Telstra outage.

[Bobby]

Senate inquiry soon.



Telstra outage.
the Union blames cutting and outsourcing jobs:

https://www.news.com.au/national/thousa ... a312facb50

July 8, 2026

Communication Workers Union national secretary Shane Murphy said Telstra’s sacking of hundreds of its workforce over the past 12 months contributed to the chaos.

Mr Murphy said the telco’s decision to cut hundreds of jobs earlier in the year led to an “unreliable network”.

In February, the telco announced 650 jobs were on the chopping block or being outsourced to Indian firm Infosys, eight months after axing 550 other roles.

“This is what happens when you prioritise the bottom line over critical services; you get an unreliable network that lets Australians down time and time again,” Mr Murphy said.




One way to fix this is for the emergency services to be forced to monitor
the CB radio UHF bands and for people to buy CB radio UHF hand held sets.
I just had a look and they are on sale for as little as $69 from Bunnings
https://www.bunnings.com.au/oricom-uhf2 ... k_p0587353

There are many more expensive ones from other places too
with more power and features.

The average person pays about $600 these days for a smart phone
and many people pay around $2,000 so the price of a UHF CB is not that much
for some redundancy - especially for people with medical conditions
who could need to call 000.
At the moment the emergency services don't even monitor
the emergency channels on UHF - as far as I know.