News

• Businesses hit by Optus outage in Sydney

  Optus business customers experienced an outage Tuesday morning following hardware issues at the telco's exchange in Ultimo, Sydney.

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  Some BigPond customers suffer an email outage due to faulty switch

  Telstra is “working flat out” to fix an email outage for BigPond customers caused by a problem with switching equipment at its Kent St exchange in Sydney.

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  Some Optus sites lose power in NSW bushfires

  Bushfires have caused power outages at Optus mobile sites in New South Wales, the number-two telco reported.

• Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users

  Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

• Mobile networks brace for New Year’s congestion

  With high demand on mobile networks expected on New Year’s Eve, the top three Australian carriers will rely on apps and network enhancements to avoid failed calls and text messages at midnight.

• One week after fire, Telstra still working to restore service

  Telstra repair work in south-west work continues more than a week after a fire took our part of the telco’s exchange in Warrnambool.

• 'Extreme weather' melts Vodafone network in Melbourne

  The Melbourne heat took out Vodafone mobile service last night, according to the number three mobile telco.

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  Click Frenzy host shifts blame for website crash

  The creators of Click Frenzy failed to anticipate how much traffic would hit its website at the launch of the Australian online shopping event, according the website’s hosting company, UltraServe.

• Verizon: LTE services "returning to normal"

  Verizon says subscribers should expect its LTE services to come back online soon after a nationwide outage knocked them offline this morning (See: "Verizon Wireless outage outraging customers") .

• Updated: Qantas suffers check-in system outage

  Qantas has suffered another setback this morning when its check-in system experienced a fault that left it unable to print boarding passes for almost three hours, resulting in minor delays for passengers.

• Microsoft's Hotmail, Office365 suffer outage (updated)

  Australian businesses and users have been unable to access Office365 Cloud services or Hotmail email due to a worldwide outage. MSN.com and Live@edu accounts have also been affected.

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  My Vodafone bill payment service down

  Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, the company that operates the Vodafone brand in Australia, has reported another outage - this time with its My Vodafone bill payment service.

• CRM upgrade downs online services at Virgin Mobile

  A CRM and billing system upgrade project at Virgin Mobile has gone south with the mobile carrier unable to offer most of its online services including sales and account management.

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  USyd systems admin attacked in website hack

  Users of the Eris Free IRC network (EFnet) have claimed responsibility for hacking Web servers at Sydney University last Friday, causing outages to the front page over the weekend.

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  Skype blames buggy Windows software, swamped servers for outage

  Promises to look into auto-updating its Windows client software to prevent another blackout