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27 August 2026

Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure

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Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure

The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, you still had a fair shot of getting ...

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