Telstra says sorry for second outage with another free data day

Telstra data day

Telstra customers were last night experience a strange sense of deja vu when the network's mobile and data services stopped working.

Telstra hasn't confirmed what caused the issue in the first place, but said the load of millions of devices trying to automatically reconnect simultaneously caused significant congestion that only exacerbated the problem.

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