{"id":795163,"date":"2026-07-12T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:49:09","slug":"australia-needs-a-national-strategy-to-make-phone-networks-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795163\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia needs a national strategy to make phone networks resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone outages like the Telstra crash that halted trains and stopped people calling Triple Zero are expected to reoccur as telecommunications\u2019 networks become more complex and integrate artificial intelligence, requiring a national resilience strategy, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra remained tight-lipped over the weekend on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/telecommunications\/trains-halted-as-telstra-mobile-outage-sweeps-nation-20260708-p60dik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the causes of the national outage<\/a> across its mobile network on July 8, declining to confirm whether old servers that had reached the end of their life and malfunctioned were responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mobile phone outages like the Telstra crash that halted trains and stopped people calling Triple Zero are expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-795163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}