Albanese raises Optus outages with Wong


AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus’s emergency call number with his ­counterpart Lawrence Wong, in a bilateral meeting held in Canberra.

Two back-to-back outages of the emergency “000” number last month have intensified scrutiny of Optus, Australia’s second largest telecom operator.

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