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In short: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has fined Optus $1.5 million for breaching public safety rules. The telco failed to upload data used by emergency services to the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND), ACMA’s investigation finds. What’s next? Optus will undergo an independent review of its IPND compliance under a court-enforcable undertaking. Optus has been … Read more

Nearly 200,000 customers were potentially at risk. Source link

Nearly 200,000 customers were potentially at risk. Source link

Nearly 200,000 customers were potentially at risk. Source link

(Reuters) – Singapore Telecommunications-owned Australian telecom firm Optus has paid a A$1.5 million ($977,250) fine after the local communications watchdog found large-scale breaches of public safety rules around emergency services, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said on Wednesday. An investigation by the ACMA has revealed that about 200,000 Optus mobile customers were left … Read more

Singapore Telecommunications-owned Australian telecom firm Optus has paid a A$1.5 million (S$1.3 million) fine after the local communications watchdog found large-scale breaches of public safety rules around emergency services, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said on Wednesday (March 6). An investigation by the ACMA has revealed that about 200,000 Optus mobile customers were … Read more

“We didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage. I think it was unexpected,” Kangaratnam told the Senate. “We will take such exercises into consideration in the future.” Bayer Rosmarin resigned three days after the Senate hearing, and Kangaratnam’s resignation on Friday means both Optus representatives to front the Senate have … Read more

We expect the report into the Optus network outage on November 8 to fully investigate the Communications Minister’s lack of transparency in her handling of the Triple-0 failings on that day. We expect the report into the Optus network outage on November 8 to fully investigate the Communications Minister’s lack of transparency in her handling … Read more

“We didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage. I think it was unexpected,” Kangaratnam told the Senate. “We will take such exercises into consideration in the future.” Bayer Rosmarin resigned three days after the Senate hearing, and Kangaratnam’s resignation on Friday means both Optus representatives to front the Senate have … Read more

“We didn’t have a plan in place for that specific scale of outage. I think it was unexpected,” Kangaratnam told the Senate. “We will take such exercises into consideration in the future.” Bayer Rosmarin resigned three days after the Senate hearing, and Kangaratnam’s resignation on Friday means both Optus representatives to front the Senate have … Read more