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Australia’s biggest mobile network, Telstra, plunged the nation into chaos when it went dark for six hours—leaving millions unable to call, text, or go online, with even electric car chargers and payment systems grinding to a halt. The outage, hitting at 4 AM, exposed just how fragile modern life is when critical tech fails. Emergency services were mostly unaffected, but Telstra made over 300 welfare calls to help those stranded. Regional transport was still disrupted the next day, and while services fully recovered by Wednesday, the incident sparked urgent calls for better network resilience—and warnings about scams exploiting the panic.

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