Telstra Is Currently Experiencing Interruptions!

I recently decided that the Huawei Ascend Y550 I had in storage would be a suitable phone for me now.
As it was locked to Vodafone I went online to the Vodafone Australia website to get it unlocked for $25.

Today, I went into my drawer full of SIM starter packs (thanks OzBargain) and chose a Woolworths $30 Starter Kit that I got for $1.00! ( Not a misprint :P )

The activation was successful and all went well so I thought…

I pushed the SIM chip into its slot and turned the Mobile Data on, but it was showing no signal bars.
So I checked the APN settings and network operations but it wouldn't let edit the Telstra APN settings which seemed strange.

So I put onto the Telstra Support website and clicked the link to the Service Status web-page, so I proceeded to put my postal code in and this comes:

• 3G Mobile
  Current Interruption
  Customers may experience difficulties making and receiving calls or using data via their mobile service.
  Started on: Fri 13 Jan 2:26pm CST
  End: TBC

• Wi-Fi
  Current Interruption
  Customers may experience difficulties using their internet service via Telstra Wi-Fi.
  Started on: Thu 12 Jan 6:47am CST
  End: TBC

• 4G Mobile
  Current Interruption
  Customers may experience difficulties making and receiving calls or using data via their mobile service.
  Started in: Mon 29 Aug 11:43am CST
  End: TBC

What ideas on what I could do to lessen the impact / solve this issue?