{"id":101252,"date":"2025-02-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/?p=101252"},"modified":"2025-02-10T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:40:19","slug":"major-outage-hits-tpg-vodafone-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/major-outage-hits-tpg-vodafone-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Outage Hits Tpg, Vodafone, Iinet and More\u2014Thousands Left Without Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A widespread <strong>internet outage<\/strong> affected thousands of customers across Australia on Monday evening, disrupting services for <strong>TPG, Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan<\/strong> users. The outage, linked to a <strong>power failure caused by severe thunderstorms in New South Wales<\/strong>, left both businesses and individuals without broadband access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TPG Telecom, one of the nation\u2019s largest telecommunications providers, confirmed it was experiencing a <strong>technical issue<\/strong> impacting fixed broadband services. According to the company, its technical teams had identified the cause and were working to restore connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thousands of Users Report Disruptions Across Multiple Providers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The outage led to a sharp increase in service complaints, with nearly <strong>14,000 problem reports submitted<\/strong> on monitoring site <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com.au\/status\/tpg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DownDetector<\/strong> <\/a>by 5.40 pm on Monday, according to user data. Reports later dropped to <strong>around 2,500 by 7 pm<\/strong>, suggesting some progress in restoring service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to TPG Telecom, the disruption affected both <strong>consumer and business broadband services<\/strong>, creating significant inconvenience for those relying on <strong>home internet<\/strong> and <strong>remote work connectivity<\/strong>. Customers across multiple brands under the <strong>TPG Telecom Limited group<\/strong>\u2014which includes <strong>Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan<\/strong>\u2014were impacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, TPG Telecom apologised for the disruption and confirmed its teams were working to <strong>restore services as quickly as possible<\/strong>. The company did not provide a timeline for full restoration but assured customers that the issue had been identified and was actively being addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Power Outage Linked to Severe Storms in New South Wales<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident coincided with <strong>widespread thunderstorms in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/major-aussie-road-changes-set-to-transform-driving-in-2025-heres-whats-new\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"100389\">New South Wales<\/a><\/strong>, which caused power disruptions across multiple regions. According to TPG Telecom, the outage was directly linked to a <strong>power failure<\/strong> following the storms, though further technical details were not disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather system that hit <strong>Sydney and surrounding areas<\/strong> on Monday brought <strong>heavy rain, strong winds and lightning<\/strong>, contributing to infrastructure damage and electricity outages. It is unclear whether <strong>additional telecommunications infrastructure<\/strong> beyond TPG\u2019s services was affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reliance on home broadband grows due to <strong>remote work and digital services<\/strong>, widespread service disruptions can have <strong>significant economic and operational impacts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Australians were suddenly disconnected on Monday evening as a widespread internet outage crippled services for TPG, Vodafone, iiNet, Internode, and Kogan users. Reports flooded in, with nearly 14,000 complaints logged at its peak. Severe thunderstorms in NSW are said to be the cause, but what exactly happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":101254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101265,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101252\/revisions\/101265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}