Optus boss Stephen Rue and chairman John Arthur will front up in Canberra on Monday to face angry senators in person.

November 2025 Reporting date: 11 February 2026 Terms of Reference An inquiry into Triple zero service outages, with particular reference to: the ...

Telstra, TPG Telecom and Optus will be investigated on whether they have breached rules requiring emergency calls connect to ...

Communications Minister Anika Wells has directed telecommunications companies to establish public registers tracking network ...

Telstra executives have reassured investors about the telco’s triple-0 service reliability following rival Optus’ fatal ...

The controversy has centred on a series of cascading failures involving both Optus, the communications watchdog and the communications department itself on September 18 and the subsequent days.

AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus’s emergency call number with his ­counterpart Lawrence Wong, in a bilateral meeting held ...

A Senate estimates hearing revealed that Optus sent two emails about its triple-zero outage to the wrong email address. Optus sent two emails about its triple-zero outage to the wrong government ...

For a department carrying the name "communications", Wednesday was not a shining example of clarity in message delivery. Senators from across the political spectrum were left frustrated and without ...

Ms Wells has faced a barrage of questions over what she knew about the outage, which was linked to the deaths of three people, during Question Time this week, with the Coalition accusing the ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) head Nerida O’Loughlin said the regulator was first alerted of an outage impacting 10 calls and that it had been resolved about 2.40pm on ...