While both sectors are duopolistic, telecom can infuse competition and improve service through functional separation ...

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Australia’s major telcos have copped an international pasting, with the the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

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Optus customers at Wye River were unable to access emergency updates on their phones or make calls during the major flooding ...

Embattled telco Optus is offering fewer deals compared with major rivals despite its battered reputation following last ...

The Optus outage chief flew to Adelaide months after its deadly triple-0 failure to quietly meet with a man whose wife died during the outage. The widower, who asked for his name to be withheld, said ...

Sri Amirthalingam joins from arch-rival Telstra, where he served most recently as executive director of wireless networks. Optus' outgoing CTO Tony Baird will help his replacement settle in before ...

Optus’s chairman says the telecommunications giant will impose financial penalties and “termination in appropriate cases” against staff it believes are accountable for a 14-hour Triple Zero outage in ...

Optus commissioned Dr Kerry Schott to lead the review after hundreds of emergency calls failed to go through during the outage, with two deaths directly linked to the failure. Reacting to the findings ...

Quotes attributable to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Triple 0 service outage: “This is a damning report of the culture within ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian telco Optus said on Wednesday it had suffered a service outage near Melbourne impacting around 14,000 users, two months after a disruption to emergency calls that probably ...