #BeauWilliam #BeauWilliamLoch #beccato #BeccatoMulta #concerto #culbert #daspo #Entertainment #hugh #HughCulbert #ingresso #IngressoAbusivo #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #loch #LochRollings #multa #Music #Musica #optus #OptusStadium #rollings #stadium

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

#ot

Just explored the #android app permissions #telstra requires so you can manage your phone. Then I checked #optus, #boost, #cba, #nab, #anz, #gmail, #chrome and #tesla to name a few.

#privacy should not be optional.

Ever wonder why your data keeps being "shared":
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTl3_RWZmVNPmMYKF7Go2eHgvT6e1expOkbkXzjnRYY72L3RADKS-NaEX2eoDwN-ig0mWAmOogws3bx/pubhtml

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110807150951/http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm
#ycombinator #Notebooks #smartphones #phones #mobiles #Windows #Mac #Apple #iPod #iPhone #NSW #VIC #QLD #TAS #New_South_Wales #Queensland #West_Australia #South_Australia #Tasmania #Northern_Territory #Victoria #dual_boot #dualboot #dual_booting #how_to #APC_Magazine #Vista #Windows_7 #computer_help #Intel #AMD #NVIDIA #telstra #optus #computer_shop #best

The ACMA has let Australians down in this scenario. Lets be clear, the telco industry is taking advantage of this situation to force customers to purchase new devices when they don't need to.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-03/brand-new-phones-unable-to-make-calls-3g-shutdown/104541440

#acma #3gshutdown #australia #telstra #optus

2022 Optus Data Breach Could Have Been Averted Four Years Prior, Says Australian Telecom Watchdog https://thecyberexpress.com/2022-optus-data-breach-could-have-been-averted/ #AustralianCommunicationsandMediaAuthority #AustralianTelecomWatchdog #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #OptusCyberattack #OptusDataBreach #TheCyberExpress #DataBreachNews #FirewallDaily #Cyberattack #Compliance #Governance #Optus #ACMA

Federal Court Denies Optus Appeal to Withhold Deloitte Report on 2022 Cyberattack https://thecyberexpress.com/federal-court-optus-deloitte-2022-data-breach/ #AustralianFederalCourt #Optus2022DataBreach #CybersecurityNews #OptusCyberattack #OptusDataBreach #2022DataBreach #FirewallDaily #Singtel #Optus

#OptusFailure again.
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#Optus is now insisting that I use the #MyOptus app to recharge a #Prepaid mobile phone account.

They will not let me recharge using the My Optus webpage.

Looks like #Bastardry to me.

And the app is not compatible with either of my Android devices.

No sign of #ReduceReuseRepairRecycle here.

Looking at moving to #Amaysim. Sure that the price will be lower and the #UX no better.
#Australia #Privatisation #Deregulation #CorporateControl
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And ... it took #Optus over 80 minutes to have a human operator engage in the "Message Us " chat support this morning.

The #ComplaintResolution person says they're very busy.
But I can talk with another complaint person!

#NegativeUX

I'm thinking Enshitification has a history back to the privatisation of #PublicUtilities like electricity, gas, sewerage, water, & #TelephoneService.

#Telco #OptusFailure #Privatisation #Enshitification
#JohnMartyn #OverTheHill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwjL3ipBAhg

#Optus parent company is #Singtel, which in turn is majority owned by the Singaporean government's #sovereignwealthfund Temasek.
Think about that, Aus governments have been busy offloading #qantas, #telstra #hospitals, #nursinghomes, roads, ports, powerstations, powerpolls etc etc. Basically, it is our vital infrastructure flogged off to foreign based (think #caymanislands ) #multinationals for peanuts ....
#cleverCountry ? I don't think so
#auspol

#Verpasstodon

Nach Internetausfall: Optus war unvorbereitet und zeigt mit dem Finger auf Cisco

Der massive Internetausfall in Australien geht laut dem Provider auf eine unerwartete Abschaltung von Cisco-Routern zurück. Darauf war man nicht vorbereitet.

https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Internetausfall-Optus-war-unvorbereitet-und-zeigt-mit-dem-Finger-auf-Cisco-9532407.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Australien #Cisco #Internet #Internetzugang #Mobilfunk #Optus #SingTel

@ozeng
That was my privileged choice. 👍

Nothing I can do about #NBN , #Optus, #Immi, Education Directorate failing to enforce policy or make #ReasonableAdjustments for #SpecialNeeds students, next to nothing I can do about mistreatment in #AgedCare, getting #CleanAir in workplaces, (the list goes on)

But having to jump through hoops for the pleasure of trying to find barcodes to scan - at last, something I can can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXWgC0SLCA

Every #NBN Worker Ever... | #Garn.

#australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #eattherich #telecommunications #internet #classwar #capitalism #comedy #satire #irony #NationalBroadbandNetwork #telstra #optus

https://youtu.be/8AfEhoU44L0?feature=shared

Why is #Optus afraid to dump #Gladys ? I'd really like to know 🤔

It's new Podcast day! In this week's Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News, I chat with @adam_turner and Angus Kidman about the surprising downturn in consumer complaints about telco services in Australia and how the face of Australian online shopping, even for supermarkets is rapidly changing (and why you should fly to Melbourne to get Ice Cream out of a locker). Give it a listen and subscribe today!

#Podcast #ConsumerRights #OnlineShopping #Amazon #eBay #Australia #TIO #Telstra #Optus #Vodafone #TPG

https://pod.fo/e/151e63