Optus says it confirmed the welfare of all callers who called triple zero after an issue affected Illawarra region in NSW

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The federal government is resisting political pressure to launch a sweeping independent inquiry into the entire triple-zero system after the second Optus outage in less than a fortnight.

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said Optus was guilty of an “absolutely shocking failure” but maintained the government would await the findings of an existing probe into the besieged telco before considering further steps.

Source: Guardian - World News