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Wednesday 7 October 2026

Telstra, Optus and TPG launch disaster roaming for the regions

Temporary Disaster Roaming went live on 1 October. Telstra, Optus and TPG customers can use a rival's network in regional disasters at no extra cost.

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Telstra, Optus and TPG Telecom customers can now borrow a rival's mobile network when a bushfire, flood or cyclone knocks their own one out. The feature's called Temporary Disaster Roaming, and it went live on Thursday 1 October, right as Australia's higher-risk weather season got under way.

A tall lattice telecommunications tower with antennas rising over paddocks and a house in Oxley, regional NSW — Photo: Mattinbgn / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0), cropped

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