SINGAPORE: Singapore-owned Optus was hit by a second disruption on Monday (Sep 29), just 10 days after a disruption impacting Triple Zero calls, Australia’s emergency hotline, that reportedly left several customers unable to reach timely help and was linked to four deaths, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. Australia s second-largest telco said that the [ ]
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Singtel’s Optus hit with second outage just 10 days after emergency call failures that led to deaths
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