Communications minister Anika Wells says telco has ‘no excuses here’ after last week’s outage linked to three deaths across two states

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The federal government has promised Optus will “suffer significant consequences” after multiple deaths were recorded during the telco’s triple zero outage, with major financial penalties likely.

The communications regulator said it wasn’t informed of the outage by Optus until hours after it had been resolved - and that the company had provided “inaccurate” information.

Source: Guardian - World News