back to article Telstra's horror run continues with TITSUPs on three networks

Australia's dominant carrier, Telstra, is enduring more customer fury after extended outages stretched across its ADSL, NBN, and mobile networks. The carrier has blamed network hardware for the TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance), issuing a statement saying a Friday outage resulted from “a fault with the …

  1. Phil Kingston

    It used to be that if you wanted reliability and coverage you paid the bit more and went Telstra.

    Seems to be becoming apparent they weren't using that money to invest in a continuous improvement of technology. Still, I guess the shareholders were pleased to get some dividends.

    Telstra's reputation is currently where Vodafail's was a couple of years back. Anecdotally there's a lot of individuals and businesses questioning why they're paying a premium for a non-premium network now. H2's gonna be churntastic.

  2. JJKing

    And some twat has suggested dumping the NBN on Telstra and letting them sort it out. Guess they could take to whole country back to the communication stone age instead of just their over charge customers.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Got to wonder, if the escalating (and fast) issues around NBN and the Australian Government is an anyway linked to the Telstra outages, given they are absolutely involved.

    2. Richard Chirgwin (Written by Reg staff)

      Yes, and the "some twat" was me. To quote Harold Macmillan, when asked what he feared: "Events, dear boy, events" (possibly apocryphal, but it suits the purpose here).

      Richard Chirgwin

      The Register

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