Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Optus shop in Sydney SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country's telecommunications industry after a major company’s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was linked ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - An inquiry ‌into Optus's emergency services telephone number outage ‌in Australia, which resulted in two deaths, revealed a series of failures during a firewall upgrade that left ...

Australian phone company Optus will implement any recommendations from an independent review, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Rue said, after an emergency call outage that resulted in at least two ...

Optus boss Stephen Rue has conceded a 'culture of carelessness' existed before a fatal triple-zero outage and said the telco is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs. The September 18 outage, which lasted ...

A new scam is targeting victims of Wednesday’s Optus outage. Credit: ScamWatch “We’re aware of phishing messages claiming to be from Optus regarding yesterday’s outage,” ...

Optus management has been sharply criticized in an independent review into September’s fatal emergency call outage, which found that a series of avoidable failures and cultural shortcomings at the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from regular processes on a network upgrade sparked a technical failure that disrupted emergency call ...