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

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

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

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.