Senior politicians condemn telco, with Coalition urging broader investigation into emergency network ahead of bushfire season
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Pressure is mounting on the Albanese government to ensure stiff penalties for Optus over the service outage that has now been linked to at least four deaths, as the federal minister for emergency management blasted the telco as “absolutely disgraceful”.
A botched firewall update at 12.30am on Thursday blocked hundreds of calls to triple zero in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.