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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Josh Taylor Technology reporter

Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known

Telstra CEO Vicki Brad
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady speaks in Sydney on Friday, apologising for a national outage that has stopped trains, transactions and some triple zero calls. Photograph: Dean Sewell

Telstra has admitted it knew of the dangers of a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to stop this week’s outage, as its chief executive says she’s “deeply sorry” about its impacts.

South Australian police have ruled out a link between a death and the outage, while the communications minister said it was “time for Telstra to face the music”.

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