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Life, death and Optus: Should the telcos be trusted to run Triple Zero?

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:19:29
Publish Date: 2025-09-22 19:00:00
Description:

Optus is in the firing line once again over an outage that left customers unable to call Triple Zero for 13 hours.

In that time, four people died – including an eight-week-old baby.

Authorities later said they don’t believe the baby’s death is linked to the outage. 

Today, technology editor David Swan on whether the telcos can be trusted to run Triple Zero.

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