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William Ton, Tess Ikonomou and Kat Wong

Optus offers free data as outage scrutiny intensifies

More than 10 million Optus customers were thrown into disarray after its network dropped out. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Optus customers will receive extra data as part of the telco giant's apology following an hours-long outage that affected millions of Australians and disrupted the nation's emergency services and businesses.

Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said customers had been let down and it was integral for them to be connected in the modern world.

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