ARTC runs most of Australia’s interstate rail network as a government-owned body; current focus: handling the Telstra outage affecting trains and payments due to data-centre software defect, with exact cause still unknown.
A national outage affecting mobile and data services has disrupted emergency calls, EFTPOS payments, transport networks and rail services. Telstra says a software defect in time-keeping servers caused the disruption, which has been fully resolved after about 12 hours. Regulators will investigate.