Operational failure
Communications Facility
Telstra mobile network — nationwide human-error outage
9 February 2016 · About three hours
Australia (national)
Incident location
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-24.9000, 133.7000
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What happened
Human error by Telstra staff caused a nationwide mobile voice and data outage lasting approximately three hours. The incident met the government's major-outage threshold; no malicious activity or casualties were reported.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Communications Facility
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- Latitude
- -24.9000°
- Longitude
- 133.7000°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.