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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maroosha Muzaffar

Optus outage cuts mobile and internet access for millions of Australians

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Millions of Australians lost access to mobile and internet networks on Wednesday after the country’s second-largest telecommunications company Optus experienced an outage.

The unexplained outages in Optus networks led to chaos in payments, transport and health systems across the country for nearly 14 hours. The disruption impacted as many as 10 million people across Australia, and included businesses, hospitals and financial institutions.

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