Dec 18 (Reuters) - An inquiry into Optus's emergency services telephone number outage in Australia, which resulted in two deaths, revealed a series of failures during a firewall upgrade that left ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from regular processes on a network upgrade sparked a technical failure that disrupted emergency call ...

STORY: Optus blamed a departure from 'established processes' on a network upgrade for last week's emergency calls outage in Australia. It said it led to a technical failure which disrupted emergency ...

The first public sign anything was wrong at Optus came when newsrooms around the country began fielding calls from its communications staff late on Friday afternoon. The brief was to get down to the ...

Optus has released a much-anticipated review into September's network outage that left hundreds of people unable to reach Triple Zero (000) and was linked to two deaths. The review, by experienced ...

Australian phone company Optus will implement any recommendations from an independent review, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Rue said, after an emergency call outage that resulted in at least two ...