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Telstra suffers major outage across Australia, disrupting trains, payments and emergency calls. Network serving 24.9 million mobile services hit by time-node issue; root cause under investigation.

Australia's largest mobile network, Telstra, experienced a major outage on Wednesday morning, disrupting train services, payment platforms, and emergency calls across multiple states. Telstra CFO Michael Ackland said a time-keeping node issue was identified around 4:30 a.m. AEST, with the root cause still under investigation.

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