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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Josh Taylor

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin faces Senate grilling as Singtel denies it was to blame for outage

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin will appear at a Senate inquiry into one of Australia’s worst network outages where she will be asked about compensation. Photograph: Optus/AAP

The Optus chief executive, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, faces a grilling at a Senate hearing on Friday over the telco’s handling of last week’s 14-hour nationwide outage as both Optus and its parent company Singtel dispute who was to blame.

Bayer Rosmarin will be facing the Senate committee, chaired by the Greens communications spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, over two hours on Friday morning in the inquiry launched shortly after the Optus outage last week.

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