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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Smeeand Cait Kelly

Optus admits process not followed after it missed at least five warnings of triple zero outage

A botched Optus firewall update at 12.30am on Thursday blocked hundreds of calls to triple zero in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
A botched Optus firewall update at 12.30am on Thursday blocked hundreds of calls to triple zero in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP

Optus failed to immediately respond to at least five calls from customers unable to contact triple zero in the hours before it realised its systems had failed, as the embattled telco confirmed “established processes were not followed”.

The company’s chief executive, Stephen Rue said on Sunday the company had identified at least five calls, routed to an offshore customer call centre, in relation to the emergency line outage that has been linked to at least three deaths.

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