Baby among four dead in Australia after emergency services outage

Telecom giant’s ‘completely unacceptable’ 14-hour blackout resulted in 600 missed calls to operators

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Telecom giant’s ‘completely unacceptable’ 14-hour blackout resulted in 600 missed calls to operators

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Communications Minister Anika Wells ordered an investigation into the outage, saying the firm ‘let Australians down’.

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The outage left hundreds of people unable to contact emergency services and has been linked to multiple deaths.

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Three people died in Australia after hundreds of emergency calls failed due to an outage on the Optus network.

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Optus faces consequences for failing to connect emergency calls, resulting in four deaths, prompting industry changes in…

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The incident comes after Optus was fined A$12 million by regulators for failing to provide emergency call services to thousands…

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