Australia’s Optus CEO Apologises After Emergency-Line Outage, Refuses to Resign
The CEO of Australia’s telecom firm Optus, Stephen Rue, formally apologised to Parliament for a critical outage of the “000” emergency line that has been linked to four deaths. The outage occurred on 18 September and affected thousands of users in multiple states. It happened during a routine firewall upgrade where traffic rerouting failed. Amid…