Telstra's NextG mobile network suffered a catastrophic failure in Queensland this morning bringing the entire states' mobile communications to a halt.
Issues started appearing from 5:15am this morning with users reporting on the popular forum site Whirlpool and Twitter that they were unable to send or receive calls or SMS messages.
"Telstra is working to fix issues with some of our radio network controllers in parts of Queensland this morning," Telstra spokesman Craig Middleton told news outlet iTnews.
Unofficial reports claimed that four of Telstra's seven Radio Network Controllers were experiencing faults. Telstra was said to be working with its hardware vendor Ericsson to resolve the issue as a priority.
The outage is affecting mainly the 3G data side of the network and users have reported that reverting back to the 2G GSM signal as a workaround until the problem is resolved.
The latest news from Telstra is that they expected the issue to be resolved around lunch time today.
In other news, my Optus mobile service hasn't missed a beat today.
UPDATE 3.30pm: It appears the Telstra network is still suffering issues. My mobile EFTPOS, which connects to the Telstra network is failing to log on.
UPDATE 07/05/10: It looks like the network is fully functional again. A botched update on Telstra's equipment was to blame for the outage.
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