Telstra Outage Turns Triple-Zero Calls Into Cosmic Silence
KEY POINTS
- •Telstra experienced mobile and internet outages on Wednesday, causing some triple-zero emergency calls in South Australia to fail.
- •The ABC denied accusations that its journalism contributed to antisemitism or social division in a statement last night.
- •Senior executives from ABC and SBS are appearing today before the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion.
On Wednesday, Telstra decided to test Australians’ patience with a mobile outage so grand that even triple-zero calls struggled to connect—leaving SA police explaining why SOS now means 'Some Other Signal.' Meanwhile, the ABC fired back at royal commissioners accusing their journalism of stoking antisemitism, asserting their reports focus on Jewish Australians with more context than your grandma’s conspiracy theories. Senior execs from ABC and SBS are now prepping their best Big Corporate Apology Faces for the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion—because nothing says 'we’re serious' like bureaucratic PowerPoint pledges amid a telecom crisis that rendered emergency lines as useful as a floppy disk in 2024.
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(1 of 3)Telstra’s outage made calling triple-zero as effective as yelling into a void, while ABC insists reporting truth isn’t social division. Coincidence? This is Australia.
Telstra’s outage turned phone lines into relics—meanwhile ABC’s defending journalism like it’s the new national emergency.
If you can’t call triple-zero, just shout really loud or send a smoke signal. Telstra’s down, priorities shifted.
Source: Theguardian | Published: 7/9/2026 | Author: Nick Visser
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