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Callum Godde

Optus boss answers calls to quit as outage fiasco grows

Alarms were not raised despite five calls over the triple-zero outage, the Optus CEO has conceded. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Optus was warned at least five times of a triple-zero call outage, as the telco giant's boss shuts down questions about whether he will resign over the scandal.

A botched firewall update blocked hundreds of triple-zero calls from Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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