NSW Police have been made aware of an intermittent Telstra Network issue affecting the receipt of Triple -0 phone calls.
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If requiring assistance from any of the emergency services, members of the public are urged to contact Triple-0 in the first instance.
News networks have reported Telstra said the cable was cut by an unknown party between Orange and Bowral around 2am, which sparked the outage.
The outage is affecting calls in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.
If unable to get through on Triple-0, callers requiring any of the emergency services should call Police Assistance Line on 131 444 and they will be patched through to the emergency line.
As always, police remind residents to call the line for genuine emergencies only.
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