Optus CEO says three people died after triple zero calls affected during network upgrade – as it happened
Optus’ network failed for triple zero calls, contributing to three deaths, CEO says
Optus’s CEO, Stephen Rue, says the telecommunications company had an outage affecting triple zero calls.
He said the matter was still being investigated, but he apologised to the three families affected, two in South Australia and one in Western Australia.
Cover photo: An public service message is displayed inside an Optus store in Sydney in October 2022. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
