Once again Optus Australia’s network in Brisbane was a let down for users trying to use their mobile phones this morning.

“From between 6am and 7am there were intermittent issues with call set up, which means some customers would not have been able to make a call,” an Optus spokeswoman said.

According to the Brisbane Times She said engineers resolved the problem by 12pm.

This time the issue was said to have been a software malfunction.

This follows Friday afternoons congestion of which was blamed for the network becoming unreliable across Queensland and also causing some problems in NSW and Victoria, of which also follows a complete outage last month On July 15 to all of Queensland and Northern NSW.

Optus need to get their act together, and fast!

Updated:

According to Australian IT, the issue was due to:

“FLAWED software patches from Nokia Siemens Networks”

Sources:

Brisbane Times

Australian IT

- Ben