Miriam, who did not want to disclose her surname, frantically tried to call the Royal Women’s Hospital between 3am and 5am as her contractions intensified. An automated voice told her the service was unavailable. Loading Expectant mothers are told to phone midwives at the hospital when they go into labour to receive advice about when … Read more
Optus has apologised after leaving the Australian economy reeling with an outage leaving hundreds of thousands of businesses without internet access and other services. Millions of Australians were without mobile and NBN services after the nation’s second largest telecommunications provider reported outages early on Wednesday. The telco says that its services have now been restored, … Read more
Optus has apologised after leaving the Australian economy reeling with an outage leaving hundreds of thousands of businesses without internet access and other services. Millions of Australians were without mobile and NBN services after the nation’s second largest telecommunications provider reported outages early on Wednesday. The telco says that its services have now been restored, … Read more
Miriam, who did not want to disclose her surname, frantically tried to call the Royal Women’s Hospital between 3am and 5am as her contractions intensified. An automated voice told her the service was unavailable. Loading Expectant mothers are told to phone midwives at the hospital when they go into labour to receive advice about when … Read more
* Opposition communications spokesman David Coleman – “This is a catastrophic incident, there’s no precedent for an incident of this kind and Optus needs to do everything it can to get this resolved, communicate with its customers and the government needs to get on the front foot in assisting Optus to resolve this” Source link
The network dropped out about 4am on Wednesday, with Optus customers and businesses unable to connect to the internet or make or receive calls. An Optus spokesman confirmed some of its services were gradually being restored from about 1pm. “This may take a few hours for all services to recover and different services may restore … Read more
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
The lengthy outage of Optus’s internet and mobile services across the country could have been caused by the same issue that brought down Facebook two years ago, experts suggest. Cloudflare, which tracks a range of activity on the internet, noticed a spike in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements from the telco coinciding with the time … Read more
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The Optus phone outage has cost a Sydney woman precious moments to say goodbye after the communication outage left her unaware that her mother had died in hospital. Rachel told 2GB drive host Chris O’Keefe that her mother Joy was admitted to a hospital in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Rachel lives 10 minutes away from the … Read more