Optus has conceded almost 2700 people were unable to contact triple-0 during a widespread outage last year — more than ten times the amount initially projected.
The Senate was initially told only 228 customers were unable to call emergency services during a national outage on November 8 but today Optus revealed an additional 2,468 people were caught up in the chaos.
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