Fixed: Telstra identifies Mackay mobile outage cause
Telstra has revealed the cause of a widespread mobile outage in the Mackay region, which left some customers without service for more than three days. Areas affected last week included Mackay, the Northern Beaches, Habana, parts of Hay Point, parts of the Pioneer Valley, Mount Martin, Mount Jukes, Cape Hillsborough and St Bees Island. Telstra confirmed the outage to the Daily Mercury on February 24, but services were not restored until 4am on February 28. "The cause was a fault in some of the technology used to transmit mobile signals from our base stations, which was rectified," a Telst...
Source: dailymercury.com.au