Why hasn’t the ports company experienced same fury as telco?

Why hasn’t the ports company experienced same fury as telco?

It’s tempting to frame the way the two companies communicated as a study in contrasts. Optus stayed essentially silent last Wednesday when its network went down, despite the media, like nature, abhorring a vacuum. Communications Minister Michelle Rowlands’ filled it, publicly telling Optus to be quicker in communicating with customers. When Bayer Rosmarin eventually fronted … Read more

Cause of massive Optus outage revealed

Cause of massive Optus outage revealed

Optus has revealed the cause of last week’s major network outage. Optus has revealed the cause of an outage that crippled the nation, leaving millions of customers without phone or internet reception and affecting thousands of businesses. Last Wednesday’s nationwide outage has been blamed on changes to “routing information” following a software upgrade at the … Read more

Optus outage: Telco reveals cause of massive outage which crippled nation

Optus outage: Telco reveals cause of massive outage which crippled nation

Optus has revealed the cause of an outage that crippled the nation, leaving millions of customers without phone or internet reception and affecting thousands of businesses. Last Wednesday’s nationwide outage has been blamed on changes to “routing information” following a software upgrade at the telco. “At around 4.05am Wednesday morning, the Optus network received changes … Read more

Optus offers further explanation for nationwide outage

Optus offers further explanation for nationwide outage

Optus has issued a new statement today, offering a further explanation as to last week’s nationwide outage that left 10 million customers without the ability to make phone calls or access the internet. After citing a “network event” last week – which has also seen the government announce it will launch an investigation into the … Read more