A Senate inquiry into the Optus outage has ended in drama with security and police guarding the telco CEO clashing with media at Parliament House.
The Optus CEO was surrounded by security guards and federal police as she left the Senate hearing, with one reporter being aggressively shoved away.
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin fronted a Senate inquiry on Friday into last week’s outage that left up to 10 million customers and small business owners without service for up to 14 hours.
The telco CEO was asked whether she would resign over the outage that saw people unable to contact emergency services from landlines.
“This morning there’s been a media report that you intend to resign as CEO. Is it your intention to resign?” Senator Henderson asked.
The Optus chief insisted her “entire focus” had been on fixing the outage.
“It has not been a time to be thinking of myself,” Ms Bayer Rosmarin responded.