'Embarrassing' human error behind national Telstra outage

By Allie Coyne on Feb 9, 2016 1:23PM

Updated: Mobile, ADSL, voice services out for three hours.

Telstra services were unavailable across the country for mobile, home phone and internet customers for almost three hours on Tuesday after one of its ten national mobile nodes went down due to human error. According to the telco's service status page, an "interruption" affected 2G,...

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