How Tasmanians coped with the network outage following Telstra cable damage - ABC News

Tuesday's communications blackout across all of Tasmania caused by a "dial before you dig" blunder had wide-ranging effects: a house settlement delayed, businesses struggling to operate and one person even saying they would miss their uncle's funeral.

Yesterday, Tasmania got turned off and back on again with islanders plunged into a communications blackout which had wide-ranging effects.  At 11am, civil works in a Melbourne suburb caused "massive… [+7156 chars]

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