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Telstra executives to face Senate inquiry following nationwide outage

Published July 12, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC

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Telstra executives are set to appear before a Senate inquiry to explain a major nationwide mobile network outage that caused widespread disruption across Australia this week. The outage, which began early Wednesday morning, left millions of customers without mobile connectivity, halted some train services, disabled electric vehicle chargers, and prevented many businesses from processing Eftpos payments. Most critically, the network failure impacted the ability of some Australians to reach Triple Zero emergency services, prompting Telstra to conduct hundreds of welfare checks.