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Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University

How a nationwide Telstra outage rocked the Australian economy – and what we can learn

On Wednesday morning, Telstra’s mobile network suffered a major outage, leaving thousands of Australians unable to make phone calls or access data.

According to the company, a “software defect” impacting time synchronisation across the network was to blame, with no sign it was the result of a cyberattack.

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