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Tasmanian hospitals, courts and first responders taken offline in major government outage
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (495+ words) A software fault at a Telstra exchange in Hobart knocked out the Tasmanian government’s entire digital network for hours this morning, causing significant disruptions for the state’s health system, emergency communications, courts, schools and other government services. Networking Tasmania, a…...
Flinders Island loses mobile and internet connectivity after major Telstra fault
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (328+ words) Flinders Island is facing a communications crisis after a fault on Telstra’s transmission link cut mobile and internet services across much of the island. The outage, which began last week, has caused intermittent services on the southern side of the…...
Tas Maritime Radio celebrates 50 years of volunteer service
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (374+ words) Tasmania’s volunteer maritime radio network is celebrating 50 years since the organisation that became Tas Maritime Radio was founded. Tas Maritime Radio traces its origins to 1975, when Barry McCann and Les Collis founded the Tasmanian Smallcraft Marine Radio Group after McCann…...
TasPorts donates 20 refurbished iPhones to Hobart family violence service
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (322+ words) TasPorts has donated 20 refurbished iPhones to a Hobart crisis service, giving women and children leaving family violence access to phones that can’t be tracked by an abuser. The phones went to Jireh House, a Tasmanian service that provides safe housing…...
Zeehan and Tullah connected to Tasmania’s fibre network
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (263+ words) Two isolated towns on Tasmania’s West Coast have been connected to the state’s fibre network, in an upgrade the federal government says will deliver more reliable, higher-capacity internet. Zeehan and Tullah are now linked to Tasmania’s existing fibre network, giving…...
Tasmania to get first new undersea fibre optic cable in 20 years
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (723+ words) Tasmania is set to get its first new undersea fibre optic cable to the mainland in more than 20 years, through a new deal between local tech company Firmus and cable builder SUBCO. The cable, named Bernacchi-1 after Tasmanian-raised Antarctic explorer…...
Over 200 tour Kingston’s new Spring Farm Village shopping centre before opening next week - Pulse Tasmania
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (11+ words) Community members were 'blown away' by the size of the space...
‘Unacceptable’: West Coast Council demands answers over repeated Telstra outages
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (319+ words) A hardware fault knocked out mobile services in Queenstown this week, the latest in a string of Telstra outages plaguing Tasmania’s West Coast. The West Coast Council has called the “ongoing and widespread” outages unacceptable and demanded immediate action. “When…...
Young man fails bid to return to Tinder and Hinge after sex offence conviction
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (348+ words) A young Tasmanian man and previously convicted sex offender has failed in his bid to overturn bans from popular dating apps Tinder and Hinge. Alex McGeary claimed Match Group discriminated against him on the basis of an ‘irrelevant criminal record…...
Hobart council backs used phone drive for domestic violence survivors
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (207+ words) Hobart councillors have backed in a plan to install secure collection boxes at four council sites to gather donated mobile phones for domestic violence survivors. The council is partnering with national charity DV Safe Phone, which refurbishes old devices and…...