Jul 8, 2026 – 8.58amThe acting chief executive of Telstra, Michael Ackland, will hold a press conference on Wednesday morning after a potential nationwide outage that has affected tens of thousands of its customers, stranded train lines in NSW and Victoria and blocked some users’ ability to connect to emergency services.Ackland, Telstra’s chief financial officer, will front the media from Telstra’s Melbourne headquarters at 9.45am.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles