Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Optus shop in Sydney SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from ...

A Senate committee hears bombshell testimony about Optus's processes during an outage that led to the deaths of multiple customers who were unable to call Triple Zero.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country's telecommunications industry after a major company’s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was linked ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian telco Optus said on Monday it had suffered another emergency call outage in an area south of Sydney, 10 days after a broader disruption that it said had probably caused ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Optus, Australia's No. 2 telecom carrier, said on Sunday that a departure from regular processes on a network upgrade sparked a technical failure that disrupted emergency call ...