An outage hit 1000’s of Telstra prospects on Tuesday afternoon, with the telco big scrambling to ship a repair.
Many shoppers reported issues with cell name entry within the mid-afternoon.
The corporate confirmed it skilled a problem with its community.
“For those who’re a Telstra buyer you may be noticing some points with cell calls, we’re engaged on a repair and hope to get all the pieces again up and working quickly,” the corporate said on X about 2pm.
“We’ll maintain you up to date.”
The corporate stated cell knowledge had not been affected within the outage and different methods of calling, reminiscent of utilizing FaceTime or WhatsApp, had been nonetheless working.
The corporate additionally stated testing confirmed there had been no impression on triple-0 calls.
The problem was settled swiftly, with Telstra stating companies had returned to regular by 2.30pm.
“The problem was brought on by a software program change and was mounted by rolling that again,” a Tesltra spokeswoman stated.
“We’re sorry for the impression on folks’s days.”
An alert on Telstra’s web site revealed an outage had additionally hit enterprise NBN Voice and Knowledge companies.
“A upkeep firmware replace to some enterprise modems has prompted the modems to lose web connectivity,” the corporate stated.
“A rollback was carried out however has not been profitable in resolving the difficulty for all prospects.
“Our tech groups have been urgently engaged on an answer and we’re performing a reset of some buyer modems to resolve the difficulty.
“A manufacturing unit reset will restore the machine again to default settings, so any third social gathering or customised settings reminiscent of distant entry, printer entry and VPN will must be arrange once more.”