A nationwide Telstra outage has done what experts previously said was not possible – it has made their rival Optus look like a competent network provider.
The outage hit this morning and took out phone, internet and even 000 call capabilities across Australia. You may remember this sort of thing from Optus’ horror run last year.
We spoke to an industry insider who said Telstra would be licking their wounds for some time over there, adding,
“Telstra liked to position themselves as the dominant force in Aussie telecommunications and were pretty smug when Optus kept shitting the bed but who’s sheets stink of shit now, Telstra?”
He went further to tell us that Optus was so shocked it wasn’t them that they’d even started preparing an apology, adding,
“It was just like muscle memory, they got the entire team together and started working on another excuse until someone told them that it was actually Telstra, they were stoked”
At the time of writing this article, Telstra advise they are working to restore all services and will probably offer you a few MBs of data to say soz.
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