The first signs something was wrong with Australia’s largest mobile network began just after 4am, as people rolled out of bed to begin their day only to find they couldn’t make or receive phone calls or access mobile internet.
“No Telstra mobile service for past half hour,” one person from Victoria’s Point Cook wrote on Down Detector, which had reports slowly trickle in from 4am and then ratchet up to 7,000 in the hour from 5.30am.
