Jul 9, 2026 – 7.48amTelstra says it has found a second issue affecting its network that is disrupting calls – including those to Triple Zero – after a nationwide outage crippled train services and prompted dozens of police welfare checks.Late on Wednesday night, Telstra released an update revealing while it had fixed the initial outage, which was caused by a timer issue in data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, some customers had been getting an error message when phones try to connect to an alternative mobile network for emergency calls.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Telstra outage exposes second network issue as trains remain down
Some Triple Zero calls are still experiencing issues, Telstra says, as it races to fix a second network issue.
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