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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Martin Farrer

Morning Mail: Optus faces outage fallout, sharehouses surge in housing crisis, Ivanka Trump testifies

Optus risks more consumers saying no after its system shutdown on Wednesday.
Optus risks more consumers saying no after its system shutdown on Wednesday. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

Morning everyone. Optus gave Australia the World Cup streaming debacle, was hit by last year’s cyber-attack and has now been the focus of yesterday’s disastrous network-wide outage. It’s been a bad run for the telco that likes to say yes and we’re looking today at what happens if consumers start saying no and moving their business elsewhere.

Plus, new data shows a surge in people seeking share houses to save cash, Ivanka Trump uses a familiar family defence in the Trump fraud trial, and does Sweden really hold the secrets to a happy life?

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