If Telstra sweeps the board at the annual Telecommunications Industry Excellence Awards on Wednesday night, the audience’s response will probably match the eerie silence of the millions of phones rendered dead by the carrier’s outage last week.It is a finalist for four of its products in the awards, which are intended to recognise companies and individuals who have “achieved extraordinary success throughout the year”.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles