Emergency calls were offline_Optus CEO says 'completely unacceptable' triple-0 failure due to network upgrade

Emergency calls were offline for nearly 14 hours, during which four people died – including an eight-week-old baby. A fourth person died during Optus’s network outage on Thursday, its CEO has confirmed. Stephen Rue said in a statement released on Saturday afternoon that the telco was “saddened to learn of a new fatality in Western Australia, which appears to have occurred during the outage period”.

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