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Three Die in Australia After Optus Emergency Calls Fail

Three Die in Australia After Optus Emergency Calls Fail

(Bloomberg) — Optus, the Australian unit of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., is facing multiple investigations and potential penalties after a technical failure that disrupted emergency calls and resulted in three deaths. The outage occurred during a network upgrade Thursday and impacted the so-called Triple Zero calls in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Follow-up checks revealed that three people …

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