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

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

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

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

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