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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: Optus CEO faces Senate grilling; WFP warns of starvation in Gaza; and Apple agrees to improve texting with Androids

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin told the Senate hearing she now carries both a Telstra and a Vodafone sim card with her in case of another outage. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Good afternoon. The chief executive of Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, faced a two-hour Senate grilling today, where more details emerged from last week’s Optus outage, including that 228 Optus customers who attempted to call triple zero during the outage were unable to connect their call.

Bayer Rosmarin also revealed she didn’t speak to the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, until four hours into the outage.

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