Crisis deepens for Australian telco Optus after fresh emergency call outage

Ericsson Equipment Malfunction Tied to Optus Dapto Tower Outage

Optus has pointed to its technology partner Ericsson as the source of a mobile tower malfunction in Dapto, New South Wales, that left calls unable to connect, including 12 attempts to Triple Zero. The Sept. 28 outage, which impacted around 4,500 residents, occurred when 4G services on a single tower failed to operate even though the tower appeared active on the network. As Optus’ 5G network does not yet carry voice services in Australia, calls c…

Optus crisis opens a political vulnerability for Coalition to seize upon

Touted in some insider circles as future Labor leadership material, self-identified millennial Anika Wells finds herself in a storm over the nation's emergency triple-0 system.

'Scapegoating' Optus blames tech, staff for outages

Optus has blamed technical equipment and human error for two emergency call outages as the prime minister pans...

Crisis deepens for Australian telco Optus after fresh emergency call outage

The Australian government called the outage an "absolutely shocking failure" and has said it will seek answers from Singapore Telecommunications

channelnews : Singtel And Canberra Address Optus Crisis

The Optus emergency call fiasco has deepened, with both the Albanese government and Singtel, Optus’s parent company in Singapore, taking tougher stances after two Triple Zero outages in less than two weeks. On September 29, more than 4,500 people south of Sydney were unable to reach emergency services. The failure came just days after a...

Optus crisis deepens with second outage hitting emergency calls

SYDNEY, Australia: Optus said it had suffered another emergency call outage in an area south of Sydney, just 10 days after a broader disruption that the Australian telco said likely contributed to four deaths. The latest failure has intensified criticism of Optus and its parent company, Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel). The Australian government has called it an "absolutely shocking failure" and demanded a