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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Nick Visser

Optus suffers fresh triple-zero outage in NSW as police check welfare of callers

Exterior of an Optus store
Optus’s latest triple-zero outage in the Illawarra region of NSW comes less than a fortnight after a major 000 emergency services call outage was linked to four deaths in Australia. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Optus is investigating a fresh triple-zero outage, this time in Illawarra region of New South Wales.

The telco said an issue with a mobile phone tower in Dapto had affected calls made between 3am and 12.20pm on Sunday, including those to the triple-zero network.

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