By Australian Associated Press Published: 19:55 EDT, 5 May 2024 | Updated: 20:25 EDT, 5 May 2024 Optus has appointed a telecommunications veteran as its new chief executive, six months after a nationwide outage at the telco left nearly a third of Australians without internet or mobile service. Stephen Rue will become Optus CEO in … Read more
Singapore Telecommunications’ Australian unit Optus said on Monday it had appointed Stephen Rue as its new CEO, nearly half a year after former boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigned following a massive network outage. Source link
Optus has appointed a telecommunications veteran as its new chief executive, six months after a nationwide outage at the telco left nearly a third of Australians without internet or mobile service. Stephen Rue will become Optus CEO in November after six years as the head of Australia’s National Broadband Network and four years as its … Read more
Australia’s second-largest telco Optus has appointed a new chief executive, with NBN Co boss Stephen Rue to take the reins six months after a mass outage that affected some 10 million Optus customers. Rue, a former News Corp executive, will join Optus in November after the telco conducted an extensive internal, external and international search, … Read more
Australia’s second-largest telco Optus has appointed a new chief executive, with NBN Co boss Stephen Rue to take the reins six months after a mass outage that affected some 10 million Optus customers. Rue, a former News Corp executive, will join Optus in November after the telco conducted an extensive internal, external and international search, … Read more
Nearly one in three Australians were left without phone and internet services when the telco company experienced a nationwide outage in November. During the 14-hour event, thousands of emergency calls made to the emergency line triple zero were also unable to go through, putting lives at risk. Thousands of emergency calls to triple zero failed … Read more
After a major outage left Australians unable to call the emergency hotline, Optus has apologised and telcos will… Source link
Optus’s Triple Zero failure led to an overhaul of the system. Photo: Shutterstock Telecommunications carriers and regulators are rallying to an all-hands-on-deck alert after the federal government responded to an inquiry into Optus’s major November outage with a commitment to fast-track changes that have “considerable implications” for the industry. The outage – which left train … Read more
Optus has named Stephen Rue, the man running the National Broadband Network, as its new chief executive. He replaces former Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, who resigned in November following criticism of the way she handled a national network outage last year and a previous cyberattack in 2022. Source link
For the sixth time running, Optus has claimed the fastest 5G download speeds in Australia, according to the latest report from OpenSignal. Between January and March this year, Optus averaged 5G download speeds of 208.7Mbps, comfortably ahead of Telstra’s 180.1Mbps. Lagging behind in third place was Vodafone, registering average speeds of 137.9Mbps. However, Vodafone was … Read more