A Senate inquiry report into last year’s Optus outage provides the government with a blueprint to modernise the telco industry.
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Amid renewed calls for Optus executives to face the sack over September’s Triple Zero outage, what are the rules about disclosing executive payouts in Australia?
There is no certainty a custodian would have prevented all of the risks from the Optus outage last week. But it might have helped.
It may be tempting to call for the chief executive to be sacked, but it would only let Optus off the hook. This is how to really hold them to account this time.
The outage has sparked fury and condemnation – and builds the case for stronger action against telcos.
A review of the November 2023 Optus outage has sparked an overhaul for the Triple Zero system and more transparency for telcos.
Embattled Optus chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin who oversaw two network outages in the last year has resigned after admitting her company had no disaster management plan.
The Optus chief will face some tough questions about the company’s poor handling of last week’s catastrophic network outage when she appears before a Senate inquiry.
Electronic payments are convenient and are increasingly replacing cash, but when a network fails, the impact can bring a country to a halt.
Optus says the unprecedented outage last week was caused by a ‘routine software upgrade’. An expert explains why this points to more serious problems with the network.
Stadium naming rights are controversial at the best of times, so why do companies pay so much for them?
As communications networks grow, they become incredibly complex. The concept of “three-layer architecture” helps to make sense of it all - and understand what can go wrong.
Optus suffered one of the largest telecommunications outages in Australian history today. Here are the factors that can cause such events.
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