Optus sued over deadly Triple Zero outage
Optus faces a $250 million penalty after the communications watchdog launched legal action against the telco for breaching two laws more than a thousand times during a September outage. The network failure prevented calls from reaching Triple Zero for nearly 14 hours, during which two people died after being unable to contact emergency services.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.