Nov 16 (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) (STEL.SI), opens new tab, the parent of Australian telecoms provider Optus, said on Thursday a fault in Optus' safety mechanisms, and not a ...

SYDNEY, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Australia's second-largest telco, Optus, had no crisis plan when a network-wide outage left nearly half the country without phone or internet for 12 hours, an executive told ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus's emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, ...

Touted in some insider circles as future Labor leadership material, self-identified millennial Anika Wells has found herself in the midst of an ongoing storm over the nation's emergency triple-0 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The beleaguered telco revealed it's investigating yet another outage, with customers in NSW cut off from emergency calls over the weekend. The triple-zero outage on the Optus network earlier this ...

Optus bosses would be forced to explain in person the critical failures of its Triple Zero network, including the timeline of when executives found out about outages, under a proposed Senate inquiry ...

Optus says it is working with communications technology company Ericsson to determine the cause of an outage of a tower in Dapto, NSW, on the weekend that led to emergency services calls in the area ...

SYDNEY--Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus has agreed to a US$65 million penalty in its latest run-in with Australian regulators, admitting that it sold unsuitable products to vulnerable ...