Telstra outage: trains and emergency calls in Australia affected by telecoms outages0

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• July 8, 2026

A major outage at Australia’s largest telecommunications company has led to the cancellation of train services, left thousands of customers without mobile coverage and sparked an investigation into unconnected emergency calls. Telstra chief financial officer Michael Ackland apologized for the issue which began at 4.30am local time on Wednesday and affected “some mobile calls and