'History repeating': quit heat dials up on Optus chief

Sacking Optus boss Stephen Rue won't fix underlaying failures at the telco, an expert says. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Pressure is mounting for the head of Optus to fall on his sword as the under-fire telco tries to move forward from a devastating outage.

But sacking chief executive Stephen Rue following a service interruption linked to multiple deaths would only give the illusion of action and not address systemic failures in the emergency network, a governance expert says.