Telstra outage leaves some users unable to make mobile phone calls

The company says the issue mostly affected customers in NSW and Queensland, but did not prevent trip zero calls

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Some Telstra customers found themselves unable to make mobile phone calls after a network outage that began early on Tuesday morning.

A spokesperson for Telstra said the company fixed the issue at around 9am. Triple zero was not affected, and people were still able to access the internet over the mobile network, they said.

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