Some Samsung phones unable to make triple-0 calls
Pressure is growing for a tougher crackdown on telcos after fresh issues with emergency calls. Telstra customers who…
Some major Australian towns still have poor phone reception. It’s threatening public safety
Australians rely on their phones and the internet for education, business, socialising and in emergencies. And as Optus’…
Liberals find brief lull in internal hostilities for a passable week
Notwithstanding the low bar of recent performance, Sussan Ley’s battered and slouching Liberals managed a passably good sitting…
More Optus triple-0 call failures on new dates, customers reveal
Optus network customers have reported more emergency triple-0 call failures outside the hours of recently confirmed outage periods…
Optus parent company Singtel apologises for triple-0 outage linked to multiple deaths
The Singtel Group CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has issued a statement apologising for the Optus outage that has…
Optus outage ‘unlikely’ to have contributed to baby boy’s death, police say
The death of an eight-week-old boy north of Adelaide on Thursday is “unlikely” to have been caused by…
Optus failure to pass on details about deaths ‘beggars belief’, premier says
The federal government says an independent investigation will be conducted into Optus’s Thursday network failure that has been…
What we know about the Optus outage which disrupted triple-zero calls, resulted in three deaths
It’s been two days since three people, including an eight-week-old baby, died after a devastating Optus outage caused…
Busselton residents fear safety impacts of mobile signal shortfall
Residents in the West Australian tourism hub of Busselton say frequent dropouts in phone and internet service are…