Singapore PM Lawrence Wong offers condolences to the families of Optus outage victims

PM Lawrence Wong expressed his condolences during an interview with Australian broadcaster ABC. -- PHOTO: MDDI

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has expressed his condolences over the deaths of three people linked to an outage on Australian telco Optus, which is wholly owned by Singtel.

Emergency calls made through Optus’ network were disrupted for 13 or so hours on Sept 18, in the telco’s second major outage since 2023.