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Kat Wong

Optus appoints telco veteran as new CEO

Outgoing NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue will become the new head of Optus. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Optus has appointed a telecommunications veteran as its new chief executive, six months after a nationwide outage at the telco left nearly a third of Australians without internet or mobile service.

Stephen Rue will become Optus CEO in November after six years as the head of Australia's National Broadband Network and four years as its chief financial officer.

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