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Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has been grilled in a Senate inquiry after the telco provider experience a mass outage last week. Source link

“I haven’t seen any reports today,” Bayer Rosmarin said after a three-second pause. “I’ve been preparing for being here.” Optus has faced widespread criticism for its handling of the outage, when some customers were unable to make triple-zero calls. Train networks, businesses and hospitals were also impacted. Senate inquiry chair Senator Sarah Hanson-Young grilled Optus … Read more

There was a perfectly good telephone connected to a landline sitting on a side table positioned handily between my mother’s and father’s favourite lounge chairs, just as it always had. Bank tellers in action in the 1970s.Credit: Fairfax archive Why would my mother take a mobile phone into town? She never asked this out loud, … Read more

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Greens’ senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s line of questioning at the Senate hearing would suggest that the Australian parliament is waking up to need to examine the issue of mandated roaming in the event of another mass outage. Such a regulation would force Telstra to share its network with Optus, and vice versa. Hanson-Young said she was … Read more

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Video: Optus CEO grilled in Senate inquiry after network outage Optus CEO grilled in Senate inquiry after network outage We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Dismiss Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has been grilled in a Senate … Read more

SYDNEY, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Australia’s second-largest telco, Optus, had no crisis plan when a network-wide outage left nearly half the country without phone or internet for 12 hours, an executive told parliament on Friday, acknowledging the company’s defences had failed. The Singapore Telecommunications-owned (STEL.SI) company had recently war-gamed scenarios in which the routers that … Read more

Greens’ senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s line of questioning at the Senate hearing would suggest that the Australian parliament is waking up to need to examine the issue of mandated roaming in the event of another mass outage. Such a regulation would force Telstra to share its network with Optus, and vice versa. Hanson-Young said she was … Read more