Police conduct welfare checks after dozens of Triple Zero calls fail due to Optus outage

Callers struggled to connect to the Telstra national emergency line because of the outage on Friday.

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 ...

Australia Vows to Bolster Resilience of Telco Networks After Optus Outage

SYDNEY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Australia's government ⁠pledged ⁠on Sunday to ⁠bolster resilience in the nation's telecommunications networks ​after an outage at Optus, the country's No. 2 ‌carrier, ...

Optus suffers another outage impacting thousands of customers

Optus has suffered another outage affecting calls to emergency services. The telco estimates more than 14,000 customers ...

Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks following Optus outage

Optus outage yesterday left some callers struggling to get through to emergency services for more than an hour.