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Cassandra Morgan

'Unacceptable' errors led to Telstra triple zero bungle

Telstra has revealed a string of failures contributed to triple zero delays on March 1. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Telstra's boss has revealed a series of embarrassing failures, including incorrect emergency services numbers, prevented Australians from speaking to triple zero call takers for more than an hour.

Vicki Brady on Wednesday detailed what led up to the March 1 outage, saying the issues started at 3.30am when callers' locations and phone numbers - or "calling line identification" - were not coming up on calls.

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