As Optus customers raged amid a damaging outage on Wednesday, shares in rival telco Telstra climbed higher, fast outpacing the broader market. The differing fortunes of the telcos speaks to the huge challenge facing Optus barely a year after it was hit by the worst cyber breach in Australian history. Once again, the company has … Read more
OPINION Optus customers had a horror moment when we saw “SOS” blinking back at us from our phones this morning, before the awful reality hit — we’d lost internet access and we couldn’t make or receive calls. Hospitals, businesses, transport systems and government services were thrown into chaos, small businesses were forced to close, online … Read more
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SARAH FERGUSON: Racheal Falk, welcome to 7.30. RACHAEL FALK: Thank you. SARAH FERGUSON: Now we know that this wasn’t a cyber-attack. Optus said they’ve never had an outage of this nature. What was different about what happened today? RACHAEL FALK: What was different is this particular outage took their entire network, so their fixed services, … Read more
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Optus network services are slowly returning following an eight-hour network outrage. The blackout affected millions across the country including business, banks, hospital and train services. Source link
Optus suffered another seismic reputational blow on Wednesday, with a national outage leaving millions of Australians without mobile or internet access, and even leaving some customers unable to call triple-0. Source link
Optus suffered another seismic reputational blow on Wednesday, with a national outage leaving millions of Australians without mobile or internet access, and even leaving some customers unable to call triple-0. Across Australia, governments, hospitals, businesses, and customers were left in limbo, with the national economy stalled over what Optus called a “rare … technical network … Read more
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE OPTUS OUTAGE * Optus first noticed issues with services at 4am on Wednesday and… Source link
Optus’ naming rights for Perth Stadium have come into the spotlight after the under-fire telco giant’s national outage left millions of Australians without mobile and internet services on Wednesday. Source link