Government agencies and academics both recently warned Telstra it was vulnerable to the type of error that caused this week's national outage.

Telstra says Wednesday's nationwide outage was caused by malfunctioning "nodes" that manage time synchronisation within some of the network data centres, but has no idea what…

The network disruption – which brought trains, traffic lights and Eftpos payments to a halt – raises questions about the resilience of services

Telstra has defended its communication process, insisting the government and other stakeholders were informed "very, very early" in the morning.

The government has the power to ensure that network failures don’t become national catastrophes.

The same technology that helps your smartphone know when daylight savings ends set off a ‘digital domino chain’ that locked customers out of the network

Government agencies and academics both recently warned Telstra it was vulnerable to the type of error that caused this week's national outage.

Insiders say the equipment behind the Triple Zero outage was flagged for replacement years ago, but the work landed in the “too hard” basket.