Tag: Outage

Govt moves to review triple zero laws after deadly outages

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will review the laws underpinning Australia’s triple zero net, more than two years after a catastrophic Optus outage first exposed gaps in the emergency call system....

ASX says latest tech glitch ‘largely resolved’

Posted on   |  by Scott Murdoch
Embattled stock exchange operator Australian Securities Exchange is facing fresh pressure to enact its turnaround plan, after its announcements platform suffered an outage on Monday, forcing about 80 stocks...

Govt systems spared from AWS outage

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian government technology systems have evaded the global outage at Amazon Web Services, with crucial weather forecasting and citizen services like myGov staying online, agencies have confirmed. The government...

Albanese raises deadly Optus outage with Singapore PM

Posted on   |  by Renju Jose
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had raised the recent deadly outage of Singtel-owned Optus’s emergency call number with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, in a bilateral meeting held...

ACMA gives telco consumers ‘stronger protections’ for outages

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
A long-awaited update to industry rules that direct telecommunications companies on how to communicate with customers during outages has been unveiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)....

Outage scrapes in front of new telco rules

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Aussie Broadband has apologised for how it communicated a Friday outage that left customers in Victoria and Tasmania without internet access for half the day, just weeks out from...