Singtel-Owned Optus Says Massive Australia Outage Was After Software Upgrade

CNA2023-11-13

Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40 per cent of the country's population and triggered a political firestorm was caused by "changes to ...

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