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Jack Gramenz

Telstra fined over triple-zero failings during outage

Telstra has apologised over its bungling of some emergency calls during an outage. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Telstra has been fined millions of dollars after failing to transfer people to police, firefighters and paramedics during a 90-minute outage at its emergency call centre.

Among the calls for help was for a person suffering a cardiac arrest, who died by the time their triple-zero call was returned.

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