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Sky News Australia 9 Jul 2026 10 here now

‘Timing issue’: Tech Guide Editor discusses Telstra’s outage

​Tech Guide Editor Stephen Fenech says Telstra claim their nationwide outage was caused by a “timing issue”.

​“All the systems communicate when they’re all synchronised to the same time; that’s when

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@spewp From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 1
Not a software bug. That's how those devices work, it rolled over to 2006 after it wasn't properly maintained.
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Barnaby is correct ....tired of BS masquerading as Truth.
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Y26k bug😅😅😅
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Can't force a private company to sunset equipment. If it's so critical, why did we privitise it 😂
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover
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@Remo-z3v From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 1
Stop buying telecommunication hardware or software made in communist China.
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Yeah 😆 timing is the word... China fire's a missile of our coast and then right after Telstra communication stops.
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@allords1 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 1
What kind of engineers are hired? Why can't they run a network?
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@sdnalyam From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 2
China is laughing and getting ready to attack, so simple.
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@Remo-z3v From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 3
The bigger picture here is that this is the response of communist China against the security deal of Australia and Fiji.
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so Y2K bug
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Didn't all the networks get pulled into line after the Optus mess. Not buying this one
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Missing the other point let's go fully digital currency....... you couldn't access any services or your own money. This is going to be a great concern if the networks get hacked
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@rdx529 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 5
The CEO are well overpaid without any understanding of yhe system
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I would imagine Telstra's backend probably still operates on mainframe architecture from the 80's..