What’s been hit by the Optus network going down: from train services to wifi cat feeders

An Optus outage has hit tens of millions of services across Australia. One woman said she was woken up by her cat when her wifi-connected pet feeder didn’t work. Photograph: Anastasiya Tsiasemnikava/Alamy

When a telecommunication network as large as Optus’s goes down, it can have wide ramifications for services and the economy broadly. It’s not just about mobile phones any more.

Optus on Wednesday said a network fault had resulted in its mobile and fixed-line phone and internet services to be taken down, affecting tens of millions of services across Australia.