Wednesday's nationwide Telstra outage hit small and medium businesses hard. An expert estimates it will cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars. Building designer Belinda Stewart says the ...

Telstra customers began reporting problems with their mobile reception on outage site Downdetector just after 4am on Wednesday before peaking at 6:32am. More than 7600 Australians reported that they ...

All regional train services in Victoria have been suspended due to what service operator V/Line has called a "radio network fault" thought to be related to the Telstra outage.

Telstra is assessing outage compensation claims, but consumer advocates say the process is cumbersome and puts the onus back on customers rather than the telco at fault.

LAST Wednesday was one of radio silence for many across the Latrobe Valley and the rest of the country following the Telstra outage. Regional Victoria was the hardest hit area by the sudden crisis.