Good afternoon.Telstra’s CEO, Vicki Brady, has fronted the media after cutting short an overseas trip to apologise for Wednesday’s national outage that disrupted trains, transactions and some triple zero calls.The outage was caused by a software fault with Telstra’s time-telling systems, which then told the rest of its network that it was November 2006.Brady admitted Telstra knew of the risks posed by a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to prevent this week’s outage, saying she is “deeply sorry” about its impacts.South Australian police have ruled out a link between a death and the outage, while the communications minister said it was “time for Telstra to face the music”.Top news
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