Telstra customers, as well as customers of mobile providers that use Telstra's network, have flooded outage detection websites with reports.

The telco believes a software defect is behind the outage

Telstra customers, as well as customers of mobile providers that use Telstra's network, have flooded outage detection websites with reports.

The widespread outage is affecting mobile calls and data connections, and has even prevented some businesses from processing payments.

Telstra customers are reporting problems connecting to the internet and making calls this morning. Follow live.

Mobile and internet services are affected as the telco says it is "looking into" the problem.

Reports of the outage began before 5am on Wednesday, with outage tracking website DownDetector recording more than 7,000 reports by two hours later as customers wondered what was…

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Telstra is working rapidly to bring its mobile network back online, after hundreds of thousands of customers were caught up in a nationwide outage.

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Australia's biggest telecoms company said on Wednesday it was urgently investigating the cause of a nationwide outage that cut mobile and internet services for thousands of…