Singtel 'deeply sorry' for deadly outage at Australia's Optus


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

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Singapore Telecommunications, which owns Australia's second largest telco Optus, apologised on Wednesday for a Optus outage that probably caused four deaths, after emergency calls were disrupted in two states and the Northern Territory.

Singtel Group CEO Yuen Kuan Moon said the company was working with the Optus board to investigate last week's outage and prevent similar incidents in the future.

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