Apparently South Australia had an #optuswrongtime incident today, when some customers’ devices showed the wrong time, causing chaos for them.
The same sort of thing happened in Queensland in January — that’s when the hashtag was invented — and just like then, the official explanation was less than forthcoming.
An overnight maintenance upgrade of our 4G Plus mobile network caused some Optus customers’ devices in South Australia and the Northern Territory to switch to a different time zone earlier this morning. The Optus 3G network was unaffected.
Optus technicians resolved the issue with a fix that set clocks to the correct time zone.
Customers were also able to resolve the issue in a number of ways, including:
- Turning flight mode on and off
- Turning automatic clock settings off and on
- Turning their device off and on.
We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience.
I spoke about the incident this afternoon on ABC 891 Adelaide with Sonya Feldhoff.
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