Optus outage: Telecommunications network down, leaving millions of Australians without internet access

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 issue”.