Nation's web access cut after Telstra outage

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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/nations-web-access-cut-after-telstra-outage-20090903-f8uz.html

By Georgina Robinson
smh.com.au
September 3, 2009

Telstra's national internet network went down for an hour today, the 
company says.

The outage affected all Telstra home and businesses broadband and mobile 
internet customers nationwide, between 7.50am and 8.50am, a spokesman 
said.

The company formed a major incident response team to investigate the 
outage. It's not yet known what caused it.

Another spokesman told Sky News that customers could not access any 
international sites or Australian sites containing international links.

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