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Faraz Hasan, Director of Research, University of Canberra

UNBELIEVABLE: How does a telstra outage bring down trains a telco expert explains | History Defined

Australians woke up this morning to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action.

Some EFTPOS payment services, taxi payment systems, electric vehicle charging platform Chargefox, and public transport ticketing in Canberra were all affected. There have been conflicting reports over whether Triple Zero calls were impacted, as they were in a recent Optus outage.

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