Fronting a press conference shortly after flying back from holidays, chief executive Vicki Brady was across her brief, and asking for customers’ faith.

The telco giant has let itself down in how transparent it was about the full impact of Wednesday’s outage.

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

Vicki Brady has addressed the outages for the first time after ending her leave early and flying back to Australia.

Telstra boss Vicki Brady has apologised for this week’s mass outage, as Communications Minister Anika Wells vowed the government would hold the telco to account.

For a company built on selling plans, Telstra has made a mess of them.

Fronting a press conference shortly after flying back from holidays, chief executive Vicki Brady was across her brief, and asking for customers’ faith.

Telstra has endured its worst week in a decade, after a software glitch sent the country’s biggest telco into crisis.