Nov 20 (Reuters) - The head of Australia's second-largest telco Optus resigned on Monday, cutting short a more than three-year tenure marred by a massive network-wide outage and one of Australia's ...

Optus CEO Stephen Rue confirmed that a technical failure resulted in the failure of triple-0 emergency calls in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. For the second time in ...

Oct 31 (Reuters) - Australia's competition watchdog is taking Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI), opens new tab-owned Optus to court, alleging it engaged in "misconduct" while selling mobile ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus 100 million Australian dollars ($66 million) Wednesday for unconscionable conduct selling services to hundreds of ...

There are growing calls for Optus Stadium in Perth to have its name stripped after an outage that has been linked to three deaths. It’s believed a botched firewall network upgrade triggered an outage ...

The Optus outage that prevented calls to triple zero stemmed from a bungled upgrade of the telecommunications company’s firewalls, according to an industry insider with knowledge of the investigations ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Any chance of Optus’ new boss, Stephen Rue, moving Australia’s second-biggest telco in the right direction has been fatally derailed. A ...

Five customers warned Optus about about a critical triple-zero call outage before the issue was escalated and, when it found out the scale of the bungle, it crafted a media response before alerting ...

Optus Chief Executive Officer Stephen Rue speaks to the media during press conference in Sydney, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP) Optus Chief Executive Officer Stephen ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — (AP) — An Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus 100 million Australian dollars ($66 million) Wednesday for unconscionable conduct selling services to hundreds of ...