The millions of Australians and thousands of businesses left without phone and internet service during the crippling Optus outage are being asked to make submissions to a government-led review aimed at better safeguarding the country in case of future incidents. About 10 million people, and 400,000 businesses, were impacted duringContinue Reading
Doubts continue to swirl around the idea of former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian taking over the top job at Optus after its chief executive resigned. The embattled telecommunications company’s former chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin announced she was stepping down on Monday after overseeing two major crises in just 13 months.Continue Reading
Smirking and laughing while taking a dig at a devastated small business owner was likely not the response Australians expected from the boss of Optus on the day its network collapsed. But that’s precisely what Chief Executive Officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin did, marking the beginning of the end of herContinue Reading
The parent company of Optus has broken its silence on last week’s nationwide blackout, denying responsibility for the communications wipe-out that alienated millions of Australians and put future government contracts under review. Singtel, the Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate that owns Optus, said on Thursday a routine upgrade was not the causeContinue Reading