Australia's Optus vows to cooperate with probes amid outrage over emergency call services outage


FILE PHOTO: View of an Optus shop in Sydney, Australia November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Kirsty Needham/File Photo

(Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Saturday it would cooperate with official investigations after four people died following a technical failure that disrupted emergency call services for 13 hours.

Amid a growing outcry, two of the dead were identified as an eight-week-old boy and a 68-year-old woman, police in South Australia said. The two other fatalities were men aged 74 and 49, police in Western Australia said.

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