One Telstra glitch this morning and half the country stopped working.

Some clocks fell out of sync across a few network nodes at 4:30am and that was enough to ground every regional train in Victoria, suspend lines in NSW, knock out payments for small businesses, stop freight, and some 000 calls weren’t getting through.
Boost, Aldi Mobile and Belong all run on Telstra’s network so their customers went down too. 25 million services are on this network.
They don’t know the root cause yet.
Optus went down for 14 hours last year and 2 people died when emergency calls couldn’t connect, now it’s Telstra’s turn.
This is the infrastructure they want your ID, your payments and your entire life running through.