Optus will face ‘significant consequences’ for triple zero failure linked to deaths, minister says

Communications minister Anika Wells says telco has ‘no excuses here’ after last week’s outage linked to three deaths across two statesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has promised Optus will “suffer significant consequences” after multiple deaths were recorded during the telco’s triple zero outage, with major financial penalties likely.The communications regulator said it wasn’t informed of the outage by Optus until hours after it had been resolved – and that the company had provided “inaccurate” information. Continue reading...

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