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Australia’s Optus Apologises for Outage that Disrupted Emergency Calls
Victoria Police completed welfare checks after an Optus outage left 39 Triple Zero calls struggling to connect, officials said.
- On Friday, an Optus network outage disrupted 39 Triple Zero calls in Victoria, prompting the telecom carrier to apologize on Saturday for the 76-minute technical glitch affecting emergency services.
- The technical failure impacted voice-calling services across Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory, with customers experiencing intermittent call dropouts during the incident.
- Victoria Police completed around 40 welfare checks on impacted callers following the outage, confirming there were "no adverse outcomes or issues of note" in a statement.
- Senior minister Chris Bowen called the disruption "deeply concerning," stating it is an obligation for telecommunications companies to keep Triple Zero technology in proper working order.
- Repeated failures have increased scrutiny of Australia's telecommunications networks, with Optus facing a $12 million fine and regulatory lawsuits over past emergency call connectivity failures.
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Australia’s Optus apologises for outage that disrupted emergency calls
(Corrects grammar and use of partial quote in paragraph 2) SYDNEY, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, on Saturday apologised a day after an outage on its network impacted users across three states and disrupted some emergen...
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