Dept of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
The Australian Government has been advised by Telstra that there is an outage affecting a large number of mobile calls and connections.
We are also aware the issue is also affecting Victoria's V/Line regional train services.
We understand Telstra is working on resolving the issue, and arrangements are being made for affected rail passengers.
Like all telcos, Telstra must notify customers and emergency services of any major outage.
Australian phones are also required to fall back to other networks for 000 access.
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