How Tasmanians coped with the network outage following Telstra cable damage | ABC News

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This week, Tasmania got turned off and back on again — with islanders plunged into a communications blackout which had wide-ranging effects.

Civil works in a Melbourne suburb caused “massive damage” to one of Telstra’s two cables connecting Tasmania to the mainland, while their second cable was cut by roadworks on the Tasmanian end at about 1pm.

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