{"id":1200653,"date":"2023-11-07T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200653"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:25:00","slug":"optus-outage-leaves-millions-of-australians-without-mobile-and-internet-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200653","title":{"rendered":"Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader RobHart writes: During the night, the entire Optus mobile network went down and remains down. This is the second largest mobile network in Australia and it is the first time a network has gone down nationwide. It is affecting the trains in Melbourne and any business across Australia that uses the Optus service for phones or data. &#8220;Optus is aware of an issue that may be impacting some of our mobile and internet customers,&#8221; the company wrote in a statement. &#8220;We are currently working to identify the cause and apologize for any inconvenience. In case of an emergency customers can still call triple zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are checking whether the outage is the result of a cyberattack, although they don&#8217;t believe it is.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Optus+Outage+Leaves+Millions+of+Australians+Without+Mobile+and+Internet+Services%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F07%2F2224218%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twitter_icon_large-179.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F07%2F2224218%2Foptus-outage-leaves-millions-of-australians-without-mobile-and-internet-services%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/facebook_icon_large-90.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/07\/2224218\/optus-outage-leaves-millions-of-australians-without-mobile-and-internet-services?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/07\/2224218\/optus-outage-leaves-millions-of-australians-without-mobile-and-internet-services?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader RobHart writes: During the night, the entire Optus mobile network went down and remains down. This is the second largest mobile network in Australia and it is the first time a network has gone down nationwide. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1200653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}