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On Thursday afternoon, Australia's largest telecommunication company Telstra lost service across the country with calls and data being affectedMashable Australia attempted to contact Telstra, but unfortunately they use their own service.
We were in an Uber at the time of the outage — which is still ongoing — and got our Internet porting cut off.
The Uber driver struggled to locate his destination, and said he would have to call it a night. If the service doesn't resume soon, there will be loads of lost Sydneysiders roaming the streets trying to remember how to flag down taxis.
There have also been reports of EFTPOS going down in pubs, ATMs not being able to give out cash and train systems being affected. It is going to be a sad Thursday night for some.
Phone keeps dropping out into "SOS only" and "No Service". If you can see this, I made it home to my Wireless Internet! #Telstra— Steve Lopez (@slopezAU) March 17, 2016
#Telstra working on the outage pic.twitter.com/DFLcQESNB0— American Dream (@americandream49) March 17, 2016
Imagine if its the same bloke who caused the last #Telstra outage!!! Two strikes and your out?— Matt Johns (@johns_matthew) March 17, 2016
It is the third time the service, which serves around 16.7 million mobile customers, has gone down in just over a month. In February, Telstra offered its customers free downloads for a day to ease the pain. People are obviously not very happy. Australia might soon be living in the dark ages full time.
There are tweets coming out from Adelaide, Canberra, Western Australia, Sydney, Queensland and Melbourne. Telstra's service status page only states Melbourne is affected — it may be because they can't get online.
Lucky for us, they have managed to get on Twitter.
@Johnny_Lieu We’ve received reports of an issue affecting mobile services and are currently investigating. We will provide an update asap— Telstra (@Telstra) March 17, 2016
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