Nov 20 (Reuters) - The head of Australia's second-largest telco Optus resigned on Monday, cutting short a more than three-year tenure marred by a massive network-wide outage and one of Australia's ...

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 ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has announced its investigation into the Optus triple-zero outage, with the communications minister warning there will be consequences for the sector.

Optus CEO Stephen Rue: “We will get recommendations of what to do and I’m determined that we will implement those” Australian phone company Optus will implement any recommendations from an independent ...

Following revelations that more than 600 calls went un­answered during the outage late last week, and four deaths being linked to the incident so far, Communications Minister Anika Wells indicated ...

* Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman also refers complaints about the failure to Optus * Optus becomes aware of the "severity" of the issue about 1.30pm after another customer contacts the company ...

Under-fire Optus CEO Stephen Rue has admitted the telco still has no idea why customers were unable to make Triple Zero calls during a 13-hour period - as it's revealed a fourth person died as a ...

The Australian government is launching an investigation into an hours-long outage involving local telco Optus, which left millions without access to telephone and broadband services. More than 10 ...