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Singapore telecom apologises over outage linked to deaths in Australia

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

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

By John Power

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