Greens senator and committee chair Sarah Hanson-Young has pushed Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady on statistics showing the telco\u2019s network is suffering increasing outages, citing 3641 instances reported in 2024 up to 5221 in 2025.<\/p>\n
Brady said \u201ccertain things in a year can affect it\u201d and that weather events such as cyclones and bushfires are a key factor. \u201cThe single biggest cause of outages on our network relates to power, and so there is absolutely a reliance on making sure that we get continuity and consistency of power,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Brady then began speaking of Telstra\u2019s investment in its network in the last 12 months to achieve \u201cbetter resilience\u201d.<\/p>\n
This and a subsequent mention of \u201cresilience\u201d from Brady appears to infuriate Hanson-Young.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week proves that to be an absolute furphy, Ms Brady,\u201d Hanson-Young said. \u201cSince September last year. All of the warning signs were there, and I remember having you and your representatives before this committee, knowing that Optus had had this terrible outage, and you\u2019re all pretty smug about it. \u2018Oh, that\u2019s an Optus problem\u2019. Well, I\u2019m sorry, today we see it\u2019s not an Optus problem, it\u2019s also a Telstra problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when you\u2019re banking huge increases in profit, there are more outages, less reliability for people to access and use their mobile phone. I don\u2019t think it washes to go around telling people that your system\u2019s resilient. It\u2019s clearly not,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greens senator and committee chair Sarah Hanson-Young has pushed Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady on statistics showing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-805355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805355","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=805355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}