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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Jordyn Beazley and Australian Associated Press

Optus confirms fourth death after CEO reveals warnings of failed triple zero calls not escalated

Optus shopfront
SA police said an eight-week-old boy from Gawler, on Adelaide’s northern fringe, and a 68-year-old woman from the Adelaide suburb of Queenstown died during the Optus outage. Photograph: Reuters

A fourth person died during Optus’s network outage on Thursday, its CEO has confirmed.

Stephen Rue said in a statement released on Saturday afternoon that the telco was “saddened to learn of a new fatality in Western Australia, which appears to have occurred during the outage period”.

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