00:02While some were happily oblivious...
00:04I've been lifting kegs all day. I've been working hard, you know.
00:08So mobile signal doesn't matter when you're doing that?
00:11Doesn't matter about that at all, yeah.
00:12I had a little hiccup probably around nine o'clock, but that's about it.
00:16It was probably two minutes.
00:17For Canberrans relying on mobile technology to make ends meet,
00:21it was a different story.
00:22Even until now, the Tesla just on and off, cutting off and then on and off again.
00:28And, yeah, I only can do two jobs from early this morning.
00:33ACT emergency services say backup communication systems
00:36meant the Telstra outage didn't become a matter of life and death.
00:40Our staff have continued, both in ACT Ambulance and ACT Fire and Rescue,
00:45to take triple zero calls during the reported outages
00:48of the mobile network earlier today.
00:50And our staff are continually and continuously monitoring that situation.
00:54Though some passenger journey planning services were impacted,
00:57local public transport ticketing was unaffected.
01:01But buses replaced the train from Kingston to Sydney
01:04due to outage-related rail line closures in New South Wales.
01:08Oh, no!
01:09And Central will be right.
01:10Yeah.
01:11Sydney Central only.
01:13We actually, I read on Facebook, I read on Facebook,
01:16they said, go to the station.
01:18They'll put on coaches.
01:19If you're there, you can get on the coach.
01:22Once the coaches are full, they will go.
01:24And if you're not there, you'll miss out.
01:26Some were happy with the slower approach to the day.
01:29You know, we have this...
01:30We always feel like we've got so much urgency in our lives
01:35and it was just like half an hour of like,
01:36oh, I guess whatever happens, it'll be OK.
01:39An unscheduled digital detox.
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