Millions Affected as Eastern Australia Suffers 12 Hour Mobile Blackout

Telstra logos are seen outside the Telstra Melbourne headquarters on June 14, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images

Millions of Australians in the states of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland were left without mobile phone services after a 12-hour mobile outage hit the eastern states last night around 10 p.m. on Monday night.

Independent outage tracker Down Detector noted on Twitter that outages were detected last night at around 10:17 p.m.